» Thu Jun 21, 2012 11:11 am Recently tried exporting and re-importing the heightmap for Skyrim back into the game, but hit a few snags i was hoping you guys could help me out with. I have no experience using heightmaps in modding, so any help is appreciated.
So i exported the heightmap out using the creation kit's heightmap editor, which gave me four files, q1.raw through to q4.raw. I opened these up in photoshop and combined them into one, and saved them as testspace.raw using the appropriate settings i found in a tutorial. I then moved testspace.raw into the folder which i extracted tesannwyn to. I then ran the tesannywn command prompt, typing in "tesannwyn -i Skyrim -w TestWorld -p 1 -b 16 -d 1024x1024 -s 0.1 -h 256 testspace.raw." This created my tesannwyn.esp file successfully and then i moved it into my Skyrim/Data folder. After this i loaded up the CK, set tesannwyn.esp as the active file and loaded up my world space. Upon loading it in the rendering window this is what i saw:
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As you can see there are seams and artifacts which are obviously not in the Skyrim heightmap, or else you'd see these ingame. So i was wondering where i went wrong? I just had a look at my re-imported heightmap(the one for TestWorld) in the Heightmap editor and there are some artifacts on the heightmap for some reason. Could this be due to incorrect file compression in photoshop? Or maybe because TESAnnwyn imported the .raw file wrong? Any help on this issue is much appreciated.
Also on a minor note, and this applies to all modding i do, not just custom worldspaces. In the Render Window properties I have set the "Render Window Clipping Distance" to "Far"(the furtherest one on the right) and still it seems my clipping distance is horrible. Like i said this happens in other mods im making so its not just because this new worldspace has no LOD. So i was wondering if there was any way to further adjust how much 'distance' i can see in the render window of the CK?
Thanks again guys,
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