We're really pretty close to an alpha release. There is just a few more things to do (like landscaping). I'm hoping we can come up with something definitive during Christmas break.

That's good to read!

thats great to hear! im assuming you got a hold of phitt?

actually, no. the last I heard from Phitt was October 7th But I've been buggin him... and I'm sure he'll give us an update when he has some time.

As for me, I'm planning on trading my camera and old laptop for a brand new gaming machine soon (Donations welcome ), and I'll start working on a few quests and finish up the dungeons that I've started.

Take it from me, he's absolutely correct! I just finished landscaping Black Marsh's beta regions and it was very painful. With experience, though, you can set it up so that it doesn't hurt as badly as it does when you begin. You learn a few tricks...

Needed an extensive break from landscaping and the mod in general, but now I'm back on track and getting closer to an alpha release. All landscaping is 100% finished now except for the main island (which is about 70-80% done). I know most people are mostly interested in new models and stuff like that, but landscaping was by far the most painful experience while making this mod. A random screenshot showing a part of the finished landscape:

http://s66.photobucket.com/albums/h271/Phittte/Ald1.jpg

And finally Captain Ultima's map was implemented:

http://s66.photobucket.com/albums/h271/Phittte/AldMap.jpg

Once the main island is done (and I really, really hope that I can do it this time before losing motivation again) the mod is very close to an alpha release - only a few fixes and small things to do.

I am of course excited for the new models (they're awesome) but I really appreciate you're going through the pains to completely landscape this thing. Can't wait till it's released.

:drool:
my goodness Phitt... im in shock about how beautiful that it is! what an amazing job! thx for all you and your teams hard efforts!

Nice to see you working on this project again Phitt. I've only done a little bit of landscaping in the CS, but I know how hard it is and doing detailed landscaping in a mod of this scale is an insane amount of work. But what you've done so far looks fantastic, keep up the good work. :foodndrink:

Good news Phitt! It's looking amazing. All that hard work really looks like it's going to pay off.

Yes, thank you Pitt. After seeying the morrowind stuff in silgrad tower beta, I'm remembering my love for Morrowind. Good luck with the landscaping ^^

Great work Phitt - landscaping is a pain, and I would know as I'm doing it now! (Well not right now, as I'm taking a break on the forums ) I find the best way to keep motivated/engaged with it is to add miscellaneous little interesting details, but unfortunately this makes it more time consuming. :shrug: It is looking fantastic now though - keep it up! :thumbsup:

Very cool stuff. Is that a cliff racer I see up there? Juib missed one!

Maybe... why not use this parasol's texture? => http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Mods.Detail&id=8807
:lightbulb:
and possibly the parasol's trunk of this mod (only the 'Vurt_HiRes_Shrooms.rar' file) => http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Mods.Detail&id=8190

That is the problem. I try to add as many details as possible, but with ~600 cells to landscape from scratch I simply can't spend 1+ hour per cell. I started landscaping about three years ago (obviously with a lot of breaks in between) and I'm still not done yet.



There are quite a few cliff racers, but they're just for decoration purposes circling high above in the sky. The Jiub rumor was more an 'inside joke' anyway and not a full-blown lore fact I'd say .



We already have a custom texture made from scratch for the parasols (made by our very talented texture artist Kzinistzerg) that looks like the original texture, only in highres. An tbh I think it looks way better (and obviously much more similar to the 'real' MW texture) than the one from the replacer you linked to, which looks more like a random googled mushroom top texture. I even have a highres version of the parasol texture on my hd, so if people hate seeing their 2gb of vram unused I can give them all they need. But for the initial release I aim for a texture size similar to what would be used in vanilla Oblivion.

Ah great!!! Highres version powaaa! :celebration:

Oh wow, good news from 2 of the biggest Morrowind mods in the making in one week, splendid!
And the quality is one again baffling!
Very glad those Cliffracers are staying high and dry though:P.

Perfect, just as we always wanted them!

Fabulous!

Did the interiors I made get used?

I've been reading since the first thread, and I'm amazed at how much progress there's been - I half expected it to be vaporware... should have known better And one incidental question, what are you doing with the vampire hideouts - the Aundae clan stronghold for example?

Updated the esm and (again) generated preliminary LOD. Since landscaping isn't finished it is not complete, but I guess posting a few LOD screens can't hurt:

http://s66.photobucket.com/albums/h271/Phittte/LOD1-1.jpg

http://s66.photobucket.com/albums/h271/Phittte/LOD2-1.jpg



Sure, why would I not use them?



Vampires are currently last on the to-do list, sorry. Personally I never liked playing as a vampire. We also won't have all the dungeons in the Sheogorad region complete for the alpha release (there are 35 of them). If it is in then Ashmelech will probably be a regular Velothi tomb with vampires inside, but no special quests or backstory or anything like that. But the mod will be in esm format, so vampire lovers can easily add their own ideas.

Beautiful screenshots Phitt, you really captured the look and feel of Morrowind.

Oh. My. God! :drool:

Absolutely stunning. Though I must wait, that doesn't mean I have to like doing so.

Awesome things to look forward to, even so.

Really nice stuff! I love those Velothi towers!