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X23
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I think the heightmap shouldn't be built to Oblivion's scale, since it would be too small. We should build it to like almost Daggerfalls scale, an dthat wouldn't be super hard because of the way heightmaps work, you just need a heightmapper. I don't know how hard it is to build heightmaps, but its easier and faster than editing all the land by hand like you had to do in TES 3.

Just discuss everything about the heightmap here, like who will do it etc
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well i'm going to learn to do it with a little help from DA.

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Daggerfall is the size of britain.... The oblivion engine cannot LOAD all of that data.

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Since most of the progects are going biger than the ob scale I will too, but still its not going to be that big.

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Good plan. Coast areas are the hardest to do.

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Ok thanks.

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I like ghostruler's idea; start off with the islands closest to Tamriel, then work your way inland.

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You still need to grid it all out or else you will have to start over many times.

And can you do much with the islands, rather than have them be a hodgepodge of ideas, shouldn't they compliment the rest of the island, rather than the other way around?

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ID: I ment once we have the whole area done.
DA: You mean map the whole thing out then start working on idividual areas.

Can you restate that?

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Yes, but also because of the grid format, you need to know where every quad is going to go and exactly what size you want it to be. ISlands can't be made with generators, so they are the hardest.

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Well, I think the smaller islands should be different from the mainland... To give a little variety in terrain... Cliffs on this one, jungles on another...

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Sload on another : )

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Yea well unless lore states other wise.

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Yes, but also because of the grid format, you need to know where every quad is going to go and exactly what size you want it to be. ISlands can't be made with generators, so they are the hardest.


Ah good, that we need actual artists to work on the islands to make them memorable... I don't like the computer-generated landscapes.

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It does state otherwise. There are no sload settlements, there maybe a fat old slimey one living in a cave deep underground, but apart from that the sload do not live in the summerset Isles. Also I would like to state that the tropical elves from pydromea(sp) do not live in the summerset Isles either.

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Do you think Summerset has a lot of varied terrain on different isles? It'd be nice to see where we can go with that.

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We could have a teaser mod with a bunch of the isles with cities and caves on them (I hate making caves in Oblivion).

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(I hate making caves in Oblivion).


Ever since you learned about the rotation thing? Wink I know what you mean.

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