Looking for a lava value

[mcchuggernaut]

Long story short, I am trying to modify how fast the lava lakes in the oblivion worlds "flow". It appears to all be flowing in one direction, and since there is no lapping against or flowing around objects, it looks very weird and unnatural when you use a high definition retexture. It isn't so noticeable when you are using the vanilla lava textures simply because they are so bad, and that's why I'm guessing the devs set the flow speed so high: simply to help disguise the s*** textures with a lot of fast movement. The problem is, higher res textures look to be flowing completely unrealistically fast because of this, and it also breaks the illusion that it is anything more than just a flat sheet of textures because of how quickly it flows into rocks and shorelines. If I could slow down that movement It would be far less obvious and immersion-breaking. However, I am completely unsure where this flow speed value is in the construction set. None of the other modders that have changed the lava seem to have done anything about changing it's flow speed, so is it even possible?

 

If I can change this I will approach several of the authors of the most popular lava retexture mods and see if they would like to incorporate my tweak into their mod or use it as an optional download, so this might be of benefit to a number of people.

 

Any help from someone more familiar with Oblivion's construction set would be greatly appreciated!

 

Edit: Victory! I managed to find and modify the flow speed value for lava! Now it looks much less immersion-breaking for me! Anyone who would like to modify the the flow speed to their tastes, you may use this method:

In the construction set find the "miscellaneous" section, then find the "water" section under that. Then in the "editor ID" box, find "OblivionLavaTest01", right click it and choose "edit". You will get a warning, ignore it. Then in the "water simulator" box, there will be a value called " "Scroll X Speed", which you can modify to change the flow speed of the lava. I chose a value of 0.0002, which worked very nicely for Koldorn's Improved Lava 2, which is the lava mod that I use. Hit the apply button, then the OK button, then save your modifications. Presto, custom lava flow speed! Enjoy! :smile:

Edited November 11, 2016 by mcchuggernaut