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Blood-Pigggy

Posted 20 February 2007 - 01:01 AM

Another pretty screenshots :)

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Doubler

Posted 18 February 2007 - 08:34 PM

Well, you know why nobody in Cyrodiil can climb mountains? They have horses for that :)

Blood-Pigggy

Posted 18 February 2007 - 08:18 PM

I enjoy the Cyrodiil Map the most, it has topographical information which is really necessary since I hate quest markers that point to the top of a mountain that you can't possibly scale, and you have no way of figuring out where to go.

Doubler

Posted 18 February 2007 - 08:13 PM

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I'd also like to recommend Elven Cartographers - that's one lovely map right there
The new one or the old one?
Personally, I liked the first version, but the second version not so much. By now I've reverted to the stock map, which is quite a breather to be honest.

Blood-Pigggy

Posted 18 February 2007 - 07:43 PM

View PostDoubler, on Feb 18 2007, 01:00 PM, said:

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Better Horse Eyes (Turns the glossy lifeless eyes into better ones)
Hmm, not Slof's horses? You surprise me :)

Is that LOD texture replacement any good? I tried a few, and they all killed my framerate. That while I can run Oblivion on high-medium without problems (except for in the gold coast, although I'm unsure why).

Depends on which on you get. Mine works fine, I only ever get a framerate drop when I turn my grass settings up all the way.

BeefontheBone

Posted 18 February 2007 - 07:39 PM

That's a heck of a list. *commences downloading spree*

I'd also like to recommend Elven Cartographers - that's one lovely map right there :)

Doubler

Posted 18 February 2007 - 06:00 PM

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Better Horse Eyes (Turns the glossy lifeless eyes into better ones)
Hmm, not Slof's horses? You surprise me :)

Is that LOD texture replacement any good? I tried a few, and they all killed my framerate. That while I can run Oblivion on high-medium without problems (except for in the gold coast, although I'm unsure why).

Blood-Pigggy

Posted 18 February 2007 - 05:31 PM

View PostBeefontheBone, on Feb 18 2007, 09:25 AM, said:

It's amazing how much difference a weather plugin, some improved foliage and more gradiated lighting makes to the look of the thing without reducing performance much. Might be more of an impact for anyone near the minimum spec, of course. I'd be interested in finding out which mods you have installed, Pigggy - could you grab a screenie of the selector screen or type out a quick list?

I installed OOO and it's not bad, there are some very dangerous areas and some less so, but it's taking me hours to level up and an extremely long time to kill anything - I drew an amazon out of their cave into the forest and she had about 30 arrows sticking out of her by the time she finally dropped dead. Might try reducing the difficulty next time I play.

OOO is simple if you stick to a few guilds and such and close an Oblivion gate or two before you go do some drastic exploring.

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I do wonder on what kind of a machine are you running those mods and how it affects your game performance wise.

I have a middle of the line PC. It's not fantastic, but it isn't too bad either. I can run Oblivion on Medium to High settings, meaning I pass the Minimum Reqs, but I don't meet most of the Recommended Reqs.

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Seems like it's mostly Natural Environments (or that other one? I never tried the other one, being quite happy with NE) in that shot, along with that depth thingey?

Yep, this is an answer to Beef as well.
The mods all put together that I use for visuals are -

Natural Environments (Lighting, weather, sky)
Illumination Within (Some windows lit at night)
Sunlit Interiors (State of weather outside affects light within buildings)
Weather Inside (Like sunlit interiors, except also has sound from rain and etc.)
LOD Texture Replacement (Replaces ugly distant textures with crisper normal textures, no more big blobs of messy color)
Qarl Timeslip's Depth Of Field (Gives a depth of field effect like Gothic 3)
Everything Distant Visible (Allows you to see things such as ruins and small towns from anywhere)
Realistic Force (Improves ragdoll physics and physics in general, no more slo-mo deaths)
Cities Alive at Night (Has lights in cities when you're outside of them, looking down at Anvil from a mountain at night for example)
Elaborate Eyes (Adds new types of eyes and improves existing ones.)
Better Horse Eyes (Turns the glossy lifeless eyes into better ones)
DEJ Harvest (Makes that harvested ingredient plants have the main element removed from their visual)
Immersive Health Indication (An enemies health bar goes from green to yellow to red, depending on their level of health)
Gorier Blood (Adds more blood to the game)
Sniper Crosshair (Adds a crosshair that determines the length an arrows drops depending on distance)
BT Mod (Improves interface, larger map, smaller text + more space and easier to navigate inventory, A MUST HAVE)
Chase Mod (Turns the useless nausea inducing third person camera into a Morrowind type camera that doesn't sway everywhere)
Improved Textures (Refines most of the existing textures into much darker or better bump-mapped varients, NOT RECOMMENDED FOR MAINTAINING FPS)


Those are all the mods I have that affects my visuals.

EDIT: Crap, I forgot one of the most important mods!

Better Facial Textures (Improves all the facial textures so they look smooth and clean instead of muddy and unstructured, also, beards that don't like someone smeared chocolate all over their face.)


Also, the Total Annihilation Soundtrack works amazingly well as replacement music to Oblivion's, download it somewhere and mix and match the music as you wish, it's has some excellent combat music.

Doubler

Posted 18 February 2007 - 03:41 PM

Seems like it's mostly Natural Environments (or that other one? I never tried the other one, being quite happy with NE) in that shot, along with that depth thingey?

BeefontheBone

Posted 18 February 2007 - 02:25 PM

It's amazing how much difference a weather plugin, some improved foliage and more gradiated lighting makes to the look of the thing without reducing performance much. Might be more of an impact for anyone near the minimum spec, of course. I'd be interested in finding out which mods you have installed, Pigggy - could you grab a screenie of the selector screen or type out a quick list?

I installed OOO and it's not bad, there are some very dangerous areas and some less so, but it's taking me hours to level up and an extremely long time to kill anything - I drew an amazon out of their cave into the forest and she had about 30 arrows sticking out of her by the time she finally dropped dead. Might try reducing the difficulty next time I play.

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