/r/SkyrimModders
A community for mod creators to discuss the technical aspects of modding, learn new skills, and share their insights.
This sub is for discussion of creating mods, and the troubles therein. If you have questions about installing mods, sorting mods for your load order, etc. or would like to discuss new and upcoming mods, please visit /r/skyrimmods. You are welcome to crosspost.
Useful Links
Creation Kit is where most people get their start these days. Includes some basic tutorials on using the CK as well as Papyrus.
BestInSlot's Creation Kit series of tutorials on YouTube covers adding NPCs, building dungeons, creating spells, etc, using the Creation Kit.
Matthiaswagg's Modding Skyrim at the Nexus includes details on many aspects of mod creation, including publishing and post-release phases.
Skyrim Script Extender (SKSE) download page at silverlock.
SKSE Script Objects at CK Wiki. (NOTE: you may have to sign in to the wiki to properly view all SKSE pages.)
List of GMST default settings at UESP. (These are hard-coded values that don't actually appear in the .esm, but can still be overwritten for your mod.)
TES5edit download at Nexus.
TES5edit cleaning guide at creationkit.com.
Gopher's TES5edit tutorial on YouTube explains cleaning your mods before publishing them.
Mator's Automation Tools for TES5Edit on Nexus helps you automate scripts and other work with TES5edit.
Wrye Bash download at Nexus.
Wrye Bash general ReadMe on github.
Niftools/Nifskope download page at Sourceforge (page also includes some documentation).
Working with Nifs 101 at the Construction Set Wiki. (This tutorial was made for Oblivion and an older version of Nifskope, but the biggest difference is that descriptions of things done manually can now be done with more automated features.)
Adding Meshes to Creation Kit article on the CK Wiki.
Exporting Meshes from 3DSMax article at Dark Creations.
yobi3d is a search engine for 3D models.
Modding the GUI thread at BethSoft forums, including links to relevant tools.
/r/SkyrimModders
I think a simple solution to the tedium of gambling over whether a pickpocket check will be successful is to make anything below 50% auto-fail and anything above auto-succeed. I'm not a modder so I have no idea how hard it would be to actually implement it.
How about a new blacksmith mod? Like instead of new skins you can fully customize your weapons and armor like on fallout 4? Like everything from the pommel up to the blade…like an iron sword crossgaurd with an ebony blade finish? Same goes for armor…I think would be a very cool feature if someone were to do that…I have no idea how to mod or I would give it a shot
Hello! I need help with someone who can create an in depth mod of a pitbull companion. Don't know how anything works. Reach out to me if your interested!
I'm having a problem with nifskope on one of my computers. The render side is blank. No image at all unless I am resizing it. Then the blackness switches to render and I can see the nif and grid, but the second I stop resizing it, it goes black again. What's the deal? I did recently have to delete c++ runtimes and reinstall them.
Hi there, I've recently started playing around with BSA Extractor and NifSkope, I'm trying to find a way to export the meshes from .nif to .obj so I can display and customize them in Blender, however when importing the model none of the textures carry over? I've tried to import them separately but the mapping is all off, how can I fix this?
Not sure if i can post this here, if not it can be removed
I think animal ears/tails/wings should be a mod. Like wolf ears and tails or bee wings and antennas maybe stinger or deer antlers and tail and stuff like that.
Maybe a way to change one eye at a time so you can do heterochromia with the eye colors you want (could be a racemenu mod)
I wanna say custom tattoos but that wouldn't be possible I don't think- (i want eye tattoos under my ocs left eye and a cat mark on her right cheek)
I would also love custom followers/marriageable people who you can customize in maybe RaceMenu and can give a personality to.
Maybe a polyamorous mod?
Pure white skin that doesn't get killed in the lighting?
Thats all i can think of at the moment
(well other than someone making a better version of Beeing Female)
Hello everyone. I have a problem, I want to animate camera for my slide animation in Nifskope but I dont know how. When my character making slide, camera staying in the same place where animation started. I tried to move camera in blender and export it to Nifskope but after that error showed and camera staying in the same place where it was. I need to mention that I doing animation for New Vegas. I know that I typed in a wrong topic, but I dont know who else could help me. Because almost all animations for FNV made for first person view or for 3rd but animations were just replaced. If u could share with me any tutorials about 3rd person animation for skyrim or maybe give me links to comminity of animation modders - U would help me a lot!
Greetings, Skyrim modders. I propose the idea of handheld talismans as a mod for Skyrim. It wouldn't change the mechanics of staves, but it would provide a nice aesthetic alternative to the already existing staff magic system in Syrim. Would be nice to hear your thoughts.
Hello everyone I always love to RP as a bosmer, but find it hard to craft bows using immersion, as I play as a Bosmer following the green pact and doesn’t harm vegetation - so can’t chop wood. I know it mostly applies only to wood in Valenwood, but I like a harder RP. Anyone know of a mod or able to make one where you can use bones instead of logs for crafting bows? Would be much appreciated
Would love to brainstorm some ideas, haha. Hit me up!
I was hoping to see if anyone knows how to mod shouts that can play a shorten song. I was trying to have a song play when using the Storm Call shouts tho nothing is working. Any ideas?
After hours of FINALLY getting passed the 1026 error temp_behaviors\magicbehavior.txt with CAO (Cathedral Assets Optimizer). and when I finally got nemesis to launch the animations I booted up skyrim. and the game still played like vanilla version... like nothing changed. So I do a little digging to see what I did. I saw someone posted that they unchecked their mods and reinstalled those mods and nemesis. guess whats back. yup that same old dirty 1026 error from above. and now even woththe help of CAO, nemesis wont acknowledge the change CAO is trying to make.... so I'm officially lost AGAIN LOL. Oh and I'm using vortex. been working for me alot...
heres what I have loaded (checked) on nemesis:
Combat Behavior improved
Precision
Scar
Infinite combat Engine
Sky SA
Ultimate combat/TK Dodge
The Ultimate Dodge mod
Character Behavior Ehanced.
as the title says i broke Skyrim, i tried to uninstall play without mods, delete a redownload all the files and its still broken, can anyone help me with this issue? the menus seem to be okay except the opening menu but in game menus are normal. i was modding the game using vortex, after opening the game and realizing it was not working i purged and deleted mods, but opening the base game from steam still gave this result.
My son (13) has aspirations to work in the gaming industry. We’ve had plenty of talks about the types of jobs there are, some of the pros and cons of working in the industry, and how games are created.
I told him that the best thing he could probably do is get into modding, and we both agreed that Skyrim would be a great place to start.
I’m here to ask for any advice you guys might have that I can share with him.
Also, I’ve never built a computer before. Should we build one, or buy one? What kind of cost would we be looking at to get something that runs Creation Kit?
Thanks!
Hello. My computer was unintentionally reformatted. I’ve been trying to rebuild my skyrim modding setup (LE using MO2). Exact same hardware, exact same mods (and exact same mod versions). But I am suffering from constant CTD and i’ve tried everything I can think of. No 1 mod seems to be the cause, no combination seems to be the cause. I cannot figure it out. I followed STEP setting everything up and at this point I think it is beyond my skill level. I need someone with more technical knowledge to help me diagnose the problem. I’m going insane trying to figure out what is wrong.
Just a side note: I am not upgrading to SE (yet). I understand it is more stable in some ways (which has not been explained to me all that much) but everything I have is for LE. Many of the mods I want to use are LE exclusive (because they are no longer publicly available before SE existed).
I make custim slavetsts tattoos. I’m led to believe the LE ones work on SE. i will make a custom tattoo request for whoever helps me get my mod setup working as well as teach you how to make your own.
one thing I will never understand is why people would wanna put eso stuff in Skyrim.... ESO is based in the 2nd Era while Skyrim is in the early 4th era.... literally 2000 years apart.....
Is it possible to modify record flags using CommonLIBSSE-NG? I need lockpicks to be flagged unplayable for my mod, Amazing Lockpicks, and I was hoping to create patches that won't be dependent on load order or conflict with themselves.
I specifically need to change RE::TESObjectMISC::RecordFlags::kNonPlayable
After acquiring a pointer to the lockpick object using one of the following two ways:
RE::TESObjectMISC *lockpickObject = RE::TESForm::LookupByEditorID<RE::TESObjectMISC>("Lockpick");
RE::TESObjectMISC *lockpickObject = RE::TESForm::LookupByID<RE::TESObjectMISC>(0xA);
Edit: It looks like the value was stored as a bit in lockpickObject->formFlags
I was able to do a bit check and add it in:
if (!(lockpickObject->formFlags & RE::TESObjectMISC::RecordFlags::kNonPlayable)) {
lockpickObject->formFlags += RE::TESObjectMISC::RecordFlags::kNonPlayable;
}
The ability to manipulate record flags at runtime might have some good usages which aren't apparent to me at the moment, but I just thought I'd add the answer incase anyone ends up needing it. You'd be able to do similar modifications to other object types as well.
Another year same question, Is there someone who is able to transfer my ps3/PC save game to the ps4 version ? With a mod, converter or other technique ? I would really appreciate it and pay for the service. Sorry for annoying.
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/105817/
so when i was using fluffs Hybrid Argonians and Hybrid Khajiit i noticed the floating scars where the vanilla heads would be before they were replaced by the humanoid head. this mod aims to fix this, and its aim is pretty good seeing as i havent seen many floating scars in my game.
hello all, I have been playing Skyrim with mods for years, but I am a veery noob about mods, I watched hundreds of videos to install and fix mods to play and am still not an expert at all
and heard about Wabbajack, where I can install and play through,
I have two questions;
1-can I install more than 1 mod list, let say I want 2 mod lists I liked on Wabbajack, can I install them both?
2-the most important thing, do I have to make any adjustments on the mod organizer or LOOT apps?
am I just install the mod list and press play or I still have to go to LOOT and SSEEDIT to fix all the conflicts to play?