Custom landscapes

[cdo947214]

A few mods out there that have new worldspaces that use items that are not in the GECK (landscape, furniture, etc.) What program would I use to make these?

[madmongo]

You can make new worldspaces in the GECK. It is extremely difficult to learn how to do, rather unintuitive in parts (like much of the GECK), uses some of the buggier parts of the GECK and will crash often, and is extremely time consuming to do properly. There's a reason that you don't see many mods with new worldspaces in them, and those that do often have extremely simple and unrealistic flat land worldspaces.

 

To make new things like furniture, armor, weapons, etc. you need the GECK, some sort of 3d modeling tool (I use Blender since it's free), nif tools that work with your 3d modeling tool so that you can import and export models in the nif format that fallout requires, something that can generate and edit dds textures and normal maps (GIMP can do both, paint.net can do the textures but not the normal maps), and nifscope. You can find Blender, the nifscripts that are required, and nifscope bundled together using versions that all play nice together on the nexus (might be under fallout 3).