We've got Argonians, but how about the Elder Scrolls' other playable beast race? I love the Khajiit myself, so thought I'd have a crack at modding them in... or at least, the most common sub-species. :catface2: (Never played Elder Scrolls and don't know what a Khajiit is? See here.) I hope to make this mod both fun to play and nice to look at, while decently fitting into both Starbound and Elder Scrolls lore. There's still a fair bit of work to do before the first proper release, but if there's enough interest I'll do a v0.01 containing the bare essentials. Do note that this is only my second mod - the first dealing with anything more complex than sprite changes - and I'm also studying at the moment, so progress on this will be slow. (For fans of my first mod, rest assured I'm not abandoning it!) ~~~~~~~ For now though, let's have a look at what I've done so far... Say hello to Ja'blahr, my little test subject. Believe it or not, he actually got his name while I was testing the custom namegen, which I found hilarious X) There's tons of prefixes and syllables in the namegen, all taken from Khajiit names used throughout the TES series. For now I'm using Hylotl stuff as a placeholder for starter clothing, which works well enough considering the racial clothes I've seen in Elder Scrolls Online. Now, Ja'blahr, I apologise for what I'm about to do... ...Don't glare at me like that. I'm reasonably happy with most of this spritework, but I'll probably tweak it heaps anyway, lol - the head and tail have had a few iterations already. The lighter fur on the inner sides of limbs (mostly based on colouration in Morrowind and Oblivion) took a while, as did working out placement of claws. The tail is static for now, but I want to do a different pose for each personality, and detailed motion for the movement cycles. Only base part completely untouched so far is emotes, which shouldn't take too long. Also, I plan on adding some kind of fur pattern. Yes, yes, there you go - and while I'm at it, let's head planetside. There's something you oughta see. Da-daah, a flag. It's not much, but hey, it's got ESO's Khajiit symbol on it. That counts for something, right? Anyway, to sum up... ~~~~~~~ Current Features Species Graphics: Base body (excluding emotes) - male Chargen: Extensive custom namegen Items: Custom flag Yeah, it's not much, but learning how this stuff works takes a while. What about the plans for this mod, you ask? Take a look. ~~~~~~~ Short-Term To-Do (v0.1) Species Graphics: Base body - female (working on this now) Emotes Fur pattern Chargen and skull icons Chargen: Tweak namegen Fur colours - at least three Hairstyles - at least three Starter clothing - at least one set Items: Starter weapon Texts: Modify tutorial quest Basic codexes Descriptions for starter items Start work on other item descriptions + inspection responses ~~~~~~~ Long-Term Plans (Not listing everything - have some surprises planned, if I get far enough and can make them work ) Species Graphics: Respawn animation involving the Lunar Lattice Introduction cinematic (once implemented in vanilla) Chargen: Moar hairstyles and fur colours Items: Custom weapons and armour Custom clothing, including budi Khajiit-styled furniture, ornaments, craft tools... Various blocks and tiles for building Farmable moon sugar Skooma Structures: Custom ship Upgrades (once implemented in vanilla) Various buildings and settlements Villages Temples and shrines Nomad tents Moon sugar plantations Dungeons Temple ruins Bandit hideouts Skooma operation houses NPCs: Villagers, guards, shopkeepers etc Bandits, including skooma smugglers Prisoners (captured by members of another race, thinking Apex or maybe Florans?) Alfiq and Senche-tigers, both as villagers and as pets/followers Texts: Item descriptions Codexes Various parts of Khajiiti lore Khajiiti views on the Starbound universe and races (and vice-versa?) A series concerning how/why they're in the Starbound universe in the first place (already got some fun ideas for this ) Misc: Custom sound effects Custom quests (perhaps once the vanilla quest system is improved) Some sort of new biome? Ridable Senche-raht (BATTLE TIGERS! ) I hope you like what you see so far! If you have any questions, comments, critique or suggestions, feel free to post them.
Heh, thank you! It's only going to get better Should have the female body done pretty soon, and then I'll start on the emotes and hair.
It might be technically simple but the spritework is excellent quality. I like where this mod's going
This is spectacular! Everyone forgets of us Khajiit, thank you, do you think I could get a realease date?
I'm now on a two-week break from classes Starting Sunday night, I'll work on cranking out a bare-bones v0.01 - it shouldn't take more than a few days.
Man I really hope this is still a go. Looks like there hasn't been an update for a while. Your khajiit looks far better than the other silly feline race skin someone else is working on. Plus the ideas you have to make more khajiiti themed items is brilliant! Please keep this project going! If you need any help with making things I've dabbled in pixel art in the past. I totally don't mind learning whatever is required to skin items in starbound. Just throwing it out there if you need any help.
Hello, Yes, I talk from a distant future of 2016. Maybe not so distant, sure, but this W.I.P is from 2014 so you get the point. The sprite work is very well done and I can assure you that we need more people like you around here, the modding community is kinda slow but I'm sure it'll grow back up eventually y'know after the updates to come and such. Although I would very much like to make a mod such as this but I lack artistic skills such as yours. Not only I, but many others would be very glad to see this mod finished or at least somewhere near. Now, you can do whatever you want with the mod, yeah, but all I'm saying is that it would be incredibly cool to see how it ends up, not only this mod but also you have a lot of potential and I wish you would notice that, If you require any help with lore related features I suppose I could help you.
Just found this and see that you've logged in recently. Got any plans to continue development on this? I really love that spritework. I'm the Argonian author and wouldn't mind helping out if you're interested.
I would love a chance to get to play this race someday. Even if it's just a barebones species mod reliant on placeholders, the spritework is gorgeous.
I would be over the moon if you came back to this, I love the Khajiit, and elder scrolls in general, and I want my kitty people dammit! Rock on friend!
Hey i just found out about this mod, can you please give an update? I really liked what you did here and would completely get back into playing Starbound just because of this mod. Thank you.
Can you please gimme download? I really must have this mod (with my 2k hrs in elder scrolls played as khajiit is this mod must-have ) If u won’t gimme download I will make my own version of this mod. I think I will do it because this project is dead because ur stopped working on it. Reeeeeeeeeee Why am I talking with myself lol...
Welp dead mod... Cool that I bumped into it. Sucks that it is dead! Surfed through web, can't find proper replacement... GAME IS UNPLAYABLE WITHOUT THIS MOD! I CAN"T BE MYSELF WITHOUT IT! *cries a river* If you decided to abandon your work, at least you could have given assets to someone with talent and right hands to continue. Let's say that guy who made Argonians. Or any active modder with required skill and a vision.
