So… where to start? Basically, I nixed Knox as a quest/story mod, because the more I looked into getting where I wanted to go, the more I realised I was going to run out of time long before I got finished making it. I didn’t want to just keep teasing it with little updates here and there, and then never even release it.
However, I wasn’t lying when I said that I’d release what I had, even if I never finished the mod.
Let me introduce you to the Aether Suite. The Aether Suite is basically me compiling all the random locations I’ve made over the past 2 years into 1 unique location, which as usual is basically made for screenshooting. The Aether Suite includes Skyrim Academy and the Photographer’s Studio, though the means of accessing the Photographer’s Studio has been changed, and can now be accessed directly from the Aether Suite lobby, and not by running through the whole school. I’ve also expanded the Photographer’s Studio a little more. On top of that, of course, I have added Knox. I didn’t just merge the files and call it done, however.
To provide you with the best quality I can offer, I spent a hefty amount of time over the past couple of days fixing little bugs, replacing parts and even adding a little new mod smell to Knox, to make it an interesting place to visit, as well as a cool spot to snap some shots.
All this can be accessed from the newly added lobby, which I mentioned before. Each of the 3 locations have a door out of the main lobby, taking you to them. There’s also a note on the table which attempts rather poorly to make the mod seem like it’s lore friendly. We all know it’s not, but it’s nice to pretend.
So how do you reach the Aether Suite? Well, I also changed that. You won’t magically receive a spell to take you there, like you did with Skyrim Academy. You’ll have to find the spell tome in the Mages College, Hall of Attainment, poorly hidden under one of the upper floor beds. That spell will take you to the lobby, and you can proceed from there.
Regarding fast traveling from the locations. I believe you can still fast travel from The Academy, but I will be disabling this in later versions, because it doesn’t really make sense with the rest of the setup. For the rest, you can use the suspicious looking wall in the lobby to teleport back to the Hall of Attainment.
Regarding the scope of Knox, while it’s not inherently massive, there’s lots of little things to see, and more on offer than what you can see (or not see, in the case of block 4) in the video, so feel free to really explore on your first visit there. You might run into some cool stuff, or just find an extra area or two.
This doesn’t mean the end of The Academy, or Knox, or even the Photo Studio. It just means that they’re now all the same mod, and when I update the mod, you’re likely to get updates for all of them at once. There will continue to be expansions for all 3 modules, at my time permits.
Lastly, the download it pretty huge (400mb), and the install itself is 1.3gb in total. I assure you, this is already the optimised number. I’ve compressed and resized the hell out of the textures. This is as small as it gets, I’m afraid. If you don’t have the space, don’t install the mod. No one will hold it against you.
Video preview below, and download links follow the preview video. The video isn’t all of what’s on offer. Knox also doesn’t have to look this dark, that’s just the way I like my ENB.
Download: http://mod.dysintropi.me/mods/Skyrim/Aether%20Suite.7z
I hope you and your characters enjoy the mod!
Halo.
P.S. I fixed the missing texture issue in the video, so don’t worry.
Oh gosh oh gosh oh gosh! I actually can’t wait to get into this again with the new PC. It’s gonna be sweeeeet!
Beautiful mod. Knox was darker in tone than I expected, but very very cool.
Looks like poop =/
So don’t download it then.
You a poop
You have made my day Halo. I am fan of your work and come here each day to see what you have for us.
Thank you so much for taking the time to create the PP mods and locations whilst sharing it with us.
In regards to installation. Do we remove SAcademy then install this?
Yes. This replaces Skyrim Academy. I should have mentioned that in the post.
Nice, though… You could’ve removed sound from the doors in the school..
No I couldn’t. I specifically added the sound. Why would I remove it after I added it?
On 3:22, 3:27 and so on. Wooden door sound. Really?
Very beautiful!
I love photography,The MOD is very helpful to me.
I hope that more people know about it, like it.
May i have your permission to translate this mod into Chinese and upload it to our bbs?
I’ll put your name and link it on an apparent position of course.
Anyway thanks for your great work,waiting for your reply.
Yes. Go right ahead.
And wait, what am I doing here in the first place? I’m all for immersion and lore friendliness… Ah, whatever.
Can you add some NPC students in the school as well please? Some fine lads and lasses from Akav… I mean, Japan. Maybe even voiced ones? “Ohayo, Dovakiin-kun!” and such.
Oh those doors. I left it because to my ears it sounds like clanking metal. I don’t know what wood you’ve heard, but wood doesn’t sound like that. That’s the sound of metal. It’s better than total silence, in my opinion.
I’ve had a bit of a play with Knox now, and as I said, it’s very good in terms of style and mod quality.
I know you’re going to add to it as time permits and in that regard, I’d love to see you add more spaces where people can relax, like a player home or even expanding on the bar that you’ve got in there.
Fun mod to run around and explore in. Theres a locked room in the school, past the Infirmary. Could I get a hint to where the key might be?
There’s no key. It’s just a little joke. Like there’s always one locked room in the school.
As soon as i stepped into Knox, i was blown away at the Sheer awesomeness that this mod was. I noticed that there was neon signs that indicated there would be other stores in future updates, i noticed a weapons store, a clothing store, some kind of hospital/potions store and a few others. The bar is also pretty cool. It would be supper awesome if you would add a player home that is Knox themed like a apartment.
I any case I think this is a wonderful mod and I’m looking forward to future updates.
i like how the music start and it sounds good.
thank you so much for your great works
Hi! Just wanted to congrat you for the mods, they’re are awesome, it’s just incredible how you can take care of so many details, i would love to see NPCs in there but i don’t know if you are planning on doing it, but just wanted you to know how much i loved this mod and basically all your work it’s awesome, please keep the great job
Sorry for my bad english, it’s not my mother lenguage
I just wanna thank you for giving us this awesome and really amazing piece of work!
I ust wonder, can I play the Audio log? It’d be cool we could like play some sound snippets lol. The main street is nifty but it’s just like a connector? And my mid-range pc is really getting a huge fps hit on that area even in vanilla but it’s really cool. Reminds me of a Night-life in some Asian country. I really love this work!
You play the audio log by picking it up. It won’t work from your menu. When you pick it up off of the ground, let it play, because once you choose take, the log will stop.
As for the FPS hit, it’s probably because there’s a massive amount of stuff on the street. It’s rendering loads of buildings in the background. It may also be because of the texture resolutions, if you have a 1gb card, or lower, it will probably be hard to render. But yeah, Main Street is just a connector. It goes into Finnegan’s Bar and Board, and also The Warrens.
This is quite the amazing /downloads/
Halo hang in there, your mod’s are fantastic and with a bit of luck the new fallout 4 is going to use a modified and refined second edition of the skyrim game engine so it may be possible to port your models and textures across with minimal fuss and of course it is a game with gun mechanics and robot’s ready made, If this is the case not only would your mod be one of the best early mod’s but one of the best mod’s full stop for a very long time, bethesda are keeping it under wraps but from what little we have seen it look’s good, while it look’s at the moment to be using ported fallout 3 and new vegas models with your mod it would get a much needed boost to it’s feel, especially if you keep the alternate time line idea.
I have downloaded though and can’t wait to try it but you have always been among the best modders.
So don’t let it die just take it a prototype for you new fallout 4 mod.
Oh and you could probably port the skyrim magic system (which will likely be there under the skin anyway) and make your mod into a deus ex type mod with multi dimensional nanotechnology or something to explain how you character can suddenly spout fire and sonic implants for the shout’s.
May I know the bgm that was used in your mod (or was that only in your video)?
All the information is in the readme file for the mod. I don’t know it off the top of my head.
Amazing mod, thanks for sharing :)!
this mod increasingly grows more and more, deserves a quest in academia, and many students npc
Please refer to every single update post I make about Skyrim Academy and the Aether Suite.
thanks for this very badass mod (y)
I have to say that the school has become my happy place and the Velvet room, the center of Skyrim. Thank you very, very, very much for this mod. I’ve unpacked the .bsa, turned this into a Master file and opened up the Red Robin. This mod is the center of my character’s world and I have you to thank. Superior mod with a superior feel. Love it!!
I like the holopad thing,
Can you release the meshes, textures, etc to make one of my own?
I think it’s a really cool thing!
Just extract them from the bsa archive. I don’t like releasing tiny little resources. They’re all there in the Aether Suite bsa. It’s one big resource.
Love the mod good job , i just have one problem the music does not seem to start playing i get the vanilla soundtrack everywhere is there a way to fix that so i can get the music like the one in your youtube video ? thanks
It happens to me sometimes too. Very rarely, and only when I come from certain places. I don’t know of any way to fix it, and I can only assume it has something to do with the priority of the music in the location you’re starting from.
alright thanks !! and again great mod
hey, I recently found this treasure, but I’m not sure how to install it. what do you do once you have downloaded it?
http://wiki.tesnexus.com/index.php/How_to_install_Skyrim_mods
You know you should try to make a quest in this area >_< It would be lore breaking but it helps give a little refresh when going through fantasy land in skyrim ahaha
I don’t know how many times I’ve said no to that, bit I will certainly say it again. I don’t have the time to make a quest, and I also don’t have the resources.
Heya! just came across this – never needed “non lore” mods so far, now hunting down some for some picture stories about alternate reality fantasies…
Aither suite looks like exactly the thing I was looking for, at least for the environment.
Does anyone have a link for me – still looking for some modern-day gadgets that I can use in Skyrim without learning CK first… like a MacBook and iPhone
it would be a lot cooler if there were people in the streets wearing modern clothes and some cool nightclubs, a city like VTMB. just an idea
Amazingly well done mod. I love the tall buildings and bright lights :). Im working on a overhaul mod and i wanted to ask whether i could use your stuff as a resoure?
Yes. No problem.
Is this the updated version?
Or I need to download all of the updates?
Thanks.
The link always goes to the most up-to-date version, so yes, it’s the updated version.
Oh! Glad to know!
Thanks!
Please continue your work, it makes Skyrim more flexible and a new environment from the regular Skyrim.
the music are really great!
Where did you find the music?
or did you make it yourself?
All music credits in the readme.
oh..
thank you and sorry
really cool mod
Hello .Love the Aether Suite ..see your dealing with the idiots on nexus with summerset isle good luck
And thank for the excellent update XX
Halo, I found the bed in the small apartment…… WTF I have never been more terrified playing a game before, slender, freddies, dead space, amnesia. Nothing freaked me out more than your freakin nightmare 11/10 would have another heart attack. Off to finish the rest today
lol thanks
As usual a great job. Was looking for this a long time. Should’ve known you had made this mod
Thnx for the upload and the work
Okay, first things first: I freaking LOVE this mod.
And ever since I finished Life Is Strange, some parts seem to remind me of the Dark Room. If I were any good at that kinda thing, I’d probably try to make one myself, for roleplaying purposes. I love this mods atmosphere, and it really works for me. Amazing work!
lol, just you wait until the next release. Some parts will REALLY remind you of the dark room.
That sounds wonderful! Just the thing to get my dark little mind excited again. Now I have to edit some followers to get a Max, and maybe remake my guy into a Jefferson. Oh dear, I’ve done it again. Oh well. Love the mod!
got a problem with the install i download it via MO but i cant find the spell tome and i tried using console and it cant find it do you have any idea what the problem would be ?
got it work now i try using the spell but nothing happens … lol i got issues
Not the first time people have told me that MO doesn’t install it properly. I don’t know why though. You might have to install manually.
tried it manually still the same ill try to delete it completely from my pc and try again but thanks for the reply mate
that does not work either is there any other way than the spell to get there like console command coc or something ?
yeah, just coc aethersuitelobby
That’ll do the same job as the spell, or if you’re worried you’ll forget the coc code, you can do help aether and add the spell from the list.
Hello sir,
A while ago you granted me permission to use assets from this great mod. I did, and the result is now up in the form of Mharphin V2. Your sofa is major character
Anyway, I believe in returning favours, so if there’s ever anything you need, just let me know. (I happen to be fairly good with SFX etc)
Best Regards
Skinnytecboy
This mod is a Masterpiece. lore friendly messages, tons of content, damn. This makes Skyrim a cyberpunk fantasy. Awesome mod, and not as not lore friendly as thought. With proper explanation everything can be immersive. Thank you Halo for the awesome and unusual mod.
From what I’ve seen in the preview video, this mod looks like it would do well for a character’s dreams in a roleplay!
i’m lost. how do i get out? i’m in the red robin lounge
never mind found a way out.
Is Aether Suites 3.5.0 integrated with its earlier versions or is an update for earlier versions.
It’s a full version. I don’t release update packs.
Hey I’m new to your mods since I recently left XBOX for PC after SSE came out. However, these are amazing. All of your mods are. I can’t wait to see more of your work. I was testing to see if my followers could actually live in the suite, I have 16 total and every time I went back to the suite from Skyrim while my followers were relaxing there in the academy area, I CTD. I had hoped to do play on SAO where me and my followers actually lived in the Suite in reality and we all would log on with VR gear and play skyrim. The Mod itself was fully functional with all 16 followers in the academy area though. Plus I’m using animated backpacks and other animated armor mods which may be conflicting as far as my CTD issue goes. I just posted that in case anyone was wondering about max followers in the suite. Thanks for your hard work and I am going to donate to you so the great work keeps continuing
You’re overloading your hardware. It’s not specifically an aether suite thing, but the Academy area is actually the heaviest spot by far. Add 16 followers worth of VRAM usage and that’s an explosive combination. I personally can’t handle more than 6, anywhere, in any mod, because I only have 2gb of VRAM. So that’s some food for thought. You’re putting a heck of a lot into one of the most resource intensive areas. Not to mention, animated gear is a lot more intensive as well.
Do we get any hints on where to find all of the upa’s? I’ve made it my mission to find them all but I’ve only found the normal one, the golden, and the faded fairy.
The only hints I’ll give you are that one of them is sitting hidden behind a wave radio SOMEWHERE, and another is actually in an openable container. The rest are actually in view in their respective locations.
Also, there’s none past Green Emperor Ward. You won’t find any in the Black Streets or the Undercity.
Since Aetehr Suite is 3.5 now. Does this mean that all other previous versions (2.0 – 3.4) are in one file or are the individual downloads?
I already answered this question the last time you asked. It’s all integrated. I do not release update packs.
I made a modern city out of love for Aether suite, i thought you might like the modders resource.
http://www.loverslab.com/files/file/3827-modern-city/
http://www.mediafire.com/file/d32zrc0bt6b1vow/Modern+Town.rar
That’s awesome! I’ll definitely grab it up. I won’t be using it as a resource though. The AS is my own project of personally made assets and locations. The only stuff I didn’t make myself are clothes, so it will always just be my own personal work in the AS. This is cool though. I’ll be sure to let others know about it too.
Hm. I downloaded it twice to make sure. I seem to be missing some textures in some places, and I also got corrupt nif crashes when trying to load into the “home int” area.
Thanks, just added updates on lovers lab page.
I understand that about AS its perfect as is but I thought you might like them for personal use, screens shots etc
Probably the only reason I play skyrim anymore personally.
Cheers
I recently tested your mod.
It was a very attractive city.
Please keep updating.
Hello. the mod you provide is awesome.
I’m reporting here some perfomance issues in the hotel, and walking around in the dining hall room part of the hotel frequently leads me to a crash to desktop.
The hotel has a lot of high poly meshes, particularly in the courtyard, which can lead to lower performance. I’ve already optimised the meshes as far as I am willing. As for the dining hall, no one else has reported CTDs there, so it may be a localised issue. I don’t know of any particular reasons the dining hall specifically would cause you CTDs.
i really like the music in your mod. some partsremind me on some works from Nest
try https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NSRyBSb62c if you are in the mood. niice ambient stuff.
last, but but not least, many thanks for all of your mods, really aewsome work!
and, of course, thanks for sharing it to modding community
best regards
It works fine and looks lovely, except my character’s always ankle-deep in the ground. I’d assume it’s an issue with the mod as it doesn’t happen outside of it.
Well, considering it’s not true for me, any of my testers, or external machines I’ve used the mod on, I would have to say you should look elsewhere for your answer. There’s no known issue with the collision in this mod. No one’s ever reported this until you, and it’s been around for 2 or 3 years now.
Are there any NPCs aside from Blake?
No.
Hello, I love your mod, love exploring it love the idea. But recently I haven’t been able to seen some of the new updates, I had to look them up on youtube for whatever reason it stopped working for my special edition. But I was wondering could you please tell me the music you used for the undergrind? I liked the songs and would just like to have them
The music list is in the readme. I also don’t support special edition. If you want to get updates for the SSE version, ask the guy that ported it.
i got a problem im gonna install sevenbase body mod but is there a sevenbase version of the clothes for aethersuit?
I have no idea. There’s an outdated UUNP for it, I think. I don’t know about 7B.
what a brutality, nice work friend.
someone know usual clothing for this mod?
jeans, shirts..etc
is hard to find.
thank you
You might find something here: http://mitakusaner.blog.fc2.com/
Also the mod has clothing included as well.
thank you
i have find school uniform
too big city
hi halo, scuse me, do i have to download all aether suite operations or just the last one??? they diferent and complement each other or they are upgraded versions and i only need the last one???
Just the last one. I always release full downloads only. If you clicked the links in each post, you’d notice they all link to the same file anyway, so you actually can’t download old versions. It just gets upgraded each time.
https://ibb.co/fHt01J
hello,
i can move, copy, generate, duplicate this light?
the idea is more disco effect, with jasonx positioner.
thank you
Well, no, not unless jaxxonz allows you to move a light source.
no, i cant select with console, no id.
i have duplicate jail and lot of flashlights,
almost a disco.
https://ibb.co/jwvgty
https://ibb.co/crkQLd
creation kit is the only way to move light?
i use for vanilla things, but i have lot of problems with mods.
Yes. It would have to be creation kit.
please the “coc” for fast travel.
If you’re asking for a list of location names, just use the teleport mod. You can find it on tumblr.http://millepon.tumblr.com/post/169107729345/aether-suite-teleport-menu-v2-aether-suite
I forgot to say thank you.
thank you.
new places, i can make my own silent hill with the abandoned school.
I may have posted this somewhere else, but I can’t find my comment so here it is again. I’m having loads of missing textures is there anything I forgot to download?
Did you extract with WinRAR? This problem almost always occurs when people extract with WinRAR or WinZip instead of 7zip, which is the program it’s meant to be extracted with.
Lol thanks!
EDIT: Tried extracting with 7zip and the missing textures are still there! I think the texture files may have been corrupted.
I’ve had no other complaints about this, and the file has been out for almost six months now. What are your specs? Is it possible it’s just too heavy for your machine?
I have a 1050ti gpu and a AMD Fx 6300 Cpu with 8gbs of ram, I’m pretty sure it can run it.
So then I don’t know what the issue is. Perhaps you need to redownload the archive itself? The download could have been corrupted.
Hi Halo, once again I love all things created by you <3 true super fan boy ~ well fan man~ but that doesn't have the same flattering tone.
Anyway I've decided to proceed with releasing my modifications to this current version of Aether Suite. I'm adding NPCs and stuff like I was like forever ago. The Nexus wants to feature it on their twitter page but I don't "tweet" because I'll say something I shouldn't to certain people in positions of government authority and that might not end well for me
Anywho~*~* I've pointed everyone who wants to download the changes I've made back to your Site and I've given you credit for Knox, for AS, for really all your stuff as I should have.
There are other people who have created so much more than I have using your work as a base. I think your its' so incredible that it has inspired so many people to expand Knox and to create things that are totally new.
Here is a link to this very alpha stage: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/86955
It's funny that there are so many people who have made their own interesting changes but never thought to publish it.
And sorry to all the poeple who have trouble downloading AetherSuite… I’ve never run into a problem…
I clean my master files and official dlc with TES5-edit
I use Loot to sort all my files.
I also use SKSE’s —> Crash Fix plugin
I don’t experience any crashes when loading Halo’s mod or exploring it
I’m using a Macbook Pro late 2016 base model basically the one without the touchbar.
I have an integrated GPU : Intel Iris 540
my CPU: Intel i5- 6360U
RAM: 8GB
I’ve run this version of aether suite in a 2010 Macbook white Unibody laptop
with only 4GB of Ram and a outdated NVIDIA GeForce 320M
As you all know Macs look pretty but in Windows they are a bit behind the technology most modern gaming laptops have. I have never run into any problem.
Maybe they think I’m some sort of demon who will kill anyone who touches my precious treasure?
Even though it’s a modder’s resource as much as a mod in its own right.
Hmmm.
Demons are hot though
really great mod. would it be possilbe todo something similar for fo4 or maybe port this mod to fo4 ?
I don’t mod Fallout 4, so I certainly can’t, but I’m sure someone could do it if they wanted to.
i don`t know if this is the right place for this..but could i possibly use some of your meshes and textures to make a skyrim player home…thank you in advance…….
Yup. Anything made originally by me is 100% free to use.
thank you so much….i will do my best..sorry…i love the aether suite great work…
Really nice mod you have shared. thank you
Btw…is the duplicated space based on the copied city from nier automata?
Yes. That was the inspiration.
I love the touches of anime throughout and that you can turn on the screens to see websearches. With all the TVs would it be workable to turn them on and have a few stills cycle as if it were video? I think of Oj Simpson’s bronco in duke nukem but maybe you could use an anime scene. Just an idea. I know you said you won’t add npcs but I love the back story in the apartments. I wish there were followers that could be added separately maybe. Maybe there are and I just haven’t seen them yet.
I have considered making short animated clips to go on the TVs to the tune of a few frames, but it’s mostly I’m not sure what to put on them. There aren’t any followers, no.
Its a shame you couldn’t use gif files but I think any long dramatic pause iconic scenes from one of the anime’s you have blue ray cases for could work. There are plenty of scenes like that in ergo proxy for instance, the scene she reaches over and pulls the hair he keeps missing with the razor. But not very many people would probably recognize that, I only mention it cause I saw the case for it in game.
God I wish I could use gifs. Any significantly animated surface needs a paneled texture. For a reasonable gif-like presentation, it’d probably have to be some huge 256×8192 or maybe even 16384 texture. If I wanted the quality good, double that on both dimensions. I can consider it, but I don’t know how practical it is.
To be fair, I think even people who don’t recognize the scenes can appreciate it – I don’t know most of the anime referenced in AS but holy shit is it fascinating and inspiring. What I don’t know, my mind fills in – like I didn’t know that the duplicated space was inspired Neir Automata, which from what I understand is something about space androids laying eggs in men? Anime is why I don’t need drugs.
This is fucking incredible. Every door I open blows my mind. Thank you.
I’m having issues with this mod. When I open a door the game crashes. Are there any major incompatibilities I am unaware of or am I simply missing some required mods?
Neither. There should be 0 compatibility issues, since all assets are custom, and there are no required mods either. However, something which has caused many people trouble in the past is extracting the mod with winzip or winrar. Did you use 7-zip to extract and install manually? That’s the recommended method.
Well what would happen if I were to use a spell that will summon one of my followers to these random rooms ie: a certain blue khajiit.
Not much. You’d probably just have to summon them back out again after. Assuming you’re talking about the ones from the lobby. Most of the AS is navmeshed, so if you mean an apartment, they can walk around like normal anyway.