Skyrim CK Experimenting, Post Your CK Fun Here: Options

[mALX]

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The CK was not in existence the last time I played Skyrim, so this is my very first attempt at doing anything in the CK. It is a little clunky for me - not used to the havoc being so...active. Having trouble finding my way around the lists - new items on there I have NO idea what they are!

So anyway, here is my first attempt at modding in Skyrim, why not post yours here too? (or any of the construction sets).

Even the mistakes can be fun, I remember in Oblivion having my ONE (essential) Todd Howard multiply to 12, and they were wreaking havoc and couldn't be stopped.

Another was making the Unicorn follow the Player if they were carrying apples - and the Unicorn began following Maxical into houses, buildings - castles. The castle guards in Skingrad did not take kindly to a Daedric beast popping in on them (and Maxical was trying to sneak in for the TG quest).

Then there was the Weynon Village fiasco, when (also essential) Scrappy the Banty Rooster went nuts and started killing all the other barnyard animals - and then killed ME!


Anyway, here is my first Skyrim attempt. So far the havoc is killing me in this mod:


This is a tavern - my favorite thing to make:



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The Basement:


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The Alchemy Garden:


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Here is the grounds and stable area - the garden was added after these were taken, it sits on top of the stables:


The Grounds:


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A full Smithy, Wood-Chopping, and mining on the grounds:


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At night:

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The Stables – water in the trough, and I didn’t have to make it! Lol.


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Everything in this mod is vanilla, I used only basic meshes through the whole mod, actually. I just had to really dig to find stuff to make the place the way I like it.


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This post has been edited by mALX: Oct 12 2014, 12:33 AM

[SubRosa]

It is looking good! What did you use for the lighting template? I think the default Farm Interior lighting that most things use is a bit too dim for my less than young eyes. Your lighting is brighter, and a lot easier for me to see things than in the vanilla game.

I have done a few player homes for Skyrim. Most recent was my future Persepone (Persephemom) house in Winterhold. I made it to so I could play her two kids - Sofie and Lucia - all grown up a decade in the future from the vanilla game.

The exterior, with Sofie in front

A view from one of the corners of the front wall.

A view from the back of the house, looking toward the front

Sofie reading in the office area

The desk

Lucia reading up on Riften and the Theives Guild

[mALX]

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BWAAAHAAA!!!!! ROFL !!! And THAT is Cabbage and Potato soup, I'll have you know! Nothing but the finest fare here!!!

It is looking good! What did you use for the lighting template? I think the default Farm Interior lighting that most things use is a bit too dim for my less than young eyes. Your lighting is brighter, and a lot easier for me to see things than in the vanilla game.

I have done a few player homes for Skyrim. Most recent was my future Persepone (Persephemom) house in Winterhold. I made it to so I could play her two kids - Sofie and Lucia - all grown up a decade in the future from the vanilla game.


A view from one of the corners of the front wall.

This house is amazing!!! It is gorgeous!! I just pulled out that one screen as an example, but loved all these! Sophy is beautiful, I am dying to know what beauty mods you are using. I will probably end up bringing Misa to Skyrim if I end up liking modding there - got to have a good face lined up for her before I do!

(That is how I did it in Morrowind; loaded her face and body up before I ever turned on the game the first time).

That lighting - like you, I was feeling around in the dark from all the templates except the Sov's - and they were too bright and washed out the scene entirely.

Another thing I noticed on the templates was that they are adding in fog - in the interior!

So, what I did was to post the best template I could find, get all the directionals up - then turned it off so I could edit the stats. I removed all the fog, then upped the ambient lighting till I was comfortable with the result.

The unfortunate pink glow is because I always make my own lighting in the Oblivion CS, and use a bit of a "Rose Window" tint - just a bit higher on the red than the "deep red" (and just a tad lower on the blue and green). I didn't have my numbers with me in the Skyrim CK, couldn't remember them anymore (curse that stroke, I can't remember crap anymore) - so either my guess was WAY off, or the Skyrim CK is set up too differently and I'll need to experiment with it till I get it right. Either way, that redness will be toned down by my next shots, lol.

In Oblivion I always set up the Ambient through editing the interior cell - then I add my own "Interior light Rose Window 900 (or 1024 in a bigger interior cell)" several feet ABOVE the roofline so it just kind of adds a slight tinge of light with just a hint of rose to it throughout the entire building.

I most def need to redo it in this mod, or throw a few prostitutes upstairs and call it a "Red light district."


@ Thanks so much, Kobby !!