jonesjoshuar Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 I have been modding for myself for sometime now. (I mod more than i play) I have kinda had a pet project for over the last year. Just for a bit of history on that: It started out as a simple castle home for a character of mine. Well I did not like the castle textures. So did some retexturing and remapping of textures in neat ways (i think). I got the exterior pretty much done minus a few door links and minor adjustments. Looked good. Crap doesnt match the interior. So i did the same thing on interiors. A beautiful castle. Towers. Defenses. Amazing imo. Well as i get more done i decide to do a little more here and there. Expand this. Add that. Develope a back story. add a castle square. I Keep adding a lot. As i said, a pet project. I like modding more than playing. I started adding different interiors to the castle. Fighters guild. Mages Guild. Three levels of Living Quarters. Huge Library. Throne Room. Cool Grand Entry. Palace levels. Bloodguard Barracks (an elite guard). Pool. Hostpital. Alchemy. Thats just what i have done so far. (its a big castle) Keep in mind that the scale...is kinda grand. Court(in progress). Dungeon. Treasury. Courtyard shops/inn.retexured some weapons and currently retexturing armor for the bloodguard. Okay so thats what is going on. While I have done all this work. I have added somethings that were not my own that i liked. Some armors, weapons. I seperately added in ingredient jars from the armory mod. There is a prefilled bookcase that i partially retextured. Those sorts of things. I have not an exact list at the moment and i did not keep one because i did not plan to release this. However, if there is interest in something like this i will. U should note that i have not seen any pc homes like this. Next time i play test my mod, i will take screens and post those. some tid bits about if i were to post it now.1. The player home aspect of it is completely done. Plenty of storage and displays. Retxtured and interestingly applied to the home theme.2. not all doors lead to places. 3. There are only a couple of NPCs. Not "fully functional". If they suppose to sell something they may or may not.4. As i said, i mod more than i play. I have not play tested every part of it.5. I know c++ but have not started very many scripts for the home. Most of them are small generics. Maybe some testing ones.6. This castle will hold secrets. Something that may not be added until later. Passage ways and other unique way of hidding things. I am unsure of the effect on saved games obviously.7. No quests or anything yet. (hey im not even finished with the interior)8. Good note: Despite the size, Im developing a "mass transit" to quickly get to key points of the home for simplicity sake.9. In even in the areas that are "done", may need tweeking of some sort.10. Yes, the treasury will be filled with very unique treasury. I am even contemplating breaking 3ds max to make some. If there is interest, so what you think. I do not care either way. I just think its too awesome to keep myself. Have suggestions...say something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonesjoshuar Posted February 7, 2009 Author Share Posted February 7, 2009 Just keep this as a place holder for screens. Which i will go work on now. http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/AlchemyGarden.jpghttp://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/WelkiSwords.jpghttp://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/ViewoftheCourtyard.jpghttp://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/Thrones.jpghttp://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/Throneroom3.jpghttp://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/Throneroom2.jpghttp://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/Throneroom1.jpghttp://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/Tapestries2.jpghttp://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/Tapestries1.jpghttp://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/Pool.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonesjoshuar Posted February 7, 2009 Author Share Posted February 7, 2009 http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/AlchemyGarden2.jpghttp://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/AlchemyLab.jpghttp://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/Bedroom.jpghttp://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/ControlBoard.jpghttp://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/CourtyardEntrance.jpghttp://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/CourtyardOblesk.jpghttp://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/Den.jpghttp://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/FightersGuild.jpghttp://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/GateKeep.jpghttp://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/GlimmeringCastle.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonesjoshuar Posted February 7, 2009 Author Share Posted February 7, 2009 http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/GrandEntranceStatue.jpghttp://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/GrandEntranceStatue2.jpghttp://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/HighView.jpghttp://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/HotTub.jpghttp://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/Library1.jpghttp://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/Library2.jpghttp://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/LowerBedroom.jpghttp://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/Magesguild.jpghttp://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/MorrowindPaintings.jpghttp://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq312/voltron81_photos/Newpaintingsanddisplays.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wander Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 This is really starting to look great! You have put alot of work into it, and I congratulate you for that! I would be very interested in having this as my very own! Amazing job sir! :banana: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eshenaleros Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 *Eyepop, Jawdrop, and crap one's self at the awesomeness* ...wow. I WANT IT! this is simply incredible! Biggest thing ever, and this would go onto the top 100 very quickly. Worlds largest castle? sweet. as far as the travel thing to get to key points of the castle, you could do a fast travel location thing for a big part of each area. tat way you don't have to do any new and weird thing like make a train or something (just a suggestion. if you like modding so much, it may be more enjoyable to do this) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonesjoshuar Posted February 8, 2009 Author Share Posted February 8, 2009 as far as the travel thing to get to key points of the castle, you could do a fast travel location thing for a big part of each area. tat way you don't have to do any new and weird thing like make a train or something (just a suggestion. if you like modding so much, it may be more enjoyable to do this) As far as the "mass transit" thing. I should of said "fast transit". I try to stay close to Oblivion Lore as I can. The fast transit is a series of portals to other portals. So if you wanna drop of ingredients in the alchemy tower you don't have to track through 15 cells to do it. So a 5 minute home run can be done in a couple minutes. Ups the convenience without losing the grandeur. I would like to get the interiors done in at least the castle, before i release it. I am close to that point now. From taking screens i seen a few errors that i have to correct too. I also still have the gate keep to do but that should not take long.Also something else i am throwing out there. Where should I put the portal to the "glimmering castle" at? Its just in a testing spot right now. As far as the glimmering castle lore hits the story line it should not be in the IC. This was a place they were going to take the emperor to be safe. I thought around the alyied ruins there but I am unsure. Keep in mind I want to keep convenience in this but i don't want a portal sitting outside the imperial sewers either. A fast travel location would be good or can be created. So if someone has a good idea i will see if it fits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon445 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Wow, that is really all I can say. At this point, I am not a modder, just someone that uses mods, and that, right there, is the Mod that I want, at this time, and I have downloaded and walked through probably 10 different castles, basically every castle on oblivionsrealestate.com, that one, by far looks the best, you are doing absolutely wonderful, and I am eager to see a beta, or even the finished project in the future. Simon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dezdimona Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 It is a beautiful piece of work.I can see that much thought went into it.You are to be congratulated on creating a wonderful residense for the game...kudo"s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdamstrom Posted February 14, 2009 Share Posted February 14, 2009 Hi, I am working on a mod called ExtremeCompanion, yes another Companion mod. what makes this moddifferent from the others is their ability to move into a castle like this and take it over. not just standing around but actually living there. to make this castle Companion friendly they would need lot of bed spacecause I like to have a lot of them around. with three levels of Living Quarters it seems like there shouldbe plenty to go around and a pool to boot .they could add alot of eye candy to a place like this.any posibiltyof a bathroom with a usable tub? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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