I’ve decided to publish the tileset as a modders’ resource:

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16560

Happy modding people! It’s been too long in the making, and now that it’s in a useable state I haven’t got any time to mod anymore. Still, I hope others can bring the Telvanni to Cyrodiil!

I’m pretty much done with the main architecture pieces, and after some great feedback from the community I’ve squashed many nasty meshes and UV maps. So now it’s time for some fun… here’s a WIP for an Enchanting Altar. I’m not sure that I love it, but it’s along the right lines… any input is gladly accepted of course!

EDIT: slightly updated to make the crystal/root interface a little more organic, and a shelf.

While I’m sure there will be loads of little issues to fix in the larger meshes, I felt it was definitely important to get some of the little things done. One thing I’ve done today is plant pots:

Not very illuminating I know – they aren’t any use out of context. But the other work of today was one of my favourite bits from Morrowind. Not a very large or impressive thing, but the little paper lanterns! Some brilliant textures have been appropriated borrowed with gratitude from the Khalazza Morrowind Visual Pack 2.11, which again states in the readme that the files can be used in mods. So, the lanterns:

I think these guys looks great!

Alrighty everyone… or rather, the eight or nine people who are interested in this project

Anyway that was a lot of rambling. Cheers for all the help guys!

Well the tileset is coming along nicely – it’s almost complete. One problem I have is doors, as I have no idea how to make them animate. I’ll be looking into this as my next priority.

Today’s work involved a small hall doorjamb, another door, a few more decorative bits and a lot of file renaming. No pics today, but I’ll perhaps do a roundup tomorrow.

Odds on there will be a better update later on, but I just had to show off Plangkye’s amazing internal door texture:

Lots of productivity today, when I probably should have been doing other things. Never mind eh. Yes I have for you lots of new screens! Here’s what today has been all about:

• Fixed some dodgy UVs
• Changed some textures around (more of Plangkye’s, less of mine)
• Fixed the hall ramp to align the floor
• Fixed or remade some dodgy collision meshes
• Made a new internal small spiral root
• Made supporting beams for “small” (256-high) rooms
• Made another turret variant
• and the best bits…
  • Made interiors for housepods, with optional stairs/mezzanine
  • Tall stairs, CW and CCW, for tall internal rooms or wherever you like

The stairs were the bit I really didn’t want to do – but I ate the frog and got on with them today. A whole batch of screenshots is right here.

Oh what a cool door texture! One of Plangkye’s, of course

More of Plangkye’s textures on the housepods

A new shot of the Tel Aryon town layout, just to show new textures really

Interiors of housepods, without and with optional mezzanine and stairs

Supports for small rooms

Stairs! They come in both CW and CCW flavours

  Decorative root… I used this one way too much in the TES3CS

So, enjoy, leave comments here, or in the thread on the official forums, or on the one at Oblivion’s Real Estate!

I just can’t make or find a suitable texture for the interior floors… y’know, the golden tiles. If anyone has any ideas where I can find one, or could make one themselves, please let me know!

Back at the computer after a week or so in London. I’ve been working out the logistics of working in Cambridge and living in London, which meant getting back on a bike for the first time in 10 years. All good fun! Then found a flat in north London, everything’s going swimmingly.

Err anyway, on to the Tel Aryon news. I’ve been tightening up a few meshes, but the main things I’ve been doing are the vertical levitation shafts, with ways to access them from the halls. These bits are really hard to screenshot ingame so I’ve grabbed a few from Nifskope – they might not mean much to some people, but you’ll surely recognise the pieces if you ever modded Telvanni in Morrowind.

  Vertical levitation shaft

Hall endcap

Ceiling cap, to fill in the top hole of the 6-way cross… don’t even know why I posted this one

  This is a 5-way cross, 4-way arches + one vertical entry

  This is the 6-way, as above but with a hole in the floor for vertical access

 Hope those mean something to somebody!

Having gotten a little bit annoyed with the alignment of some of the vertical shafts, I turned my attention to the small (single storey, 256 units high) interior tileset. The results are fine – see screens – not exactly new though, as all the textures are the same. Here we go though… really not that far off now from having a full interior tileset.

So I think here is a list of things left to do, interior-wise:

• Vertical levitation shafts, with appropriate hall connectors
• A closed end cap for the halls
• Housepod interiors, with two floors and stairs
• Stairs
• Support beams (roots)
• A couple of little extra bits like shelf fungus-like platforms etc

And possibly the large hallway tileset, which was very cool… in fact thinking about it, how could I leave it out?

So in fact I’m about half way with the interiors. Keep watching; progress is good. I also have a start date for my new job (a Media Relations Executive for the Royal Society of Chemistry) so I’m definitely aiming to finish (the tileset resources at least) by March 3rd.