map expanding again

[Riverter Rose]

its a simple question..... ya see the map in the "in game" menu? the one that lets u fast travel ect ect..... what im asking is, how can i expand that map? not enlarge, but expand..... in other words.... go to all of the borders.... im pretty sure they aren't all there... so my next question is.... how can i draw them onto the map?....ya know how people color the fast travel map? what about drawing onto it?... can it be done?... ive found some really neat landcapes behind all of the borders and when i go to my map to see how far i am behind the line, i can't even see my arrow anymore.....

 

ANY help is appreciated

 

NEXT question (hopefully the last)

 

im making a small.... eh tomb if u will.... its simple, i want to make an NPC lay down like vampires do (hands across the chest) on a stone slab (much like the one in the DB santuary).... how can i do this?

 

p.s. this may cause problems but, the resting place is underwater.... so i guess it'll be hard since the NPC will want to float...

 

any help on these two subjects (especially the first) is appreciated

 

 

thankyou in advance

[Vagrant0]

I'm not sure how the map thing works, I would suspect that most people around here don't either. I know that the image is just a .dds file, and most of the edited maps are just alterations of that .dds file. I don't however know what process is used to decide what is and what is not on the map, or why your arrow doesn't show.

 

As for your sleeping question. The sleeping animation is restricted to vampires only by default. You'd have to create a new idle pointing to that .kf with the conditions pointing to your NPC to make it work on them. This however wouldn't work too well since the whole thing is underwater, so there would likely be some sort of conflict. Anyway, I don't know how many people (even those with gills) would want to sleep underwater. It's always cold and wet, why do you think fish grew legs and took to the land? Why do you think the people of Atlantis always have some big domed city to keep the water out?

[Riverter Rose]

thx for the hint with the map file, so i have another question..

 

but about the sleeping guy... ehh well how can i explain it?.... ive decided to make a room that is dry jsut for him... but the reason i want the vampire sleep is i want him to appear dead... and ya know how dead people always have their arms across their chest.... so i dont ever want him to wake up... until the quest-making is done of course..

 

anyway.. about the dds files...... eh how can i unpack those? as well as nif and whatnot... i understand people run them through special programs to do things like change the textures of armor wweapons ect and whatnot... so what kinda program do i need so i can open that file and alter it?

 

thanks in advance