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Mapping Vvardenfell


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I am a product of the old RPG computer games. That means that I spent hours mapping the relatively small worlds of the SSI (Advanced D&D) and Ultima games. Of course, without all the fine mapping toolls that we are provided with in modern games, this meant working with a grid and recording each tile as it was discovered in the game.

 

I have done a similar mapping of Vvardenfell, but used the built in map. What I mean to say is that I have tried to cover every area in the World Map screen so that it all shows up as having been visited. This took several hours (tens of hours) of game time and it was not always an interesting task (A lot of those areas that you don't have to vist really aren't worth visiting!). I imagine many have accomplished this.

 

However, now I am working on my third game and plan to do something a little different. Even though I visited every square of the world map, there were wide expanses that were still shaded black on the local map. I have decided to try to completely expose the entire local map. That means covering every area so that none of the shadowing remains. I doubt that I will have the patience, but we shall see. The question is: has anyone ever done this?

 

Another question is: After having done this, has anyone ever tried to transfer the game map to paper to get a complete detailed map of the area? Is there some way to print out screens from the map? [The question that I do not ask is why any idiot would want to do that, but that would be self incriminating!]

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I'm looking at it right now, Wolron. The strategy guide for the game (The Morrowind Prophecies) reveals the entire local and world maps. And it is numbered where any place of any importance is. They may have done it from the editor, but I don't really think it looks like they did. It is, in all technicality, local map squares pieced together to form an area map, like that of Vivec, or the area around Balmora, including Hla Oad, etc. But that means somebody, or several somebodies, had to have done it.

 

Peace.

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Ah yes, the delights of Serpent Isle on multiple sheets of graph paper. Makes us a bit sad Wolron, I reckon! And yes, I have by means of constant levitation completely visited all of the Morrowind land mass and immediate coastal area and also Solstheim so that no single bit of shading remains. I still have the game saved but have done nothing with it.
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I had an enchanter do me a constant enchantment on an exquisite amulet. But if it's purely for exploration there may well be a cheat. I remember seeing a thread about flying. (I have said before levitating over Solstheim, even when playing the game, has considerable merits!)
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