Difference between revisions of "A beginner's guide, lesson 1 - The Construction Set Primer"

The render window is your view into the world you are creating or changing. When you click again on the Wawnetinn Tavern cell the picture should appear in the render window. It is likely to be a small block in the lower left of the window.

Navigating and manipulating the render window is vital to any mod you make.  

Objects are dropped into the world by dragging them from the object list into the render window.  

It is therefore crucial that you are able to operate within the window with confidence or nothing meaningful can be achieved. I suspect this is why so many potential modders give up. This is a shame, the more modders there are the more mods we will get. This will make our gaming world more varied and interesting. So don’t give up, stick with it.

The fact is that for a beginner, using the window can be a pain in the proverbal.  

This is because several of the functions are counter-intuitive. Because the game world is 3-d and your screen is 2-d there is a problem. You will need to be able to move left and right (y-axis) front and back (x-axis) and up and down (z-axis). However, your mouse can only move along two of these axes, but which two.

You will need to practice and be able to do two key things in the render window.

 

 

For example the A key allows you to toggle Bright Light on and off. It's a very useful thing while working with Interior cells in the Construction Set and has no influence on the light in game.

 

Now lets look at zoom. This is the function of the centre wheel. Scroll in and out and watch the image in the window.