The CS Wiki is fairly helpful, but only to a point. One still has to go through an awful lot of trial and error just to even figure out some simple functions. It is my hope that the Wiki is either expanded upon or someone else just creates a more complete version. All in all, I would say that this particular tutorial is okay but it definitely needs some work. Although, I guess its better than having nothing at all.

Same problem here. I understand there's a naming convention for the parts and all but you cannot possibly recreate that huge cave using your common sense alone. Now i agree the "pickup from here" approach can be useful when you want to learn something but this part of the tutorial just seems to leave you with an annoying puzzle (that you have to complete using a pretty lowrez reference in these circumstances). I don't see where the useful part is in this trial. I mean, you can waste many many hours trying to figure out which piece goes where and not learn one thing about Oblivion modding.
Tutorial writing takes time, ok, but we are not asking for guidance in placing each and every piece, we only need the name of the pieces, like you did with the first room.

Let's try and keep this thread focused on the Wiki. We have two whole forums for other modding/CS questions.

Have to love the wiki. Great work, Bethesda...or as some guy doing a survey calls you, Beshesda....or something. EDIT : Right, focused on the Wiki...How about a turoail on how to actually put armor you've made into the game. That'd be cool.

For some reason the z axis value for each of the pieces is different. Find the dungeon entry piece, double click on it. A popup will appear (you may have to move subpanels to see it) Set the z location value to 0. Press OK. Then adjust the z axis of each of the other pieces to 0. You can move the pieces around. Just don't rotate them. Click, and drag to move. Use the shift, space, and V mouse controls and the T and C controls to move the camera. This is explained in earlier page. In top down mode (select piece then press T) move the pieces together. Press C to see object from side. Adjust z axis if necessary.

Keep on trying the different mouse controls and camera angles. Real pain to learn, but worth while. Remember a shifted mouse move rotates the camera not the object.

this wiki seriously lacks any mention (that I can find) of the different formats of DDS that the game requires for different areas. bloody annoying to, as I cant search the forum for DDS (thats a stupid 4 character rule too)

please someone add the DDS formats required by the game to the wiki

you know like, mips maps, no mip maps, dxt3 dxt1 etc etc

Not that it's really complicated, but done (search the Wiki for "DDS")

For some reason the wiki background and the text isn't aligned properly when I've loaded it up. The actual contents are visible, it's just really annoying. Is there anything I can do to re-allign it all, instead of having a two inch gap between the index and the contents?

It's all working for me, and I tried going to a variety of pages. Perhaps you should try a forced refresh?

Sorry for the delay, but the gap is still there even with the refresh. It's been like that ever since my first visit.

Forced refresh being right click - refresh or the refresh button at the top. I'm using ie 7 (the one with the multiple pages in tabs)

Do Bethesda programmers/designers ever add any content? It'd be nice to have someone who worked on the game go through and document some of the more unclear functions every now and again.

Looking great! Only thing is that there aint much tutorials, and some things like factions and dialogues are quite badly explained when you search em at wiki.
Anywho, I used to make missions, addons and campaigns to Operation Flashpoint, which too includes lots of scripting and now got really interested in Oblivion scriptin and modding when I today started to play around with the CS. Love it damned.

And since Im a storyteller type of person, there is few things I would like to see in the wiki:

Examples:
- Quest: Goto place X with item Y, to get item Z, and move back to quest giver. The quest stages, getting items and removing them.
( I got it work to the stage where I need to be at place Z with item Y, but then got little stuck )

- Kill monster/creature/npc X, and move back to Guest giver.

- Search for item in area X, and when found, journal and guest stage is updated. (How to make the checking condition when player has the item or not)

- And better explains about factions, topics, dialogues.

I know, some of this is there allready, and I will get the idea by trying, but just for new users, and it would be nice to have this source of reliable information, own guests and other stuff wont bug so much.

Try to get some info out of this, its allmost 4 am at the morning here, im getting tired.

EDIT:
And some place for ppl to upload their little snippets and scripts, where they could easily be downloaded.
Because Im sure that people will not login for CSwiki to make a new page for their hint, so it will be more effective if ppl can just upload their txt file(s) to some place where they could be easly accessed.
Or something... tired, zzz.

Wow, i would just like to say, WHAT AN AWESOME RESOURCE! I was so freaked out with all the changes from the Morrowind TES, I'm glad there's now a community site for helping each other.

Just one suggestion though, maybe make it so that there is a library of scripts? That really can help. The script library could then be improved on by other modders to make them more efficient etc.

I absolutely love the wikki idea. It's perfect for the cs.

Of course, it would have been nice if at the very least a list of functions and commands had been included as a help file with the Oblivion cs like the Morrowind one.

Is there any possibility of getting the CS Wiki translated into other languages (i know someone who wants to start modding but his english isn't developed enough, his primary language is Swedish)

yup, thats true my english svcks ;D

FYI, site is approx 221MB, 23659 files, 669 folders as of an hour ago. Entire d/l depends on selected speed. @25K/s = ~2.5hrs, @50K/s = <1.5hrs.

In order to put this on CD, I had to tweak the files to remove recursively redundant folders and files that exceeded 256 characters.

Otherwise, works like a champ...

Where's Meta:Sandbox ?

Regards.

awesome! now i can start making myself that huge cozy house for my (dont flame:)) assassin/thief

good stuff in there, especially for scripting (which I stink at) and NifSkope.

Let's try and keep this thread focused on the Wiki. We have two whole forums for other modding/CS questions.

is there an offline version of the Wiki or a help like there was in TESCS for Morrowind?

Edit: nvm just noticed theres what was said above!

The site down ?

It looks that way, I'll make sure the devs know about it.

If it was down, its back up now !