I've had too much caffiene and now I feel really hyperactive and want to go to the loo but I can't because I'm in the library and I'm keeping an eye on my girlfriend's laptop while she's off doing stuff and it's raining outside it's been raining all day I hate the rain.

That's a lot more of an achievement in Skyrim than it was in Oblivion.

Pathing is much more of a problem, and any interior with opening doors needs portals and room markers so that occluded content doesn't get rendered. I've only done a couple - the Riders Lodge for the Skyrim version of the Bear Riders (unreleased yet), and an interior for Markarth for my Thieves Guild continuation mod (also unreleased). Both took me many times longer than the OB equivalents would have done. But the end results are better, too, so it's worth it.

You guys mean the Navmesh? I found it was not very difficult. Just tedious. I have a little text file I made with the steps I use:


I found the big part comes after creating the initial Navmesh, and then going in and cleaning it up. The CK tends to make a lot of little triangles, where a few large ones would do. It also has trouble going up and down staircases, and tends to just ignore them entirely. You only need two triangles to do an entire staircase. One with two points on the bottom of the stair, and the third point at one of the top corners, so you have a right triangle. The second triangle is a mirror of that, with two points at the top and the final one one bottom point to finish it out. You just have to wrap your head around making rectangular or square areas by sticking two right triangles together along the angle.

The hardest part for me was mastering the controls you need to use to add, remove, and edit the triangles. What often works best for me is to keep it on vertex selection. I select a single point of a triangle and then drag it to wherever I want. It also makes creating or linking new triangles easy. You just hold the Control key down, select three vertexes in a row, press A, and it creates a new triangle from the three points. I don't think I have it written down, but there is even a button you can push that will make everything but the navmesh itself invisible. That is very handy to use when you are finished, and want to check to see that everything is linked up.

By the way, is there a way to prioritize paths in Skyrim? Everything I saw on googling was one color.

Good point, and the stuff currently in the Oblivion mods section probably needs moving, too. Where's the "report" button?

I had a bout of really heavy rain the other morning. Got all over my favourite jacket. Not happy at all.

I had a bout of really heavy rain the other morning. Got all over my favourite jacket. Not happy at all.

It's going to be over 100 degrees for the rest of the week here.


Trade ya!

It's going to be over 100 degrees for the rest of the week here.

This year, dressing up as a slutty whatever is gonna be because of the heat.