Difference between revisions of "New World Space and Region borders drawing"

This article demonstrates a method for drawing region borders for a new worldspace using the Region Editor. The first time you see the region map in the Region Editor it can be a little intimidating. It can be very difficult to determine exactly where to start. This article briefly covers the steps used to create region borders as well as every step in between. If your world is ready to go in the Heightmap editor you can skip directly to the parts that apply to your current situation.  

===Prerequisites===

To get the most out of this article it is recommended you read and understand the following articles:<br />

You also should be aware of „LOD for a new world” problems:<br />

As for now we don't need any data from „Oblivion.esm” master file, so just start up the Construction Set, go to [World] -> [World Spaces...], right click on a list to create new EditorID for [[Exterior_cells|an exterior world space]], and name it whatever you want – mine is the „PizzaWorld”. We don't need any parent worldspace ('''Parent Worldspace -> NONE'''), our world shall be '''Small''' and player '''Can't Fast Travel From Here''' to any other world spaces.<br>

When a new world is created, go to the '''Cell View''' window, choose 'PizzaWorld' as a World Space, and double click on 'Wilderness' cell to activate it – now we should have some new cells added to a PizzaWorld.<br>

==Generate a Heightmap==

To create a landmass we can use the [[Heightmap_Editing|Heightmap Editor]] – go to menu [World] -> [Heightmap Editing...] and choose our 'PizzaWorld' to load. We will build an island – from Toolbar choose the '''Lasso''' and draw a world shape. I have also toggled the Grid to show you the scale of my Pizza World.<br>

[http://img64.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pizza2lasso2fy9.png Image02: World shape drawing]

If everything is ready, we can push twice the '''Generate''' button (twice, because we want to get a land just over the water level) and heightmap will be created automatically. Some of areas probably will require a correction.

 

 

To compare your view of created heightmap, these are parameters for the '''Color Masking''' in my settings:

Now we need to smooth the heightmap – to do this, we can use the '''Erosion Generator''' with the following settings:

Push the '''Erode''' button 4 or 5 times to get completely smooth land. We can also check how our world looks in a 3D view – on a Toolbar click on a picture with camera to open the '''Preview Window''' and examine the world surface if there aren't any steep dodges.