Game

The game is what executes and renders data produced by the Creation Kit. For example Skyrim, Skyrim Legendary Edition, Skyrim Special Edition, and Fallout 4. These games are powered by the Creation Engine.

Table of Contents

• About
• Settings
• Directories
• Files
• Developer Console

About

These documents will not cover the games such as Skyrim or Fallout 4 in depth.

Settings

All application settings for the games.

Defaults

The game's installation directory contains it's initialization file templates. These are used by the launcher to provide preset settings and defaults. These files are automatically installed or generated by the game and its launcher and typically should remain unedited by users.

...\<INSTALL>\*.ini

Installation	Skyrim	Skyrim SE	Fallout 4
low.ini	Yes	Yes	Yes
medium.ini	Yes	Yes	Yes
high.ini	Yes	Yes	Yes
VeryHigh.ini	Yes	No	No
ultra.ini	No	Yes	Yes
Skyrim_Default.ini	Yes	Yes	No
Fallout4_Default.ini	No	No	Yes

Directories

The installation directory contains files and folders used by the game. Among these, the Data Directory is where authors will spend the most time. The game will load *Data Files, Archive Files, Initialization Files from this folder. With the Enable Loose Files configuration, the game will also consider several sub-directories that load specific assets based on their file type.

Data

• ...\<INSTALL>\Data\: Loads Data Files, Archive Files, and Initialization Files.
• ...\<INSTALL>\Data\Interface\: Loads Interface Files for the game.
• ...\<INSTALL>\Data\Layouts\: Loads window presets for the Creation Kit.
• ...\<INSTALL>\Data\LSData\: Loads lip-sync data for the Creation Kit.
• ...\<INSTALL>\Data\Materials\: Loads Material Files for the game.
• ...\<INSTALL>\Data\Meshes\: Loads Model Files for the game.
• ...\<INSTALL>\Data\Programs\: Loads Interface Files for Holotapes which are a Scaleform Program.
• ...\<INSTALL>\Data\Scripts\: Loads Script Files.
• ...\<INSTALL>\Data\Sound\: Loads Sound Files for the game.
• ...\<INSTALL>\Data\Textures\: Loads Texture Files for the game.
• ...\<INSTALL>\Data\Video\: Loads Video Files for the game.

User

Files

• TODO: Enable Debug Mode (profiling, logging, and tracing)
• TODO: initialization files and directories

Developer Console

• TODO: Developer Console, common commands
• TODO: Developer Console, papyrus commands