hmlendea / oblivion-the-great-atlas

Mod for Oblivion that adds a book with various maps to the game

About

Adds a book to the game, that contains various maps depicting things such as neighbouring regions or Ayleid ruin locations.

The maps are drawn in the style of the vanilla map from the Knights of the Nine expansion that shows the location of the wayshrines of the Nine Divines.

Disclaimer

The mod was last updated on 13 April 2011

This repository contains the source files of the mod, uploaded as-is. Other than some renamings and reorganising the structure in general, the content itself is as it was all those years ago.

Further content updates are to not be expected!

Installation

Manual installation

1. Extract the files to a temporary location
2. Copy the Data directory to your game's root directory
3. Start the Oblivion Launcher
4. Click Data Files
5. Tick the checkbox for hori873 - The Great Atlas

Manual uninstallation

1. Start the Oblivion Launcher
2. Click Data Files
3. Untick the checkbox for hori873 - The Great Atlas
4. Go to the Data directory inside your game's root directory
5. Delete the following files and folders:
   • Data/hori873 - The Great Atlas.esp
   • Data/Textures/menus/book/The Great Atlas
   • Data/Textures/menus50/book/The Great Atlas
   • Data/Textures/menus80/book/The Great Atlas

Contributions

You are welcome to bring any modification to this mod.

I am not personally working on it anymore, but I am willing to review and accept changes made by the community.

You can contact me for permission to edit the mod on Nexus.

I do require though to keep the contributions open-source and include them in this repository (either through a pull request, or just sending them to me and I'll handle it)

Development requirements

• GIMP for editing the .xcf source files of the images
• TES Construction Set for making the .esp mod itself