[LE] Player home and Sky/Weather question

[TyrAVB]

I am hoping of creating a new player home in existing Skyrim world. I want to make it with an inner courtyard that is opened to the sky, but without loading doors between courtyard and interior of the house, so as a part of interior. How can I do that so that sky reflects conditions from the exterior cell, like time of day, weather etc...?

[greyday01]

If when you create your cell you tick the option show sky you will get the sky appearing and it will change with the day/night schedule. You will not however get the sun or moons or weather, so no sun shadows or rain or fog. There might be a way to add at least some of those things but I don't think it would be simple. With high walls around the courtyard that might be enough. Or you could use load doors to a very small new wordspace. With just a small courtyard you would not need to worry about things like creating LOD for that worldspace.

[TyrAVB]

Thanks.

 

It worked up to some point, but i encountered some other problems with sky lighting in interior cell, like any part of the house being lit by it as it's an open space, cause no shadows and therefor ceiling won't stop sunlight to illuminate everything inside.

 

Meanwhile, I came up with some what at least I think might be a solution...I placed my house in a separate world space and now I have correct lighting, shadows, darker rooms etc...As long as I don't have external space like a balcony or garden, I think it will work, because from inner courtyard with high walls there is nothing else to see but a sky that follows a parent region, even local weather..I think...didn't test that part yet lol