Greetings! (And a couple of newbie modding queries...)

[moogatron]

Hello there!

 

Been lurking and trying out a few mods recently, and have decided to try my hand at a little modding....

 

But I have a couple of questions I've not been able to find answers for, and I was wondering if someone here might be able to help... apologies if I've just been looking in the wrong places!

 

1) Is there any way to increase the draw distance within the construction kit, beyond what is available in the preferences?? It seems awfully short! Even a wireframe at a distance or something might be helpful!

 

2) In a tutorial I was reading on the construction kit wiki, it suggests creating your own kind of stock/library areas, showing for example all of the architecture pieces of a specific type (sewer, cave etc.), so that you can easily see which piece you are after. So... I started to do this before realising (a) it would take quite a long time to do all of the bits, and (b) perhaps this has been done before! So my question is - is there an esp or even something in vanilla that shows all the separate pieces like this? I've tried looking , but no luck so far :wacko:

 

Thanks

[worm82075]

Hello there!

 

Been lurking and trying out a few mods recently, and have decided to try my hand at a little modding....

 

But I have a couple of questions I've not been able to find answers for, and I was wondering if someone here might be able to help... apologies if I've just been looking in the wrong places!

 

1) Is there any way to increase the draw distance within the construction kit, beyond what is available in the preferences?? It seems awfully short! Even a wireframe at a distance or something might be helpful!

 

2) In a tutorial I was reading on the construction kit wiki, it suggests creating your own kind of stock/library areas, showing for example all of the architecture pieces of a specific type (sewer, cave etc.), so that you can easily see which piece you are after. So... I started to do this before realising (a) it would take quite a long time to do all of the bits, and (b) perhaps this has been done before! So my question is - is there an esp or even something in vanilla that shows all the separate pieces like this? I've tried looking , but no luck so far :wacko:

 

Thanks

1) In the Oblivion.INI you can increase the draw distance beyond that of standard preferences.

 

2) every item in the game is laid out in test worldspaces in the Oblivion.esm. You just have to look through them and find the one your looking for.

[moogatron]

Hi

 

Thank you. I have had a little look into the distance options in the Oblivion.ini file, and it all seems to relate to the game itself rather than the construction kit? But I'll look a bit more...

 

And I'll take a look around for those testing areas!

 

Thanks

[ub3rman123]

To change the draw distance inside the CS, just go to File-Preferences-LOD tab, and move the sliders further to the right until they're at the distance you want them at.

 

For seeing the pieces, look in the cells labeled 'warehouse'. They have almost all of the tileset pieces for dungeons, and also have rooms you can copy-paste for quick dungeon building.