[Fam Mughal]

This looks great!

Out of curiosity, do you have any idea when it'll be totally finished? A year? Longer?

Whatever it is, it'll be worth the wait for a complete version.

Sorry, but the reason for my curiosity is my lack of skills with any type of thing.... I don't trust myself with proper installation enough to install a mod that is in beta, as I fear unplayability.

How many hours of quest time do you expect to be adding? To be honest, I wouldn't mind if it was none, looking at those screens. Are you planning on getting it voiced?

Thanks!

[Dark Mogul]

This looks great!

Out of curiosity, do you have any idea when it'll be totally finished? A year? Longer?

Whatever it is, it'll be worth the wait for a complete version.

Sorry, but the reason for my curiosity is my lack of skills with any type of thing.... I don't trust myself with proper installation enough to install a mod that is in beta, as I fear unplayability.

How many hours of quest time do you expect to be adding? To be honest, I wouldn't mind if it was none, looking at those screens. Are you planning on getting it voiced?

Thanks!

Iliana stated before that she will keep adding to the mod as long as she has the interest, so there will never be a "complete" version. Don't let the beta fool you, it is totally playable. Obviously there will be things to iron out here and there, but don't all mods have bugs (even the game)?

I believe quests are the same deal, so they will be added based on appeals and her preferences, but also watch out for other quest mods made for Elsweyr by other authors. Lastly, I am certain voicing for such a big mod would be too great a workload, so most likely no.

[Silvia Gil]

yes that's right; though sometimes it leaves a junk (ie not parented to a nitristrip/shape but to a ninode) nimaterialproperty and/or a nitexturingproperty - if so just also remove that.
from the readme:
so short definition: just launch Tes4Gecko, select 'Move Worldspace', ...

Thanks! That's what I was looking for.

This looks great!
Out of curiosity, do you have any idea when it'll be totally finished? A year? Longer?
Whatever it is, it'll be worth the wait for a complete version.
Sorry, but the reason for my curiosity is my lack of skills with any type of thing.... I don't trust myself with proper installation enough to install a mod that is in beta, as I fear unplayability.
How many hours of quest time do you expect to be adding? To be honest, I wouldn't mind if it was none, looking at those screens. Are you planning on getting it voiced?
Thanks!

Its a bit like asking when Cyrodiil will be finished . . . and the answer is it will be finished when you stop adding more mods to it. Same with Elsweyr really, I'll just keep adding to it until I no longer want to. There is no planned finish date, its just a hobby after all.

I have no idea how many hours the quests would add up to. There are 24 so far. Some are pretty short, others are more involved.
I've no plans to have it voice-acted. There are around 1700 lines of dialogue which is just too much to have done.

[Nikki Hype]

Oh forgot about this:

Spoiler

Chews-on-Rats; is his quest actually done yet...he keeps saying he needs more rat meat, even though I have 15...

[Nathan Risch]

Oh forgot about this:

Spoiler

Chews-on-Rats; is his quest actually done yet...he keeps saying he needs more rat meat, even though I have 15...

Have you got

Spoiler

the meat from Big Rat as well? That special rat is hidden in underground in Orcrest somewhere.

[Colton Idonthavealastna]

I've been looking at all existing maps which add Elsweyr into the existing vanilla map, but it seems none have Riverhold city drawn on it, even though it was the first city to be built!

[Ells]

Have you got

Spoiler

the meat from Big Rat as well? That special rat is hidden in underground in Orcrest somewhere.

Spoiler

Hm, no , I don't, figuring he'd be happy with a load of the stuff anyway. Guess I'll go hunting huge rat.^^

[Hella Beast]

I can't enter the new territory. I walked all the way to the border, and I'm told to "turn back" and I can't evean reach the border

Am I doing something wrong?

[Wane Peters]

Am I doing something wrong?

Yup, you didn't read the "readme"

[Kayla Keizer]

Had to push up my modding motivation by installing the newest Elsweyr additions. And it worked, of course . Especially in contrast to this Bruma weather outside running around in Elsweyr was a real pleasure. I could really feel the heat in the desert ...

Found the following issues: Zebra body and Pahmer head meshes contain bad texture paths (slashes, not backslashes) in the Part 1 file. The merged updates file and the new file both don't contain fixed versions. Did a search for 'Zebra' backward in the old threads, but noone else mentioned this error. Does nobody get Zebras without body and Pahmers with violet heads except me?

Dune's nice 'RunningWater01.nif' fountain is somewhat quiet, is that intended?

[louise hamilton]

I'm feeling helpful,

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Ini_Settings

[James Hate]

Here's a few new images --

http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/1817/anqriverholdview.jpg

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/6519/anqorcarena.jpg

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/737/anqslarjei01.jpg

http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/1199/anqslarjei02.jpg

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/1181/anqfortress01.jpg

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/2976/anqfortress02.jpg

I've been looking at all existing maps which add Elsweyr into the existing vanilla map, but it seems none have Riverhold city drawn on it, even though it was the first city to be built!

Yes, poor Riverhold. It has been neglected. : ( On the map it would be about the same size as Bravil residential area.

I can't enter the new territory. I walked all the way to the border, and I'm told to "turn back" and I can't evean reach the border
Am I doing something wrong?

Here's a copy paste answer.

You need to turn off the in-game borders before playing this mod.
Just open up the file --
My Documents/My Games/Oblivion/Oblivion.ini
Find the setting "bBorderRegionsEnabled=1" and change that "1" to a "0"
Save and close. All done!
The bBorderRegionsEnabled setting is below the heading [General] but before [Display] in the ini's list.

Had to push up my modding motivation by installing the newest Elsweyr additions. And it worked, of course . Especially in contrast to this Bruma weather outside running around in Elsweyr was a real pleasure. I could really feel the heat in the desert ...
Found the following issues: Zebra body and Pahmer head meshes contain bad texture paths (slashes, not backslashes) in the Part 1 file. The merged updates file and the new file both don't contain fixed versions. Did a search for 'Zebra' backward in the old threads, but noone else mentioned this error. Does nobody get Zebras without body and Pahmers with violet heads except me?
Dune's nice 'RunningWater01.nif' fountain is somewhat quiet, is that intended?

Nobody has mentioned problems with those animals before, but I've since redone all the creatures addresses. I wanted to give them unique ones anyway to prevent conflicts and file overrides. Its time for a proper V2 release of this mod, so I'll tidy up all these loose ends now.

Yep, I should add some little sound emitters around those fountains, I often forget about those. There are quite a few different sounds you can hand place.
I still have think which ones to place next to the noria's waterwheel. I guess the ship rigging one sounds a bit like wood creaking, unless there is something better.

[Robert Bindley]

Its time for a proper V2 release of this mod, so I'll tidy up all these loose ends now.

This got me excited. Presumably you will be including all the Jan 2010 additions in V2?

Great photos, Thank you for your continuing work.

I remember when you first went public with this mod you said that you would be using only pre existing resources. It is perhaps a measure of how far you have come that now the awesome Mr Silka is providing so many custom resources. The two of you together make a dream modding team.

[rheanna bruining]

uhmm..very nice to hear about v2, but I have the same question as S'lider...will it be the next release? Or there will be a Jan update, THEN v2 afterwards?

[Johnny]

V2...it is going to arrive like a missile!

[Shannon Marie Jones]

Thanks! That's what I was looking for.



Its a bit like asking when Cyrodiil will be finished . . . and the answer is it will be finished when you stop adding more mods to it. Same with Elsweyr really, I'll just keep adding to it until I no longer want to. There is no planned finish date, its just a hobby after all.

I have no idea how many hours the quests would add up to. There are 24 so far. Some are pretty short, others are more involved.
I've no plans to have it voice-acted. There are around 1700 lines of dialogue which is just too much to have done.

Okay, thanks!

[Ally Chimienti]

This got me excited. Presumably you will be including all the Jan 2010 additions in V2?

uhmm..very nice to hear about v2, but I have the same question as S'lider...will it be the next release? Or there will be a Jan update, THEN v2 afterwards?

Yep, version 2 will basically be the January update. Basically the one being tested now plus the few final things I'm adding in now.
Version 2 will repackage all the original stuff and all the updates since and remove any obsolete files. Its still planned for the end of this month.

[Prohibited]

So would it be about time to update the LODs as well then for the stuff that's been added? Should just be all the Orcrest and Dune things, right?

[Chris Ellis]

hmmm...Mass Effect 2 + v2 of Elsweyr mod....this end of the month will be very interesting

[Laura Simmonds]

Nobody has mentioned problems with those animals before, but I've since redone all the creatures addresses. I wanted to give them unique ones anyway to prevent conflicts and file overrides. Its time for a proper V2 release of this mod, so I'll tidy up all these loose ends now.

Redoing the creature addresses may or may not fix it - if the texture paths are changed with nifskope it certainly should. However to be on the safe side you could always run PyFFI's fix_texturepath spell on your meshes (I'd volunteer but the downloading and reuploading if that many meshes svcks on dialup)... details on how to run that if you're interested are http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=1061938
EDIT: Oh don't have details on fix_texturepath yet up there... so just either use the spell optimize (which includes fix_texturepath) or replace the spell name for one those sample calls and use fix_texturepath instead.
Pacific Morrowind

[Benjamin Holz]

Daaimn, I just can't wait for V2 :drool:

[Prue]

I've no plans to have it voice-acted. There are around 1700 lines of dialogue which is just too much to have done.

Not impossible Gimme a crack at it

[Mrs shelly Sugarplum]

Not impossible Gimme a crack at it

I'd like to voice-act, too...but I don't know how to mimic khajiit accent...lol

[Chloe Yarnall]

So would it be about time to update the LODs as well then for the stuff that's been added? Should just be all the Orcrest and Dune things, right?

The ground meshes and textures are all ok, the only one that needed to be adjusted was the quad containing Dune. Orcrest still has the same layout so that doesn't need a new one.

Mr Siika has made far nifs for most of his new meshes.
And of the old meshes, the only thing changed is the roof texture of the Orcrest houses.

Redoing the creature addresses may or may not fix it - if the texture paths are changed with nifskope it certainly should. However to be on the safe side you could always run PyFFI's fix_texturepath spell on your meshes (I'd volunteer but the downloading and reuploading if that many meshes svcks on dialup)... details on how to run that if you're interested are

Luckily its only those two animal meshes mentioned. The rest I had all readdressed in Nifscope from the very start.

Not impossible Gimme a crack at it

I'm really not fussed about having the mod voiced. It would need a team of male and female voice actors anyway, and I would need to have all the dialogue finished first. I'm still in the middle of writing quests.

[Nick Swan]

Iliana...right now, just keep on those quests! Voices can be the last thing to worry about.