Gladt Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 I have no experience of modding whatsoever, so i ask all of you great modders to please help me. I don't know if this is a complicated request or an easy one, but i'd love to see a mod that gives you nothing but a blank, old looking map to start with. As you explore the map would be drawn, as in most RPG open world games. There would not be any markers, allthough you would be able to add your own notifications to the map. I really hope one of you guys/girls will be able to do this for me. If so, i'd be very greatful. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Brasher Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 This request is fairly impossible due to the way the Oblivion game engine is structured. Certain things are hardcoded and not really modable. The world map is a .dds. It is an image much like a photograph. Once you click the button on the camara, you have this image, and it will stay that way and cannot change. It can change if you work it over with GIMP, or you can replace it by downloading a mod to give you a colored map, or antique map, or map showing extra roads or provinces, but you have to exit Oblivion and do some non-immersive mod-installer or mod-builder work to make your map look different. I think there are mods in existence that let you add your own map-markers in-game. An easy mod idea would be to replace the vanilla Oblivion Cyrodiil map with an image of blank parchment. Then whenever you found places, the markers would show up on your otherwise-blank map. It still would not show roads and mountains and such, but as you found more and more places, the explored world would get larger and larger on your map. You could also couple this with the optional mod in Adventurers Oblivion which hides the city map markers until you have discovered them. I suppose you could build a whole bunch of different .dds maps of Cyrodiil with different areas blanked out, but there would have to be a whole bunch of them to meet lots of different scenarios, and you would have to exit Oblivion to install a new one when it was most appropriate for your game. I may be wrong, but I do not know of a way to dynamically change textures while playing Oblivion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Telyn Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 It sounds like you want a fog of war feature.Kyoma got something like that working on a mini-map HUD element, but that's probably not going to be what you want. Just in case, it's here:http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=26220 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladt Posted July 16, 2011 Author Share Posted July 16, 2011 Thank both of you for your replies. And yes, s fog of war-like mod is what i'm looking for(= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forli Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 (edited) It sounds like you want a fog of war feature.Kyoma got something like that working on a mini-map HUD element, but that's probably not going to be what you want. Just in case, it's here:http://www.tesnexus....le.php?id=26220No, Minimap HUD only add a minimap (as the name says) on your HUD.It doesn't change your map, neither it cover it with fog of war.(Actually it doesn't even support fog of war in the local minimap) Anyway it's a great mod you should try Edited July 18, 2011 by forli Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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