ratkiller13

" Preferably one that does not require me to restart my game, because I have -1000% interest in ever playing the imperial dungeon again for the rest of time." Cure for that is another mod, which starts you at the sewer exit with a chest that contains all the junk you would have collected going through the starter dungeon; https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/1947 Also fixes the custom race problem. "This was NOT a problem in Morrowind, there were plenty of high level enemies and areas you had to avoid but also plenty of low level areas for newer characters to mess around in." I don't know of a mod like that, but it should be possible (although tedious) to make, the only mod I ever uploaded changed nuisance creatures into vampires, which made the beginning harder rather than easier. Tinkering with the leveled lists is one way to do it, the more tedious way (altho much closer to the Morrowind system) would be to go dungeon by dungeon replacing low with high in some and high with low in others. I agree with the sentiment, in Morrowind you entered every new dungeon cautiously and prepared to run for your life. :devil: :ermm:

When I made the switch from Windows 98SE to XP, I had to do a lot of screwing around with DOSBOX to get some of the old games to work at all. My understanding is that some of the newer operating systems like Windows 10 dropped the DOS kernel completely, since I'm still chugging along with XP I have no direct experience with VISTA, 7, 8, or 10. Since the newer systems may have assorted backward compatibility issues, the question "What operating system?" is an important one to answer.

Thanks for the input, despite that evil nasty wicked "real life" getting in the way I'm still working on this when I have the time. Got this ruler that's supposed to be 1000 units, depending on which source you go by 22 or 23 units = one foot. (No idea why the odd number either way, if the original programmers were using metric, 25.4 millimeters would be one inch.) Allegedly the height of 1.0 is six feet for various races, female Nord is 1.06, so she's a bit over 6 feet tall. Turned one of those bedrolls on end and it was about the same, more or less matches the ruler markings. Custom spells with 25, 50, 75 and 100 range or area, detect life, light target, flame damage 2 for 10 seconds, all are just a little short of the markers. So it's PROBABLY feet for range/radius, whether it says "range" for target spell, "area" for damage spell, or "magnitude" for detect life and light spells. One example is a light target area spell; EFFECT: Light RANGE: Target AREA: 50 DURATION: 10 MAGNITUDE: 10 With that I look straight down at where my feet would be, cast the spell, and if the target is in range she lights up as if she had cast the spell on herself. The range is still iffy, various experiments it looks like "50" is actually short of that, somewhere around 45 to 48 feet, although when you're guessing at the actual numbers you have to allow for errors.

Easiest way in the CS, click character, race, select one and duplicate. Rename the race then click the body data tab, change all the data to the same nifs the skeleton uses. Now you have a unique playable race, so you'll need to add one of the quickstart mods or a race dialogue mod.

Been trial and erroring this, gave up and tried google, no help. Standard vanilla spell; Fire Storm Fire Damage 50 Area 15 So you cast that spell aiming at the floor/ground between you and the target, if he's within the 15 (whatever it is) area he gets cooked. Fifteen what? I found for objects in the CS there are 21.3 units per foot when you move something, but an area effect is obviously more than that. Centimeters, inches, yards, hectares, furlongs, fathoms? I can't find anything that tells what measurement the Area number refers to.

"they rarely appear in animated form in the Construction set", top menu click WORLD, then RUN HAVOK SIM to animate in the CS. Generally I have to actually test in game to see what it really looks like anyway.

For a custom weapon or armor, you need three files, not two. In \Meshes, MyCustomSword.nif calls for a texture but actually requires a second lighting texture with a matching name, example MyCustomSword.dds and MyCustomSword_n.dds. The MyCustomSword.nif requires some kind of "ground" shape, MyCustomSword_gnd.nif is preferable although any gnd.nif will usually work. Best way is to edit an existing similar object, change the name, then redirect the nif files it calls for in the CS. Also double check in NIFskope that the path to the texture folder is correct, if your Oblivion folder is in a different location from where it was when NIFskope was installed you'll get blank white or invisible textures.

Downloaded the file, I'm getting "unsupported audio format" in real player, "ACM driver error" in Power Sound Editor. Assuming this WAV file plays on your system normally, you could try checking the 2D box ON and see if that plays in game. https://cs.elderscrolls.com/index.php?title=Sound

In the construction set, hit the B key to turn exterior (outside) boundaries on/off in the render window. In the cell view window, right click on the cell to change the water height. For a house downhill from the lake, place it in a different cell with lower water. Rather than trial and error I usually temporarily place an object where the water height will be, then double click the object to read the height from the Z position in the reference window.

I generally merge a lot of ESPs that I'm not actively working on to keep the bloat under control, currently I have 9 ESP files active. With several dozen mods it would be rather difficult, but with only a few the easiest way is to load all the mods affecting the same cell, then set the one to be changed as the active file. Example; Rowboat.esp - several player controlled sailboats on the water. Cities3.esp - Assorted extra forts and villages. 1Sewers.esp - new sewer systems under various cities, some connected to vanilla dungeons. So I have a new fort on an island just north of Leyawin, with a sewer exit from the Leyawin sewers nearby, and I want to place a boat next to a pier near the new island fort city. Check Oblivion.esm on, then check Cities3 and 1sewers on, check Rowboat on and set it as the active file. Now I have the fort city and the Leyawin north sewer exit visible, so I can place the new rowboat next to the pier (which is in the Cities3.esp but wouldn't be visible in the other two by themselves) and avoid placing it too close to or partially inside the sewer exit (which wouldn't be visible if 1Sewers wasn't loaded). Obviously with a zillion mods in use at the same time that would be more difficult, for example if I was using one of the open cities mods my sewers and cities mods would conflict with any of those since they alter the same exterior cells.

I'm guessing you're new at this from some of the phrasing - "I made a patch with CS" do you mean you made a MOD? Simple steps for making a new mod; 1. Open CS, click FILE, DATA, select Oblivion.esm, set as active. 2. Do something, anything, placing a tree for example. 3. Save, it automatically will save as an ESP file, so name it something.esp. 4. Start Oblivion Launcher. 5. In the launcher menu, click on DATA FILES. 6. In the DATA FILES menu, select your new "something.esp" (whatever you named it) and make sure the box is checked on. 7. Start the game. If you have the tree planted in a cell that you haven't been in yet, a savegame should load it okay when you teleport to that cell (a cell can be external or internal, if you plant the tree outside the Anvil main gate it should show up when you first teleport to the Anvil stables.) Best way to test new stuff is to start a new game using one of the quickstart mods; https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/1947/? And place your test tree just outside ImperialSewers03, simplest is to place across the river near Vilverin. That makes it easy to start a new game each time, exit the sewer, and see if the changes worked. Be advised, if you're using another mod as a basis - for example you load a mod that has a non standard weapon, you place the weapon on the ground, then start the game without that mod active, you won't see the weapon. For that to work in a new mod you have to; 1. Load Oblivion.esm, whatever.esp (the mod with the custom weapon) and something.esp (your new mod) and set something.esp as the active file. 2. Find the custom weapon, right click, duplicate it. 3. Place the duplicate, save and exit. 4. Fire up the game, your duplicate should show up if something.esp is activated without having to also activate whatever.esp. There are probably other ways to transfer custom items and characters from one mod to another, I've been using the construction set since Morrowind and haven't tried the new wrye bash or TES4edit utilities yet.

Simplest thing to do is open the construction set, set Oblivion.esm as the active, then click Gameplay, Settings, scroll down to the iLevelUp section. iLevelUp01Mult = 2, change that to 5. Change all the rest to 5, then save as a .esp file and activate it. Whenever any skill increases, whether it's one, four, or 10 you'll have five bonus points for that skill's attribute. Just below the skill bonus multipliers is iLevelUpSkillCount = 10, change that to 15 or 20 if you want to level up slower. Construction set isn't that hard, you can adjust all the game settings to your own personal taste, and when (not IF, WHEN) you screw something up just delete your faulty .esp file and make a new one. Try weird things like iLevelUp01Mult = 20, so every time you level up you can add 20 points instead of 5. Change iTrainingSkills = 5 to iTrainingSkills = 50, then you can train 50 times instead of 5 times between level ups. Play with it, get weird. :cool:

Thing about containers that surprised me - create a new chest, paint it, stock it, scatter copies of it all over Tamriel - but each physical copy has to have the locked/unlocked status and lock level set individually after placement.

That should actually be simple in the construction set; https://cs.elderscrolls.com/index.php?title=Container As for step by step, simplest thing is to edit an existing chest, change the edit ID name to create a new chest, then make sure the box for "RESPAWNS" is unchecked. Drag and drop items into the chest to stock it with whatever you want, or leave it empty and just use it as storage in the game.

Steady Zoom.esp would be my first suspect.