Tutorial: Creating your own randomly placed POI's

[FSNovask]

This seems like a quick way to find out what planet your new POI could spawn on (correct me if I'm wrong on anything):

1. Go to Use info of the block that you cut the terrain from, in this case, FieldsHillsSmall1K05
2. Go to Use Info for one of the patterns, like PatternHillsSmoothFieldsHills05
3. There should be a list of Surface trees with planet body names that will use the pattern/block, so your POI might spawn there

I was able to go to Strix III-a and find it in the first landing zone. Haven't extensively tested it though

 

 

[elementslayer]

Has anyone ran into it where the landscape of the overlay doesn't match what is in-game?

I added the points, and just a few test habs, and in CK they are in the correct location but inside game they are floating, because the ground topography doesn't match. I don't think I missed a step.

[Hvizeu]

Did you do any special steps to get your terrain sculpting to load in? Either if I am trying to follow your guide or this other one for a unique location (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3266682879) it seems that any sculpting i do on the terrain it does not persist into the game.

[HappySlapp]

Thank you for this tutorial

[MikkoK141]

1 hour ago, Hvizeu said:

Did you do any special steps to get your terrain sculpting to load in? Either if I am trying to follow your guide or this other one for a unique location (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3266682879) it seems that any sculpting i do on the terrain it does not persist into the game.

You have to click 'Terrain' at the top, then Export Landscape, save it the same name as your WorldSpace under Data/Terrain and then you click Data > Create Archive, and pick your exported landscape. Then when you export your mod as .esm it will load. For testing you might want to add this to StarfieldCustom.ini (Create it if it doesn't exist) in C:/Users/USERNAME/Documents/My Games/Starfield

[Archive]
bInvalidateOlderFiles=1
sResourceDataDirsFinal=

 

[Hvizeu]

5 minutes ago, MikkoK141 said:

You have to click 'Terrain' at the top, then Export Landscape, save it the same name as your WorldSpace under Data/Terrain and then you click Data > Create Archive, and pick your exported landscape. Then when you export your mod as .esm it will load. For testing you might want to add this to StarfieldCustom.ini (Create it if it doesn't exist) in C:/Users/USERNAME/Documents/My Games/Starfield

[Archive]
bInvalidateOlderFiles=1
sResourceDataDirsFinal=

 

Amazing! Will give it a try, thank you.

[Hvizeu]

Got this when i tried to save the terrain :

[HappySlapp]

46 minutes ago, Hvizeu said:

Got this when i tried to save the terrain :

Had the same problem, there should be a folder with your worldspace's name inside the folder with your mod's name when the window to save opens, gotta save it to that folder.

 

EDIT:

You have to save the .btd somewhere else, then you close the CK and copy paste the .btd into the Terrain folder, it's the only way it seems.

[Hvizeu]

1 hour ago, HappySlapp said:

Had the same problem, there should be a folder with your worldspace's name inside the folder with your mod's name when the window to save opens, gotta save it to that folder.

 

EDIT:

You have to save the .btd somewhere else, then you close the CK and copy paste the .btd into the Terrain folder, it's the only way it seems.

Amazing! Hopefully they patch these issues soon. Thanks for the tip.

Edit: This worked flawlessly, terrain deformation is updating normally on the .esm now.

[HappySlapp]

21 minutes ago, Hvizeu said:

Amazing! Hopefully they patch these issues soon. Thanks for the tip.

No problem, have fun making stuff