Tamriel Rebuilt

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Progress has been slow due to death of computer. I should have a new laptop soon though.

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Is there something else that's critical texture-wise besides matching the edges and removing the river?

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Back to having some free time for this summer... might as well get this claim all finished and set aright.

Also, is it OK to leave the waterfall pool and just take out the attached river? The monastery would look rather boring without it.

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That's weird though that the walls show up when I open it, but not when you do. Oh well it sounds like you've got it handled.

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When I open the file I uploaded in the CS, the interiors look all there. The only thing I changed was to fill in an area in the sanctuary that looked open with a TR_in_nec_p_hall. Looking at it now, that spot was supposed to connect with the great hall area, but also had missing doors. At no point w...

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Try reinstalling TR_Data? One of the versions had that problem, but installing the newest version seemed to fix that. I'll open the file and check to see if I screwed something up when cleaning it though. Eh, looks fine to me, though there's a couple things I didn't catch (guess I must not have gone...

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Enough perfectionist fiddling around, I think this is done. One thing though, the Necrom trapdoor used in the lighthouse has a blocked door script on it. Although the script appeared to be altered in the file (and was cleaned out), since the door itself wasn't changed in the file, it may well be fro...

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Also, a lot of the static meshes in MW have vertex coloring to darken the parts that are shadowy... i.e. the browns and greens on the WG rocks, lower parts of buildings, etc.

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Sigh, every time I run through it, there's always a couple more minutiae that need fixing. But I'm down to the really little stuff at least. So when I stop finding things to tweak and fix, I'll clean it and call it done.

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I have to say, regardless of what it is, it certainly looks fuzzier. Would it be possible to sharpen it up a bit?

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Well we don't plan to fill up the desert with random giant castles and dragons nest and whatnot--but we certainly aren't going to leave it barren in the sense of underdetailed and unappealing. What we're going for is a barren wasteland, yes, but detailed enough to make it quite a sight, which I'm gu...

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Not going to defend decisions I didn't make.

As for the strider port, I chose that one instead of the Indoril one since it matched the more run down half of town better. It was used in non-traditional and smaller and mroe run down places in MW, so it seemed appropriate here.

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Thanks, I'll take a look.

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I'd like to do this one. It'll be a good chance to show off a few of TRs new jewels and gems.

Maybe add a couple rings/amulets with minor, but unique, effects.

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If there's scripts in the works that need fixing, I could look them over and see if I can't get em to work.

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Hey, you're almost exactly a year older than me. And it's good that you've gotten a job doing something you want to do, good luck!

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Anyway, there's just about zero chance that map 3 won't get released at this point, so absolutely worst case, TR just releases half the province of Morrowind and only doubles the size of the game world.

Is that really so bad?

Not that there's much chance of all of us giving up on the rest, either.

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Right. Forgot to post that bit. Kinda important I guess, huh?

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Okay so it's just about finished here. I probably want to give it one final pass through to check for errors and clean the file, but it's pretty much at the final stage here. The only thing not quite finished is the space I left for a town banner(see attachment). I don't have the files to make one m...

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Made some pictures showing the location of the interiors, and found one I'd missed:

46, -17 Storage cave/eggmine/something near Necrom lighthouse dock.

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Lately I've been listening to Warren Zevon, Dropkick Murphies, Johnny Cash, Nightwish, CCR, Flogging Molly, Korpiklaani, and The Decemberists. A bit of an eclectic mix, to be sure.

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Dammit people. >.<

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Here's the interior list. I just did a quick run through since I know the claim pretty well by now, so if I missed something I'll post a correction. 36, -20 Velothi Tomb entrance 38, -20 Velothi Tomb entrance 36, -18 Small dwemer ruin 38, -18 Bandit cave (upper cave) that leads to a lookout 38, -18 ...

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Huh. Well the problem was pointed out to me by Aeven, so it can't be just me. I'll try reinstalling TR Data then.

Well, that seemed to do the trick. Still have to replace the ones that vanished though.

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So there are a fair number of new interiors that are going to need to be created. Should I put together a list of them now, since they aren't apt to change at this point, so people can get started?

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So let someone else fix it later then? Ok.

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That said, although I do like playing MMOs I really get something different out of it than playing a single player role-playing game. There tends to be a lot more cognitive dissonance and fourth-wall breaking in reconciling the story of the game with what you are actually doing in the game itself. O...

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Okay, I've been hammering away some more at the vertex coloring here. I feel it's nearing completion, barring some final tinkering and a few passes through to make sure there's nothing I've missed. Well, and linking interiors and cleaning the file. Though there seems to be a problem with the necrom ...

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The model for TR_in_nec_wall seems to have gone missing. Which makes the interior of the Necrom lighthouse a bit more open than it should be.

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With exo meaning outside of, and pent meaning five, I can only assume it means more than five percent.

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I'd recommend using the RM rocks sparingly, if at all. I made the decision to keep the rocks in the lighthouse location, because it is a unique location and switching them to WG made it look more bland. If someone threw down a bunch of rocks just because, then you might as well switch them out. But ...

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If it's a logging camp, how do they get the wood to where it's needed? Do they work it there? Haplo's mention of workshops implies that they do... but still wood is a bulk commodity and is most often moved by barge or boat or something of the sort. So maybe not a dock per se, but I think so evidence...

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Yeah... I honestly haven't had much progress at this point. Mostly because my computer has a tendency to overheat in even normally hot weather. But now that it's no longer in the 90s-100s here, I'm getting some work done.

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I think I've got the statics pinned down, so I am commencing with the vertex coloring. Probably going to make another final pass at the end to make sure everything looks just right, but I think things are nearing completion here.

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There's a still two ints left over in addition to the temple. Here's the upload if you want. They are i3-308 and i3-313.

Still not sure what to do with the temple (i3-315), there's not really a place to throw a random temple into the wilderness here...

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Another WIP for safekeeping.

Should be on to the vertex coloring after a few last details, here.

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The only thing I've done to the lighthouse itself is add the decoration thingies to the front, and change the entryways since the newest TR Data used a different model that didn't work in the old positions. Out of curiosity, what are the plans for the lighthouse that require it being in exactly the ...

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Now working on detailing the lighthouse area:

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Well the unused ints are going somewhere else, speaking of which, I need to follow up on whatever's supposed to be done with them.

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Hey Z, Looked over your WIP, Sailen looks good. A couple things you may want to keep in mind. a) Don't over-orientalize House Indoril. An example of this is the torii-shaped thing outside the Sailen temple. House Indoril has to be unique enough that a player cannot distinguish human cultures or ide...

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