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| Pictoral Guide to Neacrythe -- TESFU Town Mod; (DO NOT POST OFF-TOPIC STUFF!) | |
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| Ibis | Aug 22 2008, 01:04 AM Post #1 |
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For those of you who've despaired of the town mod ever getting on it's feet again we have good news! We've been working on it and it is farther along than ever. I have built all the houses, shops, etc. and lettuceman44 is going to design the guard towers and town defense system. He and I will buld the NPC characters which are you. Unpleasant_Assailant is going to be designing a lot of the house interiors. So if you see a cottage that catches your fancy - the first step is to solidly design your character in 'Trying to Recall' thread and then let U_A know which house you are interested in so he can design the interior with you in mind. Most of the houses are duplexes due to our high town population .. well, you'll see. All these screenshot contents are possibly due to change since this is only Neacrythe vrs. Ib1. When Lettuce adds his modding work it will become Neacrythe vrs. L1. When U_A makes some Interiors and sends them in it will morph into Neacrythe vrs. UA1. Then versions Ib1, L1 & UA1 will be merged into Neacrythe vrs. 2. Then my additions will make vrs. Ib2, lettuce's L2, etc. .. you get the picture. And Dr. Dume has designed our pretty armorer and her Forge .. so we will soon merge Dume's Neacrythe vrs. D1 into the mix as well ... I personally can't wait to get the Forge into town. And now to really get the pictures. I will start you off at the gate. Before our idyllic little town gate comes up you would have run across the sign that says "There is no town here. Turn back." To the right side of the gate the peninsula is guarded by a natural rock wall and on the left side by a drywall fence and rocks. This gate and walls are highly subject to Lettuce's accessment because they fall under the town defense program. I just wanted to see what might work there. http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/NeacrytheTownGate.jpg Here is the overview of Neacrythe in TESCS and the legend to the left: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/NeacrythevrsIb1.jpg Here are the various long distance views - From SouthWest - http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/NeacrythefromtheSWtri-roominghouse.jpg From SouthEast - http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/NeacrythefromSErmghousescytheboat.jpg From NorthEast - http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/NeacrythefromtheNEalchmybkstoretowe.jpg From NorthWest - http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/NeacrythefromNWmilktentplazahuts.jpg The castle that you see in the background of some shots is Pelesiad. You cannot really see it ingame due to fog factor, maybe if you set your visual game settings all the way to FarView - but I doubt it. Ingame you cannot even see any of the shoreline across from our bay waters. Brian's Pawn Shop has a locked buzzer doorbell that you ring which leads into a long contained entryway. There is another locked door that he will buzz you through into the pawn shop if you pass muster. You know how Brian is: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/PawnShop-buzzerdoorbell.jpg The Inn in Neacrythe will have 5 floors counting the attic and cellars; and don't forget there's a trapdoor in the cellar to the newspaper offices, besides the one outside near the coastline. The Inn will have dancing girls and I thought it would be cool if we had some gaming tables - like round card tables and some chess tabletops. Alot of NPC's will stay in the Inn. Our double & single housing will hold aroung 27 people. So if you are late looking for Neacrythe real estate think of booking a room in the Inn unless you are a special case. And people could think of names for the Inn please! I've thought either "The Dragon Break Inn" or the "Flaming Phoenix". But we need lots of suggestions. http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/NeacrythesInn-5stories.jpg This is the main plaza with mayor Bellum's house, the well and Dume's Forge to the right of the mayor near the Inn. All banners and flags will be changed to reflect Neacrythe later, they are just there now for spacing. We are probably going to turn the rooftops blue/grey/greenish tiles since we are using some Mournhold bazaar peices and they have greenish/blue roofs. This is barebones right now, the plaza will have foliage, etc. http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/MayorHousewDumesForge.jpg Dume has made a rockin' new forge so here is what the plaza will look like with the actual Neacrythe Forge - the Inn will be moved back towards the coast and larger, so there will be more walk space between it and the Forge: http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa210/Dok_Dume/ForgeExterior01.jpg Besides the Inn there are two rooming-houses = houses 7 & 10. House 7 is my favorite. This is where I began to build off of the real houses I grew up around at the Jersey shore. Nearby is hendrix' shack that the player will live in, the back storage closet of Dume's forge and the outside trapdoor to the secret underground newpaper publishing office with the dwemer printing press that "The Union" newspaper and our authors books are printed on. (Good news to some authors - I already have your fanfics copied into html format so don't have to worry about reposting them.) http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/House7Forgereartrapdoorshack.jpg House 10 is a triple rooming-house where the house owner lives in the basement level and rents out the 3 winged rooms on stilts looking out over the water. http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/House10otherroominghouse.jpg House 11 is a mystery house .. no windows except a long horizontal one over a door and one door has an arrowslit pointing at the front doorstep and the other door has a hlaalu window where they can see out at you but you cannot see in. People with stealthy characters could pick the two parts of this house. It is right in among other houses so nobody would suspect anything. http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/House11mystery.jpg House 14 is the smallest double house to for characters who don't need a lot of space. There is the one room upstairs and the lower floor plus basement level below. http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/House14smallestdoble.jpg House 13 is the Healer and Wisewoman's house. i am hoping to blend the house colors better on this one and on the mayor's house too: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/House13healerww-tallhouseback.jpg This is the Alchemy Shop behind the Bookstore Mages Tower where Ned and Ethelle work and live. http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/AlchemyShop.jpg Last but not least is the Bookstore Mages Tower where the front two floors are the book store and the mages live behind in the tower. I've thought of giving the Mage building no chimneys and having people say "they heat and cook by some forsaken magickal devices and spells that no ordinary man should know of." Something like that. http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/BookstoreMageTower.jpg There are no chinmeys yet and very few windows because that will give U_A freedom of building Interiors. So if your character has special needs tell him when you hook up with a house. After he finishes Interiors we will add chimney and smoke and windows in the proper exterior places. All the house exteriors are done to an extent but all can be subject to change. And I have added a fishing fleet totally 5 boats .. Scythe's boat he lives on, 2 rowboats at the fisshing huts, another longboat and a skiff on the South beach. Because I would like to see our little fishy stick war to continue into the mod. I think the fishystick wars have actually been therapeutic for us after all that's happened in between sites here as we are .... and so the ninjasticks with cheesestick and kool-ade dessert; the sonicsticks, the fishy sticks, the samuari-sticks, etc. will be in Neacrythe along with the hot rivalry for customer delight in them. I have already picked out the miscellaneous lesser and petty soulgems to be retextured as the various fishystick delights. And I have a special surprise for the dessert of cheesesticks and kool-ade ... but don't imbibe too much. All fishy stick items will be ingredients and will have magicka properties .. to add or curse or poison or fortify, we will just have to see. And of course the wisewoman will make homemade redhot ninjastick sauce.  So I will be sending this version to Lettuce and U_A now for them to work their magic. Add any suggestions you guys have or think of ... it's your town too! Edited by Ibis, Sep 24 2008, 05:23 PM.
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| Ibis | Sep 24 2008, 03:17 AM Post #2 |
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Inspired by Dr. Dume's Neacrythe Forge pictures, I'm posting a few of the Inn interior which I've been working on. The main floor of the Neacrythe Inn has the front desk and then the bar which has gambling and dancers. Stairs lead down to the diningroom and kitchen on the lower floor which is what I've been working on. Below that will be the basement where there will be storage and some hostel style bunkbed rooms. Above the main floor will be the nice rooms on the second floor and econo-rooms in the attic. I have changed my mind on making the head cook attractive. She is large and fat with white hair and is actually an Aldmeri .. ancestor race of the Altmers. But her souce chef will be the attractive one that will help make Inglord's BOOMsticks. Her room is in the basement and that is where they will cook them. So anyway here are three pics of the Lower Floor, some diningroom tables: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/NeacrytheDiningRoomTables.jpg The dessert cart: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/DessertCart2.jpg View of the kitchen from the diningroom, I'll have a better pic of the head cook later: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/NeacrytheInnKitchen.jpg Edited by Ibis, Sep 24 2008, 03:23 AM.
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| Ibis | Sep 24 2008, 04:57 PM Post #3 |
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Thank you Milkie. In the center of the dessert cart are your "TheCakeIsNotALie..tm" dessert and Reds Mozzarella Sticks. I have to retexture both better to look more sumputous. The bowls are green jello. There are also blue Moon Cookies with Pearl Icing Balls, AppleSpice Cookies, Gelled Marshmerrow with BloodFruit and Licorice Plumley with Water Chestnuts in the front row. There are also assorted fruits and an apple pie and Kaeromelle Tuffle with Emerald Congeal and Iced Donuts with Cherry Ruby centers. I would like everyone whose active here at TESFU to start thinking and submitting and voting on NAMES for the Neacrythe Inn and the Mages Bookstore and the Alchemy Shop. So far for the Inn we have "The Dragon Break" or "Flaming Phoenix" ... both of which I have wall mural paintings for the lobby. If we wanted to vote for one of those names for the Inn and name the Bookstore with the other, that'd be cool. PS - The Bookstore has a Gargoyle on its roof. http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/NeacrythePlazaView-1.jpg I'm thinking of fashioning the frontdoor of the Bookstore to look like a book cover with the name on it and FC4's name as proprietor listed where the author's name would be. Possibly list all the Mages who live in the tower on the bookcover door too. And I have a stylized black with flowerdesign door already made for the Alchemy Door and one that's black with butterfly patterns for the balconey door .. since Alchemy is dependent on plants, herbs, flowers and butterflies. Edited by Ibis, Sep 24 2008, 06:17 PM.
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| Ibis | Oct 2 2008, 11:57 PM Post #4 |
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Well the names have been settled: The Dragon Break Inn - there's an Imperial Dragon statue on the roof Flaming Phoenix Books - there is a phoenix statue in flames high on the MageTower attached to the bookstore. (really the retextured cliffracer wallmount) The Gargoyle is now on the Alchemy Shop Roof and will have large "iron-butterflys" swirling around his head. It is called Innagodadavida Alchemy. And here is our fearless Publican, InnKeep and owner of The Dragon Break Inn: http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x224/BrainRat/Hypedkeys.jpg Here is Valkyrra a Nord of the Skall: http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x224/BrainRat/Valkyrra.jpg This is GodSentAngel who is an Altmer priestess who is just beside herself with her own beauty: I've thought of giving her an elven name - Eilaelos means Heavenly IDK yet: http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x224/BrainRat/GodSentAngel.jpg Here by popular demand is the star of the show Lucy, a woodlelf archer with a little girl voice that strikes hearts faster than cupid's arrows: http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x224/BrainRat/Lucy.jpg Here are Mara, the dunmer cocktail waitress who hates foreigners and Slooma Muzgob, an orismer who is really the Inn's dishwasher but who comes up to the bar in her time off: http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x224/BrainRat/Mara.jpg Here is Slooma out in Neacrythe in her Inn uniform with her parrot Ike. He talks down in the dishwasher basement but whistles along to the music up in the bar: http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x224/BrainRat/SloomaMuzgob.jpg Last but not least, our innemitable Master of Ceremonies, Gambling MC David Lee Rath = he has a wheel of fortune with Arena, Daggerfall, Redguard, Battlespire & Morrowind gaming chips; a redant pinata filled with candy named The Red Rocker; a bingo machine and table; an ebony round poker table;some chess tables; and in Julian's storytelling corner there are Daedric Uno tables & a Knuckles table: http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x224/BrainRat/DavidLeeRath.jpg There will also be a Dwemer Slot Machine that Dr. Dume found for us & a jukebox that will play a choice of 20 different MP3 songs ... for dwemer coin of course.  Edited by Ibis, Oct 4 2008, 01:17 AM.
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| Ibis | Oct 4 2008, 12:37 AM Post #5 |
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Thanks Milk.  It's a little bare bones right now, the ropes around the dancers platforms will be colored and the platforms themselves will be retextured. There will really be more customers in the bar than dancers on the floor .. I just wanted to get a perspective on how the bar would look with people in it. I am going to try to make two different shifts of dancers .. daytime & nightime .. and then the dancers could be outside to talk to during their offtime. I'm going to attempt to script something like that. I know how to do that with objects but never tried NPCs.
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| Ibis | Oct 9 2008, 07:36 PM Post #6 |
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A couple new pics of Neacrythe here. Our storyteller Julian, who ties the olden days of Neacrythe's settlers with the modern day occupants: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/Julian.jpg And here is the MageTower with Flaming Phoenix Books store in front. There will be more windows on all the structures, we want to arrange the Interiors first and then place the windows, it's easier. I have to give the cliffracer/phoenix a more fiery skin pattern. I turned it yellowish but it still looks like a baking cliffracer, lol: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/MageTowernight.jpg I'm now working on The Dragon Break Inn - the nice 8 Upper Rooms on the 2nd floor and the 6 EconoRooms in the Attic. They are all connected by the 2nd floor hallway reached by elevator from the lobby. The attic rooms have trapdoor ladders in the hall, in between the room doors. |
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| Ibis | Oct 12 2008, 04:06 PM Post #7 |
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Here are some more pics, I am also now reposting this thread at Stormraven's Library site in the Artist Forum so it does not get lost from here when we move: This might be Richards home, since he is fond of apple picking season: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/applecottage.jpg This is the promised Dwemer Slot Machine: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/DwemerSlotMachineLydian.jpg These are gambling chips for The Wheel Of Fortune .. turquoise Morrowind chips are 5000 gold; blue Arena chips are worth 1000 gold; green Daggerfall chips are 500 gold; yellow Redguard chips are 100 gold; and pink Battlespire chips are 50 gold: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/GamblingChips.jpg If you are a male guest at The Dragon Break Inn, traveling on a tight budget, you can rent a bedroll in Hostel #1 which is in the Inn Cellar: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/H1.jpg If female on a budget, you may rent a bedroll among the dancers bunks in Hostel #2: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/H2.jpg This is the cellar kitchen where the hostel guests will be fed cheaply by the souschef: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/cellarkitchen.jpg Here is the gargoyle surrounded by his fluttering iron butterflys on the roof of the Innagodadavida Alchemy Shop (I may retexture the butterflys to the all brownish color or leave them as is .. what do you think?): http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/gargoylebutterflies.jpg This is lettuceman44 who is the Captain of the Guard for Neacrythe. I may give the guards more interesting armor uniforms: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/Lettuce.jpg Here is milk_is_white, town milkman and his packguar Mikey (again, Milk will probably be changed in appearance and Mikey will probably become a white packguar, since it is guarmilk that Milk sells): http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/Milknite.jpg Th .. the...thaa .. that's all for now folks!! ..... comments, suggestions, critiques are all welcome. 
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| Ibis | Oct 26 2008, 03:08 AM Post #8 |
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I will have more pictures to post just as soon as I can figure out how to change .bmp's to .jpg's with GIMP. I had an anomaly occur when I retextured a sign in Neacrythe, so I attempted to uninstall my Photo Finish program to see if it got corrupted somehow. But it didn't all uninstall, there are still some remnants that I'm afraid to mess with because my SoundBlaster video card is also Creative and in the same folder. So now I can't reinstall Photo Finish. But I just realized that I can take screenshots in .jpg format with GrabClipSave. Maybe if I do that .. I won't have to change them with GIMP. Going off to try this ... |
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| Ibis | Nov 15 2008, 10:41 AM Post #9 |
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Okay, finally have some more Neacrythe landscape pics for you all ... I finally figured out how to convert .bmp format screenshots into .jpg format that upload to websites with GIMP. Here we go: Dumes Forge is safely nestled in it's place of honor next to Mayor Bellum's House: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/DumesForge.jpg Everyone remembers how beautiful Ethelle was, I tried to make her NPC look as much like her as I could; here she is at night near the Alchemy Garden: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/Ethellenite.jpg The Flaming Phoenix Bookstore/MageTower which is still a work in progress. It seems to be getting built from the top down: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/newMageTower.jpg The backdoor to the MageTower is in place: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/MTbackdoor.jpg Fountain near Mayor Bellum's back staircase, gargoyle on Innagodadavida Alchemy Shop with his Iron Butterflys hovering in background: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/fountain.jpg Raven on BrianS' PawnShop entry. This Raven has an historical and very crucial place in Neacrythe's fate: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/Raven.jpg Neacrythe has a postal delivery system, here is Mailman Newman. I was going to make him fat like Neuman on Seinfeld but Paul Newman died and I tried to make him more like a tribute to that great actor and even greater human being: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/Newman.jpg Here is Guard Sargeant slane_wolf sporting the (new) Neacrythe guard armor ... it is Oblivion Mithril modded into Morrowind. I've upgraded it from Imperial guard armor as well as some other things in town. Neacrythe has an anonymous benefactor who has contributed lately to the town's newfound wealth. Figuring out which NPC the benefactor/benefactress is is one of the quests. Who knows? It could be you. http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/slane_wolfSgt.jpg Here is one of the Mayors Angels always on duty outside the mayor's front door with female armor to match the OB mithril. Reds, you have to admit that this is cute armor: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/MayorsAngel.jpg The guards are not all left-handed .. they actually are all trained in dual-wield swordfighting. As you know, their right-hand weapon will not show until they are in actual combat. Captain of the Guard lettuceman44 (who I will have a new picture of soon) rules the whole town defenses of course. He resides in the West Guard Tower which is right at - connected to - the front gate. It also has the dining room and kitchen for all the guards in its basement and barracks on ground floor, armory on middle floor and sparring room, archery practice on top floor. The roof of both guard towers has a dwemer ballista on it - W tower points toward the front/only road into town & the E tower points out to sea. If I can remember how, the ballistas will be scripted to shoot dwemer spears like huge bolts .. cliffracer practice anyone? Sargeant slane_wolf runs the East Guard Tower which has the same ground to upper floors arrangement but the basement houses the town jail and torture chamber. muwahahah Edited by Ibis, Nov 15 2008, 11:51 AM.
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| Ibis | Nov 15 2008, 11:11 AM Post #10 |
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Well, I have always loved Elven chain and mithril armor in any game, so I was very excited that it was in Oblivion. And I did want Necreathe to have different than any regular guard armor since we are a somewhat rebel type town. As things started to get more grand at the Inn, I realized that somewhere the town had a source of ample money .. and so the anonymous benefactor quest plays in. I haven't even decided who it will be yet. Everything is evolving. Speaking of which, quirk - why don't you and some of the other newish people ... like, let's see ... I have fthecook in it already and Alexander is a Rogue-Mage, a new class I made because he said in TES General he liked a mage/rogue/warrior character. Oh yeh, quirk and Nilloc James and iwrestledabearonce could .. if you'd like to be in the mod ... enter your character & stats in the Char Creation thread here = it says something like "this means you" ... or PM me with your char and I'll place you guys too. If you want to look at the beginning of this thread there is even an overhead town map and you could tell me which house you'd like to live in or the Inn. The first three fishing huts are already populated. And house 14 is Milk downstairs and Christo upstairs. I think Richard might live at house 12 on the side. |
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| Ibis | Nov 15 2008, 12:39 PM Post #11 |
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Oh I would love that Reds if you would be my proofreader and spellchecker ... couldn't have it in better hands. What I'm contemplating is running a smallish private alpha-test here if anyone is still playing Morrowind. That will be after you check spelling for me. I have only added 3 lines of dialogue .. and one I have to fix .. because I don't really know much about dialogue yet. And secondly, I don't like mods that add so much dialogue and then it conflicts with other mods, etc. I prefer to put a lot of explanations in the way of notes, letters, journals & books .. where Red's spellchecking will be crucial. And this letter source of information is one reason for the mail system. After we run the small alpha here; I can make a WIP/Release thread in Morrowind Mods Forum at BGSF and we can get some publicity. Hopefully. Now here is what I'm planning to be in time for our proposed new site ... because TESFU Town Neacrythe is a huge job; we thought it'd be a few of us in the beginning and I cannot complete the whole town anytime soon. So what I propose to do for the alpha-test is say "Welcome Outlander to Neacrythe! First you must find the town and then come in and pick a house or Inn-room to settle into if you'd like to stay with us awhile." So what I'm going to do is complete all the ground and upper floors of all the houses - no furniture in many of them - and leave the cellars which add alot of living spaces until later. Besides the mail delivery service there is an NPS Lady .. Neacrythe Postal Service ... who cheaply sells excess packages left over from people who've left Neacrythe. aha Also, the NPS Office is going to be filled with other closets and cabinets which will have in them the portable furniture that the player can carry and place around to decorate the interior houses. Tables, chairs, wall-dividers, tapestries can be turned into miscellaneous items with no weight attached so they carry within Inventory. I have the Moveable Container script to attach to All provided containers - closets, urns, hutches, etc. I have the Moveable Bedroll script to move ALL available beds around. I have BookRotate script to place books vertically on bookshelves and a Shield WallMount script which I think can be adapted to placing pictures and decorations on the walls too. All the lights can be made carryable, including flaming logpiles for fireplaces. It just takes some practice to place this stuff, I already do some of this in my personal mods. BrianS' Pawnshop will sell the many household miscellaneous items besides selling weapons, armor, jewelry, clothing, etc. So this way, I don't have to finish everything in total detail before the alpha release and it will be a very participatory mod. I'm hoping that this will make people even more keen to play the mod and greatly more interested in TESFU as they get to know us the NPC citizens. Oh I keep forgetting to post a pic of Ibis, wisewoman. Maybe we could even say something like ... send in screenshots of your favorite decorated house and we will choose the best interior design for each house and the designer will become the permanent owner of it in the finished mod. That is provided that they become members here; which will be the required place to post their screenshots. How does this idea sound? |
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| Ibis | Nov 15 2008, 01:00 PM Post #12 |
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Cool enough then. I've got to go to bed now; been up since getting home last night at 11pm. Cullen's on his way by taxi to Comp USA to buy a new optical mouse. So I should get some good sleep. Nighty nite. |
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| Ibis | Nov 15 2008, 02:22 PM Post #13 |
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Ok, I went on the taxi ride too. But today is Sabbath, so all day to rest and sleep. No worries. So I'm glad you approve of my TESFU Town Mod plan, redsrock. It'll be a little bit like the SIMMs house decorating .. should be fun really. If you've ever used any of those scripted mods .. moveable bedroll, BookRotate, etc. .. you know how much fun they can be. I'm especially looking forward to the Shield Hanging one .. I haven't tried that yet. But I'd imagine that if you can hang a shield on a wall you could hang a miirror or a painting or ooooh, maybe even a shelf? |
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| Ibis | Nov 18 2008, 02:21 PM Post #14 |
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Oooooh wonderful .. entrance into the kingdom of Mancia when Neacrythe is complete? Awesome!! You know Reds, we really should include the Ibisarions in the town mod. I am thinking of requesting from sabregirl the use of her fiery Tartarian Race as a phoenix-like assistant for FC4 in his Flaming Phoenix Bookstore. So I will also request the use of her Kentarossai Race which would make excellent scaled Ibisarion NPCs. I hope she says Yes. |
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| Ibis | Nov 18 2008, 02:47 PM Post #15 |
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Yes, that's why the Kentarossai would be ideal for Ibisarions, they are Argonian like but with a dragonish head and finned and scaled and glow-mapped bright green on a darker background skintone. |
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| Ibis | Nov 19 2008, 06:12 PM Post #16 |
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Sluijs_br, I've given you one of the elegant rooms at The Dragon Break Inn. I hope this is okay. It is a room with a double bed, chandelier, large closet, drawers, plants on the recessed windowsills and a little 'circle' of chairs ... like for a book reading club, or discussion group, or coffeeclutch, or something. PM me your chargen description & stats, armor/weap/clothing and tell me how else to decorate your room ... whenever you get a chance. You are Room #4, in between Inglord's and the PC's rooms and down the hall from the bathroom. |
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| Ibis | Nov 25 2008, 03:52 AM Post #17 |
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Latest screenshots hot out of the dwemer press at The Union newspaper department. No the underground Union office isn't built yet; but the editor-in-chief Redsrock is (he will be in the next batch of pictures though due to a glitch I've had and need to correct.) But here are some pics for you all to peruse .. any representation of someone can be changed and edited by them at any time, just PM me what changes you'd like .. up to and including Race. Changes are easy to make at this point, I've just tried to fill in some people I don't have full stats on yet. I hope they like what they see but if not we'll change things around until they do. StormRaven I have made the head wizard of our Flaming Phoenix MageTower which in turn makes Neacrythe able to have a branch (rather renegade) of the Mages Guild. I chose Altmer for his race since I believe they are the most long-lived elves; also he has golden facial tattoos that look like a bird in flight on the forehead, I'll get a closeup of that later. I'm hoping for eyeglasses as well, but my glasses mod is corrupted somehow and I have to find it to download again: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/StormRaven.jpg Ork_Hero has a crab/ranch fishing hut but underneath he has a large skooma den where the morag tong, smugglers and skooma addicts hang out: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/Ork_Hero.jpg Here is his Ebony Cape and Hero-style hair from the back: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/Ork_HerosEbonyCape.jpg Here is thefork, Maitre'D of The Dragon Break Inn diningroom. All the diningroom personnel have long red hair in ponytail or braids. It's like Hypedupturtle, the Inn Owner, doesn't care how long their hair is as long as they keep it out of the food: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/MaitreDthefork.jpg Trey is the Waiter: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/WaiterTrey.jpg And everyone in the dinningroom is yelling "where is the busboy?" but fthecook is actually down in the walkin dish pantry .. with his skooma pipe, lol: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/Busboyfthecook.jpg I have learned from Princess Stomper how to schedule the Inn to have a day shift and a night shift. So while we cannot give the NPCs little schedules like they have in Oblivion, this scheduling enables different NPCs to be in same space in day or night at the Inn and also enables me to show the Inn employees outside on their own time and this also greatly enhances quests because more NPCs will be available but the player will have to find them at the right time. So anyway here is the Head Chef of the Inn, Maddeileena in her fancy night-time uniform, you can see her less formal afternoon uniform in a previous shot near the beginning of this thread: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/HeadChefMaddeileena.jpg Sous Chef Daphapannilla, a Chimer, runs the Inn cellar hostel kitchen besides assisting head chef Maddeileena, an Aldmeri, in the main one on the Inn lower floor. There is a dish cellar below the cellar kitchen. Daphapannilla is the one who fancies Inglord and helps him bake his BOOMsticks in her hostel kitchen: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/SousChefDaphappaniilla.jpg Here is our town skooma dealer Aceball69 .. only Ace has a secret way into town under the town wall that lettuceman44, the captain of the Neacrythe guard, doesn't know about. Nor does anyone else. It's very cameoflauged and the player is really going to have to stumble upon this one .. Aceball's cave (He will probably have a black panther face after I download Alien Slof's khajiit mods and her Better Beasts mod. I don't have anything fancy in the way of khajiits or argonians right now: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/Aceball69.jpg I've shown the Oblivion Mithril Armor that the Neacrythe Town Guards wear . but they also have unique capes they wear. Lettuceman as Captain Of The Guard wears an Imperial cape with two facing dragons on it: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/lettucemansImperialCape.jpg slane_wolf is the First Sargeant of the Guard and he runs the East Guard Tower while Lettuce runs the West Guard Tower plus the whole town of course. slane_wolf wears a Daedric Cape: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/slane_wolfsDaedricCape.jpg This is the blue West Guard Tower Cape that the regular guards wear: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/WGuardCape.jpg And here is the red East Guard Tower Cape. I'd like to retexture the bunks in the guard towers to match the capes of whoever sleeps in that bed: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/EGuardCape.jpg This is the Crow Cage on the roof of the East Guard Tower and the Dwemer Ballista. The East Guard Tower cellar holds the town jail complete with torture chair, iron maiden, shackles, prison bracer and other goodies. The cellar of the West Tower. near the town gate, houses the guard kitchen for the whole town guard and also feeds anyone in town too poor to afford their own food as a courtesy to residents: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/CrowCage.jpg The view from the East Guard Tower roof is rather breathtaking. You can see Dumes forge on the left and the MageTower on the right with the top of the mayor's house in between: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/towerview-1.jpg I finally remembered to take a pic of WiseWoman Ibis in front of the Healer Cottage: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/WisewomanIbis.jpg This is a female Ibisarion who will be redsrock's secretary in The Union underground newspaper offices. She is wearing an Ivy Chain Cuirass and has an Emerald Daedric shield and spear. Her appearance is strictly subject to Reds approval, since he is the creator of the Ibisarions. They actually have a lot more glowing green scales on their chest but due to the fact that I have to make a female chest from better bodies argonian .. I just dressed her in the cuirass for now: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/Ibisarion.jpg This is a male Ibisarion wearing the Dragonscale cuirass. I'm not sure he will be in the mod, but the males are quite a bit taller than the female Ibisarions: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/maleIbisarion.jpg Kebbi, a Phoenix-like bird creature, is FC4's librarian assistant at the Flaming Phoenix Bookstore/MageTower: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/KebbiPhoenixlikechar.jpg Here is Gilsa Gabor, the gardener of the Alchemy Garden. I wound up creating a lot of the female NPCs first while waiting for you guys to post your character info and also because they needed to be fictiously created so we would have a more even male/female ratio in town: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/GardenerGilsaGabor.jpg This is a view of tiller_jpg's houseboat through another set of gates: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/Houseboatthrugates.jpg Here is a goddess door to a tomb near town, I will remain mysterious about that for now: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/GoddessdoortoTomb.jpg NPS Lady Wanda has taken to cheaply selling the excess packages that she cannot delivery because some of the TESFU citizens left town after D-Day. She will sell you a key and you go to the Neacrythe Parcel Service Office and see whichever package there the key opens ... and the contents are yours. Sort of like a mystery drawing. Contents will range from enchanted jewelry to small weapons to potions to .... eh ... a kwama egg? You take a chance on what present you may get .. hehehe: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/My%20MW%20Mods/NPSLadyWanda.jpg If you wonder where I got the names for the male guards, and some of the females as well .. they are in the member list here. The member list still survives D-Day, so I borrowed from it where it seemed to fit ... like naming the waiter Trey. And most of the guards are Imperials, Bretons and Nords. But if anyone wants to become a town guard I can easily replace the ones we've got .. except lettuceman and slane_wolf of course. And I think Gauis Maximus. Although the player has to go to another town to join the Imperial Guard, I'm thinking of starting a faction called The Neacrythe Reserve Forces and let the player join right in town. Sort of like weekend warriors .. they'd get to bunk in the barracks and eat in the guard kitchen and practice in the sparring rooms and archery range. And train their warrior skills from the town's best of course. Edited by Ibis, Nov 25 2008, 04:53 AM.
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| Ibis | Dec 7 2008, 01:44 AM Post #18 |
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Two latest pics: The latest version of TESFU Mod credits: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/TESFUTESCS.jpg (It actually had ninja_lord666 listed as the concept artist above FC4 but when I typed in Cell = Neacrythe, his name went higher off the screen. I'm not sure if he'll want his name on this or not seeing as how he's now banned; I'll have to ask him at Gamersroam .. I have a feeling he won't) Ooh, I didn't realize I was listed twice in credits .. I'll have to consolidate that Lord_Veneficus' banana shack made of empty crates in the town plaza: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/SunburstStudio/Lord_Vshack.jpg This was easy to construct, building characters to specifications takes longer. I am giving everyone a unique Westly's or Emma's or Kalazza Productions head and hair, so you all will look nice. Edited by Ibis, Dec 7 2008, 01:46 AM.
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| Ibis | Dec 7 2008, 02:57 PM Post #19 |
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Thank you Lord_V, I love bananas and I buy them all the time at work for my hubby Cullen & myself. I do actually have plans after we get another car to pursue game design .. I took the tour at Full Sail Media College here in Orlando, one of the top 5 media schools IN THE WORLD. So I am hoping for grants/scholarship/veterans-help/loans to go there for Computer Animation. And I would love to work at a fantasy game company sometime in future. *fingers crossed* Wow, I am overjoyed at the extra volunteered help we are getting on the mod of late. Thank you to The_Wanderer for offering help .. I'm not really sure what you'd want to do; but whatever you feel like contributing would be great. PM me whenever you want although I know from StormRaven that you are busying aiding some other projects too. And I see that iwrestledabearonce has become a volen (?) slave of the good doc James in his Questing Department. That is excellent because we are going to have many and robust Quests for this mod. So now Bear .. you will get to hear the full crazy storyline of TESFU Town Mod so that you can compose compatible quests. I will PM it to you shortly. Anyone who wishes Quests for their character is still to announce it to Nilloc James in this thread for now ... ahh, actually if you want you can begin a Questmaking Topic for the town mod here in the Modding Forum, James and I'll pin it along with these other two. If and whenever you feel the desire for a seperate thread topic on TESFU Town Questing. And after announcing your desire for a quest to James he will PM with you about the contents of it. Possibly James and iwrestledabearonce could exchange Instant Messenger addresses if you both have them and then the person wanting a quest could get on IM in a conference call with you and discuss things that way. Lettuce, Reds & I do that when discussing aspects of the mod .. so it might work for you too. |
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| Ibis | Dec 9 2008, 01:29 AM Post #20 |
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OK, here is the new plan for TESFU Town Mod. I've been thinking about this and I'd like as many of you who are running Morrowind presently to be able to experience this early stage of the mod and I'd like you to be able to pick your houses from experience and I would also like any and all input. So we are soon going to have a Pre-Alpha Release Version of TESFU Town Mod ... The buildings of the town are all done but not all have interiors yet. So what I'd like to do is make the empty interiors for the available houses; houses that are already assigned to someone but have no interior will have an Inviso-barrier in front of their frontdoor so you cannot activate that door .. you will read whose house it is on the mailbasket. We have the NPS Office (Neacrythe Parcel Service) with moveable furniture for you the PC to furnish empty house interiors the way you want them. This will aide you in picking out a definite house in the finished mod. So I want to really press this week to input everyone's character who has submitted char/gen info and I am going to give people rooms at the Inn if there is no house for them yet. Now the Inn room will be temporary in most cases so roleplay the Pre-Alpha as though you are a very early visitor to Neacrythe before all the building is done yet in town. So you are staying in the Inn and awaiting the choosing of your home. If it was permanent I would make up a Real Estate Office too; but the NPS Office is going to serve that function as well here. I want also to get the unique flora screenshots sent to Cathym and her reply back with alchemy formulas, ingredients, etc. Also, since James and ioncewrestledabear will be getting the mod .. if they want to activate whatever quests they have ready and send me back a version of the mod with those quests included .. that will be entered into the mod merge. Lettuce is also going to design a house for himself - House #4 near the West Guard Tower - and that will go into the Mod Merge also ... which will all be turning into Neacrythe vrs. 2. Now later I want to put all the borrowed meshes/textures/icons into our own TESFU Folder along with the mod version for easy installation. However, this pre-alpha is going to have them in their multitude of source folders - its a little trickier to install but not much and I will include directions on setting up the mod in the ReadMe. So, for privacy I will upload the mod to RapidShare when ready and post the link here. While everyone is play-testing the Pre-Alpha, I am going to do some very neccessary burning of downloaded mods and screenshots to disk in order to make more room on my hard drives. Despite having two independant drives .. I have accumulated so much material while building this mod that I need to sort, purge alot of it away, upload some to save to Photobucket and like I said .. put the rest on DVD disks. So hopefully everyone can profit from this Pre-Alpha test mod phase. |
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