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The TES Renewal Project displayed the hard work the volunteers have done in just two months, bringing the revamped world of Skyblivion tantalizingly close.
The TES Renewal Project began in 2013 and aims to port Morrowind and Oblivion into the Creation engine used in 2011’s Skyrim. As developer Bethesda made quite a few technological leaps in the intervening years, this means that every building block of each game needs to be recreated in the new engine. Although both projects are basically ports, in reality they are true recreations of these two classic games.
As Skyblivion is a volunteer project, progress hasn’t always been smooth and sometimes it has been couple of months between updates. However, thanks to the media attention the last Skyblivion trailer received just two months ago, the TES Renewal Project has had more volunteers report in than ever before and progress has accelerated accordingly. Those who want to see a preview can check out the new trailer below.
So far, the main work has been on making the province of Cyrodiil come alive, and as it’s looking now the 22 square miles of the Oblivion map should be done in the near future: the area has been totally mapped under its skin and now texture and 3D artists are prepared to lay their work over this mesh. Apart from the outside areas of the province, other members of the Skyblivion team have been hard at work on laying the groundwork on all indoor areas; the team hopes to be filling in details and adding clutter soon.
Other than looking pretty, Skyblivion will also have all the original quests from Oblivion, however the team is also cleaning them as they put them into their mod. This battle against the bugs of Bethesda is arguably the most impressive, as even the original dev team sometimes looked stumped why a certain quest giver decided to launch herself through a roof or a tavern drunk sat in the floor while he complained about Dark Elves.
Unfortunately, there still is no set release date for Skyblivion, but those who think this project deserves to released sooner rather than later, here is where they can volunteer for the TES Renewal Project.
