Exterior Planning

[Dave_91]

Right. I think it should be time we get these claims up and working for exteriors. Currently, as you know it, we have 10 regions for our landmass. These are:

Ashlands
Ascadian Isles
Azura's Coast
Bitter Coast
Grazelands
Molag Amur
Red Mountain
Sheogorad
West Gash
Zafirbel Bay

Not long after the landmass was made, I set up an esp file with the regions created and applied the weather settings to each region correspondingly with those of TES3. For the regions to be complete however, we'll need the details... the rocks, trees, locations, dungeons, landmarks camps and random NPC's and enemies. Right now, I think we should try get started on generating at least the rocks for the regions before setting up claims for each.

In Razorwing's Moldcave set, he made a large amount of rocks, both large and small sized, that I think would be greatly useful for the exteriors... a little retexture of each and we could have enough rocks for the regions in my opinion to get started on the generation. I'd like to know what others think on this and whether or not we should start on the generation. Right now the landmass looks great, but you can tell things are missing because of the lack of details and trees etc.

We should probably discuss region by region what trees and rocks we could use as placeholders from Oblivion, and what ST assets and our own assets we can use for the regions.

I know that in Kvatch, there are a few dead trees we could probably use for Ashland or Molag Amur trees... some (dementia) trees in the SE expansion, I think work well for trees in Bitter Coast region. The Ascadian Isles shouldn't be too difficult, the trees there were mostly generic looking anyway, right? I'm sure we can use some standard Oblivion/ST trees for use there. We also have a few Mushroom trees we could perhaps use in various places... combined with rocks + rock retextures, I don't think it would turn out so bad.

Should I move this to the Cities, Landmass & Claims forum?... or is it okay here?