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The Lost Isles

http://imageshack.us/a/img838/2926/cdnl.png http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcxhu_a40ec Summary The Lost Isles is an upcoming mod from Sam Vincent, the author of the highly anticipated Rochebere. It takes place in a small landmass, corrupt and barely habitable, which includes a voice-acted questline that can end in various ways depending on your choices. The Lost Isles is to be released before Rochebere, as it was created as a way of keeping followers of the larger mod faithful and entertained. Plot Stranded on the shores of a strange new world, you must find the key to escaping and finding a way to get home... But doing so may be harder than you think. Three corrupt leaders, living lives of luxury and wealth while their forces of darkness oppress the people of the Isles. Three men that need to die. Key Features -A small, interesting new landmass -A short but detailed questline -New armour sets, weapons and items -Outcomes based on the players' decisions -Establish your own settlement http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/4567/2d7i.png

Yes, the trailer will be here in about 3 hours, along with in-depth information about the project! Watch this space for information later.

A once great City http://imageshack.us/a/img21/5097/93qn.jpg

Not your average Tavern http://imageshack.us/a/img28/7401/2s0h.jpg

I've kind of drifted from YouTube to be honest over the past couple of months. The weekly videos were successful but there's no way I'd have time to make them with the schedule I've got at the moment. As for the the timelapses I just kind of... Haven't :p. But I may do them again someday.

Moorview Fort http://imageshack.us/a/img46/7392/tsz6.jpg

The Rebellion Begins http://imageshack.us/a/img35/7571/1um1.jpg

The Tower http://imageshack.us/a/img845/1903/r69r.jpg

Thanks for commenting guys! The other thing I'm doing that you may not be aware of it actually working on a smaller project for the time being that's going to be released before Rochebere to keep you entertained. Check the news so far here!

The Caverns of Sorrow http://imageshack.us/a/img829/9863/48bu.jpg

A strange New World http://imageshack.us/a/img36/6715/qar4.jpg

http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/7269/gdxu.png From the creator of the highly anticipated 'Rochebere', Sam Vincent, comes a brand new small-scale mystery project! Readers will get to see 7 days of mysterious screenshots leading up to the release of the announcement trailer at 12:00 PM on the 11th of January (UTC). I shan't be revealing any further details or information regarding the project until the official announcement, so get speculating! http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/4567/2d7i.png

Hey everyone! It's certainly been quite a while since I posted in the thread, so I'm just going to make a general response instead of replying to everyone individually. I'm still very busy at the moment but I have had a bit of extra time to work on the mod over the Christmas break, but other than that I don't really have much to report, progress is smooth. I'm hoping to get a lot of generic lines for less 'fleshed-out' NPC's to populate the city over the next few weeks, thanks to one of my voice-acting pals Elijah and his friends! I'm considering uploading a small video of the first 2-3 minutes of Rochebere gameplay as a little something to make it clear the mod is still alive, so let me know what you think about that. Happy New Year everyone! :)

Glad you're looking forward to Rochebere, hopefully I can deliver on your anticipation! Yeah, it's a bit of a bummer to be honest. I'm literally busy 7 days a week, but I still want to work on the mod as much as I did during the Summer! I can't make any promises on release date due to my busy schedule, but they say that time away makes the heart grow fonder... So hey, you might enjoy my mod more if you've not played Skyrim in ages! :P I'm glad this is the kind of thing you've been looking for! If you're looking for similar mods, then I could be a nice-guy and make a shout out to Luftahraan, which is a city mod in development by Archon Entertainment. Thanks for commenting! Excellent! It's good to hear people are still discovering my older work, and thus finding out about Rochebere. Thanks! :D

Well, I'm not going to reveal anything about the main quest-line, but in the city almost every class will find something for them. There are small groups that you can become members of, such as Algunthrr, which is a place for warriors and fighters, the Mages' Society for mages (obviously) and the archery range in the Manimmarko cantina basement. Glad you're exited for Rochebere! I would like to say that I did, but unfortunately my personal life leaves me with less than enough time I would like to work on the mod. I'm at college Monday to Friday, and have to do coursework most nights when I get in, and I also work Saturday and Sunday. So all 7 days of the week are taken, and I obviously have to find social time as well. But fear not, whenever time is available, you can be certain I'm working on the mod! In response to your second question I would say that about 80/90% of the exterior worldspace design is done (i.e. All of the city areas, and the countryside) which has been a mammoth of a task I can tell you. The interiors are probably about 50% done, but most of the outstanding ones that need to be done are houses, which I created a template for so they can be made quickly. After all of the level design is completely done I will go full throttle on the main quest-line. Everything is planned, and I have all the voice acting lines, so it's literally just a matter of adding all that stuff in. Side quests will be done after this- Similarly I've planned most of them so it's just a matter of actually implementing them when all of the level design is complete. The last thing will then be to make sure I have enough NPC's to fill the city that aren't bog-standard and generic.

It was my pleasure! No DLC's are required. As long as you have a legitimate copy of Skyrim with the latest update then you're good to go. Good to know, can't wait for it to hit the net...I do have one question...how do you guys make your signatures like make the word "youtube" or a picture take you to a link? Edit: Never mind, I figured it out but I don't think my way was the easiest way to do it. Just search BBcode on Google and look at the Wikipedia page, you can get information on how to do all kinds of web formatting stuff.

Hey everyone! It's been a pretty long time since I last made any news on Rochebere hasn't it? Well thankfully I can assure you I am still working on the mod to the best of my abilities. Now that the Summer is over I'm back to college 5 days a week and working both Saturday and Sunday, so free time is a bit of an issue, but nevertheless you'll be pleased to hear that most of my free time that isn't being used for my social life or to do coursework outside of college is going into Rochebere. The first thing I'll let you know about in this post is the custom music of Rochebere. Last year I spoke to composer Jacob Lake who organised some music for me to use in the mod. These tracks encompassed the main city regions; the Central, Residential and Outskirts' districts. In August this year I began collaborating with León van der Stadt, who also composed the music for the popular mods 'Wyrmstooth' and 'Undeath', to bring music to the rest of Rochebere. This includes combat and exploration music, as well as unique tracks for each and every Dungeon, Tavern and Landmark. Pretty cool, right? Secondly, I've decided to reveal something rather special to all you due to my long absence from the thread. Below are two pictures of the map of Rochebere Valley, one being a lore-friendly map texture that is used in the mod itself, and the other a screenshot of the custom world map. I've put the images as spoilers since I have a feeling quite a few people may want to wait and experience this first hand. It's entirely opinion based as to whether or not you want to view the pictures, I won't judge you on your choice, honest! Rochebere Valley lore-friendly map Rochebere Valley in-game world map Thanks for reading everyone, hopefully it won't be this long until the next update! No DLC's are required. As long as you have a legitimate copy of Skyrim with the latest update then you're good to go.

Yeah I'm still working on this, albeit slowly with work, college and real life going on, but yeah it's still very much alive. Brodual will be getting the early copy which I plan to have to them by the end of the month, so keep your eyes peeled on their channel for that! I don't really have a release frame, sorry! This is one of those 'it will be done when it's done' kind of projects. Rochebere will definitely be on the Nexus, and maybe ModDB as well, but if I don't upload it there then it will be a Nexus exclusive. I don't think I'll be able to upload it to the workshop due to the size of the mod, not to mention the fact that I've never really likes using the workshop. Just my personal opinion of course though! Well in terms of geography Rochebere Valley is located on the borders of Skyrim, Cyrodiil and Hammerfell, but in the technical side of things, it is in a completely separate worldspace with a custom map like the ones you've seen with Solstheim, Falskaar and Wyrmstooth. Oh, and I actually made the propaganda posters myself, so there's no resource for them! ;)

This looks like a promising mod, so well done! I saw the thread when it was new but fogot to leave a comment for some reason or another, but I just saw the page again and thought I'd come check up on things and see how you're doing. It would be interesting to see some newer screenshots or maybe a video of what you've made so far since the earlier screenshots we saw. I'd particularly like to see how the player castle you mentioned is coming along, it sounds great! Also, if you ever need help with any issues you have, just give me a shout! I know only too well how it feels to suddenly have a lack of time to mod, since I had loads of spare time during the Summer to put into modding, but now I'm back to college, and back to work again over the weekends to get the money that I need. But enough of my rambling, the addition of a quest that explains the lore a little bit sounds good. You could consider using a voice-actor to record the lines for you, since it can make even very simple quests seem really professional!

I've recently been having a very annoying bug with the main custom worldspace in my mod. In short, save games made there can't be loaded from the Skyrim menu (Where the continue, new game, load, credits etc. are). However, if the player loads the save the was made in the worldspace from somewhere else in game, such as an interior or Skyrim, it will load fine. Similarly, the game still loads the worldspace fine when going from an interior out into the exterior world without any issues. So basically, saves made inside the worldspace can't be loaded from the main menu; I get presented with an infinite loading screen and the save never loads. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

I've deduced that the problem is something to do with the LOD (which I've never had a problem with before). All of a sudden, the worldspace only loads directly from the menu if there is no LOD, or if there is only one type if LOD (I.e. statics or land). I think I've managed to sort out this problem now. It still seems a little bit temperamental, but I guess I'll know for sure when I have people testing the mod. Awesome, glad my work caught your attention! The new areas the mod adds would be far to large to add anywhere in the vanilla Skyrim map and actually look right. Rochebere Valley, where the mod takes place, is in it's own worldspace with a custom World Map and LOD etc.

I've deduced that the problem is something to do with the LOD (which I've never had a problem with before). All of a sudden, the worldspace only loads directly from the menu if there is no LOD, or if there is only one type if LOD (I.e. statics or land).

Thank you! Glad you liked the trailer! No ideas on release date, sorry. Whenever I set a timeframe either something goes wrong or I don't have enough time, so it's just a case of 'whenever it's done'. In actual fact I've spent 2 days trying to sort out a game-breaking bug with the main wilderness worldspace of the mod, where you cannot load within it, you must load into another save, then load into the save in Rochebere. If you try and load there from the menu directly all you get to see is an infinite loading screen. :(

Thanks for pointing me there, it looks like the right code! Unfortunately I don't really want my mod to be SKSE dependent since I don't want it to have any requirements (except Skyrim ofc). Thanks anyway!