Ill write a real description when I get outta work. This will overhaul the Ascadian Isles region, cities, textures, and a few models. It will be built with keeping the Morrowind feel, but more geared towards the concept art.

The trees that will be used in the overhaul were just released as a replacer today. I was tired of them sitting there, fearing Id never get the whole thing released so I figured atleast those can be made public =-).

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A view of Vivec in the distance.
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot2-11.jpg

More Vivec, at night.
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot10-8.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot13-9.jpg


New trees!
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot13-11.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot14-10.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot15-10.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot16-9.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot17-7.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot18-9.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot19-10.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot20-9.jpg

New trees are always welcome

I'll be looking forward to this one.

Are these using the "billboard leaves" akin to what Starwarsguy and Vality have created? Or is it more akin to the traditional Morrowind style? If the latter, I'm looking forward to it. My computer can't handle billboard trees en masse, but yours look amazing.

Actually, billboarded trees eat up less FPS than the original trees in Morrowind. I don't completely remember the mechanics of it, but the gist of it is that because you have the planes (each of which is obviously not very high-poly) rotating to face the player, instead of having a bunch of separately modeled leaves, each tree causes less of an FPS hit. That's why Vality's tree mods don't cause much of an FPS hit even though he's adding a huge amount of new statics. Speaking from experience, if you try to enable that plugin with the original trees, you get an average FPS of poop.

EDIT: Also, yes, I'm fairly certain that those are billboarded.

A few more of Vivec. They may be dark on som monitors, I shot them at night because I was fond of the lighting.
http://s274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/?action=view¤t=MGEScreenshot13-9.jpg
http://s274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/?action=view¤t=MGEScreenshot10-8.jpg


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Yes, these are billboard trees. Im trying to optimize the polygons as much as possible. I can easily simplify the mesh to much lower qulaity and release that as a add-on, but as its been pointed out the trees wont casue a noticable fps hit

The lights along the cantons make it even more magical looking

Nice!.
This looks like it might even compliment my Molag Mar WIP. Have we been having the same dreams or something?
I have done some similar things to the cantons, albeit not as grand since Molag Mar is not as big/prosperous/populated.

Maybe further pictures will explain this, but how did you create that custom canton? I see that you placed normal Velothi buildings in the sides, but what did you do for that base? It's really quite interesting.

The entire thing was made from scratch. Thats the third generation model, really. It was inspired from this http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.uesp.net/morrow/preview/viveccityt.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.uesp.net/morrow/preview/morart.shtml&usg=__yiBPKBFEUXV1vUXdDBSBH70abDk=&h=89&w=123&sz=4&hl=en&start=4&tbnid=IzwHy5b4SkT5SM:&tbnh=64&tbnw=89&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dvivec%2Bconcept%2Bart%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26rlz%3D1B3MOZA_enUS341US341

OMG, finally Vivec from concepts! Awesome!

Wowzie! Can't wait. Have to, though

Wow, zackg! I know you would fix the lighting issues of Vivec, but boy, I didn't expect that kind of effort.

:clap:
Thank you. :hugs:

Bump, any news?

This is still being worked on but now its part of a much larger project. This part, the Ascadian Isles, has really regressed a tad if anything. Right now Im working on a Ashlands overhaul...

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot10-9.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot11-8.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot12-10.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot13-10.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot14-9.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot15-9.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot16-8.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot17-6.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot18-7.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot7-10.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot8-11.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot9-8.jpg

I don't know what all those dead trees do to the frame-rates, but the burned-out forest look is amazingly creepy. I rather like it.

What about some Vivec screenies?

Those Ashlands screens.... look really wicked.

Updated the op, heres the added pics =-) Real excited about these!

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot13-11.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot14-10.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot15-10.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot16-9.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot17-7.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot18-9.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot19-10.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/MGEScreenshot20-9.jpg

the ashlands look scary.

Excellent and much needed!!! Cheers!!!

Great job on the scary Ashlands too!!!!!

That is just...awesome. I cant wait for this.

Any new Vivec screenies? I really like your project.

Fantastic! I bet that Phal's sun shafts look great through those leaves too!

Wow, I love those trees!
Seriously, they're the best trees for Morrowind I've seen to date, can't wait for the release!