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The first step to begin tweaking the game is
opening up the editor main menu. Do this by using the
END key (or whatever you changed it to), going to the
top left of your screen (first image), rolling down the
dropdown menu and selecting the
editor button (second image).
In here you should first go into the
preset selection screen. KreatE starts you out with a
default preset that saves all of your edits. If you don't plan on sharing presets, it's fine to use it but I would recommend
making your own preset now anyway to keep everything neatly organized.
To do that press the
"new preset" button and fill out the given
fields. You can change all of that later as well, so you can leave the optional ones empty for now. After that hit
confirm and your new preset should appear in the list. If you kept "set as active" checked, it should also automatically be actived now. If not, simply double click or right click it and make it your active one.
After you created your first preset, you can go into one of the other
editor tabs and begin
managing the games records. In this example we will look at
weather editing. For that switch to the
weather tab. Once opened you can see the
current weather status at the top of the window and other
weather controls right below. These can be used to quickly
switch between all different weather,
transition to them,
lock them or simply
reload the currently active one. Some changes need that reload to show up such as
toggling cloud layers.
To start managing a weather record, open the
unamanged section by clicking on it. This will show you a list of all available weather records. If you found the one you're looking for simply
double click it.
This openes up the
naming popup. It will be filled with the EditorID by default if available. You can either use that or choose a different name. The most important part is that each one has to use a
unique name! After you're done, click
finish.
It will now show up in the
managed weather list. To begin tweaking it simply
double click your newly added entry.
This will open up the
weather editing window. To enable DALC tweaking and the DALC fix KreatE ships with,
enable it under
Directional Ambient Lighting. The
rest of the
weather values can be freely tweaked and are organized into their own
collapsible section. Every editor window has a
bottom row of
buttons that are used to either
save it to the active preset,
load the last saved state from the active preset or
reverting everything back to the
original values found in your esp/esm/esl files.
Once you're happy with your tweaks, press the
save button to save it into your preset. Congratulations, you've made your first KreatE preset consisting of a single tweaked weather!
