Trying to remove trees from Topal Island mod esp?

[Shadowstitch]

Hello! I'm sort of new to the Oblivion modding game, having just gotten back into Oblivion again after playing Fallout 3 for a while. I've decided to try out a few mods, and perhaps work on a few little projects myself.

 

I've been trying out other people's mods, and I'm really impressed with a lot of them. However, I don't see any reason why I can't tweak them slightly for my own personal usage, and that's what I'm trying to do.

 

I downloaded Darksyne's Topal Island mod, and it's quite nice, with one exception: The small island is covered with way too much greenery, to the point where I can barely even see the house to get to it, instead I have to forage through the foliage to get to the front door. Also, if I enable Max_Tael's "Natural Vegetation" mod, then I cannot even SEE the house. So I'd like to remove some of the greenery there, using the TES CS, but I'm sort of stuck at the moment. I'm a huge noob, so please excuse my ignorance.

 

I have read over a ton of the tutorials and documentation pretty exhaustively, but I haven't seen any info pertaining to my issue, and it boils down to my not doing something right here. I have loaded up the Topal Island ESP with the Oblivion ESM it depends on, set the Topal as Active, and I can find the cell where the house SHOULD be, (23,-40) but it's not there. Nothing is. The interiors are listed in the Interior cells, but I can't figure out how to open the external view to edit the landscape around it and remove the trees.

 

What should I be doing? What have I missed here? Can anyone give me a helping hand? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[XJDHDR]

[yawn, snip!]...I downloaded Darksyne's Topal Island mod, and it's quite nice, with one exception: The small island is covered with way too much greenery, to the point where I can barely even see the house to get to it, instead I have to forage through the foliage to get to the front door. Also, if I enable Max_Tael's "Natural Vegetation" mod, then I cannot even SEE the house. So I'd like to remove some of the greenery there, using the TES CS, but I'm sort of stuck at the moment. I'm a huge noob, so please excuse my ignorance.

 

I have read over a ton of the tutorials and documentation pretty exhaustively, but I haven't seen any info pertaining to my issue, and it boils down to my not doing something right here. I have loaded up the Topal Island ESP with the Oblivion ESM it depends on, set the Topal as Active, and I can find the cell where the house SHOULD be, (23,-40) but it's not there. Nothing is. The interiors are listed in the Interior cells, but I can't figure out how to open the external view to edit the landscape around it and remove the trees.

 

What should I be doing? What have I missed here? Can anyone give me a helping hand? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

Don't worry about being a newbie Shadowstitch. Everyone was one at some stage.

 

As for your problem, try this:

 

Open the construction set the way you mentioned above. Next, open one of the interior cells for the house on Topal Island (preferably the one which you would enter if you were moving between the house's exterior and interior). Once you have this cell open, find the door which takes you outside. Then double-click on the door's teleport marker (it is a yellow rectangle with a purple triangle attached and about the size of a person). In the message box which appears, click yes. You will now be outside the house and you can start deleting trees.

 

I hope this helps you.