Imperial Cart Travel v0.9
Get the beta here: http://www.zshare.net/download/78249364aae70740/

--WHAT IT DOES--
This mod adds travel options to all of the Imperial Settlements. This solves the problem people have always had getting to Caldera and Pelagiad in a lore-friendly way.

---KNOWN ISSUES--
Jumping on top of the guars will send you high in the sky. I need help with this one, I have no idea what's going on or how to fix this. Can anyone check it out and give me advice here? I suspect it has to do with using the pack guar mesh as an activator instead of a creature.
Until then, DO NOT JUMP NEAR THE GUARS. Otherwise, the mod should be perfectly playable with no problems. Jumping near them should be very easy to avoid.

---SCREENSHOTS--
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---FUTURE PLANS--
Probably going to move the guy in Seyda Neen closer to the Silt Strider. Also, need to fix the issue with jumping on guars.

---NOTES--
You should load this mod after any land altering mods like Vality's mods.

Let me know if this is incompatible with any city expansions or other mods and I will try my best to make things compatible.

Awesome, I'll try it out!

Groovey

Sounds like a great mod. I wonder how that guar "outfit" (bagage / straps) would look on a SiltStrider. Gotta test

That would be awesome.

We really need a higher poly silt strider that gives geometry to the impressions in the original textures.

But, that is besides the point.~

very quick test: http://piclair.com/data/i3h7l.jpg

need to resize the bags or they'd be enormous on my enlarged Silt

Does anyone know how i connect something to the Silt's body so it will move with it? Otherwise it's static (like my rope ladder), it needs to move with it.

Looks great, but shouldn't the travel guides be imperials, since it is imperial destinations? Just curious to be honest, it doesn't really matter, its still cool!

Dunmer have control over the travel industry in vvardenfell as they are the most familiar with the land.

Besides that, they're the only ones with the "travel merchant" dialog like "where would you like to go?" etc etc.

;-; Can someone please tell me what I need to do with those guar meshes to make them play nice?

I really like this idea. How about adding a second person to ride shotgun (crossbow?) on each wagon. Someone's gotta shoot the annoying cliff racers, wild guars, and kagoutis while the other guy is driving. They can't expect the passenger to do it.

Pretty cool idea. I'll look into it, though I'd like to solve the mesh issues first to bring this to 1.0.

fantastic!

not much else i can say really, not got any bad stuff to say , i could keep going with applause though

Wouldn't it make more sense if the drivers were Imperials? Anyway good mod.

If you create a mesh, where those bags are on the strider and attached to it, wouldn't it work? :whistling:

The guys "riding crossbow" could be Imperials.

To be honest... I don't think that adding a crossbow would look so great... Since Silt Striders and longboats have this stuff neither....

Since no one has any advice for me about the jumping bug, I'm just going to move the guy near seyda neen and drop 1.0 on PES. Expect this soon.

Before I do, anyone have any compatibility issues yet?

I loved this gem. Left some more comments at PES, but it's a great little gem which adds more convenient transportation without seeming too out of place. I haven't noticed the jumping bug, but it sounds fascinating and I'll have to try it sometime. =P

I think it was a play on the phrase "riding shotgun"

Then why do we need the carts for travelling? :hehe:

(Maybe a bit off-topic) Has anyone considered changing the giant Dwemer crossbows to be able to launch the player far across the landscape? You'd probably want Slowfall for a soft landing.

It is high and direct and almost impossible to get out of once you're up.

Wow, this looks really great! I wish I could help you, but I'm afraid all I can suggest is that you post your question regarding the guar mesh in the Morrowind CS forum as you might find more people there looking to help with this sort of thing. I wish you the best of luck and look forward to seeing how this progresses! :^)