The glass is rising very high,
Continue fine I hope it may,
And yet it rained but yesterday.
To-morrow it may pour again
(I hear the country wants some rain),
Yet people say, I know not why,
That we shall have a warm July.
201 And All That |
How beautifully blue the sky, The glass is rising very high, Continue fine I hope it may, And yet it rained but yesterday. To-morrow it may pour again (I hear the country wants some rain), Yet people say, I know not why, That we shall have a warm July. Hello, people who for some unfathomable reason enjoy reading about the life and times of a very boring person in Skyrim! Mewness here. This isn’t a Nona post; I’m just announcing some minor changes that are (possibly) on the way. First, I’m going to remove the Feedburner widget on the right side of the page. As far as I can tell, only one person has subscribed, and I believe that this is someone who signed up because I asked them to test it for me. If anyone is actually deriving some benefit from this thing, please let me know. I am also regarding the column of links to individual posts with an increasingly disapproving eye: I’d love to put tuck these into collapsible lists, but I am too much of an html duffer to do so. Second, I’m a little disenchanted with Climates of Tamriel--this is the mod that produces the weather effects and cloud textures in my game--and I’m thinking of replacing it with the Realistic Lighting Overhaul weather plugin, currently in alpha. This would cause a noticeable difference in my screenshots: the sunny weather would be a bit less bright and washed-out looking, with a bluer sky and more vibrant colors in general; severe rainstorms and snowstorms would have a darker sky (which might lead to problems in getting the screenshots to come out at all). Sadly, CoT’s marvelous cloud textures and sunsets would also go away. Here are some rough comparison shots. (I can’t do exact comparisons, because Climates of Tamriel uses its own weather patterns and takes a while to worm its way into the world, so simply reloading a game with the mod switched on or off doesn’t necessarily show the same weather.) All of these screenshots were taken around noon, game time. This is what sunny days currently look like for Nona. I find the quality of the light in this shot generally pleasing--the contrast is perhaps lower than is entirely realistic, but I don’t actually want to feel as though I have to squint at my monitor as I would squint outside on a sunny day, so that’s fine. But the scene has a slightly washed-out look and the sky is rather flat. Shadows look much darker in screenshots than they do in the game, so if I switch to the RLO weather alpha, there are going to be some pretty strong shadows, like this. But everything looks more vibrant than it does under CoT, and I like the color of the sky. Pity about those clouds, though. Also, the grass on the left side of the screen looks completely different. I honestly have no idea why. This is just bad, in my opinion. It looks more like an explosion of blinding light than a snowstorm. At one point, Nona was considering heading up to Dawnstar. Having to look at weather like this was a strong argument against doing so. Here’s a somewhat snowy day in the RLO weather alpha. Different, eh? And here’s a blizzard in the RLO weather alpha. Yes, this really was taken at noon, and I had to adjust the levels considerably in order to get anything to show up in the shot at all. Nights are also very different--under the RLO weather alpha, clear nights are fairly bright, and cloudy nights are just about pitch-black. Under Climates of Tamriel, the sky stays fairly bright even on a cloudy night. I can’t get nighttime screenshots to look like anything much, though, so I won’t show any comparisons here. Making this change brings with it certain problems--the replacement mod is in alpha, so it’s going to change from time to time, and the quality of the light won’t necessarily be consistent. I also don’t like the way that the clouds look against the more brilliant blue sky. If anyone has an opinion on this, I’m happy to hear it. Finally, if you are a regular reader and haven’t yet posted a comment, liked Nona on Facebook, or breathlessly extolled my brilliance on a web forum, please do something of the sort. (Breathless extolment not actually required.) I can’t tell how many people are actually reading, as opposed to clicking a link, waiting for the page to load, and then promising themselves never to visit this blog again while wishing they could have those two minutes of their life back. Hearing from people who like this really does give me the warm fuzzies and motivate me to keep posting; if, on the other hand, you’d rather I just stopped writing this pointless drivel already, silence is the best method.
9 Comments
Laura
6/21/2013 04:26:57 am
I like them both, so either is fine with me. Should we talk about the government?
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Mewness
6/22/2013 04:30:28 pm
I'm not sure whether you mean the actual government or the Skyrim government, but dear gods NO either way. (In case you've never hung out on a Skyrim discussion forum: starting a thread asking whether people prefer the Imperials or the Stormcloaks seems to be a pretty reliable way to start a flamewar.)
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Laura
6/23/2013 10:05:01 am
I was just quoting an REM song for no particular reason.
SurlyCat
6/22/2013 07:59:35 am
Really like the RLO! Keep writing, love the idea behind this and your execution of it :-D
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Mewness
6/22/2013 04:32:07 pm
Thanks for reading and I appreciate the feedback =) I much prefer playing with RLO, but I'm a bit worried about getting the screenshots to turn out.
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Michelke
7/1/2013 03:45:07 pm
Ugh, commenting with my phone is horrible. Do keep writing please! My ability to pay attention varies a lot but Nona's dry wit is wonderful.
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Mewness
7/3/2013 03:40:51 am
Thanks for reading! I hope the site is reasonable functional on a phone--I'm one of the few people left who doesn't have a smartphone, so I have no idea.
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NovelCoon
9/26/2017 09:44:38 pm
From 4 years in the future, a wild Reader appears! She very much enjoys reading about Nona's Nonadventures, though understands if you've moved to other projects.
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teckel rescue
10/22/2017 10:44:33 am
really enjoying this blog!
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201 And All That
Nona Plaia may well be the most boring person in Skyrim. Below are links to her "adventures" in chronological order.
A Life More Ordinary Mods An NPC is Born The Lady in the Lake Adrift in the Rift Opportunity Chops Studying Abroad Witches, Wolves Footwear is Not Enough A Modest Proposal Scales of Love Dances with Beers Five Rules to Live By Plain and Pusillanimous Watery Woes How Not to Stage a Murder Hot Heads and Cold Graves Run Nona Run Interlude A Fool Suffers Gladly The Markarth Discomfiture In Search of the Unknown It's Raining Bandits Down and Out No Holds Barred Beyond the Pale The Slippery Slope Mission Implausible The Nord in the Next Room The Only Living Girl Victory is a Gateway Drug Continuity Break Wherever You Go Archives
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