Onward and upward!

Good morning people (and other animals that have the internet). The weather here is taking a downward spiral and reverting to the usual British summer state of rain, cold and wind. Not good for my real work but pretty good for my modding time. According to the met office we're getting a three or four day break from the sunshine so I will be taking this time to hit the CS and do a bit of modelling.

 I actually had chance yesterday to do stuff on the Caldera Experiment. Not a lot, but still something.

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I'm quite happy now with the wattle and daub textures and feel I can go forward with the end design for Caldera itself. Still have several models that need to be made (in my opinion), more steps, rails and shop fronts with real windows you can actually see through.

The main city gates are still an issue. Made several so far but none that I actually like. So many other things to get right that I'm not actually worried in the slightest about those as yet.

BadLuckBurt is in the middle of writing an app for something else (not really asked lol) but I'm sure he will be on the case soon to throw in a little input to Caldera.

The Elder Scrolls VI has sort of been announced by Bethesda with a very sketchy promo video that gives nothing away apart from the scenery looks to be pretty damn cool.

Take a look at this in case you missed it;

Yup. Like I said. They give fuck all away.

Well. Don't get too excited because I personally can't see it happening for a few year yet. Bethesda are currently working on Starfield and, my research tells me that ES6 wont even get a look in until that has been released.

Where will it be? High rock seems to be the favourite with Hammerfell coming a close second.

I really want to see this in High rock of course. Tudor style buildings and the Bretons, basically it's just medieval England. Caldera is my favourite town in Morrowind and an entire world of it would really get me moist (did I just say that?).

The architecture of Morrowind is something I have always looked at in great depth and as I was brought up in a place that looks like Caldera concept art I can really associate myself with it and to me it has a sort of "real feel" about it.

The forts in Morrowind are very disappointing for me though. The stone used to build them can't be found anywhere and the style is so out of place.

How can I say this? Simple. The UK still has between 6 and 700 castles still standing and seen a whole lot of them. Growing up I played in the ruins of Clitheroe Castle and for those of you old enough Swap Shop was there once!

Each castle around the country is built with local stone and each castle has local aspects to it. It wasn't a gang of Irish builders constructing the exact same castle up and down the country, it was local builders and craftsmen adding their own uniqueness to each one. This is something greatly missing from Morrowind.

I personally believe that Norman style castles would fit in more with the Morrowind environment than the existing drab, uniform ones we see in game.