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morcroft · 02-21-2010, 01:16 AM,

I'm starting a new thread for the Books, because the old one was a sideline of an off topic ....

Thought I'd drop in an update just to prove I have been working on this.

Deeza, if it's OK with you, I may juggle some of the book to model assignments around: for instance book 1 is assigned to Epic Fail and Ironwood Tree - one worth 50, the other 15, which doesn't seem right.

For the three trilogies I couldn't resist making each a different cover, once I'd found some good sets of hides.

So here's a preview of the ones I've made:

Currently book 1 - and probably Epic Fail rather than Ironwood Tree - is the one I first came up with. I'm thinking this is bound in wolf, pictured here with book 6. I do some work in Elsweyr, so I'd better not say what this is bound in:

[Image: Book_16.jpg]

This is Book 2, bound in Axis Deer (Nope, I'd never heard of it either):

[Image: Book_2.jpg]

And Book 4, in Fallow Deer, which I think is the common one in Oblivion:

[Image: Book_4.jpg]

And finally book 5, in Springbok:

[Image: Book_5.jpg]

I've yet to decide on the last basic book design, and then there's the Meh Ayleidoon, which is going to take some thought.

Deeza · 02-21-2010, 10:59 PM,

Wow, that's a great start there! Feel free to re-jig the prices as necessary, they were just a rough guide to how rare I thought each book should be.

The only one which the price is important for is the Meh Ayleidoon, since it's so rare and valuable.

windsurfer · 02-23-2010, 12:53 PM,

Mate they are amazing. I always planned to do this but it just never got around to it!

drmccoy · 02-24-2010, 02:49 PM,

Agreed! But I'm a little bit afraid of having to put all of those in the game xD
Oh well, everything for the customer Wink

Deeza · 02-24-2010, 03:06 PM,

Don't worry about it drmccoy, one of the rest of us can do any extra cluttering that needs to be done.

The quests are most important right now...

morcroft · 02-24-2010, 03:10 PM,

Quote:Originally posted by drmccoy
Agreed! But I'm a little bit afraid of having to put all of those in the game xD
Oh well, everything for the customer

If you mean creating the basic items - I'll supply a mergeable esp as per Deeza's original. I'm tweaking the prices, adding weights, proofreading the books and correcting Deeza's illegal punctuation marks as I go Rolleyes

If you mean actually distributing them around the world, though... well Deeza got in there first.

drmccoy · 02-24-2010, 03:11 PM,

Hah! Deeza volunteered! He's the fucked one, YES! Harr harr harr! Big Grin

Fine then, be on your way :goodjob:

Deeza · 02-24-2010, 03:13 PM,

Illegal punctuation marks? I wasn't aware poor literacy was a crime... :eek:

Still, thanks for picking them up. Any one person always misses a few, so it's important to have a second opinion.

drmccoy · 02-24-2010, 03:15 PM,

I absolutely so don't get what you're trying to say xD

morcroft · 02-24-2010, 03:33 PM,

Quote:Originally posted by Deeza
Illegal punctuation marks? I wasn't aware poor literacy was a crime... :eek:

Still, thanks for picking them up. Any one person always misses a few, so it's important to have a second opinion.

"Illegal" as in "the Oblivion engine doesn't know what to do with them and either ignores them or throws a fit"

The contents of "curly brackets" {} appear to be ignored so your animal parts intro text didn't show in game at all. I've replaced them with square brackets [] which seem OK. You've used "smart quotes" quite a bit which the game engine ignores - it only accepts "ASCII" quotes - same for apostrophes. My money's on an intrusive word processor being at the root of those.

Rest easy: your literacy is among the best I've encountered - and I'm really infuriatingly uptight about grammar! I think my red pen instinct has only twitched about twice so far, and I decided those were probably intentional for the style of the content.
:goodjob: