Another Kind of Book Mod

[dreamer2008]

Since it first appeared Oblivion amazed me with it's beautiful nature graphics, and from the start I thought how nice it would be for you to have the possibility to stay in your nice camp at the fire at night or just lay on a field on a bright sunny day in the middle of a nice forest near a beautiful waterfall and read a nice oblivion book. But the reading system in Oblivion is really boring, the book covers the whole screen and the small part of the environment that you can barely see just freezes. So I thought that maybe a nice idea for a mod would be to have the possibility to read real time, to actually have a book in your hands when you start to read and for it to be a little smaller to be able to see the nature around you.

[nosisab]

Since it first appeared Oblivion amazed me with it's beautiful nature graphics, and from the start I thought how nice it would be for you to have the possibility to stay in your nice camp at the fire at night or just lay on a field on a bright sunny day in the middle of a nice forest near a beautiful waterfall and read a nice oblivion book. But the reading system in Oblivion is really boring, the book covers the whole screen and the small part of the environment that you can barely see just freezes. So I thought that maybe a nice idea for a mod would be to have the possibility to read real time, to actually have a book in your hands when you start to read and for it to be a little smaller to be able to see the nature around you.

 

I like this idea, I swear I have thought it aways I had to wait some temporized event to occurs (such as the Quill weaver quest, Glarthir, just to number some of then), for this would be the ideal moment to read those books and they having a real opportunity and reason to being read :) (and keeping the rest option available, of course).

 

I don't know how or if it can be made, but i love it.

[Minameisearl]

i always thought that reading books could restore your magika or something. i know a select few books raise stats, but other than that i dont read books unless some quest requires me to

[nosisab]

i always thought that reading books could restore your magika or something. i know a select few books raise stats, but other than that i dont read books unless some quest requires me to

 

Those books are fascinating, even when not directly related to Cyrodiil. For example you have a series of books telling the history of Barenziah by the 'official' point of view .... and have another, yet longer, named 'The real Barenziah' that tells a totally different version ... one far more credible and human (or would be dunmer? or...) ahh, you understand :)

 

The authoress of the several city guides have a somewhat 'religious' vision and will judge anything by this optic... (i ever though her name Casta Scribonia very fitting)

[Vagrant0]

As interesting as it might be, the processes which control how reading is done in game are hard coded and cannot be changed. There was a mod at one time that allowed time to still "pass" while in menumode, but that was limited to only changing the actual time, not anything else like NPC positions, or anything important like that. The only other way of getting around this would be to script each book individually to display the lines of the book in messages one after another, but this would hardly be a good way of actually reading anything, and would require far too much effort. You would probably also need OBSE to get around the script length limits. You couldn't even accomplish this from a pure 3d object and animation point of view since there aren't any systems that would allow turning of a page, Nevermind the vast amount of work it would take to prepare all the models and animations for it.

[dreamer2008]

Too bad it can't be made. It really would have enhanced the game experience.

[Vagrant0]

Too bad it can't be made. It really would have enhanced the game experience.

You could always just keep a book by you next to the computer, and instead of using the wait action to pass time, just find a place to sit down, and pick up your book, looking up occasionally to see what time it is.