White Gold Tower
by GOOGLEPOX

THRONE ROOM RELEASED
This module adds the Throne room to the Imperial Palace.

I. Description
II. Installation
III. Playing
IV. Usage
V. Uninstallation
VI. Thanks

I. DESCRIPTION
White Gold Tower is a modular mod that adds many aspects to the imperial palace that were lacking in the Vanilla game. The first module includes the Throne room, and the next will be the War Room.


II. INSTALLATION
Extract the data conents to your Oblivion\Data folder. Double click the Oblivion icon and
select "Data Files". Find the "whiteGoldTower.esp" and check it. Then play.

III. PLAYING
To play this mod, all youmust do is visit the Elder Council Chambers upper floor and begin there. That is the location of the throne, and behind the throne is a door that will, when updated, lead you to the other parts of the palace. Enjoy

IV. USAGE
All usage of this mod is prohibited unless I give my own consent. Contact me by PM i you are interested in using this mod.

V. UNINSTALLATION
Double click "Oblivion.exe" and click "Data Files". Find "WhiteGoldTower1.0" and uncheck it.

VI. THANKS
1. Thank you to Bethesda for making such an awesome game!
2. A big thanks to dunmermaiden for Diannes Thrones And Clutter
ENJOY!



Download here: http://tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=29943

For the top of the tower, you'll probably want to make it in a seperate (child) worldspace, and also reference the top in this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXWYWfFqlSw, putting it in a seperate worldspace will allow you to change the weather appropriately (in the teaser, you'll notice there's abit of snow) and add any other affects that might be cool (lighting in storms, etc), and also to make a 'complete' imperial city to see from the top (which might require abit of work, but will be worth it, because if you have it in the Palace District, you'll be able to see over the walls into the other districts, in which there is nothing and looks horrible, so by creating a child worldspace, all you then need to do is copy the main content of the other districts, the houses(LOD versions), wall sections, towers, etc and add them to it), you might also want to put up either invisible barriers (to stop people jumping off), or killzones before the bottom (so if people do jump off they don't go all the way to the bottom, which would ruin it given it would be low-quality).

I'm also currently doing the UV map alterations to the top of the tower, so it'll look much nicer now. I'll have it uploaded tommorrow, and you'll be able to include it in the mod

Cheers,
The Old Ye Bard

Thank you for that suggestion, but I also had someone suggest putting it in the Tamriel Worldspace, sallsowing for farther viewing.

Putting it in a http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/World_space (to create a Child Worldspace, make a new Worldspace, and in the settings for it, select 'Tamriel' as it's parent worldspace) of the Tamriel worldspace WILL allow for farther viewing, as a 'Child' worldspace uses the LOD data of the parent worlspace (which would be tamriel), all the cities are in Child Worldspaces of the Tamriel Worldspace, and that's how they have the same LOD data

Also, here's the re-uvmapped Tower Top (http://yfrog.com/5eictowertopj and http://www.2shared.com/file/11420130/f099a1dd/ICTowerTop.html).

Sounds interesting! However, I?m wondering whether this is compatible with All Natural 0.98, since that mod seems to be (partially) incompatible with quite a lot of plugins that modify the imperial palace (according to the readme)?

looks like a solid mod, and white gold tower is very empty to me.
will DL

Anyone have any suggestions for the mod?

Adding quarters for the http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Assassination!, who weren't all in the Palace at the time of the assasination (or possibly, none of them were in the Palace), but they each would have had their own quarter's in the palace. Also, showing some more of the Ayleid influence in the tower, and a http://www.imperial-library.info/obscure_text/census_daedra.shtml during the Reman Empire (not that he does anymore, but for a time he did inhabit part of the tower, so something showing this would be cool).

Yes thank you! All of these suggestions Ive gotten are really good!

I'm looking forward to this...

Which part? Or the finished product as a whole?
Thank you though!

Also mentioned http://www.imperial-library.info/obbooks/cherim_heart_anequina.shtml is that the Emperor has 15 (as of now, 10 then, in the book 5 more mentioned are being bought) tapestries made by Cherim.

Are there resources for said tapestries?
EDIT: Also, is your remapping of the top of White Gold Tower compatible with texture replacers for the IC?

You'dhave to either make them yourself, or get someone to make them, and most likely new models given the size, and they also have to be uniquely made, given they should be of actual events/wars in Tamriel. You'd probably need to get an ES fan artist to make the texture(s) (given the complexity, most texture artists won't be up to the challenge), and a modeler to make the tapestry model (which then could be retexed with each new tapestry). You'd need to firstly 1) make concept art for the tapestry, so the modeler knows what to model, and the [texture] artist knows the relative dimensions of the artwork needed, and you'd need then need to pick http://imperial-library.info/history/ for the tapestries to be of, and given they are/were owned by the Emperor, ones that are relative to Imperial interests (so conquests by Tiber Septim and wars during the Septim Empire, wars in the reman Empire, and the Alessian Empire, and during the Alessian Uprising).
For the concept you also need to consider how the tapestries will be used, obviously they can't be hung flat, given their size and that the Palace is round, so they would need to curve with the interior Palace walls, and other details similar to this need to be taken into account, etc.

Edit: and yes my remapping should be compatible, if a texture replacer replaces the floor in the interior of the tower, then it'll be replaced too

Wow... Thats, quite a bit of info.
I dont know about having that happen in a near version though, for one Im not a good artist or modeler, and 2, I cant even retexture.

I would suggest looking on http://www.deviantart.com for a good artist, one who is familiar with TES (just search Elder Scrolls or TES and some are bound to come up), and the dimensions you'll need will probably by something like 2x1 (so say about 1024px by 2048px).

Ah.. I will do that, but not right now. I am working on a more, interesting, mod.

Updated! This mod is being overhauled, and has become modular. The first module is the throne room, which has just been released. let me know if there are any problems.