Tower of Brilliance

Post » Thu Dec 13, 2012 10:37 pm

I've been playing Morrowind for long enough, and started messing with mods a half dozen years ago. It's taken me that long to even begin to understand how I should do my mod. Luckily, a few mods I found were super complicated with scripting, so the script extender wasn't needed. Finally figured that one out... in theory. Anyway, what is this mod?

At its end result, its exterior looks like a Telvanni tower on top of a mountain, covered in what look like organic lights. Its interior is not just a copy of The Great Library, but has other collectibles too. These include the eggs from The Uber Crystal Egg Hunt, mannequins with full armor sets, alchemy sorting jars that sort not just MW TB BM, but 'Tamriel Rebuilt', 'Abot's where all the birds going', 'Abot's water life', and a bunch of others, even if they aren't compatible mods, like Necessities of Morrowind and Armorer- it's just the sorting jars. That way regardless of what mod someone is or isn't using, the jars are there anyway. They will remain invisible until at least 1 of an ingredient is sorted.

Also, different services will begin showing up if certain conditions are met, like a travel port (not going to use silt striders), a mage teleporter, a couple trainers, interior and exterior decorations, and a secret room will open up.

As stated, the idea started with a Library that would put a copy of everything on the shelf. Just Mori Mountain Estate has 574 books/scrolls/scraps, and there's other things that it missed and have been added in mods since. That's the bulk of it. You will want a new save for this, though, since there are a lot of books and notes and things that get deleted once they're turned in for their quests, and you would have missed a bunch of stuff if you pick up with your current game. I have a plan to make it possible to get these 'gone' papers and books by a script checking the journal and putting the items in a hidden chest, but I think I got enough work ahead of me before I bother with that, huh?

To begin with, the mountain is bare. Someone wants to build a tower library, but needs a work crew. Get them to work for him and they'll bring a few materials to where they're needed. Eventually it will grow, and the tower becomes the equivalent of the Hall of Heroes in Guild Wars- just about everything you did is on display (as long as you bring it by for it to be recorded).

I asked for permissions on all this years ago, and was given it by everyone I asked, luckily. Just I didn't know how to build the mod yet. But now I do, so here I go! If anyone wants to help, I can certainly use some assistance with figuring out a couple mod tools or building a new interior mesh.
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