Intro and Landscaping

Introduction

This tutorial covers the basics of manually performing landscaping tasks. The skills emphasized here will focus on editing small areas in fine detail.

This tutorial is a continuation of the My First Dungeon tutorial. If you did not complete that tutorial, we'll be using an exterior cell in the "Tamriel" worldspace at 13,-12. We dropped the following items into the space, which you can also do now:

• CEntranceRockMossLG01
• CDoor00
• LL1BanditCamp50
• MapMarker

Landscape Mode

With the cell loaded, press "H" to enter Landscape mode. This changes your cursor into a landscaping tool and brings up the Landscape Edit Settings panel. There's a lot of information here, so let's study it a moment.

• Height
  • Edit Radius
    • This setting determines the size of your cursor tool.
  • Edit Fallout %
    • Not used in current version
  • Flatten Vertices
    • Checking this box will cause your tool to flatten land
  • Soften Vertices
    • Checking this box will cause your tool to smooth land
  • Show Edit Radius
    • Toggles display of cursor tool.
• Texture
  • Texture List
    • All the landscape textures available to you.
  • Selected Texture
    • A preview of the currently selected texture
  • Max Opacity
    • Lowering this setting is useful for blending textures
• Vertex Color
  • RGB (left)
    • The color here determines your left-click shading value
  • RGB (right)
    • The color here determines your right-click shading value
  • Save colors
    • These two rows can be used to store colors you use frequently

Don't worry if you don't understand everything here right away.  
We'll cover each section in the tutorial

Part 2: Height Editing