CK Question - Help - World Creation

[TheDarkPrince]

Hi everyone, long time no seen!

I would like to know something from the gurus of the Creation Kit. Is there any tutorial (video or written) that explains HOW to:

1) Create a new worldspace by HEIGHTMAP

2) Generate random terrain textures on large-scale areas

3) Generate random trees around the worldspace



Thank you very much. Much appreciated, for the least!

Edited December 1, 2013 by TheDarkPrince

[Fistandilius]

There's not a LOT out there. There are a few youtube videos... I don't have links to those. Most people will refer you to the following tutorials:

http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/809556-from-l3dt-to-skyrim-heightmap-tutorial/

http://hoddminir.blogspot.de/2012/02/from-heightmap-to-worldspace-in-skyrim.html

http://hoddminir.blogspot.se/2012/02/generating-lods-in-creation-kit.html

http://hoddminir.blogspot.se/2012/05/making-16bit-height-map-without.html

 

None of them are very beginner oriented, IMO, and most of them assume knowledge of a third party software like L3dt or GeoControl. L3dt is free, GeoControl costs $30 I believe, but has a 30 day trial period. Of course you could build yours with photoshop or gimp and skip the 3d heightmap software, but you're not going to have a great idea of your worldspace until you load it in the creation kit. You're also going to need TessAnwynn, which has even less support out there:

 

http://www.oceanlightwave.com/morrowind/TESAnnwyn.html

 

It's command line based though, so you're really going to have to know a bit about heightmaps to get the correct settings or it's just going to be a mess when you import it. The documentation for it basically rundowns what it's capable of and gives a few examples and that's it.

 

Unfortunately the more advanced stuff in Skyrim, working with heightmaps and LOD, rigging and adding new monsters, etc. just don't have good tutorials available for beginners. There are some talented guys out there doing stuff, but unless you ask them specifically, they aren't sharing their knowledge.

Edited December 1, 2013 by Fistandilius