[WIP] Continent of Yesterbreeze : III - Morrowind

» Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:08 pm

I noticed something about the name of this mod. Is it just a coincidence or did you guys plan this out...?

Morrow-Yester
Wind-Breeze

Seems like an odd coincidence

Great looking mod, and I too cannot wait for a release!

Yes, I did intend for it to be a little pun.

I wondered if anyone would notice...

Thanks Faylynn for the praise.

» Tue Jul 13, 2010 5:07 am

Well, it's been a long time coming, but after some inspiration last night I've finally finished the first Yesterbreeze trailer. It's not the original one that was being worked on, but a new one (though the original is still coming...). This trailer is a scenic overview of Tyrthol Coast so far, whereas the original is a more general YB trailer.

So, without further ado... I give to you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWhBM2baa08

Enjoy.

Edit: Oh, and make sure you watch it in High Quality to get the most out of it. Feedback and comments welcome.

» Tue Jul 13, 2010 2:25 am

Well, it's been a long time coming, but after some inspiration last night I've finally finished the first Yesterbreeze trailer. It's not the original one that was being worked on, but a new one (though the original is still coming...). This trailer is a scenic overview of Tyrthol Coast so far, whereas the original is a more general YB trailer.

So, without further ado... I give to you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWhBM2baa08

Enjoy.

Edit: Oh, and make sure you watch it in High Quality to get the most out of it. Feedback and comments welcome.

Amazing, it seems this mod will add one of the things I most wanted to see in Morrowind?s landascape.. a forest that you could actually get lost into. So many impressing scenes, like the aqueduct, the "alpine village", rivers, lakes, waterfalls... the topology is so realistic.. Congratulations, great work done so far.

» Mon Jul 12, 2010 5:40 pm

Amazing, it seems this mod will add one of the things I most wanted to see in Morrowind?s landascape.. a forest that you could actually get lost into. So many impressing scenes, like the aqueduct, the "alpine village", rivers, lakes, waterfalls... the topology is so realistic.. Congratulations, great work done so far.

thank you. while i cant take credit for the placeing of the scenery personaly. i can take credit for the hours of play testing and error hunting. its been alot of fun running around in these new lands seeing all of the wonderious scenes. glad you enjoied the vid.

» Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:54 pm

This looks very nice; the landmass appears to be quite well done. However I'm going to assume this conflicts with the official plug-in of Firemoth, is that correct?

» Mon Jul 12, 2010 9:43 pm

Amazing trailer! This mod looks absolutely great! I can't wait until we get the release

I love those ?magicbridges? incredibly creative.

Keep up the good work everyone!

» Mon Jul 12, 2010 4:48 pm

Der Trailer schaut recht toll aus! :-)

(Sorry, I couldn't resist; it's the Tirol reference!)

Best of luck with this mod!

Swiveller

» Mon Jul 12, 2010 8:26 pm

This looks very nice; the landmass appears to be quite well done. However I'm going to assume this conflicts with the official plug-in of Firemoth, is that correct?

i tried looking at the map o mods to check what it conflicts with but its a bit hard to tell i do know that with mge installed when i get off the boat after generation i can look out over the ocean and see the coast line of yesterbreeze in fact its a rather swimable distance from it . but its considerably larger as well . so id suppose its one of those things ppl will have to make a decision if its worth installing for the experience. we dealt with alot of critisim on the first thread about all the things it would conflict with . however due to its size there is no way to avoid the conflict.

» Tue Jul 13, 2010 3:57 am

Oh, glad to see the video !

great landscape ! such things haven't been done since morrowind come out.

there is no difference to me whether it conflict with other mods or not. because I will stick to use this mod.

when the first release come out ?

» Tue Jul 13, 2010 2:18 am

Thanks for all the responses!

As to some of your questions:
- I am not sure whether it conflicts with Firemoth at this point, however it may do - I will be sure to check that up later.
- I am not setting any release date as yet. It will be done when it is done. I want to make this mod the best that I can, so I don't want to rush things.
- Yes, those are magical bridges.

And you have just given me an idea for a misc quest...

Cheers,
Regaez

» Tue Jul 13, 2010 3:30 am

This is awesome, and the trailer looks really really beautiful. You have admirable landscaping skills, which I'd kill to have!

hehe

» Mon Jul 12, 2010 6:31 pm

Oh, and make sure you watch it in High Quality to get the most out of it. Feedback and comments welcome.

I can't imagine how powerful of a computer you're using to get more than 4 fps while running yesterbreeze. Did you set the loaded cell buffer bellow 9?

» Tue Jul 13, 2010 3:59 am

I can't imagine how powerful of a computer you're using to get more than 4 fps while running yesterbreeze. Did you set the loaded cell buffer bellow 9?

its not that bad honest. im running about 200 mods including some high rez texture replacers about 90 percent of connarys texture replacers and some of darknuts and just about every town expansion mge and running around yesterbreeze like it was a cake walk and i only have a 2.80 ghz cpu and a geforce 7900 gs vid card.

im testing it with so many mods hoping to catch as many incompatabilities as i can at least with the mod list im running. and later on when it gets closer to release ill be happy to test it with mods ppl may be consearned about. and we will be sure to list any incompatabilitys we find in the read me

» Tue Jul 13, 2010 2:13 am

I can't imagine how powerful of a computer you're using to get more than 4 fps while running yesterbreeze. Did you set the loaded cell buffer bellow 9?

Well, I just got a new laptop a month or two ago. If you are interested, then the brief specs are:

Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz, 4GB DDR2 RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 512MB dedicated memory (and for that Windows Vista rating thing it gets 5.2).

I was also running MGE (distant land draw distance set to 5) and enbseries while taking video with Fraps (and my vanilla MW view distance was set to full). I only really encountered a few 1 second lags when I moved from one cell to another and it had to load, which I removed when editing the video. But, other than that, it didn't really lag at all.

I'm not sure what you mean by setting the loaded cell buffer below 9, so I probably haven't changed anything to do with that...

» Tue Jul 13, 2010 1:11 am

not sure if we made a point to mention this or not but yesterbreeze will be NOM compatable.. so you dont have to worry about packing food for your trip there. *smiles*

» Tue Jul 13, 2010 4:34 am

not sure if we made a point to mention this or not but yesterbreeze will be NOM compatable.. so you dont have to worry about packing food for your trip there. *smiles*

Ooh! Can you make it crafting compatible too?

I love your landscaping work BTW, I've got to do some more work on ULM AI.

» Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:59 pm

Here's a few more random screenshots I took while having a wander through YB, checking up on what I've done:

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd41/Regaez/Yesterbreeze/MGEScreenshot10-1.jpg
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd41/Regaez/Yesterbreeze/MGEScreenshot9-1.jpg
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd41/Regaez/Yesterbreeze/MGEScreenshot8-1.jpg
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd41/Regaez/Yesterbreeze/MGEScreenshot13.jpg
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd41/Regaez/Yesterbreeze/MGEScreenshot12.jpg

Sorry if a few of them are a bit dark (like the bedroom and cave ones) - it's the moody lighting... blame the attempt for atmosphere, if you can't see them!

» Mon Jul 12, 2010 9:25 pm

Here's a few more random screenshots I took while having a wander through YB, checking up on what I've done:

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd41/Regaez/Yesterbreeze/MGEScreenshot10-1.jpg
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd41/Regaez/Yesterbreeze/MGEScreenshot9-1.jpg
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd41/Regaez/Yesterbreeze/MGEScreenshot8-1.jpg
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd41/Regaez/Yesterbreeze/MGEScreenshot13.jpg
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd41/Regaez/Yesterbreeze/MGEScreenshot12.jpg

Sorry if a few of them are a bit dark (like the bedroom and cave ones) - it's the moody lighting... blame the attempt for atmosphere, if you can't see them!

Wow! Those look excellent. I'm glad to see that you guys are already working on interiors (high quality interiors at that too! :lol:

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Keep up the good work! :goodjob:

» Tue Jul 13, 2010 2:32 am

Wow! Those look excellent. I'm glad to see that you guys are already working on interiors (high quality interiors at that too! :lol:

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Keep up the good work! :goodjob:

Yes, there is already a whole city's worth of interiors created, and a second city with a handful completed (thanks to Cullanna). There's also some misc. interiors like caves (e.g. the roadway cave above) that have been done (mostly by me), as well.

» Mon Jul 12, 2010 5:16 pm

i looked at the magic shop one and thought hey that looks familuar duh!! ive been there. this 4 or 5 hours of sleep is catching up with me haha

anyway those look real good.. yeah they were abit dark but when it said CAVE i sorta expected that .

» Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:19 pm

A few more screenshots of the latest Tyrthol Coast developments:

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd41/Regaez/Yesterbreeze/MGEScreenshot1.jpg
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd41/Regaez/Yesterbreeze/MGEScreenshot2-1.jpg
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd41/Regaez/Yesterbreeze/MGEScreenshot3-1.jpg
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd41/Regaez/Yesterbreeze/MGEScreenshot4.jpg

Enjoy.

» Tue Jul 13, 2010 4:37 am

You needn't be worried about not being able to walk through the forest, unless your character is obese (I hope not).

There's plenty of room to walk through the forest, but you will need to navigate yourself. My intention when creating these large forests was so that you might get lost in the sea of tree trunks and that you have to twist and turn and sidestep your way through the trees because, in my opinion, a forest like that was one thing MW really lacked. (And also because I love forests :hehe:)

Don't worry, though. I assure you that you will be able to walk through the forests. If I get the opportunity, I might make a short video walking through some of the forest so I can show you how it is like.

As to your question... the highest reference count in Tyrthol Coast is 725, but that is around the islands and is largely due to all the ice layers on the ocean. Most of the others are 200-300 references per cell.

Have you folks tested with hostile spawn points in the forested areas / statics heavy areas? How about NPCs in these areas? I noticed in the latest vid a tiny rabbit amongst the trees, but no other big brutal creatures. With the less than optimal way MW does AI pathing, I'd hate for your beautiful work to end up trapping hostiles and take the fun out of the hunt/battle.

This is quite simply gorgeous work! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

» Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:50 pm

make pathgrid for wildness area. that may be a huge job.

you know what I want to ask-----how far from a release ? even only a landscape mod is enough nice.

» Mon Jul 12, 2010 5:57 pm

Ok, how is going with this amazing project? The last new screenshots looks incredible, you really put a lot of effort in creating this mod. Keep up the good work!

you know what I want to ask-----how far from a release ? even only a landscape mod is enough nice.

Seriously, perhaps you could think to release a questless version of the mod with only landscape, NPCs and dialogue as TR does. That would be a very nice present to the community.

» Mon Jul 12, 2010 4:40 pm

You know, I never really followed this mod because I was so involved on other boards on the forums but looking back, I can see that I have missed out.

Your work is looking just absolutely astonishing. Keep it up matey! :tops: