Hello!

I am very new here, and in CS, of course. In fact, I registered to get some help, or ideas, how to continue my mod... I mean to keep up my motivation to make that:)

So. Basically my problem is Worldspaces, and landscape creating. As you may guessed, I ran across tons of tutorials, but I still can't cope with them.
In every tutorial, everything is written, what to do. But I can't understand, why to do that. I don't like tutorials, they describe a specified task, but not the
whole thing, in my case the world creating. I am already familiar with the controls, etc. Tried out the landscape/heightmap editors, with less or more success.
So...I attempting to describe, what I want to do.

- I need a large worldspace, more precisely, a second Tamriel, with almost identical landscape, but no any buildings, items, path grids, etc. on it. Let it name Tamriel2.
- Tamriel2 needs a gateway to Tamriel, with some sort of teleport spell. From interiors, and exteriors, too.
- Tamriel2 will be completely different look, the will be no cities, a slightly altered landscape in some places. (I mean it needs a different LOD)

I tried a few things before I wrote this... I tried to clone the "Tamriel" worldspace, in hope I will not need to fiddling from start, just delete everything from Tamriel2, and ready to go.
It not worked, I cleaned out everything, but game failed, and crashed, LOD messed up, ground have "gone", I mean, the player fell down to an "another ground?", while the whole world
is looked good in CS. The esp became nearly 160MB, slow loading, etc...

Then tried to create a Child worldspace. I failed again, there were missing textures on the ground; I can see down to the void, but not fell down:) So... From this point, I began to study some
tutorials, especially in cs.elderscrolls. They were good, I learned a lot from them, most of things are clear, but there is too many darker points... Every attempts ends in a "drama", CS crashing, or I can't get the wanted results...so on.

I just wondering how Tamriel built with this... is this so hard, and complicated, or I am too weak?:S

So, anyone who have some time for this, and-or feel to help me in any way, do that, I would be grateful.

I can't give you any help but take a look at TESAlliance.org http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/forum/13-worldbuilding/. They do all sorts of tutorials including world building (linked) and are very helpful.

edit. Just to be clear, it's not just written tutorials, there's actual real people on hand to help you

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