Exterior Landscaping issues.

[Blaster391]

I have been doing some rather extreme Landscaping in the Tamriel worldspace, I looks fine in the editor, but enter the game and I get this:

 

http://i.imgur.com/AINjAl.jpg

 

It can be walked through and does not affect anything in anyway apart from looking ugly

 

View from inside:

 

http://i.imgur.com/CzHy0l.jpg

 

I assume it is something to do with LOD possibly, but if anyone has encountered similar and knows how to fix it I would be very grateful.

[flobalob]

The fact that the terrain LOD exists permanently just below the main heightmap is the reason that you can't lower terrain EVER. This has been a "feature" since the days of TES4-Oblivion and was the same in Fallout3 & New Vegas as well.

The only posible fix would be to re-generate the LOD, which is not practical as it's :-

a) Broken in Skyrim (as it pertains to the main worldspace anyway)

b) Is a very complicated subject that requires a tutorial

c) Even if not broken it would take a very, VERY long time to generate (weeks not hours).

 

BTW, it looks like you have used too many textures in one of the cells, I believe that you can only, reliably, use 6 textures per quad.

Edited July 19, 2012 by flobalob

[TheGreenLion]

Like flobalob said, the black ground texture comes from having more than 6 types of terrain texture. To check a cells texture count make sure you're in landscaping mode, select the render window and hit I as in Info and that will bring up a list of the textures used for each quadrant in the current cell. From there you can replace or delete those textures.

[Blaster391]

Ok, looks like my headquarters is about to get a lot taller. Thanks for telling me about my texture problem as well! Kudos for you both :D