Harder Barter helps with the money situation.
RandomPal's city mods (especially the downsized ones rolled into BCOM) aren't that performance intensive. They bring the cluttering up to TR/OAAB standards and add some extra NPCs and buildings, but they still keep the scale of Vvardenfell's cities as frontier settlements. Old Ebonheart has something like 65 free-standing buildings in addition to the castle, exterior walls, ships, port buildings etc. Balmora, even with BCOM, has maybe 40 buildings and significantly less NPCs.
I only care about Morrowind mods because it's actually a good game. Don't feel like modding, just to turn a shit game into something half-way decent. Only Skyrim mod I'm sort of interest in is beyond skyrim. Even then I wished more of that effort went into MW instead.
Damn, was too good to be true.
Looks like a decent estimate provided they don't burn out in the meantime. It will give me a solid reason to replay Morrowind anyway.
They also plan to redo all the Telvanni lands before redoing Almalexia.
They plan to do that in parallel with the development of new areas, like they did with Embers of the Empire. Basically, they decided that everything made prior to the old ebonheart release in 2018 (which came after five years of downtime, during which the whole project went through major reorganization in both work process and staff) doesn't meet their new standards. They're reusing lots of the old stuff so it's not like they're making it from scratch, but they do make large changes.
Go on and enlighten us then. I'm not going to waste time trying to divine what the fuck you mean.
TR has used AI-art programs to generate textures, iirc for things like Velothi-style paintings. But this isn't the early 2000's anymore. Assets are not the bottleneck they used to be, the rise of programs like Blender has changed that. In many ways asset creation is already outpacing development in other areas. It takes far more time to plop things down in the editor for interiors, exteriors, or to make quests than it does to make a typical asset set for a given release. And because Morrowind can get away with a lower level of fidelity than different games, the amount of time spent making a single asset is therefore less. Not to say it isn't tough or important work, but a lot of time is spent on repetitive tasks that would be very difficult to automate away in a satisfactory way.
Speaking from experience with a little bit of Oblivion modding, even doing simple stuff in the object window was a total night are and resulted in loads of crashes. The CSE for Oblivion was a game-changer and made the experience so much more enjoyable and efficient.
A new report this month with a look of things past and things to come. DoD was a particularly tricky thing to develop as there was much already done that needed to be reviewed again and adjusted to adhere to TR's new design standards. Combine that with the first ever redo, which was worked on in parallel and in a somewhat ad hoc manner, and you can see why this one may have taken longer than expected. I expect development going forward, in regard to the work done in the construction set, to be smoother than before.Yearly Recap 2022
Submitted by Sultan of Rum on Sat, 2023-01-07 20:27
Tamriel Rebuilt is a mod for TES III: Morrowind that aims to add the mainland of the Morrowind province to the game, as Bethesda would have done it. The province is released as a series of expansions; players can already download and enjoy a landmass twice the size of the original game and containing an amount of quests roughly equal to that of the base game.
Happy new year from the Tamriel Rebuilt team! As is our hallowed tradition dating back at least to 2005, let’s take a look back at what went on in Tamriel Rebuilt throughout 2022.
Of course, the biggest thing to happen this year was the release of our twin-expansions of Dominions of Dust and Embers of Empire on November 24th. Dominions of Dust in particular was a long time coming and a tough slog for our developers. This expansion – centered on the borderlands of House Hlaalu and Redoran – was plagued by issues stemming from its more than a decade-long development process. Counter-intuitively, repurposing old work is often much harder and less motivating for our developers than building things from scratch. In particular, quest development for this expansion had taken a long time, as many our initial drafts for the questlines turned out too complex or disjointed, and since quality issues with old interiors and exteriors commonly interfered with quest work, requiring long stretches of downtime while the issues were fixed.
No worry. I see that they already planned an overhaul of Telvannis. I give them at most a year before they decide to push it from the far future into near now, which will delay project's completion even more. TR will never get done, if I had to bet though I would bet on TR getting made before Skyrim or Cyrodiil are.
