Past Lesson #3 Homework Submissions

[darkstone]

Ah good time to crack on after a food break.

[Cydonian_Knight]

Landscaping

Bench + fencing

Exterior, horse stable and clutter

Path and wall

Here you go . Any feedback is welcome.

[DarkRider]

Well done CK, very creative and great job on the landscaping!!

[Cydonian_Knight]

Well done CK, very creative and great job on the landscaping!!

Thanks DarkRider . Took me a while to get the hang of it.

[darkstone]

Underwater Landscaping

Path Walls And Shrubs

Fence Bench And Stable Area

Door And Light

Ingame Interior

Ingame Interior

Ingame Interior

[DarkRider]

Well done, Stoney! Very brave use of a texture variation underwater! Full marks!

[darkstone]

Thanks DR....confession time about the underwater texture...I pressed right mouse at one point when raising the lake bed but I thought the sandy bottom looked okay and lightly textured the rest of the raised wall....mistakes sometimes have a unexpected outcome...

[DarkRider]

They do indeed, and it's good that you found a way to move forward with an error rather than panicking.

[darkstone]

Basement Training Room - Maybe a bit sparse as clutter goes but I saw the basement as more of a functional training room than a storage area.

Pathgrid

Ladder

Entrance

Barrels

Poster

Desk

Trophy

Weapons

Training Dummy

[DarkRider]

Very nice Stoney! Great interpretation of the assignment!

[Vereta]

Damn, am I glad I had some landscaping training with the Aleswell mod I was doing. This would be murder to relearn...

[nottlong]

Lesson #3.

Basement entrance

Basement

Basement with pathgrid

Barrels and fence

Bridge with shrubs and stone wall

Door with light, fence and bench

A place for the horse and more fence.

[DarkRider]

Great job nott! Full marks!

[nottlong]

Thank you.

[Beana]

Thanks DR for the light information. I just have one more question about lights... on my screenie's are my lights in the correct place? The cross, I am assuming that the X part of it is where the light is the strongest?

also last night this happened lol.. eekk I am unsure what I pushed but it was the combination of ctrl and something lol... If this happens again do you know how to recover without having to exit? I unfortunately did not save and I spent a better part of an hour putting all the lights up lol..

this is what I have. Now if I am missing any screenies please let me know If you have anything that I can improve on please let me know as well.

the basement:

Basement 1

Basement 2

Basement 3

Inside:

Inside 1

Inside 2

Inside 3

Outside:

Outside 1

Outside 2

Outside 3

Outside 4

holy lot of screenies lol...

[DarkRider]

Looks like you'll be getting full marks, Sugar, you've done some great work! You do need to show your horse area, your pathing, and you need to pull your marker all the way to the floor on your ladder door.

As for your blunder...not familiar with that one, but I do have a tip...don't do that again.

[Beana]

Looks like you'll be getting full marks, Sugar, you've done some great work! You do need to show your horse area, your pathing, and you need to pull your marker all the way to the floor on your ladder door.

As for your blunder...not familiar with that one, but I do have a tip...don't do that again.

Thanks I will get right on with the pathing... I didn't do that outside. So the lights are in the right place then? Maybe the reason why my game crashes when I load with this esp active is because the pathing isn't done outside?? hmm...

[DarkRider]

There isn't a right and wrong light "position" just put them where it looks nice!

The lack of pathing work in the exterior wouldn't cause a crash. Have you tried playing just this mod as the active one?

[Beana]

I haven't. I just figured it had to be the house since everything else works?? I will try though. I'm having a hard time pealing myself away from the cs lol....

edit...

I just realized that the pathgrids you were talking about were of the basement. I didn't have that one posted....

i am unsure why my screenies seem to be diminishing in size but..

basement

horse stable

[Rowan]

Done. I think.

Mapmarker

Path and shrubs

Stable

Overview

Front Perspective

Lampost and Bench

Underwater Landscaping

Display Cases and Supplies

Wineracks and Brewer

Pathgrids and Load marker

[DarkRider]

Very good, Rowan and Sugar! Full Marks!

[donnato]

Ok, finally got it.I think...

Ext.P/G 1

Ext.P/G 2

BasementP/G

Underwater landscaping

Ext.screen 1

Ext.screen 2

Ext.bench.battels&lighting

Ext.entry

Basement entry

Basement exit

Basement looking in

Add`l basement details

Map marker,stonework,etc.

Did I forget anything? Maybe a quick video would have been easier.

[DarkRider]

That's great don! Full Marks for you as well, you're ready for lesson #4!

[Beana]

Ok so I have one more question about texture then I swear lol... I just can't go on to lesson 4 unless I figure this out lol... I have poured over and over the part were you talked about textures and I do not think this has been a question.

ok so you have explained about the black bug effecting if you delete or modify the first layer. I am under the understanding that it only happens if you delete from the texture window. Is there a way to lessen the major texture of a cell? So my barn here.. it looks great in CS but when I load it up in my game it looks all over run by grass. I'd like it to look more like it is in CS. Is that possible? What am i missing here lol...

[DarkRider]

Well Sugar you have stumbled on one of the trickier situations, where the first texture is saturating the cell and dominating the percentage by more than 50%. You have two possible courses of action that I know of.

1) You can rightclick>Replace the other lower textures with the texture you want in order to claim more of the percentage from that dominant texture, which sometimes works.

Or 2) you can attempt to rightclick>replace the first texture in the list with a "no grass" version of that same or similar texture. However, option #2 only works about 50% of the time, there's still a 50% chance that replacing the top texture will result in a black texture bug, so be sure you save and backup your .esp before trying it and if your cell goes black, close the CS without saving.