New guy, and a call for help.

Post » Thu Jun 28, 2012 4:30 am

Hello everyone!

My name is Jesper, a 24 year old guy from Malmo, Sweden. I'm a long time TES-player but with the implementation of the Workshop and the coming of a bright future for modders world wide i decided to start modding myself. I hereby say a heartly "hello" to all of you!

Basically what I want to do is create a whole new world for me to play around with and learn level design, quest design, scripting and so on. I've been following this fellows excellent workflow (links not allowed for me...) but new as I am I just find it too hard to follow it.

I know I am asking for much when requesting a tutorial that, in depth, takes me from starting Photoshop (for the heightmap) to a world that just needs statics, scripts and general content to be "complete". Is anyone working on this? Is anyone willing to do such a tutorial (which with all certainty will be extremely popular throughout all the TES communitys)?

Right now I am completely out of breath and have lost all but a tiny piece of my motivation to become a good modder. I feel it is crucial for me to have "my own" world that I can work on and learn the ropes from there, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have a heightmap @4096x4096, 16bit grayscale TIFF. How big will this world be? Is it correct in its coloring? I don't seem able to type links...

Cheers fellas,

Jesper

Edit: How do i shot web... post links i mean?

Link to the tutorial i was using: http://hoddminir.blogspot.se/2012/02/from-heightmap-to-worldspace-in-skyrim.html

Link to my heightmap:
http://www.2shared.com/photo/bqNE0T4C/01testmapcandidate1.html
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Alexander Horton
 
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Post » Thu Jun 28, 2012 8:00 am

Hi, Jesper. I'd help, but I don't do worldbuilding modding. If you're losing motivation, though, try to remember that the longest journey starts with a single step; you may be better off just building levels and towns before trying to make a world.
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Laura Samson
 
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Post » Thu Jun 28, 2012 11:52 am

Hi, Jesper. I'd help, but I don't do worldbuilding modding. If you're losing motivation, though, try to remember that the longest journey starts with a single step; you may be better off just building levels and towns before trying to make a world.

You mean by creating a worldspace with Skyrim as a parent? That leaves me with only the lackluster landscape tool that comes with the CK, and that is not at all my aim.

Thanks for the advice though!
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Lifee Mccaslin
 
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Post » Wed Jun 27, 2012 8:09 pm

Oh, you can't post links until you've got 10 posts and/or been here a week. I'm not sure if it's an 'and' or an 'or'. A mod may be nice and enable it for you early in rare cases.
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Cat Haines
 
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Post » Thu Jun 28, 2012 11:51 am

We can't enable links but if you send me the link in a PM I can edit your post for you
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Josh Sabatini
 
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Post » Thu Jun 28, 2012 10:31 am

We can't enable links but if you send me the link in a PM I can edit your post for you

Sent you a PM!
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