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It looks...so...good...

This. I have no words to describe my excitement for this. Don't worry about making more work for landscapers, because I am VERY eager to work on this if needed. Keep us updated and keep up the good work, and get this bad boy implemented as soon as possible! 

oh thanks. musta missed that butten. using my phone. heh

Now, this got me so excited that I got a few ideas, one less and one more crazy :P

The first one is, that you could add a bit more red haze and fiery light on the smoke plume. After all, the lava should give off some light on it, especially during the night. I edited the picture a little bit to show what I mean:

That way it would look even more sinister, especially during the nights.

Now, another thing I was thinking of is much more crazy, and probably if it ever happens it would end up as a sub-mod. An awesome one though :D
Still, this shouldn't be too high on the priority lists.

Are you familliar with the awesome Real Clouds mod for Skyrim? To me it's essential for good Skyrim athmosphere, I was so angry when I saw no clouds in the valleys when I climbed up to High Hrothgar.

Now, in the description you can see that in this mod all the clouds spread from one place at the beginning. Already getting an idea? :D What if, big ash clouds would separate from the plume of Red Mountain, and travel over Vvardenfell? It's importance would be as follows: in the Real Clouds mod, if you walk into a cloud that is on the ground level, the rainy/storm weather is triggered and you have volumetric particle fog there too. Now, in Skywind, it would be even more meaningful, as walking into an ashcloud would mean you've entered a Blight Storm. Imagine how fearsome it would be to see those menacing clouds forming up on the horizon and then making it's way towards you... Especially if you could also hear it from distance, howling wind building up as the storm closes up on you. The menacing sight of ashstorm coming... That would be so damn athmospheric. And it seems possible, looking at the Real Clouds mod.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD1Ff1h_4so

and for the ash storm one can check dynamic snow mod. compared to vanilla snow storm it gives a really nice immersive feeling.

What if, big ash clouds would separate from the plume of Red Mountain, and travel over Vvardenfell? It's importance would be as follows: in the Real Clouds mod, if you walk into a cloud that is on the ground level, the rainy/storm weather is triggered and you have volumetric particle fog there too. Now, in Skywind, it would be even more meaningful, as walking into an ashcloud would mean you've entered a Blight Storm. Imagine how fearsome it would be to see those menacing clouds forming up on the horizon and then making it's way towards you

I've tried a few things in the past around this type of idea. Eloth gave me the task checking out the real clouds mod.

However there is a difference between particles and solid alpha models (real cloud). Particles are not visible at a distance. Solid models are not particular immersive once entered into.

But its possible to have a mix of both. I think we will need to make a custom set of models as Ravanna has done with the plume.

The model would turn forwards, top to bottom, and some particle effects can be added for billowing. In theory of course, doing this work is just a concept.

I agree... :)

Wow, now that's a volcano! 

I'm a friend of Soolie, the mod author who does Real Clouds, so if anyone hasn't talked to him about using resources from his mod, I'd be willing to ask him myself.

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Like so -cough cough-

I've been here for awhile (way longer than I thought, actually) but I don't exactly have a lot I can contribute to the Skywind project save for maybe landscaping, cluttering maybe and art, though my art is hardly needed, so I figured I could try helping with SOMETHING.

Just giving people an idea of topology

before...where that volcano at!?!

AFTER!!! MWHAHAHAHA

Hahahahahhaa

More like a hard nipple

Thanks to the wizardry of alexanderb and ravanna we have a pluming great...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUfCQLQUVEs

I'm wondering if the blight storm can be similar to the plume, obviously red, more transparent to show the mountain.

I've posted these pics before, but still keen to get the violence of a storm via some visual effects. If we can get lightning going, I think I'd be hypnotized into watching it for several hours...and I mean literally.

Damn, this is sexy. Damn...

This looks really awesome. I was really sad when I first played Morrowind, and couldn't find Red Mountain, and than only to find out it was a sad little hill. This looks like a real volcano.

Some Chump wrote:

Red Mountain should be quite calm in the beginning of the game and as the main quest progresses becomes more violent, ending in a giant swirling maelstrom, covering the whole of Vvardenfell in a dark cloud with a bright red beacon of death at its centre. This will give the player a feeling of being in a dynamic world, where the main quest is building to an epic climax.

Agreed.

I too think that would be an excellent dynamic.

Ravanna wrote:

ZeroSbr wrote:

You know, if we could pull this off, we'd have easily one-upped Bethesda. I don't think I've seen anything dynamic in that sense in ANY of Beth's games.

Who's this "WE", matey? Are you going to code it, do the effects, textures and models? awesome, how very kind of you.

Okay, I would like to clear some things up about certain terminology we use on the forums. If its not too much to ask i would like people to refrain from using the words like "we" when you are not part of the certain modding group doing the work. I know this may be sematics but tbh imagine you just ran a marathon and you're friend whos been just sitting around eating hot dogs runs up to you and says "we did! we did!". I know it may sound silly but to use "we" belittles the achievement and effort of the individual modder or group of modders who did the work. Rav and others have put a lot of work and effort into this and though the suggestions are nice thats all they are suggestions, they may further the project in their own way but do not really contribute to any real work done by a modder. If I sound like a glory hogging jerk im sorry...Its just once you put hours of work into something for free having people recognize what you've done just helps motivate us a little more.