Winterhold Bridge Repaired.

Hello internet!

I released another mod today: Winterhold Bridge Repaired.

If like me you got tired of the broken bridge at Winterhold then this is the mod for you. I have seen various mods over the years that have fixed this, most are bundled in larger overhaul mods some others just didn't do it to the scale that I wanted to do it.

While not perfect, it does the job that I want it to do.

Dragonborn DLC is a part of Skyrim

 Hello everyone!

Having been away from the modding scene for a while I decided to tinker in Skyrims Creation Kit (dont worry Morrowind fans I am still modding Morrowind!).  This is the end result of trying to make the Dragonborn DLC more immersive to Skyrim.

As with any expansion by Bethesda they always seem to make it the new content seem so isolated and distant. They did this for Bloodmoon with Morrowind and again with shivering isles for Oblivion. Its a trend
that has carried accross to the Dragonborn DLC and it really bothers me how distant it seems.

This mod attempts to integrate the Dragonborn DLC into Skyrim by taking some of the new content and making them available in Skyrim.

Npc's will sell items from the Dragonbron DLC. I have tried to keep it to a minimum so as not to wreck immersion and to at least save some surprises for visiting soslthiem.
The main features of this mod is to bring the staff crafting system to Skyrim, and many of the court wizards/college mages sell heartstones and unenchanted staffs as well asproviding the services to enchant them.
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Here is a detailed list of what has been added to Skyrim:
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Brand-She - the dark elf in Riften will now sell a handful of items from Morrowind. These include books, clothing and some ingredients.

Revyn Sadri in Windhelm has a chance to sell common and uncommon books from Morrowind/Solsthiem along with select parts of Chitin and bonemold armor (no complete sets) alongside
netch leather and Chitin plate to craft them with.

New Gnisis Corner club in windhelm has a chance to sell ash yams and Morrowind Bevrages.

Spell tomes for Bound dagger, poison rune and frenzy rune have been added to spell tome levelled lists and thus have a chance of appearing for sale by court wizards, college mages and turning up in loot.

Heartstones can be brought from court wizards and the College Mages of Winterhold.

Heartstones also have a chance of appearing in Warlock loot. This is an extremly low chance though.

Unenchanted staves can be brought from the College of Winterhold mages. Its done by class so for example an unenchanted Destruction staff can be brought from Faralda who is the destruction mage.

Unenchanted staves can also be brought from the court wizards. Each court wizard sells only one type. That is as follows:

 - Wuunferth (Windhelm) Illusion
 - Sybille (Solitude) Destruction
 - Madena (dawnstar) Conjuration
 - Wylandriah (Riften) Restoration
 - Calcelmo (Markarth) Alteration
 - Farenfar (whiterun) Destruction

Staff Enchanters can be found the rooms of all Court wizards mentioned above.

The beverage Flin has been added to the ruraldrinks levelled list used by innkeepers.

Boar tusks have been added to Apothecary Uncommon levelled list

Wild Boar have been added to the Forest and plains levelled list so you can encounter them in the wild.

The Fine clothes added by Dragonborn (fine clothes and fine boots) have been added to clothing levelled lists so will apear in loot and for sale.

Urag gro-shub (winterhold) will have a chance to sell Dragonborn books from the common and uncommon lists.


overall the mod adds Dragonborn loot to Skyrim.

New Skyrim HD footage: A brave new world – I am excited about Skyrim!

Skyrim

With Skyrim just months away Todd Howard has released some quality HD footage of the world of Skyrim. The footage, which is about 20 minutes long, sees Todd take use through the wilderness, into mountains and ruins fighting wolves, bandits, trolls, giants, undead warriors and of course Dragons!

Dragons!

While most of this footage has already been shown or talked about before but this is the first time that that Skyrim game play footage has been shown in HD, without the rambles of journalists and fans over the top of it meaning that we can fully appreciate the soundtrack created by Jeremy Soule.

To those who haven’t seen the videos I have embedded them here at the bottom of this blog along with HD screenshots provided by dAb at the official forums.

 

A detailed world: 

We’ve known from day one that the world of Skyrim would be a wondrous place to explore filled with detail beyond belief. The dedication that Bethesda went to in order to give us Oblivion meant that at the announcement of Skyrim we knew that this detail would be taken to the next level.

Forest in Oblivion

It came as no surprise then that as the first screens of Skyrim came filtering down the amount of attention to detail was mind blowing. The hours alone spent creating the models, textures and bumpmaps for each individual item, creature and NPC must have been enduring, let alone placing it all in game! 

Its all about the detail

The latest HD videos show that the world of Skyrim truly is detailed and diverse as we had hoped , and if that isn’t enough to get excited about then the best thing to note is that while Oblivion was considered a master piece, Skyrim will take the throne. Gone is the annoying bloom of the Oblivion environment which made everything shine with a strange blurry brightness. Instead what we get is a masterpiece as artists from all over unite to give us a game worthy of the current generation of console and technology. 

Oblivion - Bloom,shiny and blurred grass!

Detailed, crisp and sharpe

Blending it altogether is what makes it seem even more realistic and Bethesda seems to have managed this. Promising a more diverse landscape than Oblivion did, Bethesda hail back to Morrowind which had environments spanning from swamps and Grazelands to the dusty Ashlands and the fiery Red Mountain. 

Morrowind Ashlands

This diversity is seen once more in Skyrim and with a stronger blending method. In Morrowind on side of a hill was Grazeland the other was Ashland. In Skyrim it’s not so clear cut; a mountain patch that is rich with life slowly becomes tundra and then suddenly a frozen void – a more realistic environment it would seem

Mountain Path that leads....

....into tundra....

....and eventually frozen waste

The itch to explore

With its impressive game world its only acceptable if Bethesda put as much effort into the diversity and detail into the 150 dungeons they have palced around the world; for the aim of the game is to explore and if the locations are dull then the exploration is boring and Skyrim would become just another bog standard RPG doomed to follow the likes of Two Worlds one nad two. However this is not the case! 

Nord Ruins

Skyrims diverse environments, detailed landscapes and smoth transitions are applied to the dungeons as well. In one dungeon alone we go from an old Nord Temple ruin to a cave system back into a small mountain path that leads into a tomb and ends with a grand chamber – each one offering a small glimpse into the world that Skyrim has to offer. 

Nord Ruins

Little touches such as spider webs that coat the floor and passive bats which flutter in panic as you enter their space all help to create an atmosphere of epic proportions that leaves you wanting more, edging and encouraging you to go on for better or for worse. All of this just from a video! Imagine what it will be like to sit there with the controls in your hand, drinks and snacks to the side as you prepare to dive into an unknown cave wondering what secrets it holds? The last time I felt like that was with Morrowind. Alas I didn’t get that feeling with Oblivion as for the dungeons became predictable – with Morrowind while they were stagnated you still had a more diverse range of tombs and caves to explore. 

To the bat cave!

All of this detail, all of this diversity and only months to go before we can get our hands on it! But before I go (don’t forget the videos and screenshots are at the end of this article) I just want to point out some of the creatures shown in the demo footage and so that you can see how that diversity and detail transfers over to the living and undead creatures that roam Skyrim: 

So the question remains: Are you excited for Skyrim? 

Gameplay Footage and HD Screens:

HD Screenshots
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For more HD screens please visit dAb's Thread: Screenshots from the HD demo video's