General Mod Discussion - Chilly Snow Edition

[VirtualWeasel]

Here, ladies and gents, you can discuss mod/modding stuff, such as (but not limited to) small questions about the Creation Kit, any little comments and minor questions about mods you've installed, and maybe even recommendations for mods or to find mods that others have enjoyed.

I'll start off by asking:
Does anyone know of any good, empty locations for a house outside of the Whiterun tundras? I can't seem to find any dead space where I can place a house.

Some links:

• The Creation Kit Wiki - A wiki created by Bethesda and fans to provide in-depth assistance for modders
• The Creation Kit on UESP Wiki - Some general info on the kit itself
• Skyrim GEMS - A list of handpicked mods that enhance gameplay
• Planet Elder Scrolls - Another site for mods and modding resources
• Skyrim Nexus - Mods and modding resources

[I_am_one]

I have a question. I'm trying to make the Eye of Magnus Dias (EyeOfMagnusDias01) into a teleporter, to teleport from Tamriel to a cell that I made and back. Is this even possible, and if so, how?

Also, Weasel, can't you just delete some trees and flatten some land to make room for a house? Make your own dead space?

[VirtualWeasel]

Well, you'd want to make that mesh a door, so you could go into the Doors section, pick any door, rename it (ID wise and in-game name), and then set the path to the mesh as the same one as the Dias, which would be "Clutter\EyeOfMagnus\EyeOfMagnusDias01.nif" without quotes. Then, use it as you'd usually use a door.

And no, what I mean by dead space is an area that isn't near a dungeon.
They're everywhere....

[Yaije]

The frozen reaches north of winterhold came to mind as well as that area east of windhelm. Though both places are really mostly ice on water.

[dozer1771]

I have often thought about modding one on top one of the iceburgs in the Sea of Ghosts. An exterior tower set like the one outside Bloodskaal Barrow, with some cozy ice caverns below.

The one, which when viewed to the west-northwest from Septimus' Outpost, looks like a Jawa Crawler's silhouette. I think it would be a great place for a solitary Icemage or Necromancer.

Or . . . put it all underground, and use the tilesets from Azura's Star interior, ala The Fortress of Solitude. (Superman's not Elisif's!)

[wyldefx]

I placed one building on an island on the Sea of Ghosts. One house I suspended between two bridges over the river east of Markarth. I found room to build a fairly sizable castle southwest of Riften. There is building space in the land around Eldergleam Sanctuary, although the terrain is a little harsh, what with the sulphurous hot springs and what not. You can also build in the mountains, although that requires you to make a way to get up there. It really depends on what your preferences are.

[VirtualWeasel]

The mountains are hard to build in because they're so... upright. Maybe I'm just too reluctant to flatten the landscape.

[wyldefx]

This is true. They are upright. It is only one suggestion, of course. You could also find yourself one of those nice lakes and build out onto the water. As I said, it all depends on what you want. I don't know your vision, but I do know that whatever you build it has to meet some inner vision of what you want. Otherwise, it just becomes a house.

[VirtualWeasel]

I have a question... If I were to, say, build an entire city in the Tamriel worldspace, with AI, clutter objects, NPCs and all, how do you think that would effect performance?

[Linkuya]

You guys seen Falskaar?

[Marelo]

Yeah, looks really cool. I probably won't play it myself because I'm a stickler for content sources; I only really like content from Bethesda, with mods for gameplay and mechanics. But I'd be intensely interested in a Let's Play that included it (which Gopher might be doing with his current character).

[Linkuya]

Gopher?
The mod is the finest looking unofficial expansion I've ever seen for Skyrim.

[Marelo]

Gopher

Edit: Speaking of which, he just announced on his channel that he will be doing a mini-series of Richard in Falskaar.

[dzio]

@Linkuya - I checked out Falskaar and it looks damn impressive! Especially when you consider the author is 19. I'm listening to the soundtrack on YT right now and it's absolutely awesome too. If Beth doesn't hire that guy, someone else certainly will.

[VirtualWeasel]

I'm not a fan of big mods like that, because they more often than not add these new locations and make their own new lore... Which I'm fine with, but in these cases, they make up pretty huge-ass, gamebreaking lore that is often badly made.
And if there's anything that [&@%!] me off more than anything else, it's bad worldbuilding >_<

[Dohva.]

Has anyone used Climates of Tamriel Winter edition? I don't want it to be winter year round in my game and I couldn't find more information on it, even on Nexus.

[Zephyr]

Edit: Looking at some mods as normal, I come up with part of the answer. Disabling an ESP in the load order would only be viable for mods that have no additional files (textures, scripts, etc.).

I've been wondering (for a while) about multiple characters in regard to mods. I like to use different mods for different characters, so switching between concurrent characters feels a little strange. For example, say Save 100 has references to a set of mods. Can those be uninstalled, then put back in the next time Save 100 is loaded? I'm thinking especially of mods with a lot of resource files. Better Vampires, for example, has a particular set of steps for uninstalling or even general troubleshooting.

Hopefully that's clear. I might be am probably making it more complicated than it is.