A Better Oblivion - Part 3

Edit 04/19/2009 (19th of April): The newer versions of Better Cities add even more new things to the Imperial City as well as the other cities. Better Cities now incorporates ImpeREAL City: Unique Districts, and merged it with many other mods that change the city and adds new features.

This also ensures that all the (amuzing) glitches in this video are now patched.
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The third part of a demonstration of what mods do to Oblivion; going through the other parts of the IC. The difference between the other two vids and this one, is that this one is much longer (almost full 10 minutes) and I decided not to compress the vid with the apparently complicated HD 1080p format, but back to the old DVD quality format. Sound should still be very high quality, but that depends on the compression as well.

There might be a small hick-up here and there with the sound. Also, Streamline helps ensure a high framerate for filming, but this means sometimes various details will disappear and appear. This is a acceptable concession, as it doesnt bother you too much as you play and enjoy the scenery.

ImpeREAL City - Unique Districts (Old version, v2.5 is out since 29/01/2009, going to see the differences about it soon; should also fix many bugs)
Chocolate Elves (The character shown)
Dark UI'd Darn (the recolors and changes of the menus)
Immersive Interface (The new health, fatigue, magic bar, and the rest)
Crowded Cities (More NPCs in town)

Music By: Matti Paalanen (All music free to download on TESNexus.com)
Tracks:

Celestial Aeon Project - Angel's Redemption
Frozen Silence - Nightingale
Celestial Aeon Project - Awakening
Celestial Aeon Project - Angel's Tears

Last things:

I almost forgot, but as I ran into a few conflicts, i found them enjoyable enough to keep. Most of these are fixed at the time of writing. (Updated at 06/15/2009)

Filmed and created on a PC with the following hardware:

Motherboard: Asus P5Q Pro
Processor: Intel Duo Core E8400 @ 3 GHZ
Graphics card: Geforce 8800 GT 512 MB
RAM: 3 GB standard RAM (667 mhz)
Hard Disk: 500 GB Western Digital, 7200 RPM, 16MB cache
Computer screen: 22 inch at 1680x1050.

For Part 4 and newer, many changes have been made for the hardware, heightening my capabilities and improving visuals even more. In progress to release; several Work in Progress versions have already been filmed.

If you have similar or better hardware, you can gain the same results with ease. Slightly lower powered hardware may have to make minor concessions. Programs such as Streamline can help to improve your framerate a lot, as well.

Category:

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• Oblivion
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• Imperial
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• Unique
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• Updated
• Upgraded
• Matti
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• Skyrim
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[JCDentonCZ]

Everyone has their own taste, and taste can change over the years. I'm less convinced of my statement more than a year ago about younger looking NPCs being better for immersion. Bethesda didnt do all too great on NPC design, though.

Capes indeed would be better if they were havok'd and wouldn't clip through.

I'm also looking forward to taking a bit of a darker approach to Skyrim over that of Oblivion. Really hope to add a lot to the game in terms of mods and/or graphical modification.

[ProteusX2]

hey jc,

just wanted to check in on you and also thank you again for your insights. since our last chat, i've been able to get oblivion running very smoothly with lots of mods installed. all left to do is create a couple companions. i'm very happy

regards

[JCDentonCZ]

That's great to hear, Proteus -- The great thing about Oblivion is that it's always a challenge to add new mods while keeping your framerate stable. I've been experimenting a lot myself with shaders lately, OBGEv2 is a great addition too. Got a stable result a few days back, and started to add onto the installation again.

I've messed up my installations several times, which is part of the challenge -- so I'm backing up my files a lot when doing major improvements/changes.

Keep up the good work!

[TesWalkthroughs]

better? this looks like crap

[MrHate1337]

SO MUCH HDR... It burns D:

[12Insomniac]

Meh, I see floating benches all the time.

[eogh]

@JCDentonCZ Can you telll me why a path and a road are in the abroetum ?

[LucaStarone]

@MastaBlivion Pirate Fraps off of The Pirate bay.org. That program is one of the best.

[LucaStarone]

@Minnan1 I could try to make one. It would take me a while though. Because that would mean redoing every town, renaming and possibly changing the places. Contact me on the Nexus and I'll tell you if it's a GO.

Nexus name is ThatGun44

[Minnan1]

@LucaStarone cuz someone at TESNEXUS published some images...I don't know if they were all made up or where real screenshots

[LucaStarone]

@Minnan1 Not that I know of, that would be a TON of work though.

[Minnan1]

Is there a mod that makes Cyrodiil look like it was during the Ayleid empire?

please answer

[ImTheWackhead]

needs more bloom.

*cough*