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Mission statement:

 

This thread was started to make playing mods easier. It is also geared towards making the learning process of modding less painful and more fun! This is also provided as a place to link to when answering questions. I'm a tutorial hound. I love following tutorials and have decided to post this thread to help promote GOOD tutorials. I haven't gotten through too many yet, so I'm starting this out with the bare minimum. As the thread progresses, I will update and add more tutorials. I will also categorize them, but for now there are but the few. This thread will be maintained every other day! This will hopefully allow time for feedback. If no feedback is provided, I will browse the tutorial myself and look for errors where possible. The term "noob" is used purely as a descriptive, as we all started somewhere. Please don't take offense. Also please don't troll this thread, it was intended as a learning tool. Look up "trolling" under the Forum Rules and Strikes if you don't understand.

 

Got a tutorial you would like to share? Wrote a tutorial for noobs? Great! Please post!

 

 

Tutorials:

 

 

Noob tutorials:

Ben's Oblivion Support - tutorials written by local moderator bben46. A great place to start if you have little or no experience with playing or installing mods.

A Beginner's Guide - a good place to start if you seriously wish to start making mods for Oblivion.

How to Make Mods - a nifty set of tutorials and instructions aimed at helping make the process more smooth. Written by our own local moderator, LHammonds

 

 

Modder's Rescources:

How to Create New Re-Textured Items - make stuff look how you wish. For the artists out there

Working Drawbridges - make a set of working drawbridges with an operator to open and close them for you!

 

 

Advanced Tools:

tes4edit basics - this is the absolute basics. Whatever you do, don't load Oblivion.esm into the list!

Fo3Edit Training Manual - now before you get your panties all bunched up, this manual is usable with TES4edit!. There currently is no version of the manual translated to Oblivion but the program functions are identical.

TESsnip

TES4Gecko

NIBE

 

 

 

 

 

Tutorial Criteria:

 

1: The tutorial must pertain to Oblivion or programs used for modding it! (hey, people make mistakes :stupid: lol)

 

2: Submit working tutorials only. I hate to state the obvious, but make sure the tutorial is complete. It may be also finished through easily identified links or replies. Basically, don't post an unfinished tutorial here. Period. If you want help completing your tutorial, please start your own topic. I would love to post it when its done!

 

3: You must add new material or explain existing material in a new way (don't regurgitate somebody else's tutorial to get posted! >:( )

 

4: Please make sure the tutorial follows forum rules (ie no profanity, no specifically nude tutorials, sorry)

 

5: The Tutorial can be posted on any website but must be viewable by all

 

6: Always check for any copyrights and get permission if you didn't write the tutorial. This is just common courtesy and will help eliminate erroneous tutorials. Posting from the wiki or the nexus is obviously acceptable. I will send notification to the author upon posting otherwise.

 

7: Please try to use proper English as some people who read here use translators. (ie babblefish) If the tutorial is posted in a different language, please state so in the post and link to either babblefish or similar program.

 

8: may be video or text. If video is submitted, please include a detailed description and provide a link to the video. Please do not simply post youtube video as some readers will undoubtedly be on lower end computers with lower end connection speeds.

 

Well, that's it for now.

 

I'm hoping that people will post cool tutorials here for me to explore! It is less painful than reverse engineering scripts out of mods and then contacting the authors. They sometimes need to be bribed with new scripts, milk and cookies, etc. in order to use their work :P Also needed are good tutorials aimed at noobs! If you plan on writing a tutorial, please include some fun! We don't want tutorials written by chimpanzees or robots lol. If a tutorial you wrote got posted here somehow without your permission, notify me by PM. I will remove it promptly. The same thing goes for broken links or broken tutorials. I will remove or update them as soon as I can.

 

I hope this thread is of help to somebody out there. Please post!

:mage: theuseless

 

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I will be trying to link all people that are on the nexus who's tutorial gets posted. If a tutorial helps you out, please give kudos to the author!

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@ DesuChan:

 

I have looked high and low on this site for rules against the posting of your tutorial. If you say that it is for educational purposes only I will post it (if it works). I believe that it is legal to post tutorials of that nature as long as you don't directly condone piracy. A disclaimer letting people know that the information is purely for personal use and is in no way to be used publicly (in other words, don't release content made with it), I think it would be fine. If it is against the rules, I will remove it. I do know that the legals of most games include a 'no reverse engineering' clause, but I have no clue whether it would be illegal to post how to do it. 'The anarchist's cookbook' is printed under the 1st amendment, but if you actually try any of that garbage you could get locked up in Guantanamo. I guess its worth a shot eh? What's the worst their gonna do? Shoot my dog and confiscate my computer? Unlikely. Then again the NSA and US feds are pretty scary. But I think they got their hands full with bombers and the like. Not nerds modding games for personal use.

 

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I forgot that this is an international community. I guess that American laws don't mean dookie lol. Well, I still think it worth a shot.

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No working tutorials will be turned away for explaining content in a new way. Being specific is great! Please make the tutorial, especially if you are one of the rare people that have understanding as well as literary skills (can you write so people can understand?)

 

I look forward to your tutorial,

theuseless

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Whether or not I'm allowed to post it is another matter (it's a tutorial for porting hair from the Sims 2/Poser/Daz/etc. into Oblivion).

Posting a "how-to" tutorial on how to do that is not against the rules. IIRC, if you own Halo and Oblivion, you can rip the Halo model out of that game and stick it in Oblivion all you want on your own computer. The issue is "distributing" it.

 

And yes, it would be very helpful if you make that tutorial public to emphasize that whatever you make using that tutorial method (porting), should not be distributed to anyone.

 

LHammonds

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