Top of the World

================================ TOP OF THE WORLD Rev 1. 2 Vince Bly May 2007 ================================ ------------- OVERVIEW ------------- Top of the World (TOTW) is a different kind of house mod in several significant ways. 1) TOTW\'s interior is actually part of the exterior world. This means that you can see out the windows. To take maximum advantage of this, TOTW has windows all around and is situated on top of the IC Tower. As you might imagine, the view is fantastic! 2) TOTW has distant view enabled. So TOTW can be seen from a large portion of Tamriel, even as far away as Cloud Ruler Temple. 3) The TOTW house mod (\"TOTW.esp\") is unfurnished. A separate mod is included (\"TOTWfurn.esp\") that provides furniture, containers, and clutter. This means that you could use a mod, such as Amajor7\'s Imperial Furniture, to furnish TOTW yourself. It also means that someone else could create a furniture mod for TOTW. 4) Since TOTW is rather expensive, a low level player may not be able to afford it. So a free campsite is included (\"TOTWcamp.esp\"). The campsite, near the village of Aleswell, provides a rustic but serviceable home with a place to sleep out of the weather and plenty of safe storage. 5) TOTW includes an artifact, \"The Shrine of Alignment\" and a book that describes its origin and power. Although the Shrine does not produce any euber items, it does allow the player to convert powerful items, such as the Necklace of Swords, to items of similar power that are more aligned with the player\'s skill set. ----------------- INSTALLATION ----------------- 1) As always, you should make a save of your game before installing any mod. Also, check to see if you have an Oblivion\\Data\\DistantLOD folder. If so, you might want to back it up in case you later decide you want its distant views rather than that provided by TOTW. 2) Double-click on the file TOTW_R12.zip and extract all into your \\Oblivion folder (the same folder that contains Oblivion.exe). This will place TOTW_ReadmeR12.txt in your Oblivion folder, TOTW.esp, TOTWfurn.exp, and TOTWcamp.esp in your Oblivion\\Data folder and related files in \\Data\\Meshes\\TOTW, Data\\Textures\\TOTW, \\Data\\Textures\\Menus\\Icons\\TOTW, and \\Data\\DistantLOD. Since TOTW_R12.zip contains a very large number of small files, extraction may be a bit slow. 3) When you start Oblivion, click on \"Data Files\". The files listed should now include \"TOTW.esp\", \"TOTWfurn.exp\", and \"TOTWcamp.exp\". For now, click on the square to the left of each of the three files so that an \"X\" shows in each. Then Click \'OK\'. 4) Now click on \'Play\' and enjoy. You can verify that TOTW is there from anywhere near the Imperial City. You will see it sitting on top of the IC Tower. Note, it will not be visible from inside the Imperial City proper, but can be seen from outlying areas such as the IC Waterfront. If you don\'t see TOTW on top of t