Help with creating basic home

[cinnon68]

Hello, This is my first time creating anything with the CK. Can someone point me to a good site with easy instructions to create a home? I looked at wikki, but only saw a cave and people and such. no houses or castles. Any info would be greatly appreciated. thanks

 

Also, my CK keeps crashing, any ideas?

Edited February 8, 2012 by cinnon68

[Bismarck]

Let's assume you want to build a simple house.

 

You need to create an interior cell.

Go to World->Cell and right click into the list and select "new".

Enter a proper name and afterwards, you can play with ambient values. Just look at a similar interior cell and copy its values.

In the cell view window, double click on your new cell name and an empty scene should appear in the upper right window.

Now you can drag stuff from the left list and drop it into the upper right window.

Object Window: World Object->Static contains all buildings, some furniture and decorations.

You can arrange items in the window by dragging parts around with the mouse. Alternatively, you can hold down x, y or z and move the part in accordance to the chosen axis. You might want to activate "Snap to grid" in File->Preference to properly arrange items in the upper right window.

 

This might not be perfect, but it should help you to get started.

[cinnon68]

Let's assume you want to build a simple house.

 

You need to create an interior cell.

Go to World->Cell and right click into the list and select "new".

Enter a proper name and afterwards, you can play with ambient values. Just look at a similar interior cell and copy its values.

In the cell view window, double click on your new cell name and an empty scene should appear in the upper right window.

Now you can drag stuff from the left list and drop it into the upper right window.

Object Window: World Object->Static contains all buildings, some furniture and decorations.

You can arrange items in the window by dragging parts around with the mouse. Alternatively, you can hold down x, y or z and move the part in accordance to the chosen axis. You might want to activate "Snap to grid" in File->Preference to properly arrange items in the upper right window.

 

This might not be perfect, but it should help you to get started.

 

Thank you

[gengrimm]

Also crashes are Usally pretty normal. Unless they are always happening at the exact same point, thats bad.

 

Pro Tip 1: Save

Pro Tip 2: Save multiple copies (I.e Myhome1 myhome2 etc etc)

Pro Tip 3: Don't save over copies you want to keep.

Pro Tip 4: Save Often.