Ebbedin Exterior Released!!!!!

[Razorwing]

I checked out the village in the CS. It's not bad as far as villages go, but... tying in with what TheImperialDragon said, it's a poor Redoran fishing village. There's no barracks or council club there; there's a modestly wealthy noble, Llyid Vares, in the manor and a guard in the guard barracks. Basically everyone else are fishermen, who has to work all day just to stay alive. It can be likened to what the shanty town in Seyda Neen was like.

That's where the challenge lies. Keeping it small, and poor, but still interesting. Characters, hardships, tales of sunken treasure, mysterious strangers (smugglers) sneaking around along the coast at night, maybe a Velothi tomb outside of town - things of that nature can play into making it interesting to the player without being lavish. Didn't I mention which Redoran building types to use? You should especially use the huts since they have finished and rather good interior models, and can be modded right away. There's no telling when the other interiors will come.

HeIsTheDarkness: Good tip! I've been wondering why I couldn't take screenshots anymore... and now that you mention it, it's probably because I turned on bloom a while back.

[TheImperialDragon]

Originally posted by HeIsTheDarkness
To make screenshots you have to turn off Bloom or AA, don't remember which one exactly

Hmm... well, maybe it's just my computer, but I haven't been able to take screenshots, even without bloom or AntiAliasing (sp).

[HeIsTheDarkness]

Have you modified the right .ini file? I mean not in Program Files/Beth/Oblivion, but in My documents/my games/oblivion/

[Razorwing]

Originally posted by TheImperialDragon

Originally posted by HeIsTheDarkness
To make screenshots you have to turn off Bloom or AA, don't remember which one exactly

Hmm... well, maybe it's just my computer, but I haven't been able to take screenshots, even without bloom or AntiAliasing (sp).

Are you running windows x64? Because that caused problems for me early on. Other than that, did you chance the setting in the correct .ini file? Because there's two of them, one in my documents and one in the Oblivion folder, but at the moment I've forgotten which you need to change to enable screenshots.

Edit: Dang, HITD beat me by a minute

[TheImperialDragon]

Err... *TheImperialDragon stares stupidly in disbelief of his own stupidity at the computer monitor and slams his head into the desk*

What were we talking about again?

BTW: This is an interesting INI line: bKeepPluginWhenMerging=0

[HeIsTheDarkness]

Yeah, that's one of the strings that shows that merge feature was ripped from CS before official release.

Well, in My Documents\My Games\Oblivion\Oblivion.ini you have to find the "bAllowScreenshots=0" string and set it to =1

[Lady Nerevar]

one could always use an external program.like FRAPS for example.

[IAMTHEEMPEROR]

there are shacks already? where?

and, did I forget to include the bittercoastcavemesh for the mine?

[Razorwing]

Originally posted by IAMTHEEMPEROR
there are shacks already? where?

I wasn't referring to the shacks. The old Ebbedin (which I showed a week ago in that post in the first thread) had a manor, a guardtower, and two round huts. If I recall correctly yours had a manor, guardtower, barracks and a council club. Some leeway is okay, if you want one round hut and one oval hut instead of two round huts, or three round huts instead of two round huts, but a council club and barracks doesn't play into the poor fishing village type atmoshphere Ebbedin should have.

[IAMTHEEMPEROR]

Well, I'm currently "pooring up" the village, so I removed the council club and replaced it with rocks. I am also filling up the village to make it look less empty, and if I forgot the bittercoastcavemesh, here it is

Note: This mesh requires blackwood rocks textures, so you need to download them.