Portal:Building and Editing

The Building and Editing Portal

Building and Editing is a skill every modder needs and almost every mod requires. It could be explained as simply dragging objects from the Object Window into the Render Window, however, creating convincing looking cities, towns and landscapes requires practice and knowledge about the tools and bugs of Construction Set offers.

Featured Using Kits and Navigating the Render Window TESIV dungeons are assembled using modular kits created by artists. A typical kit consists of a variety of walls, halls, and other structural elements that snap together seamlessly. For this dungeon, we're going to use Istvan Pely's Cave kit. We're now ready to begin using the Object Window. This window is the toolbox from which we'll pull all the monsters, architecture, objects, and just about anything else we need while building with the CS. To access the Cave kit, expand the Object Window list as shown in the image. Notice the list of objects now filling the right field of the Object Window. This is the cave kit. There are two important things to point out about how these objects are named. Read more... Tip Try adding a simple ball or cube before you get into serious modding. Tutorials Copying rooms and adding them to your plugin Door Markers My First Shop Fractal terrain Landscape Generation Landscape LOD Tutorial Visible When Distant Tutorial World Space Tutorial WorldBuilding 101 Creating Large Worldspaces Tools The Elder Scrolls Construction Set TESPort TESAnnwyn TES4qLOD

Things you can do Give feedback about this portal on its TALK page! Getting Started A beginner's guide, lesson 2 - Creating a room A beginner's guide, lesson 3 - The external world My First Dungeon Basic Landscaping Tutorial Related Pages Objects Cells Units of Measurement Cell View Window Object Window Render Window Shortcuts Creating custom categories in the Object Window Generate High resolution LOD textures Making pools of water in exterior cells Heightmap editor Troubleshooting Crashes Common Mistakes Common Bugs CS Crashes New World Space and Region borders drawing Where are the NIF and dds files Related Portals Portal:AI Portal:Modeling

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