Help/Advice/Guidance Needed For New Mod

[CyberFantasyGirl]

So, I'm working on a new mod, my first, and I'm already running into problems. I'll provide a quick summary of the issue first, then a synopsis of the mod if anyone's interested in assisting with development.

 

PROBLEM:

Created a new worldspace. Built a little, saved, closed CK and took a break. Came back later, loaded file, static objects are in place but landscape is gone. Can't even use the Landscape Editing tool to fix it. I had a peak built, with the starting area up at the top. Nothing remained after loading it back up except for the platform (you come through a portal) and the surrounding rocks. What happened???

 

SYNOPSIS:

"Hellscape: The Withered Realm" is a horror-survival type mod I have planned. While in Skyrim, a courier approaches you and hands you a bloodstained note. In this note is a desperate cry for help from a stranger, who sent this letter to you because you are the most famous adventurer in the land. They tell you to come to a portal that has opened and meet them, if they survive.

 

When you get there, you find only a mangled body, with a few personal effects strewn about. Among them is a journal, detailing a new threat to Tamriel, from someone known as the "Bastard King". From what you can gather, this individual is a powerful and deranged sorcerer who owns his own pocket dimension, the Withered Realm, and wants to bring all of Tamriel under his rule, even if it means ruling over a barren and scorched kingdom.

 

You step through the portal, and end up atop a mountain. From what you can see, there's something just...wrong...about it all. It's twisted. Dark. (imagine the shattered worlds from Oblivion that each gate led to, but with more "shadowy and sinister" than "burning and broken").

 

You climb down the mountain, and begin your quest to investigate, and eventually confront, this new evil.

[leonardo2]

So, I'm working on a new mod, my first, and I'm already running into problems.

You're doing wrong, because your mod idea might not be feasible to do.

 

Start small then after you have gain some modding knowledge, you'll know for sure what can you do or cannot do.

 

Most modders who is creating the first mod will often fail due to the complexity of modding and if one who doesn't have the required modding experience will fail.

[CyberFantasyGirl]

That tells me literally nothing. :psyduck:

[Mookeylama]

That tells me literally nothing. :psyduck:

 

yeah, sadly there's really no traffic or community participation around nowadays. i think 1 out of 100 questions actually get answered here. not sure where the best place to ask anything is. perhaps reddit or loverslab. it's a shame as this always feels like the go to place for me

[LegendLegacy]

I've also recently started modding and understand the frustration and confusion.

 

I have been following these pages and learned a lot from them. Perhaps you might find your answer here:

 

https://www.youtube.com/c/Darkfox127

https://skyrimromance.com

[beljdab]

I feel the pain. I'm in the same boat. It's hard to get a reply here, even with simple questions.

 

But still this place has much information to offer if you dig deep. Like we use to say here in my country "it's an ant work", you make little steps at a time.

 

PS. thanks for the links Legendlegacy.

Edited May 15, 2021 by beljdab

[agerweb]

Difficult to know what happened from your description. There may be something wrong with your worldspace settings or for some reason you didn't save the landscape changes. It's probably easier to put your esp somewhere I can download it and I will take a look.