Forgotten Forest [Claimed]

[Razorwing]

Claimed by TheImperialDragon

[title]What is the Forgotten Forest?[/title]

It's a region of our landmass that can best be described as a 'dark, spooky forest'. How you choose to realize that concept is largely up to you, but you wouldn't go wrong if you used gothic horror influences such as abandoned manors and long-forgotten cemetaries. In our old mod we had a lone werewolf prowling the woods, and given their speed and the darkness of the forest it often managed to scare the hell out of the player - which was perfect in my opinion. You probably won't bring back the werewolf, and you don't have to either, but hopefully you'll be able to shock the player in other ways.

The region is situated northwest of Silgrad Tower (the city) and west of Deepen Meadows. Please consult the map for more detailed info.

[title]Info for region modders[/title]

See Information for Region Modders for important modding information.

[title]Generation Preset[/title]

¤) Choose a set of landscape textures for the region and use/generate them on the alotted land as appropriate. You can use landscape textures from the main game if you like, that wouldn't be a problem, but custom textures are better - not only because they'll give variety compared to the main game, but also because it gives such excellent control over them afterwards. If a better replacement for a particular texture appears six months down the line all one would have to do would be to switch files, without any need to mess up your work.

¤) Detail the landscape with the following assets:
[indent][/indent]- Forgotten Forest trees (From the Tree>SilgradFF list)
[indent][/indent]- Ascadian Isles rocks (from the Static>ST>Rocks list)

Note that the forest is supposed to be dead. That's why the trees lack leaves and why there shouldn't be any normal flora growing there. You can add 'knees' (treestumps) from the stock Oblivion assets if you like (Static>Landscape). If you really want to you can add toadstool and drogo mushrooms* from our mod and cairn bolete and wisp stalk from the stock game. You may notice a glitch effect on the trees, which can't be helped. Try sticking them into the ground, past the glitch.
(* If you use Drogo, only use the kind that doesn't have a fused dirt sheet under it)

[title]Roads[/title]

(Updated by TheImperialDragon 24-01-2008)

Add roads as you see fit. If you look at the attached road concept you might discern that the road between Silgrad Tower and Reich Parkeep goes along the edge of the Forgotten Forest. That's a major road, and should be safe to travel, apart from the occasional bandit or wolf or other normal things. If you're concerned about monsters getting onto the road in some parts, feel free to add pathspears - they're a great hindrance to keep monsters inside the forest. Please set up a Legionnaire or two to patrol the road, because we wouldn't want a Lvl 2 player to get slaughtered travelling one of the main roads.

Be sure to mod the road within the boundaries of the FF claim. See the claim map a little further down.

[title]Reference[/title]

Here are a few screenshots showing typical Forgotten Forest scenes from our TES3 mod, in case they can inspire.

Here is a map of the region's boundaries:

(click for a larger image!)

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