HearthFire Editing Question?

[AirtightSpring3]

What would be the best way for me to view one room of one of the Hearth Fire Homes without another getting in the way. For example, I want to redo the armory but the kitchen and library get in the way. How should I view just the armory?

[BrettM]

As near as I can figure, the only way to separate out one room and its contents is to use the filter box in the Cell Window to find all of the objects in each competing room, then select them all and press the "1" key twice to hide them. All objects for a given room share a common prefix, so this isn't as hard as it might be. But it still seems to leave a lot of clutter around that isn't prefixed by the room ID.

Edited November 19, 2013 by BrettM

[WillieSea]

You can also draw a box around the objects you want to become temporarily invisible. This selects multiple objects. (You can also CTRL+Click to add objects to a growing selection of objects.)

 

Then you press 1 to make them unselectable but visible, and press 1 again to make them totally invisible.

 

If you want to see them again, press F5 and wait a minute while everything reloads.

[AirtightSpring3]

Thanks for the help. Would it work well to make the room interiors in another cell and copy and past the items in after hiding the objects in the given room I want to edit?

[WillieSea]

You could. Or you could clone the cell, and delete what you don't want from each.

Uhm, you can still duplicate cells in Skyrim, right?!!

[BrettM]

Hearthfire is a bit strange in the way everything is tied to the drafting/constructing system. If one is trying to make a modified Hearthfire house, it may be necessary to move things down into the void rather than deleting them.

[WillieSea]

Yeah. or replace the entire interior cell with your own and change the load doors to your cell. But even that may be problematic because of how the interiors work. (those pesky different upgrades.)

[AirtightSpring3]

I would have my entire interior cell replace Lake Views but I am going to try release each room separately for those who want to use them with other mods. For example, I just finished some edits to the Green House, but I also want my edits to be compatible with Shezrie's Hearthfire Kitchen. Meaning I can't replace the entire cell. I think I will just copy in my items from a cell I make, and post in the description to use if you have not built anything in the room it is built in. The main reason I'm doing this is to get better at interior design for my larger mod I am working on.

[BrettM]

Let us know if it works! I love Shezrie's kitchens and was thinking about making some similar mods one of these days. A quick look made me put the idea aside for now, because it is obviously going to take some serious digging to figure out how she did it. I wish one of the people who has figured out the tricks would write a tutorial on Hearthfire modding!

[WillieSea]

Its my guess that its all 'enable and disable' logic.

With scripting, you can also 'determine' if the player has another mod installed. I did this in my levelers Tower mod to determine which DLC the player has installed. I then made it so the DLC items were available in my mod. I even placed dynamically DLC items if the player had the DLC installed. (sleepable coffins for vampires, for example.)