Maps for the Provinces

[IAMTHEEMPEROR]

No, not you Lord Skorm. cruxvader is being pretty stubborn with his mod idea.

[Lord Skorm]

Apology accepted EMPEROR :bananarock: :bananarock:

Of course, priorities are priorities, and I think that the land is more important than the map. I just brought up this whole subject because I just hated X( how the maps in TES3 for other mods were never shown, but hopefully Oblivion maps will have more to offer.

[IAMTHEEMPEROR]

If you look around you can find concept maps that we use for the layouts, and then when all of that is set up we will make the maps that are accurate with the game layout so you won't find a map marker ingame that says vivec even though it's over Balmora on the map. Mostly technical reasons.

[Lord Skorm]

I've looked around, and I've only checked on Valenwood, Elsweyr, and Vvardenfell (since these are the only places that I know history about). High Rock, Skyrim, and Black March are not really my thing so I haven't seen maps for these provinces, but hopefully they are good. The only thing that is bothering me is that how are the High Rock and Skyrim teams are going to know how to precisely place their provinces around Hammerfell. Beats me. ?( ?( ?( ?(

[Lady Nerevar]

each province is in a different worldspace, so they dont intersect at all. no problems there

[Lord Skorm]

What do you mean by it's own worldspace? Does that mean that if I want to go from Bruma to Skyrim, then I have to have something teleport me there and a new map will pop out.... like Shivering Isles. OMG, I posted this thread to clear up if all the provinces were going to be in the same map, but now I am confused again. ?(

[Seniosh]

All of the provinces will not be on the same map. If you download Silgrad Tower, you will see that you have to enter a new worldspace to get there. Currently we use a tunnel that has a load door in it, and you exit the cyrodiil worldspace, and enter the silgrad tower worldspace.

All the provinces will be like that. You can't walk to skyrim from silgrad tower (or bruma). There would need to be a load door for that to happen. They are on different ESMs, and so the BC projects all really do their own stuff (though it would be incredible if someone unified them, it just won't happen)

[Lord Skorm]

So the mods could be unified to one colossal sized mod (which seems impossible), but is there a chance for it? And if they have their own worldspace, will the "You cannot go this way. Turn back" message appear?

[The Old Ye Bard]

Originally posted by Lord Skorm
So the mods could be unified to one colossal sized mod (which seems impossible), but is there a chance for it? And if they have their own worldspace, will the "You cannot go this way. Turn back" message appear?

Not a chance (for numerous reasons, one being the file size would be more than OB itself, several times larger), and yes there will be a message for the mods like that.

[Lord Skorm]

Good to know. Thanks.