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Player home creation: Problem solving guide

Last updated on June 2nd, 2025 at 10:54 pm

The first part of the guide is about setting up the Construction Set, the second part lists tutorials about player home creation and the third part deals with the problems that can occur while making the player home mod work with Oblivion Remastered. The following problems are covered by the guide: missing walls (or other missing objects), CTD when entering the interior cell, later changes to objects not taking effect (like moving a bed to another position and you’ve already visited the cell) and faulty map markers (<MISSING STRING TABLE ENTRY> … Read more

Tutorial: Adding chests with new Editor IDs without CTD

Last updated on May 30th, 2025 at 12:39 pm

I explain in 10 steps how you can add containers like chests with new Editor IDs to Oblivion Remastered without getting a CTD when entering the cell in question. Furthermore, you will learn how to solve the problems with the creation of new interior cells for Oblivion Remastered (e.g. missing walls and CTD when entering the cell).

Edit: This tutorial was written before MagicLoader 2 was introduced so the information in step 9 is outdated. The installation has changed, running the program has changed and the .json configuration file looks … Read more

Modding Oblivion Remastered

Last updated on May 12th, 2025 at 01:30 am

I mainly play the game but, regarding making mods for it, I tried some things out. I think I will release some (small) mods. The possibilities to mod the game are limited because we have no official modding tool and don’t exactly know how the old engine works together with the Unreal engine. But the mod creators have found out a lot since release.

If you want to know more about it, I recommend checking these links:

https://www.nexusmods.com/news/15252

https://forums.nexusmods.com/forum/9064-remastered-discussion/

https://www.nexusmods.com/games/oblivionremastered/mods?categoryName=Utilities… Read more

Slof’s Elaborate Robe for HGEC

This mod adds a HGEC version of Slof’s female Elaborate Robe from Slof’s Male Clothing v1.1 (the original mod is not required).

You can purchase the robe from the Divine Elegance in the Imperial City Market District.

The different variants of the robe:

There’s the Full Set variant where every part of the robe is merged in one piece of equipment and there are the modular parts (top, skirt, boots, gloves and cape). The robe’s top comes in four different variants like a bare midriff look or a variant which only … Read more

Being a mod author vs. being a gamer

TL;TR: I’ve gone from being an almost full-time mod creator to an almost full-time gamer. Now I want to create more mods but I still want to play games in a casual way. I’m asking for tips on how I can balance both better without exhausting myself.

2024 is slowly coming to an end. So far this year, I haven’t written any new articles on the site, only comments. I had published new mods on Nexus Mods, but these were only re-uploads of old mods or extended versions of these mods, … Read more

Back to Oblivion?!

Last updated on January 25th, 2025 at 08:07 pm

A couple of years ago, I played the game The Elder Scrolls IV – Oblivion and created mods for it. Then I moved on to various games like Fallout 4, Skyrim and Starfield. After playing Starfield for about 80 hours I noticed that my interest in this game dwindled. I probably wait until the official mod support is there. In the meantime, I have some things regarding my Oblivion stuff in mind like re-uploading mods on Nexus Mods that I have taken down many years ago. And … Read more

Ghostly Masonry

Last updated on May 16th, 2025 at 03:05 pm

Edit 2025: The ghostly touch is gone because I had to deactivate the previous theme due a bug.

I put all posts into a masonry and gave the masonry a ghostly touch via modifying the box shadow with CSS.

Here’s my code snippet:

CSS Code

.bdp-post-grid-content {
box-shadow:
inset 0px 0em 2em 4px rgb(134 255 231 / 10%), 0px 3px 2em 1px rgb(77 146 107 / 33%);}

The plugin that inserts the masonry into the static WordPress page using a shortcode is called News & Blog Designer … Read more

Samuel – Master of Dark Arts

Last updated on December 16th, 2023 at 02:59 pm

He’s the protagonist of my short story Samuel’s Story, my first Skyrim character and now a follower. You can command him with a Quick Menu, turn off his idle chatter anytime, change his combat style on the fly giving him the appropriate weapons and much more. He comes with a modular custom outfit* which means you are able to toggle some of the equipment parts like the scarf or the harness via the Quick Menu. You can find him in the Bee and the Barb in … Read more

Fear or the inner critic

Last updated on December 16th, 2023 at 03:07 pm

A mental health topic on Selene’s Shadow Realm (again)? Did you post on the wrong site? This blog is about your mods and projects. Why don’t you post it on Modding on the Spectrum where these subjects belong?….

What do you think after reading those lines? That I’m not sane? Sure, I have some more or less serious problems. And one of them is my inner critic. The first paragraph of the article shows you how his monologue can look like.

Before I go into … Read more

The #AskSelene31Something advice series

Last updated on December 17th, 2023 at 12:18 am

The hashtag stands for my deepest wish to help people with matters concerning mental health and the life with neurodivergent/neurodiverse conditions – be it for example Autism or ADHD/ADD (see the glossary on Modding on the Spectrum for more info). No, I’m not a psychologist. I’m just an “old” girl that experienced things in her life that nobody shouldn’t have. If you want to know my story, you can find a summary here. I developed strategies to cope. Some did work, some did not. Since I … Read more