Using shell buildings or making scols from the game to use in my mods ?

[greekrage]

Hi all..

Blame my old age and lack off blood oxygen i tend to forget how i did stuff 3 years ago...

 

I have a couple of "test" esp's that i used to travel the commonwealth and gather assets to use in my mods. (buildings mostly)

I would basically grab a whole building and make it into a static collection and then break it up in my test cell and repair,modify,rebuild it etc..to use in one of my location mods.

Thing is i cant remember how to use it without requiring my test esp to be loaded when using the location mod esp..

I tried breaking it up and then play without the "test" esp but half the parts where missing...

Should i break it in the new location and then remake into a scol and rebreak it up so that it becomes part of the mod ?Will that work ?

Basically i need to make the new building free of external references and dependencies but part of its new "home"..

[DieFeM]

I would make a copy of the scol by just renaming it and selecting the option to create a new object, unless the scol contains objects that only exist in the test esp, your mod should not require the test esp to use the duplicated scol.

[niston]

You can export SCOL as NIF. Shouldn't have any dependencies then.

 

[greekrage]

Thanks for the answers.. ;)