#Sphynx Khajiit

[volno]

Finally done with the male skin, at long fucking last. That being said there's still a lot that I need to do, mainly finishing the female skin; then I have to convert both texture sets to the vanilla bodies, fix up some stuff on the back end of things, and create some patches for a few mods. There's also a few miscellaneous cosmetics I'm thinking about adding, like some optional whiskers and some custom makeup/colour overlays; but we will see if I get to that.

[dawns-beauty]

I am considering doing a big Project ja-Kha'jay update.

I am tempted to get rid of some of the head models I feel look too awkward (especially the expressions) and replace nearly all the beastial head variants with the Khajiit Overhaul models, now that the additional heads have been fixed (well, for the ladies. I can get the male .tri files from another mod I have permission to use. I think I have the skills to fix their weird little grinch noses now.)

This would be for all the types with rounded ears like the Cathay-Raht, male Suthay-Raht, and Pahmar-Raht.

I would likely completely redo the male catlike Cathay (only seen in the addons), at least the males because I really hate how they look:

As much as I like his ears and rounded face, his eyes are just off. I think I can sculpt a better head from a KO base now.

Vaharadaro designed the two female catlike Cathays, so I would keep them because they do look nice. And Khayla, too.

I would keep all of the other design elements (hair, accessories, warpaint, etc.)

I do need to check if the heads are truly an improvement first (for example, the head types on the chopping block ha look really bad when in combat/angry) but I dunno, would people be too upset?

Additionally, I'm upgrading the Ohmes/Ohmes-Raht to high poly heads and some other goodies for them.

Won't touch the serval-like Tojay or the tigerlike Suthay-Raht, because they look alright. The female cheetah-like Suthay-Raht and lioness-like Cathay-Raht (like Lajjan) already use the KO heads, so no edits there either.

Additionally, Nair, the Tojay from the 3DNPCs addon, will be Bingus'd the second @/volno drops their Sphynx mod. Not for quality reasons, but because I like silliness:

[nosfagratu]

tamriel's most fucked up guy, certified menace, enemy of at least 5 daedric princes and a thorn in every chaosball player's side

(they/he)

[gildedskully]

I made a sphynx Khajiit! Meet O'Daviir, a mage specializing in Illusion magic alongside a love for alchemy!

[dynamite124]

Does Tal like hairless cats? And would he get along with a hairless khajiit

A hairless Khajiit? You mean an Ohmes-Raht?

Terrible joke aside. He would still love the cat, Sphynx Cats are just as beautiful as furry cats! And a hairless Khajiit would still be called "Kitten" and adored by Tally!

[5blight]

sphynx cat khajiit.

[feeling-artsick]

Hi! I was wondering in you'd ever be willing to make your sphynx khajiit into an actual mod? I know it's an older mod. I was hoping if you wouldn't make a full mod, if you could possibly tell how to make the khajiit body texture or link a tutorial? Thanks :)

Hi! Sorry, I don't actually have all the tools needed to work on that mod anymore. I could make one as-is but it would be awfully low quality. As for a tutorial, the process is a bit involved but I think I could make something. In the meantime, there's a lot of tutorials out there (mostly in forums) on using PS or GIMP for editing dds files which can help a lot. There's next to nothing out there for using custom races tbh but it's very similar to making a follower with their own textures and there's a lot of tutorials for that as well.

anyway, i'll get back to you on that cuz I'm not sure.

[rabbit-antlers]

The author of the book Brynvald cursed his hands on. Finally designed him!

[skawly]

Paint study of Shovi

[volno]

Female skin is done, we're getting fucking close lads I can feel it. After I do some minor adjustments to the male skin + convert the body textures, I might be able to do an initial release.

At current, it's playable, but there are a few issues that cause textures to revert back to their vanilla states in specific instances. The main is that becoming a vampire will revert the head back to the vanilla head and textures, but that's a known issue with many mods that ad new head parts (ie high poly head). The other instance, is a problem with racemenu resetting everything but the diffuse map, back to the vanilla textures, resulting in this somewhat unnerving image:

I could get past all this by making it a custom race, which I would rather not do, but if that ends up being the best solution I'll bite the bullet on it.

Anyway, with that I'm going to be taking another, hopefully way shorter, break on this to work on some other projects and talk to a few other modders about possible solutions.

[vaultsixtynine]

i very suddenly want a khajiit character

[jaspersink]

30 Day Monster Girl Challenge; Day 22: Feline

Here’s a concept: hairless Khajiit. Inspired by the Sphynx cat, obviously. I really like how she came out, and I might end up keeping her, because you can never have too many characters. Enjoy!

[dead-finches]

Khajiit: Ohmes Headcanons

I believe the reason they're so rare is because their respective moon phases show up for only two days in the entire year.

But, after Daggerfall, they're rarely seen outside of Elsweyr. While we know the IRL reason is that the creators wanted to change up the race, I was hoping there would be an in-game reason for this.

It could be that there is a superstitious belief running around after the whole Pelinal "The White Snake" thing, that it's recommended to keep the population of ohmes(rahts) to a down low as to not strike his ire once more.

Or, it could really just be the rarity, but I still don't know why there aren't more varying breeds within khajiiti caravans that travel across Tamriel.

A khajiit's personality and preferences may be affected by their breed. Black leopards may be solitary kinds of khajiit, and Lions more extroverted.

The Domesticated Cat variants may also be more laid back and a lot friendlier compared to bigger cat variants, and a little less driven by their instincts. These may be why you only often see House Cat variants wandering around in caravans.

(Not all khajiits are affected by this.)

Variants affect the life span, while in general, they live longer than humans, Burmese Cat variants and Bobcats are one of the longest living khajiits.

Whereas Marbled cat variants and Sphynxes are on the shorter end.

Pretty sure there was a lot more I wanted to put here, but I've kept these for month so I've completely forgotten lmao.

These are just headcanons, by the way, there's absolutely no reason for you to take these to heart. I just wanted to add a bit more to this breed since it's hardly been expanded in ESO. Thank you for comin to my TED talk.

EDIT 1: here's some fanwork to help you understand the dynamics of the ohmes a bit better. It's written by u/BloodyStigmata.

[bowandarrowandbrokenguitar]

Skyrim mods (for the xbox) I would work on if I had the ressources and capability and probably magic bc Idk if all of that would ever work:

Different Khajiit presets based on cat breeds like Sphynx, Pallas Cat, Russian Blue, Persian ...

Nonbinary pronouns and gender settings

A quest where Hafjorg finally divorces Elgrim and throws him out of her home

Scouts-Many-Marshes as a full fledged follower, with dialogue splicing and all that

Ferrets as pets

More clothing lol

[monstersandmaw]

mine's more Elder Scrolls in general than Skyrim specific, but I designed a character for an ES homebrew with some friends that was a Sphynx Khajiit. really made me wish there was a mod to have that as a playable design in Skyrim. [still resent the fact that there's STILL no right-handed shield mod, either. I wanna play Lefty Link, dammit! ] made a damn good drawing of him, too...

Sphynx khajiit sounds fun! And yeah, it'd be nice to have more flexibility when it comes to personalisation of characters you play in games.

[deeafrotailmisstress]

Three days ago Dee made a Khajiit character, and because of finishing coursework early, I got to finish this character sheet early! The outfits were super simplified to what I actually imagine them to look like, but yknow. Dee ain’t got time for that much detail nowadays xD.

They were inspired by outfits such as caftans, a shirwal kameez, jilabi, karakou, etc.