I'm trying to create a path through an area that has the pseudo-plants and grasses that are only textures. I know I can use Landscape Edit to change the ground texture, but how do I get those pesky plants to stop poking through the ground? From what I've seen there is no way to select the plants individually as they are not really objects in the worldspace.

Put down a base texture that contains no grass, underneath your path. From what I've read, the CK still shows the grass, but ingame, it's gone.

Care to explain for newbies in landscape editing?

Also, wouldn't it change the ground appearance completely?

I'm at work at the moment and I don't think I can give an accurate explanation from memory. However, when I needed to remove grass from the landscape I found http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/topic/4663-ck-basics-lesson-3/ to be very helpful. It should give you everything you need. Just scroll down to the section entitled "Part III: Landscaping Skyrim".

^^ Just had a quick read, that seems like a good tutorial, just follow it. It has the same problem and how to overcome it.

It seems to be what I was looking for. I'll give it a try later, many thanks!

Awesome tutorial, figuring out most things on my own but TESAlliance has been an excellent source of information and guidance

Figured I would piggyback another related question onto this thread.

When doing the landscape editing, all of the textures are missing preview pictures and some landscape textures appear as black marks when placed in the world. I don't have any issues within the game, just within the CS

I dunno if there's a way to get previews in the CK, lemme know if you find one.

But for Obliv (I haven't started my landscape project for Skyrim yet), I wound up taking screenshots of XNView (browser view, scaled thumbnails with names underneath); then use those couple pics for quick reference. Did it with the trees too, as I could never remember which one looked like what.