First Hlaalu Building model completed

[jonrd463]

Sorry I haven't been active lately, but Real Life tends to have that affect. There's nothing like the stress of a graveyard shift job, an upcoming marriage, and the preliminary legwork involved with trying to buy a house, all jumbled together.

Anyway, I was wanting to get some thoughts and opinions about something I was thinking about. Morrowind buildings were generally smaller in scale than any real world counterpart. For example, look at Arille's Tradehouse. It looks to be the size of a 3 storey garden shed from the outside. The same is true about the Hlaalu buildings, although it's not quite as bad as the Imperial structures.

What we've seen in the screenshots and trailer from Oblivion is that the player:building scale looks to be more correct. In light of that, I was thinking of "re-engineering" the buildings I was working on to reflect more realistic scales. Take the building I completed and posted above. It's a two storey structure with a full, interior-access basement. In modern construction, a storey is roughly 10 feet, including subflooring/cieling joists. The closest thing to Hlaalu buildings we have today are adobe structures in the desert southwestern US (at least the closest thing that I'm familiar with as an American. Other international examples may be applicable). These are generally shorter structures, maybe 7-8 feet tall per storey, maxiumum. However, square footage could be larger and more spacious than what we see in a lot of the "apartment" type dwellings as seen in the Labor Town district of Balmora.

Anyway, what this is all coming to is that I've decided to scale up the buildings to fit a more realistic size. I'll start with this first one and try to get some feedback. Differences won't be drastic, but you will be able to tell the difference.

Comments or ideas anyone? I'd love to hear them. Thanks!

-Jon