6-25 progress

Yoda · Post by **Yoda** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 12:22 am

I have been working on my claim a bit, I would really like to get feedback from you guys on what I can improve, remember this is the first mod I EVER made so be nice.

Yoda · Post by **Yoda** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 12:36 am

oh, I forgot to mention that its located on (21,-32) - (26,-34). Also to whom ever this may concern, can the people who claimed 6-10, 6-19 and 6-17 post thier mods up so I can get an idea of the textures your using and the heights?

Legolas55 · Post by **Legolas55** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 12:42 am

Go to the members downloads section if you want to get neighbor mods, yet map 6 is the newest, and hardly any claims are fully completed.

Noirgrim · Post by **Noirgrim** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 1:21 am

You following the texture map

Plus 1 for Yoda, good job.

It also looks like you are following the terrain as far as mountains and such go. Good job there too.

This claim is just in the beginning stages, so there's not much to comment on.

-remember to use the smooth tool.
-get down to NPC level and make sure things are not too steep
-look at the ascadian iles region on Vvardenfell to get an idea of what your claim should look like.
-each cell should have an average of 100 to 150 references. What this means is that if you look at the 'cell view' window there is a listing of all the cells in the game. The ones you are working on should have this average in the 'ref count' box to the left of the cell name.
-remember to detail
-use texture shading under statics, and seperating water from land (accesable in the landscape editing settings)
-look back at what bethsoft did and try to match how your claim looks and feals with theirs.
-repeat above step one more time

Keep modding and have fun, if you have anymore questions, PM or reply to this thread.

Yoda · Post by **Yoda** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 7:56 pm

Just wanted to update so that people won't think that I left the project, now I'm placing trees and rocks for the forest at the foot of the mountains, also I'm considering redoing the mountain ranges to give it a more open feel.

Yoda · Post by **Yoda** » Sun Feb 15, 2004 3:50 pm

ok I'm putting up the latest status of my claim, there are more textures and statics and something to actually look at, but it is not close to done yet.

Yoda · Post by **Yoda** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 10:17 am

I have a quick question, How do I post my .esp file on this forum? this new forum board doesn't have the attach file option.

Noirgrim · Post by **Noirgrim** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 12:15 pm

We are still working on that. We should have that capability soon. If you have access to a webhost and can upload it there, you can do that. You can also PM kothloth and ask for this servers htp info and you can upload it to this server.

Yoda · Post by **Yoda** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 5:35 pm

Its been a while since my last update, so here it is, I did alot since my last official update, heres my .esp file, like last time I would appreciate feed back, thanks

Yoda · Post by **Yoda** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 5:41 pm

Here are some screenshots

Yoda · Post by **Yoda** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 5:47 pm

Here are some more screens

Noirgrim · Post by **Noirgrim** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 4:19 pm

Keep going.

Some suggestions
-add more rocks to your forest of trees
-add smaller plants, like flowers and such growing under the trees
-your mountains are too steep. If you look at the textures on the sides of your hills, you'll see that the textures are too strtched, we don't want that. You can cover of these stretched textures with the large WG rocks and scale them to 2.
-try to add some more texture variation. You really only have 2 textures in your forest, trying using all the AI textures atleast once.
-LOOK AT VVARD IN THE AI REGION TO SEE WHAT THEY DID TO GET SOME INSPERATION!

Keep modding!

Yoda · Post by **Yoda** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 3:18 pm

I seem to have a problem here, I just recently loaded my claim and claim 1-17 together and when it loads it creates a flat mass of water right where my mountains should be! I dono't know why this happwns but could anyone please tell me how to fix it? I'm attaching a pic showing the problem.

sirwootalot123 · Post by **sirwootalot123** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 8:19 pm

The only thing i could even BEGIN to guess is that one of you made a small blip of land stretch into that cell by accident, and as a response to the dual reference the editor decided it would be best for that bit to not exist. pure speculation, though. If it is the case, load the other plugin only, and delete the cell where this problem occurs.

Kothloth · Post by **Kothloth** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 9:32 pm

As he said, the problem lies in the nature of collision. The claims both uses the same cell. And to solve this, use TESAME, the tool one use to remove references that shouldn't be like cells not in the claim, modified objects and dialouge etc.

To easily know which cells are yours, simply name all the cells the is *in* your claims, then load it into the program TESAME (link on our website) and remove all since that isn't yours. Then load both plugins again and the problem is solved.

Anyways, I'm currently doing the lower wilderness cells of Almalexia, and will need to coordinate with this claim. Is the upper border of the version above final? In that case, I will use that version to merge with Almalexia.

ElohimAlpha · Post by **ElohimAlpha** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 6:18 am

Yeah, I think my claim is the one causing the problems. Sorry about that. I'll fix it and post an updated claim once I can get past my executable files being corrupt . . . whooboy. Anyway, sorry about any inconvenience.

Yoda · Post by **Yoda** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 11:10 pm

don't worry about it. I just want to know how to use this TESAME thing I just don't know how to tell which cell I'm selecting

Yoda · Post by **Yoda** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 8:24 pm

Sorry for the delay in updating, here are some pics. Also I got the problem worked out and figured out how to use TESAME.

Yoda · Post by **Yoda** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 6:07 pm

I was looking at my calim and the claim of my niebors and I realized that my claim is a tad bit higher than the rest of the claims around me, I hope that this does not create a problem or there is something I can do to take my claim and lower all of it respectivly

sxotty · Post by **sxotty** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 6:34 pm

My claim is higher than my southern neighbor, lower than my western neighbor and higher than my northern neighbor. I still haven't seen the eastern one. These things happen, and I wouldn't stress too much about it yet, especially if your neighbors are not anywhere close to done there.