my dream mod

[jon572735144]

So i have this idea for a mod that i would like to build.. however at the curent time i am at way to low of a skill level to acomplish it i have just started learning how to mod but i plan on working on this idea over the next few years. its a epic mod and would add 20 to 30 plus hours of play to the game. 4 epic boss battles and 1 ultama weapon.... thats right ultama weapon from the FF games. now this is my idea

 

i would add several new land masses to the game in the form of sky islands. some where around 16 plus islands floting threw the skys of oblivion witch would house 2 compleat towns (not to big but of avrage size) where you would find the start of your quests to obtain the ultama weapon the rest of the islands would be dungeons of varius difficalty. 4 of witch would hold the primary boss battles... the boses would be who othere then the ultama weapon ruby weapon dimond weapon and the final boss omega weapon of course i would need help with the making of the bosses. i would want them to be very large and extreamly tough im talking 10 mill hit points with omega toped of at 60 mill i would want the battles to take at least 2 hours. and also i would want to make it imposible to beat them with any normal weapon. so after a bit of thought it acured to me that this would be easy do to the fact that you cant repair armor or weapons during battle so normal weapons would break long befor the bosses would die. so i would like to make the ultama sword idustructable i would also like to throw in some ultama equipmint also idustructable. now the sword would be grosly overpowered for normal game play but desined to acualy have a good impact on the bosses. (after all choping away at 60 million hit points ant easy) now the you wouldent just start the quest and wala you have this amazingly powerful sword. that would be no fun. so i was thinking that you have to unlock the swords true power like in ff X. you start your quest battle threw a tough dungeon and finaly get the ultama sword. after obtaining the sword you are forced to face off aginced ultama weapon the first super boss (and the sword is just powerful enough at this point to kill ultama after a legthy battle)

next you are tasked to hunt down sigel stones witch must be combined with the ultama sword to unlock its true power. after a legthy quest you find the first stone uping the swords power. and then your forced to battle dimond weapon then the next stone and ruby weapon after you have unlocked the full power of the sword you are tasked with eliminting Omega weapon threw a battle that would span at least 2 to 3 hours. some where in there you would also need to find the equipment. and there would be mini quests to do inorder to get to the main guests.

upon compleating the main quest you would have as your prize a extreamly powerful sword and maybe a new house/castal

 

this is just a quick overview of what i would want to do and i realize the coplexity of somthing this scale on my own i would be looking at 2 plus years of continus moding. and in reality would most likly never finish the project but i am hopeing to enlist the help of other moders to help with the building of land, bosses and texturs for armor and the sword as well as other things. this is just somthing that i think would be very fun and cool. I feel that oblivion is a great game but it lacks the excitment of a truely epic amazing battle a boss that of the likes of witch none have ever seen. a boss that even on easy setting is far from easy a boss that should probubly not be atemted till your in the uper 60s or higher.....

 

any way at the moment its just a idea and im just looking for some feedback to see what everyone thinks is it a cool idea is it even posible and any advise, tips or ideas to expand on it. or what ever other thoughts you may have on the topic...

 

thanks :biggrin:

[jonesjoshuar]

i would add several new land masses to the game in the form of sky islands. some where around 16 plus islands floting threw the skys of oblivion witch would house 2 compleat towns

 

Especially when you first start modding, you should start small. This idea has every sign of fading off. You will also find that alot of it you will not be able to do. however, do not let that discourage you. If its what you want go for it!

 

A problem that could arise FPS. With it being above tamerial, you are still running the cells loaded under the sky islands. This, for something you will not see, is a waste of processor power and memory. I would set in another worldspace. That is just me though.

 

Doing towns, even small ones, is a pretty hard endevour. I am doing a city now that is at least the size of Anvil, probably bigger. Just doing the interior and clutterwork is time consuming. Then you have npcs and ai packages. Path points and more. There is alot that goes into even a small town to make it come alive.

 

It also sounds like you have modelling to do. Modelling is even more time consuming and often frustrating.

 

There will be scripting to do and that, as any one will tell you, will make you want to pull your hair out. There are a ton more things as well that i have not got into yet like dialogues. Still not very strong on that, as i have barely made attempts at it.

 

I do not say all of this to put you down, to nay-say, or to discourage. It helps to realize what your in for when walking into it. I would love to see this mod a reality. The best way to learn is to jump in and do it. Use the wiki:

 

http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/Main_Page

 

I booked mark it especially the list of functions for scripting. Do searches in it and usually you will find something in there as an answer, if not there is always vagrant0 ;) Seriously, though, good luck and I hope your able to accomplish this.

[jon572735144]

yea i realize the shear scale of somthing like this its leatraly years of work on my own. but im hoping if i do try to do it i can find some help with the parts im just not able to do on my own such as scripting building and texturing the 4 bosses. like i sead though its only a idea at the moment im still palying with the CS and have a long way to go befor i can do somthing of this calibure. and im planing on starting small maybe just the sword first in a chest somewhere. ill try to do the textures for it myself and see how i do then just build on it. also i like the idea of a new world space i would hate to have this super mod that looks great but is a pain in the hoohaa to play cuz it just lages everyones pc to much. so maybe ill add a small village in the tam world space that you get the quest from after witch you have to go to a small floating island just big enough for a portal to the new world space. also i understand that your not a naysayer you gave me just what i asked for some good ideas of what i would be up aginst and some good feedback

 

:thanks: