Talk:Creating Large Worldspaces

A Few Notes

TES4Geko - You don't have to worry about creating the shortcut properly if you run the program directly from the executable. This involves navigating to the executable's location each time you need to use it and running it from the installed location. Not as convenient of course, but it still gets the job done.

Oblivion.esm - Is loading Oblivion.esm really necessary for creating a new world space? Doesn't this just set Oblivion.esm as a dependency for your New World? I just tested this and was able to create a new world space without Oblivion.esm. And after creating the new world space I was still able to load both Oblivion.esm and my new world space ESM files without error.

Final Editing - I have a few notes in reference to making corrections in large world spaces to "sew together" the borders between quads.

• The greatest number of errors (rips) on a texture are created in the hightmap editor where land is not properly blended before saving the texture. Any large, abrupt changes in elevation are prone to tearing. These are indicated by hard lines between two colors. There should be no hard lines left on your texture in the hightmap editor when you save it. Make sure all hard lines are blended with either the blending tool or the noise tool.

• Additionally, in reference to the above note tears can be prevented at the exterior perimeter of your New World by blending the last few cells into the water rather than having the land just suddenly stop and drop off. Blending can be done with the blending tool or with the noise tool depending on the terrain type you want at these locations.

• For World Spaces larger than 4 quads: When blending the borders between quads in the landscape editor it isn't necessary to to blend these perfectly to your finished specifications. Getting a good finished product can be just as time consuming in the landscape editor as it is in the heightmap editor with all of its seeming random error generation. Here is my suggested methodology keeping in mind the rest of the article's instructions:

1 - Design and finish the layout of 4 quads 2 - Save in the heightmap editor 3 - Make error corrections in the landscape editor, save, and create .esm 4 - Start new .esp and design/finish the layout of the next 4 quads 5 - Save in the heightmap editor 6 - Make error corrections in the landscape editor, save, and merge with the .esm 7 - Repeat above steps designing additional quads following this pattern and merge 8 - After all heightmaps are created and merged start a new esp 9 - Edit the borders in the heightmap. Multiple esps will be required for large worlds. Merge each "border-edit" esp with the esm as they are created. Also as you edit the borders scan the heightmap your working on for errors and fix them as you go. These will appear as sharply contrasted squares/rectangles. 10 - After all borders are edited use the landscape editor to correct errors in conjunction with the heightmap editor. DO NOT make corrections with the heightmap editor at this time, and DO NOT save any more textures in the heightmap editor. At this time you will only use the heightmap editor for finding errors in your textures. Make the actual corrections using the landscape editor. Merge with the esm.