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Hi, I am a long time Elder Scrolls gamer and modder. I love sandbox style video games and modding. I love modding because it allows me to be creative in an interactive invironment, and basically live through a story of my own creation. I've played Daggerfall, played and modded TESIII, and now here I present some of my TESIV mods.
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Aug./Sept., 2008
Progress on ORE Guild Mod
I've gotten alot done on the ORE Guild Mod over the past several weeks. I've been able to use bits and pieces from a former project in a store for the town. I've also created a pretty cool 2 building, 3 story Inn and Pub for the towns harbor, as well as a couple lower class houses. This is in addition to Antihero's and Harley's homes I made a while back. People have really been stepping up to the plate in getting the Guild town finished. I am off to the summer cabin, but when I get back I hope to start work the the remainder of the town that is left to do. I really do think there will be a BETA by the end of summer. At that point I am assuming ORE will start working on and soliciting participation for working on the rest of the word world space.
July/Aug., 2008 Dog days of summer
I've been gone alot this summer. Time at the lake cabin. Hanging out with family, spending my time outside. So there is nothing really to report on. The only modding I've done is a couple of days spent on OREguild interiors. I plan to as many as I can in the next month. But who knows. It all depends if I have a free evening or not.
Happy Summer!
June/July, 2008 WOSH update
I just heard from Antihero, He had disapeared due to computer meltdown, and is back. I am going to touch base with him and see what he wants to do with the mod. Then I'll update everyone. I want to get this project done this summer even if it kills me!
June, 2008 MAJOR WOSH update
I am currently making ORE member Radmick a laboratory. I'll post a WIP thread at ORE soon. WosH, Whispher of Shadows mod had a setback. My modding partner seems to have disapeared. So NOW, rather than a Crimson Scar faction mod/dungeon; It is now going to be a smaller house mod that happens to be in a smaller cave system. I think I will put the entrance back into the Hackdirt cave system. That way I don't have to deal with any world spaces at all. I will open a NEW WIP thread at ORE forums as soon as I have a chance to work on it some more.
May, 2008
I will be taking a bigger part of completing the ORE guild mod. We've had a few people move on with real life activities and are unable to participate any more. I plan to ramp up the construction very soon. I may not be very into scripting and modeling, but I think I am fairly good at wipping up custom interiors.
ORE itself has undergone alot of changes lately. But we are working hard to stay true to the past time of Elderscrolls house modding and as time passes make a sucessful transition to the next Eldersrolls game. Shezrie will be moving in real life, this next month and I expect that will be more involved than anyone expects. I will be taking a new job in real life during the same time. I am not sure how this will affect my involvement. But I can promise that I will still be around.
April/early May, 2008
I've finished my tower mod. You can find the information in the left frame under my mods. That request came at a great time, and helped me get out of a creative slump and depression. I spent alot of time on it and am quite pleased with the result. I had alot of fun making it.
Next I plan to keep on with the dungeon mod. I think I will start on the temple section. Stay tuned for more images.
April, 2008
Well I guess I haven't done didilly-squat as far as modding goes since Feb. Real life has been sucking of late. But I am hoping to get back into the swing of things. I am volunteering some time to make an ORE member a tower, and hope to put a few more hours into my dungeon mod.
March, 2008
NEWS!--Changes to Oblivion Real Estate--
ORE (Oblivion Real Estate is back online! Travel to ORE!
-Please show your support for house modders and come say hi in the ORE forums!
Feb., 2008
THE SITE IS UNDERGOING SOME REORGANIZATION THIS MONTH. CHECK BACK SOON>
Feb. 02, 2008
I've made huge progress on the WoSH mod. Everything is really well planned out. It's just a matter of making the time to mod. That said, each area takes 6-10+ hours of modding.
That can be horrible for ergonomic pain. I am half way done with the caves. Got about 4-6 more depending on how I feel. Then it's just the player homes. Antihero will be incharge of all the NCP's, scripts, and testing. He's also a big help with the decision making. ORE now has over 1000 members. I hope we can meet some really creative people and that they want to participate in the modding community.
January 29, 2008
I am backing off my village plans for now. Due to technical problems, new advances in resource management, and boredom I've Detailed my decision in the links below. Instead I will now be consentrating any free time into Antiherowraith's and I's Whispher of Shadow mod.
January, 2008
I am back in town for good now after a few weeks of travel and family. I hope everyones holidays went well. It's all ice snow and fridgid temps here in Minnesota. It was nice to spend time with family, but am glad it's over with. I also had a death in the extended family to deal with right after christmas.
My new years resolution is to find a better mix of family, work, and gaming life. Work will be pretty hard on me this winter/spring and so I expect my online presence to be somewhat sporatic. Hopefully I will be able to touch base with my ORE friends soon.
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December 11, 2007
I've passed off the ORE Holiday house to other team members. Due to real life reasons I'll be mostly unavailable through the first part of Jan. Please contact Bond or Phaedra reguarding the xmas mod.
December 04, 2007
Bond and I along with several ORE members are busy on the official ORE Holiday House mod. We hope to have it done within a couple of weeks. The holidays for me will be crazy. I will be out of town and unavailable from the 19th through Jan. 3rd.
November 18-2007
I've updated the WOSH/Wisphers of Shadows page with updated premise and info.
NOTE: I've recently seen posts on the O.F. regarding Tamaravico's Imperial City Cemetary, UL compatability, and Weye. If your an ORE member, I have a merged Cemetary, imperial city museum, and UL imperial isle I am willing to share with you. I've made them compatable, and corrected the errors, and redid the player house. I also fixed up the UL creature spawn points, and land errors. Just email me and I'll send a copy to you.
In the future I will merge Weye, I've done it before, but the scripts and AI need alot of work, and it will take more time.
November 14-2007
I've been really busy gathering the last of the modders resources that I knew about just in time for the MORE housing contest at ORE. I'll post more about that later.
November, update-2007
I've decided to take some of my work from the now cancelled ICB/Fayle project and move it to a much smaller mining village with an Abby. It's located in Hammerfell. See the link for updates. I am about half way done.
November-2007
Well, Fall is just about over here in the midwest. And the holidays are sure going to be busy for me. I am trying to figure out what to do with ICB fayle. As it's currently set up, I've got alot of interiors still to do. And I think my help has left the building so to speak. SO I am debating wether or not to par it down, or redo it into a small village located beyond Cryodils borders. Something more manageable. We'll see. I am hoping to update my pet section here soon. Hope all is well with my fellow modders.
October-2007
When I've had time, I've been really busy repackaging modders resouces and working on newsletters for the Oblivion Real Estate group. As soon as I redo a resouce I load it up to my mediafire account and then when it gets up on a ORE web page I then delete it. I hope they all get up on ORE/MORE because they were very time consuming to do. I am not keen on leaving them on Media fire so I may end up linking to them from here to where-ever. Anyway, the info about the resouces I use or repackaged will be here on it's own page.
The other new bit on this site is that I am making pages for my favorite things. Links to get them, and pictures of the mod or resouce.
I wish I had more time to mod. I really need to get ICB/Fayle done. Everyone else seems to have abandoned the project. I think I am going to be forced to use some vanilla interiors, or cut the bridges part out. I really don't want to abandon what I've done so far, I've spent well over 50 hours on it so far.
June-2007
MEGA RUMOR:
http://www.galbadiax.com/article/2007-02-22/tesv-mmo
Bethesda confirms that it will continue the series, possibly online
February 22, 2007
Bethesda VP of PR and Marketing, Pete Hines, told Pro-G that the company is rolling out ideas for the next line in its Elder Scrolls series of RPGs.
Hines noted, though, that actual development on the game is some time away. "We're finishing up Oblivion then shifting our focus to Fallout 3, which is our next big role-playing game."
The Elder Scrolls games reached mainstream success when The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind gained massive popularity, and then saw runaway success with TES IV: Oblivion, which is now available for the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.
Hines touched on the possibility of the fifth installment in the series taking the form of a massively-multiplayer online game. The Elder Scrolls games are known for their open-ended gameplay and huge, free environments, and playing a single-player game in the franchise is a little like playing an MMO by yourself. Many players were disappointed when Oblivion didn't include any online components.
Of course, even Bethesda isn't certain of what The Elder Scrolls V will involve — but with the rapid success of the series, it's certainly on the horizon.
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My favorite mods:
OOO; Unique landscapes; unofficial patches; Dramora companion, Damarask, Shezrie's villages; anything by Alien Slof; any pet mod; any village mod, and house mod.