== Sheogorad - Forsaken Isles Alpha ==

READ THE README! SERIOUSLY!

Important things first:

1. This mod is an alpha version and completely unfinished. You can walk around in the Sheogorad region and visit a few (partially incomplete) dungeons, but there are no NPCs, no enemies except for a few placeholders, no pathgrids, no quests etc. This will change in the future obviously, but for now it is mainly meant as a resource. If you are only interested in playing a finished, (at least mostly) complete mod then you should forget about this and look somewhere else. I warned you, there is a lot of stuff missing or unfinished and for the average player it will look like a building site (which it is) and not like a full-blown mod.

2. If you want to use the assets provided by this mod in your own mod PLEASE READ THE TERMS OF USE. It's only a few things I'm asking for. Any mods that make use of Sheogorad assets that do not comply with the terms of use will not be tolerated by me and I will ask moderators of TES modding sites to remove these mods, no questions asked. May sound harsh, but it means a lot of trouble for this mod if the terms of use aren't respected.

These are the assets included:

1. A complete and enhanced Dwemer tileset.
2. A complete and enhanced Velothi tileset (mainly for tombs, but can be used for buildings as well).
3. A complete and enhanced Daedric tileset.
4. A mostly complete Dwemer rich tileset (not in Morrowind or other ES games, built from my own imagination)
5. Complete architecture for Dagon Fel (Imperial style houses in Morrowind).
6. A lot of 'Dunmer architecture', the same houses used in Vos in Morrowind.
7. A complete set of landscape objects that can be found in the Sheogorad/Azura's Coast region in Morrowind.
8. Some other things that were or were not in Morrowind (Dunmer ship, clutter, deco Cliffracer, some creatures and so on and so on)
9. Probably even more things that I forgot.

Installing the mod works as always, drop the bsa, the esp and the esm into you data folder and check the esp and the esm.

To play the mod you need to use the console, there is no way to get to the Sheogorad region other than that. To get to Dagon Fel simply type

coc XSDFHurgsHouseLvl

into the console. From there you'll be able to walk through Sheogorad. There are some houses and dungeons you can enter (for example Ald Daedroth as an example for a Daedric shrine or Senim Tomb as an example for a Velothi tomb), but most doors you will find will have no interior behind them. To see all map markers type

tmm 1

into the console.

Many interiors aren't accessible by normal means though, so here are a few console codes for locations of interest (of interest for modders who want to use the tilesets):

coc XSVENelasTombLvl01

Another example for Velothi tombs (like Senim Tomb, which is accessible via load door).

coc XSDWMzuleftLvl7

Example for the rich tileset.

coc XSDWMzuleftLvl3

Example for scaffolding Dwemer tileset.

There are a lot more interiors you can look at, just look them up in the CS.

I don't have much time right now and I want to get this mod out before the end of the weekend, so if you have any questions just ask.


= Credits =

Phitt - Models/Textures/CS work
Kzinistzerg - Textures
SpeedyB - Models/Textures/CS work
Rowan - CS work
Dave91 - Models/Textures/CS work
MrSiika - Models/Textures
Lady Nerevar - CS work
InsanitySorrow - CS work
CaptainUltima - World map

If you contributed to the mod and your name isn't here then please tell me and I'll add you to the list.

WOOOT!! :celebration: :celebration: :celebration: :celebration:

Downloading now, cant wait to get there! Thanks Phitt!

Thanks, I hope you will like what you see. This mod was made over the course of 3.5 years and I think you can clearly see a difference in the quality of the assets - the Dwemer tileset (which I made first almost right after I started modeling) for example is pretty crappy from my point of view, while some of the later assets are at least ok for Oblivion standards if I may say so.



Hope your expectations aren't too high, this is really only the current development version uploaded to Nexus. You can have a look at a lot of things, but you will find unfinished or missing stuff, bugs, placeholders etc everywhere. For players this is almost worthless and under normal circumstances I wouldn't upload something like this. But I spent 1000+ hours on making the assets and thus I felt it would be stupid not to release them for others to use.

Honestly I'm excited just to experience the look and feel of the world you've created. I know your attention to detail is always top-notch and it must have been hard to release this before it lives up to the entirety of your vision. Regardless, this is obviously a very unique and special mod and my heart is pounding now as I click the download button. :drool:

Have your plans for the future of this mod changed? Does this mean you're likely to release updates to the mod more frequently as changes are made? Obivously you could have just released the assets if you wanted to. Any hopes of attracting more contributors to work on quests, dungeons, NPCs, dialog and the like? I know this is rare but at least one "new land" mod has seen some of this kind of attention.

That's sweet, Phitt! Great job!

Here are some screenshots of your tilesets being used in http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1107446-andoranwip/:
http://pikucha.ru/i4ktg
http://pikucha.ru/i4kth
http://pikucha.ru/i4ktk
http://pikucha.ru/i4kte
http://pikucha.ru/i4ktf

Yeah, I was going to say, just walking around for a bit I totally understand why landscaping has taken you so damn long. It's completely awe-inspiring, everthing vanilla Cyrodiil is not, and an exaggeration of everything that was great in Morrowind. The only other mod I have seen that does landscaping nearly as well was Nehrim. Both mods have a way of offsetting the problems of the game engine so you don't notice land and objects just appearing suddenly on cell load nearly as often. Plus there is this sense of majesty and being dwarfed, insignificant in your surroundings. Just my humble opinion.

The second most impressive thing to me was the daedric ruin tileset. The interior lighting is perfect. If I'm not mistaken (too lazy to just check the readme, please no one take offense), the textures were originally developed as a Morrowind replacer? It would explain why it feels like a totally different game, like you've walked into a different reality. There's something I can't put my finger on... like they don't conform to some commonality in the vanilla tilesets. Some might see this as immersion-breaking but I think the effect is a very positive one. Now I feel like the Vanillia OB Realms could have benefited from such an effect.