I tried the mod out, and I find it a really good start for something awesome. The things that have been done already, have been done very well. I only found one pavewalk stone off and out of place. It's really a sign of professional and dedicated work that it indeed hangs together so fine although it's obviously not done yet.
My only real wish for city design is the following. I really don't like the big, empty space in the middle of town before the castle and before the running water. I'd just love to paste a cathedral on that space and then build the poor parts and rich parts of town around that. The market could be moved around the Cathedral too: maybe along the side walls of it. I dunno if a cathedral suits the lore, but there must be something else that could be placed on there to make the skyline more impressive and to fill that gaping space. Also, a city will feel much larger if the player is confronted with great walls and high towers everywhere he turns. This is just my personal opinion.
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Thanks, glad you like it!
For that big empty space: we follow the description of Rimmen found in the novel 'The Infernal City'. You find this part of the book in the readme or the first entry of this thread. Although I often think, Mr. Keyes description in the 'Infernal Novel' doesn't match to what was in the lore already. Anyway, I try to stay close to this (but also put more of Akavir into it :whistling: ):
And the book describes a market place 'empty in the middle', followed by 'a broad avenue flanked by even more expansive waterways'. Which is a typical structure I often see in pictures of old japanese or chinese cities, especially around temples and palaces.
Overall it's indeed still a bit
too empty, but we need to finish all buildings etc. first before it can be cluttered further. For instance I had planed to add colonades having dome roofs (similar to that wall towers) to the market place. Also some statues, wells, banners, lights and so on. And I love to do this kind of resources myself, to get something unique. Although this has the drawback that progress is very slowly, sorry.
As far as I know you don't find Cathedrals outside of Cyrodiil or at least not outside Imperial cities. Rimmen is part of Elsweyr and was build by Akaviri, so it has an Akaviri temple instead, the Tonenaka. And the novel says, it's east of the palace, not inside the city.
Next update shouldn't be so far away, I 'only' have to finish the new lower class houses first, and my progress is not that bad currently.
... I only found one pavewalk stone off and out of place. ...
And were is that 'pavewalk stone off and out of place' exactly? I need some more hints to fix that ...
» Tue May 03, 2011 3:32 am 
and showed up in the right place matching our Rimmen map markers. But I couldn't get Kiwis map exported again without lots of white dot errors in the DDS file. Can't figure out why that occurs, never had problems like that before with DDS exports. Here are some pictures of what I did (without the errors):
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