Working as a team

[JulianSull]

Let's say I have a huge world space created for a mod and there are five people working on it. Would we be able to have one person work on one city, another person on some plains and another on another city etc. all on the same mod? How do you import someone's work into a mod?

[DarkRider]

People can work on various parts of the mod but you need to avoid altering the same things and you don't want to alter the same areas. If you are altering the same world, just in different areas, it might be better to have the world set in an esm master file and let each person build their part in separate plugin. You can pull them all together by merging them using a utility like TES4 Gecko. What you want to avoid is creating duplicate changes or references.

For RST, I had many small .esps. I had one for each world, one for each city worldspace, one for interiors, and one for each dungeon interior. That way I could send parts to others, and they could work on it, and I knew no one was changing the same stuff or creating duplicate refs. When all the parts were finished, I merged them together into one. After they are merged you can link interiors to exteriors.

If your cities are closed, the city interiors can each be in their own worldspace which means you could have different modders working on each city.

You definitely want to wait for Arthmoor to chime in on this if he comes by, bloke knows more about this stuff than most

[JulianSull]

So all that I would have to do is give each person a separate copy of the world space and give each person a job that won't overlap. Then with TES4 Gecko I can smush all the mods together? What about edits? Like if a building needs to be changed to look better, what would I do then?

[DarkRider]

Once it's all together, the Team leader should go through and make any adjustments solo. You'll want to check an individual's work and send it back to them for changes before you merge them, but once merged, the Team leader needs to polish it.