Tamira’s Assorted Resources

Much of the stuff I’m using in this mod was made and compiled by Tamira and were done on my requests. I got to know Tamira back when I did Dibella’s Watch for Oblivion and she was my trusty beta tester. I’m kinda glad I got to be her beta tester for once with the resources. Check Tamira’s Assorted Resources out at the Nexus!

Azura

So, I’m a bit slow with working on the mod right now, but I just became a father it seems and it takes a lot of time. I have to play with the squeeky mouse and the stuffed flower instead of PC games at the moment. We named her Azura. She’s a total nerd, but she doesn’t seem to have any interest in the Elder Scrolls series unfortunately although her name comes from there. She’s more of a Total War girl.

Small but Immersive

Tamira made some wind chimes which I’m now using in the mod too. I need to show them off here, because, although their small size, they’re massively immersive and atmospheric and add such a lot to the exterior environments where they’re used. Not only from a tropical paradise angle, but also from an Elder Scrolls point of view. All who have played Morrowind will remember the sound of the Ashlander camp wind chimes just as well as they remember the loud screaming noises of the Silt Striders.

The Great Lighthouse

The view from up there is astonishing.

Music for Azura’s Watch?

The music in Daggerfall was astounding, although only in midi format back in the nineties. It was written by Eric Heberling and all the pieces had weird names, like the one I’m going to play here, G_Snow_B. When I started Frontier, I got permission by Dan Goodale to use his remixes of Daggerfall music in my mod as well as in any videos I would create about Frontier. He said something like that he made the remixes for modders like me to use. I was very happy, because I had already been having his remixes on my harddrive for a long time and even listened to them when I created Dibella’s Watch thinking that I might add them to that mod as well at some point. Actually, I listened to the following piece of music when I killed Lord Scarley, if someone remembers that episode from DW, and this is G_Snow_B.

 

 

I’d now like to include some of these excellent remixes by Dan Goodale of Eric Heberling’s Daggerfall music in Azura’s Watch as well. That G_Snow_B is kinda like a theme song already in my head. Dan Goodale also converted many other of the Daggerfall songs. Some of them could be used for immersion in taverns, shops and public areas. We’ll see. Music needs to be converted into OGG format for Skyrim, I believe, but I need to do some more research on it.

YouTube Video of Azura’s Watch

I made this short YouTube video, mainly for my subscibers on my Let’s Play channel to show them why I’m taking it slow on YouTube right now. The video shows clearly how the mod looks in-game.

The Rockfall Bank

The Rockfall Bank in the town of Colonia is the centre of commerce and economy in the land.

Barracks and Living Room

Here are screenies of two interiors that I’ve finished. No ENB.

Morrowind Paintings

OK, I’m gathering a few screenshots to make into paintings in Azura’s Watch. I want a lot of paintings, because the Colony is Cyrodiilic Imperial, and as we all know, they love paintings in Cyrodiil. Wonder why the artform never broke through in Skyrim though! Morrowind is still a very beautiful game. Just look at it! I wish it had looked like this back in the day when I played it to death in what, 2005-07? Back then I had a crappy computer that could barely handle it. View distance was limited. I couldn’t even see Vivec City from Ebonheart, if you know what I mean. Ah, thanks to the Morrowind Graphics Extender, we now have both Depth of Field and greater View Distance. Lovely. Now I’m going to do some Oblivion screenshots too.

OK, CK

I’ve been working all day with the CK. Not a single crash! It actually seems like the CK crashes randomly during sessions when I add many new resources.I’ve tested this out now. During today’s session, I’ve not added a single new resource. I’ve only decorated interiors and done NavMesh.

Sometimes I get an empty mesh exclamation mark when trying to load a model for the first time in the Rendering Window. This is a common glitch, solved by pressing F5 and your model loads properly. The crashing CK  problem when adding new models, probably has something to do with that. From now on, I’m going to restart the CK after I’ve added resources to my mod to avoid crashing. Wow.

EDIT: OK, so just after writing this, I tested it out. I added some paintings Tamira sent me, and poof, ten minutes later, the CK magically crashes! It hadn’t crashed all day until that. My theory is true! The Skyrim Creation Kit always crashes shortly after adding resources, ie new meshes in conjunction with having to reload the render window using F5.