Silgrad Tower from the Ashes

Hi everyone,
I worked on this last night and wanted to share it here first. Quite simply, this mod replaces the vanilla Oblivion title screen; changing the logo, "Map loop" in the background and the music.

Both the new logo and map loop were created by myself. I took the Silgrad Tower map from the BSA, and used it to make a video where the camera moves diagonally (like the vanilla "Map loop"). I also made the logo on GIMP - I would have used the one on the banner, but couldn't propperly remake it. The original title music has also been replaced with the Morrowind title theme, but have also included the Silgrad Tower main theme as a second optional replacement.

Links to images (Photobucket):
http://tinyurl.com/39jonoy
http://tinyurl.com/2v3ljyq
http://tinyurl.com/39wvzoz

Link to Download:
http://www.filefront.com/17668264/Silgra...Screen.rar

There is a problem with pressing escape to cut to the title screen when the Bethesda Softworks logo appears. The map loop will only show the upper left part of the screen - if anyone could help me mend this, it would be much appreciated. To stop this from happening at the moment, just wait until the "2k Games" logo appears, then press escape.

Very cool indeed! :goodjob:
Maybe try making the text a contrasting color because currently it is very hard to see.

I think we have a better version of the map with city names and some fixes but I am not sure if I am allowed to make it publically avaliable. Currrently it's only internal.

EDIT: Are you allowed to distribute Morrowinds main theme? :eek:

I will change the colour of the text - what do you think would be the best?

I'm almost certain the theme can be redistributed - it used to be available for download by anyone on the official Elder Scrolls site, before the TESV teaser site was put up - that's where that mp3 is from in the file. If it isn't redistributable, I'll remove it

That makes sense. :check:
I will leave it how it is.

EDIT: For the text maybe a marone like color would be good. I think it would look different enough from the map but wouldn't ruin the feel either.

I've attached two versions of a new logo, which are more along the lines of the logo in the banner. One's got a pale yellow border, the other a grey one; I can't decide which one would be better :|

Hi Zadama

These logos look pretty nice! I quite like the one on the left. It stands out more than the other one and doesn't look as depressing.

Perhaps you could improve the tribunal symbol as well. It doesn't look very clear.

Are you also going to add a background behind this banner?

I agree that the on the left is better.
It will stand out against the map more.

Here we are, an updated verson of the left logo, with a much bigger tribunal symbol.

Very nice :goodjob:

It turns out that I can't use that logo in the game, because of the Tribunal sign - Oblivion shrinks the logo down, making it unreadable. So, I decided to make this for the "Map loop" instead.

(Waits for people to look at the attachment)

This takes the place of the "Map loop". It has much more of a "Morrowind" feel to it I placed the banners of a few of the Great Houses where the text would be (Continue, New Game, etc), so that it is readable. The only problem here is that they are from the UESP, and I don't think they can actually be used because they are from Morrowind itself - if anyone could shed any light on this, i'd be grateful

The original map loop I made, with the camera moving from Silgrad City and past Steadhelm, now takes the place of the video where the camera zooms out from the Oblivion logo.