» Fri May 27, 2011 8:14 am I notice that there are alot of bug fixing more than adding material.... are we perhaps seeing a beta soon?
relatively soon, i'd say
if you look back on this thread you'll notice that most people wanted quests for a primary release, so that will take a while. besides merging the exteriors we also have to finish up interiors (which are traditionally a very fast area of TR). we are also trying to organize better and add mode models (even though we have 500+ already) so that Hammerfell really stands apart from Cyrodiil. Also has there been any concept art or talk on Sentinel itself?
there have been discussions and concepts, but its not seriously being considered atm. its still a long way off
And, I'm only a beginning modder so this isn't exactly within my knowledge---but would there be a way to put Hammerfell into the same world as Tamriel?
theoretically... yes, i suppose. Vorians said earlier in this thread that TES4Edit can move land records between worldspaces, and i suppose that there is a way to move objects and textures as well. some things like quests would have to be done anew of course. it would take a lot of time and probably has a larger margin of error.
but we have no intention of doing this. working within our own worldspace gives us much more freedom as to what we can do, and it absolves us from any sort of incompatibility problems. as ive said below, the "Hammerfell" in the Tamriel worldspace is horribly inaccurate and tiny. we decided early on that fixing it would be too much work. additionally, when we started this mod there was a limit to how many quads you could have in each world (which has since been broken). part of it still remains though, the bigger your land gets the more LOD and objects you have the laggier your game gets. therefore, a new worldspace allows the modders more freedom and allows the players a cleaner, more stable game.
the one thing that i really would consider doing (as a separate add on) is lining the entire border with automatic teleport trigger zones. that way you just "walk" into hammerfell. but thats still a long way off and out of the scope of the main project.
Also...I have some concepts for Hammerfell wildlife as well as quest ideas. I was going to offer them up to Broad0000 and his/her Hammerfell mod, but there has been quite lack of activity as of late...and I'm not entirely sure that he/she wants any outside help at all.
yep, were interested
as ive already mentioned were going to be doing some quests for the initial release, so we definitely need ideas. the best place for both of these would be the showcase forum i think, but you can also put concepts into the concept art forum and quest ideas into lore&quests (reading through the stickies in those forums is also beneficial)When making a new province in a new world space, how do you solve the problem of parts of the province already existing in the Cyrodiil Worldspace? And how is the transition between the world space being done in-game?
the transition is done with two border forts and a smugglers cave on the Cyrodiil side of the border, going through them will take you to the new world. we are making some additions to the vanilla worldspace to show some of Hammerfell beyond it, but over all we are ignoring that it exists. the "Hammerfell" that is already there doesn't fit with vanilla maps or even logic, and our world is radically different from the landscape it presents. the last couple pages have a bit more detail on the issue of borders.
thanks for the interest guys, it makes me all warm and fuzzy inside
But I have enjoyed many adventures in Cyrodiil, even with the relatively small size, so I'll have alot of fun in Hammerfell too!
