City Development: Senchal

The border with Valenwood is a special place that is under the influence of none of them. It's a constant battlefield with just common trees. Khajiits are cutting trees that Bosmers are planting. Neither of the two can reshape the land. There is a fragile balance where actions from one are compensated by actions from the other. When one is overdoing, a war starts and at its end, the new border is fixed.

For the distant light, PirateLord did something for Morrowind. He used low-poly meshes and a text file for the override list of MGE XE.
We'll have soon to make a separate section for mods for our own mod!

About the Lunar thing. Not all of Elsweyr should be all colourful and stuff. Just maybe a patch here and there. Otherwise there'll be a lot of people (People who don't read lore often) criticizing it and giving it bad ratings... just a thought.

Don't worry, the Lunar Landscape concept will be explained in game. Borders will look more like a regular landscape because we have to make them blend with other provinces but the main part of Elsweyr will be "all colorful and stuff". It will be more interesting for players to explore an alien world than a common world. And when it comes to Khajiits, most players are waiting for something... special.
And you don't want it to be confused with Valenwood, Cyrodiil or Hammerfell, do you?

We do it because it's fun, not because we want good ratings!

the walls of senchal
retexed them using grims textures to match. And used the modified tower without the dome. (the walls of senchal is a link) It's a cs shot.

I think we need an arena. I am going to look a MJY's resources. But his stuff is rough. I may use it as a placemarker if I can get it to look good enough. At least till grim can make one. And I am working on an exterior for Senchal to get used to using the CS on this new pc of mine. Gonna carve it out of the NE third of the penninsula. Ryu, did you ever find a good moonsugar plant mesh?

Also, I just ripped the buttress piece out of the wall. So i can snake the walls a whole lot more. Could you look at simplifying the wall meshes grim?. They have a whole bunch of extra vertices inside them..
edit, and i was right. the mjy colliseum REALLY sucks, But it'll be ok for a temp placeholder. At least long enough to see if an arena will work out.

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I've been ninja'd!
I'm just working on making walls and towers too and tweaking some meshes.
There will be conflict!
Anyway, you'll choose when it will be done.

More progress, And i consider this an alpha. Nothing is fixed. With new models it will change again, and again.
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The palace at the center back is several of your meshes put together grim. Will soon start retexturing some rocks with your rock texture so i can break up the landscape painting.

current esp and meshes. new rock meshes retexed from ai and gl vanilla rocks. take a look. senchal will very easily be as big as kathwarsten over at shotn.
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Which also means if y'all feel froggy. This could be dished out in claim sections. We will need some more stuff. Good trees, cloth stalls, chimneys, lights, And more underbrush come to mind.

I am collecting resources together that we can use. dongle's water pack. melchoir darks trees, wanderer's dock clutter, some of st. juib's stuff. And others as i find them in the recesses of my hard drive. Anything you can think of out there is probably somehting i got......somehwere. Will throw out packs for the city as i get them set up. Grim if you want to make leave and bark textures for the trees. let me know, otherwise i can do it. I am decent with gimp.

starting to look like a city.
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Small update. Moved arena inside city. Put lake for carvansary where is was. brought ocean floor levels up. Will probably cut off the left part of the city in pic. And put in an imperail fort for the city garrison.

Looking good. I like the way things are set up, nice job.

Maybe it's a little early to start to mod because the set is far from finished. It's better to use it to find ideas of how to put the meshes. I want to make some new houses for the Black Keirgo and there is also the palace. And I'm not sure about the shape of the Arena.
The docks meshes was designed with this idea in mind:
Put them with a altitude near 200 and the little boats will be accessible by the stairs and the bigger ships by the dock ramps.
For the Black Keirgo, I think about a city build on multiple levels.


Not as dirty as a slum but with narrow streets and catwalks (!) to give a feeling of randomness.