WIP - The Companion friendly Hobbit Home

[Pellape]

Nice Oblivionaddicted. @Mishkax: I am not good in making worlds, if you mean the World Spaces or Landscape editing. :) But you sure should make something cool for your new race as they must come from somewhere.

[Pellape]

The Dwemer where amazing. Just look at what they invented, Nice lightning for the book worms and I did happen to find it somewhere... :wink:

The light doesn't seems to have any impact on performance really and the radius is only 200 but having it turning on and off by auto, both by the player and all those that are friends to the Hobbit home, all that are added to the Database, will be striking I hope. I will check for each distance between the lamps and the members of the house with a quest script that will run ones every second. I guess a distance of 300 will be good and it does not matter if the neighbor lamps lights up and the coolest thing might be if we run pass them, the light will maybe flow like water in a stream, I hope.

 

Here we see 2 active lamps and 2 static ones. They do not light up to bright, but as much as it makes a difference for the book worm using that specific seat.

Edited March 9, 2021 by Pellape

[Pellape]

So what is happening? I have been in my apartment for 5 days and I turned off Internet there as I am not there so often anyway. So I put some stuff on a USB and tried them out, patching my current patch and brought the USB back.

 

Well I am doing mostly boring stuff at the moment. Placing invisible books at the shelves, making them persistent and giving them Reference names. You will never get in direct contact with the books, hopefully. Do a TCL and get a book and you will ruin the scripts and I will also stop my looting spells to work down here as I used it by mistake ones, sucked up all books close to me into the inventory and that should stop. It is extremely boring doing this, so I do approx 32 books a day until I get tired of it but one day, they all will be placed and then I can create the quests.

[Oblivionaddicted]

What's your purpose with the invisible books?

 

Why don't you use static objects instead of invisible books to prevent the loot spell from messing the shelves?

Edited March 25, 2021 by Oblivionaddicted

[Pellape]

Well I was thinking about making them static, removing the collisions as well, but that is a bloody tedious work really. When I made my first station for collectibles, the Iron weapons and armor section, I made a long sword static and removed the collision as well, but then I thought. The mod is already big. I should try to avoid adding more stuff but more paintings will be added anyway so the size will grow, no matter what I do. ;)

 

It is easier to remove the possibility to use the looting spell in the Hobbit Home really as it shouldn't be used there really. When I made the portal spell that adds a marker where you teleport from has such a check as well as you cannot use it inside the home as well. The reason I prevent it is that if you have it active at home and want to go back to where you came from, you cast that spell by mistake and loose that marker as it is now moved to your house. I did that ones and got a bit pissed really at myself so I added that simple check... ;)

 

When the Ogres attacked the library, I used the looting spell, sucked up 50 books or so, so I had to reload a save. I did lure the Ogres in from Hrota Cave to see if they where able to follow, and they where. :) Normally you shouldn't be able to get in direct contact with the books at the shelves, so it shouldn't be a problem to let them be as they are and the other big problem is if someone uses a book replacer mod, which I do, the Book Jackets, you will only see the original books or the textures that are applied at the static mesh, nothing else, so it is not easy to get such a solution to work with replacers but I could do it with a lot of coding. The original books are ugly after all and the book jackets mod changes that completely. ;) As the original textures varieties are limited, you cannot simply make a simple texture replacer for books, It is impossible.

[Pellape]

I was hoping to avoid editing books as I do know how long time it takes, but I cannot stand the original books, even if someone made COBL Book jackets, he only did a few books and I do understand why and I cannot say that I will complete it but I can at least try, well I have to try. The original covers are at top in this full light CS screenie compilation.

 

The Alchemy book is so tiny, I made that texture 256 x 256 and the book about the Redguard Mage Ezra is 512 x 512. I could resize all the tiny books in the shelf as all books are scaled 1.0

 

All textures will be based on my own Morrowind screenshots and the backgrounds will be taken from Textures.com as they allow us to use them in 3D and in games. This will be a separate release, as I will not force anyone to use it together with Hobbit Home as if you like the original books, then use them as they are or use the unfinished COBL Book Jackets or make your own... :wink:

 

When it comes to suitable book covers, some books are easy to make and others might be a pure hell, depending on the subject as I will read every book and hopefully a vision will pop up in my mind how to make the book cover. I did spent 1 hour today in Morrowind and Morrowind CS as well as I had to make Ezra, well I copied an enemy healer, edited the AI to make him friendly enough to be able to take a proper screenshot. :wink:

 

I was also lucky to get screenies of both moons later when I came out from that shrine as the Ezra story is about how the 2 moons and his torch makes so many shadows of himself, which gives him odd ideas. The 2 moons are placed at the side of the cover, well with the moon textures i did choose to have when playing Morrowind. ;)

 

The cover for the alchemy books is screenshots from my house outside Suran, my Alchemy sorting station there, one of 9 shelves filled with jars and grand master alchemy tools and also a skooma pipe at the side cover that I placed in game as clutter at the station.

 

The COBL books are mainly from Morrowind but also from the other games so therefor I will most likely only use screenshots from Morrowind, but it all depends on the book subject of course. Books I will not include in any mod are those that are out of character (OOC), like the book with console codes and books about COBL.

 

So how long time will it take to make all new covers? I guess several months really or more but I feel I have all time in the world really. No rush needed.

Edited March 28, 2021 by Pellape

[Pellape]

So hows it going with the COBL Book Jackets? Well slowly forward, first I did 1 per day as I had to remake some UV at some books with Blender but I made 3 each day now the 2 last days. I try to make them as true to the subject as possible in my own style that I used now for since Morrowind, well at least for 16 years. I do like colors... :wink:

1. History of Anvil & Piracy
2. Art of War Magic II
3. Basics of Telvanni Construction
4. Cost of the Akaviri Invasion
5. Defense of Morrowind I
6. Hands of Almalexia
7. Imperial Navy
8. Khajiit Trophy Hunting

 

The last book was a fun to read, well they all are really but it seems that specific book was written by someone involved in COBL I guess, as I cannot find it online. It is called: Khajiit Trophy Hunting and is about Imperials hunting Khajit's for sport and trophies. The anonymous author also writes in that book that he will make a similar book later, during the next spring for Argonians as well. :wink:

Edited April 2, 2021 by Pellape

[Pellape]

I added a list of the titles to the previous message, otherwise the screenies maybe doesn't make sence as anonymous covers.

 

Why did I use the same ship for 2 books? Well, that ship is one of the only available in Oblivion with sails up and it fits in both the cost of the Akaviri invation and the Imperial Navy, where that navy now is but most likely lost in the Akaviri region as so few ships are to be found in game. I could add a couple of ships somewhere, making my own bloody fleet... :wink: That angle was the best angle I could find when I tried to make the screenshot and the time went on and the light where changing...

Edited April 2, 2021 by Pellape

[Pellape]

I have been taking a modding break but I started again yesterday to edit some books and plan to edit at least one every day so I get somewhere.

• Master's Alchemy I
• Minerals of Morrowind
• War in Tamriel I
• Affairs of Wizards
• Alik'r (Screenshots from Daggerfall Unity)
• Ancestors and the Dunmer (My fav cover so far)
• Ancient Tales Dwe 1-11
• Anticipations

Edited May 8, 2021 by Pellape

[Oblivionaddicted]

Nice.