[IDEA] Project Tamriel... : III

» Fri May 27, 2011 10:41 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOayhAVVs4w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cufdeO--tyY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rgxg_4XpUA
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FV40CKOC - Megaupload
Links updated

All regions are to scale.
Some border's need matching up slightly.
Is anyone interested?

And so far, i having messed about for a week, and i have to say ive not noticed any graphical errors.
The only graphical error is me setting the view distance and fog a bit weird in the videos

EDIT: Images taken from TESFaith
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» Fri May 27, 2011 10:20 pm

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OU1CWTR6
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JMAILIMV
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GBXGCFQ6

All regions are to scale.
Some border's need matching up slightly.

Is anyone interested?

And so far, i having messed about for a week, and i have to say ive not noticed any graphical errors.

The only graphical error is me setting the view distance and fog a bit weird in the videos

urmm what exactly is it? what are those files? what does the mod do? Screenshots?

more information please before i download random files

» Sat May 28, 2011 1:28 am

I agree with Mr. Alien. What in Morrowind is this?

» Fri May 27, 2011 7:57 pm

Ha! Morrowind???

*sighs*

Jokes a little close to home i think....

The downloads are video's of the Tamrielic(?) continents in game and to scale

» Fri May 27, 2011 11:38 am

If they're videos, why not youtube?

» Fri May 27, 2011 5:58 pm

Cos ive always found youtube to be a pain, sorry

» Fri May 27, 2011 2:37 pm

Um... that doesn't answer what this is. I don't trust MegaUpload, so I can't watch the videos. What exactly is this mod?

» Fri May 27, 2011 1:05 pm

Perhaps terrain for the regions? Using heightmaps? If you are suggesting remaking those provinces. Good luck :goodjob:

» Fri May 27, 2011 4:44 pm

wow, actually now that i looked at the files, thats pretty handy! I might play around with this and create hammerfall or something.

» Fri May 27, 2011 11:52 am

Ha! Thanks alot

but i wasn't planning on doing it all by myself, i was thinking more of a community based thing.

EDIT: And i already have Hammerfell (to scale) sitting nicely next to Highrock and Skyrim

» Sat May 28, 2011 12:50 am

Ha! Thanks alot

but i wasn't planning on doing it all by myself, i was thinking more of a community based thing.

EDIT: And i already have Hammerfell (to scale) sitting nicely next to Highrock and Skyrim

is it possible to add mountians/hills ect using a hieght map? To save alot of work with working with the terrain?

» Fri May 27, 2011 6:17 pm

is it possible to add mountians/hills ect using a hieght map? To save alot of work with working with the terrain?

I created half of the land for The Azurian Isles using height maps. They save a LOT of time!

EDIT: Just watched the vids: Those are pretty nifty, but couldn't you generate hills/mountains for them? Instead of just the one height? I'm not sure what files you used to generate those, though so its just a suggestion.

» Sat May 28, 2011 12:23 am

is it possible to add mountians/hills ect using a hieght map? To save alot of work with working with the terrain?

I would recommend sticking to hand making hills and mountains, it all gets far too complicated else

I created half of the land for The Azurian Isles using height maps. They save a LOT of time!

EDIT: Just watched the vids: Those are pretty nifty, but couldn't you generate hills/mountains for them? Instead of just the one height? I'm not sure what files you used to generate those, though so its just a suggestion.

Ive tried with many different formats and command lines and it always turn into the bottom of a large tunnel with spikes at the end

» Fri May 27, 2011 9:13 pm

I would recommend sticking to hand making hills and mountains, it all gets far too complicated else

I've found that generating the grey map will give you the tiered hills. But then you can do a smooth terrain on them and they turn out nicely. But it is a little more complicated for higher mountains, which you are right, may be better done by hand.

» Fri May 27, 2011 5:03 pm

I created half of the land for The Azurian Isles using height maps. They save a LOT of time!

EDIT: Just watched the vids: Those are pretty nifty, but couldn't you generate hills/mountains for them? Instead of just the one height? I'm not sure what files you used to generate those, though so its just a suggestion.

:P you repeated what i said lol - great minds :hehe:

I would recommend sticking to hand making hills and mountains, it all gets far too complicated else

:( - thats gonna be alot of work lol.

» Fri May 27, 2011 3:16 pm

I've found that generating the grey map will give you the tiered hills. But then you can do a smooth terrain on them and they turn out nicely. But it is a little more complicated for higher mountains, which you are right, may be better done by hand.

Give it a go, try make highrock

Then let me see what command line you used and what kind of image too

» Sat May 28, 2011 12:44 am

Give it a go, try make highrock

Then let me see what command line you used and what kind of image too

How did you figure out how to make the maps to scale? Is it mentioned somewhere?

» Fri May 27, 2011 9:34 pm

No... It's not mentioned anywhere

» Fri May 27, 2011 10:32 am

Why is it all cliffs when it goes from land to water? If you fall, how can you get back up?

Also, for those of you who aren't keeping check on the first post, SGM updated the links to the youtube bits that I put up for him. No more need to download.

» Sat May 28, 2011 1:21 am

Why is it all cliffs when it goes from land to water? If you fall, how can you get back up?

Because it's just a layout, and you would just use "tcl" in the console, because at the minute their only fit for testing

There are no gradient hills yet

I am basically just putting this out as a gesture mainly to anyone thinking of starting to create a group of modder's similar to TR and create an entire region

Each group could work on each region

» Fri May 27, 2011 4:10 pm

http://i319.photobucket.com/albums/mm449/DDevilMonkey_666/Morrowind2009-11-2319-52-35-48.jpg

» Fri May 27, 2011 1:25 pm

Wonderful idea. I've wanted this sort of basic template for a long time, but never thought that anyone would make one. I would love to download a mod like this (ideally with Morrowind's coast included too) and just spend years adding in my own details, recreating everything however I might wish. Ideally, you could even relocate the map so that 0,0 is more toward the center of the continent, avoiding the possibility of glitches.

I'd second the request for a little more terrain detail, like mountains and hills, but I would certainly take and use this resource regardless. Thank you for creating this amazing piece of work!

» Fri May 27, 2011 4:13 pm

I've been musing at some of lightwave's other programs. At the bottom of the http://www.projectmanager.f2s.com/morrowind/TESAnnwyn/index.html is a dl for his tiny-scaled Cyrodiil. Maybe it helps a little?

» Fri May 27, 2011 11:35 am

IIRC LazyGhost had worked out how to use grey scale height maps to create smooth terrain with hills, mountains and shore lines....

I'll see if I can dig up the post....

Ok see here > http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=1018345&hl=

Hope that helps some.

-kwm

edit - it'd be interesting to a degree to get the terrain and then use Yacoby's static placer to try and cover the place with flora and rocks and things. To do it by hand will take a proverbial month of Sundays.

» Fri May 27, 2011 10:10 pm

It worked fine for Argonia.. (this is just one/fourth of it though)
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/Argonia/MGEScreenshot9-2.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/Argonia/MGEScreenshot7-1.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/Argonia/MGEScreenshot16.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj265/zackgwin/Argonia/MGEScreenshot4.jpg

Granted, Argonia is intended to be more flat, but making mountains n stuff arent difficult. I use the Oblivion CS to create the heightmap and then convert it with tesannwyn. Or tesfaith. Its been a while I dont remember lol/.