Morrowind World Building Part 1: Interior Modding

[Cuddly Khan]

Morrowind World Building Part 1: Interior Modding
This course is about creating and detailing an Interior for Morrowind including everything that is required for it to be considered a good mod, in this course you will learn how to use the Morrowind Construction Set to create a good looking  house. This is just part one and when I get enough interest I will create part two where I will be covering Exterior modding.

Planned Sections:
Rules, what to do and what not to do.
Creating the shell and Exterior of the house.
Connecting to Exterior
Lighting and other properties.
Placing furniture and stuff
Cluttering
Finishing up
Cleaning
Caves
Big Interiors

This course will be assessed by the basic rules of how to make an Interior and what to do and what not to do and also how well you manage to handle the space provided. I will use MSN to manage the courses and they will go for about 1 hours or less.

I have some experience in modding Morrowind. I tried to do Exterior modding once but I just didn't cut it. I've never released any mods to the public but I have been making stuff for myself for a while. I know almost everything to make an Interior for a house.

Max students: 3
Min students: 1
Requirements: Morrowind, preferably with the two expansion packs and
The Elder Scrolls Construction set (Morrowind)
The will to learn
Max Credits: 4-5



Just thought I would start it off, I don't really expect any students but we need some activity here.

[comrade_general]

That's way too many credits Khan. Individual courses should be in the 1-5 range.

[Jubal]

Or rather, 1 credit per short day of work - so you're implying you're planning to tutor someone for over half a year of solid work on this stuff.  I'd suggest more like one or two credits, possibly three.

Also, ideally any future courses should be PMed to me so I can work through any issues with you rather than posted here; dealing with putting things up for people to enrol is my side of the job. Other than that, looks a good plan.

[Cuddly Khan]

I thought it was how many credits you're able to get in the course. Be more specific next time Jubal.

[Jubal]

It is how many you're able to get - so the idea is that this would be one module towards, say, a certificate in Game Design. Assuming we went for two credits, you would then grade every student completing your course as earning 0, 1, or 2 credits for their work. Does that make sense?

[Cuddly Khan]

...Umm, not really. It sounds like you're saying that much for their work for the whole course. Just tell be now. Is it for the whole couse or just individual lessons?

[Jubal]

Well, being honest, how much work would you expect someone to have done to complete your whole scheme of work above? How long would you think it should take?

[Cuddly Khan]

Well, I would say about 3-5 lessons for a house but than theres the caves and the Big Interiors. So all up about 10 lessons. The cluttering does take a while.

[Jubal]

So if each lesson's an hour and a half on average, that's about two or three days of work, thus two or three credits' worth. Sense maketh?

[Cuddly Khan]

Not really, I work on my houses and it take a while to get everything right and to rotate it perfectly, and for the purpose of this exercise I'll be using a furniture that's uneven so you have to rotate it so that it sits perfectly on the surface. That in itself takes a while. While first I will be teaching all the basics like what buttons do what.

[Jubal]

So maybe more like 7 to 10 days/credits? Remember that the workload calculation I'm doing is thinking "if you did it from start to finish working as a solid chunk of time", so the idea is it'll take a lot longer than that because most people won't do a solid day's work every day on it.

[Cuddly Khan]

I don't know, I most likely won't get many, if any, students so it doesn't really matter.

[Jubal]

I'll set it at eight for now.

[Cuddly Khan]

K, thanks. BTW, I noticed your avatar changed. It looks so awesome now.

[Phoenixguard09]

Not sure if this is the right place to ask but, Khan, I have a question for you.  Do you think I'd be able to follow the course with the Oblivion CS? Because I don't have Morrowind, I have little money to spare and I don't know of any place near me guaranteed to sell it.

The problem is, the course itself looks like it would be quite handy for what I'm planning on doing for Oblivion and I would quite like to do it. So, just how much of this course do you think will be compatible with Oblivion as well as Morrowind?