Kazagin

You're right. I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking about that. Thanks for your help!

Thanks for the advice, but I'm not really looking to learn how to actually create my own dog mesh. I want to take an existing mesh (in this example, the dog mesh) and add other meshes (such as a knapsack, an Iron Helmet, and possibly the chest piece of Studded Armor, for example) to it. I am incredibly busy as a college student and I really just want to throw something simple together to make Meeko look more like an adventure companion.

Hey all, I recently posted a mod request for a modified dog mesh for Meeko, which included giving him armor. After a few days with no response, I decided that maybe I should take the matter into my own hands and create exactly what I had envisioned. Problem is, I have very little experience in mod-making. I am familiar with the Creation Kit, but that's it. Upon looking for tutorials and the like, I discovered just what would go into the process, sort of. There are so many resources available that, to a newbie, it can actually be very intimidating. In order to make the process easier for myself, I have decided to ask for help. Would someone be willing to give me some good resources that will help me to brjng my dream to reality? I need the very basics of everything besides the Creation Kit, with nothing skipped because the author assumes knowledge on the part of the reader. Text tutorials are preferable, though I would have no problem using videos. Thank you!

So Meeko is my faithful canine companion and the only Follower I want because everyone needs a loyal dog to adventure with. I, however, am concerned about Meeko's safety because, well, he's a dog. Unlike those fancy-pants Dawnguard dogs, Meeko just has his scruffy fur to protect him from bandits and dragons. So I got to thinking, why not turn Meeko into Meeko the Dovahdog? Basically, I was wondering if someone could use deck Meeko out in some Dovahkiin gear. A chest piece based on Studded Armor, four Iron Boots, a Banded Iron Shield on his back (like Amaterasu from Okami), and an Iron Helmet. I have no idea how to do 3D modeling at all, but I really think that having Meeko dressed up as the "default" Dovahkiin would be adorable. (P.S. This is totally inspired by both this picture: http://gadgetsin.com/uploads/2012/02/the_elder_scrolls_v_skyrim_inspired_dog_costume_1.jpg and Dovahbear) Thanks!

Update again: I played my game for a while with a program monitoring my hardware performance running and, much to my dismay, it came up clean. Nothing was unreasonably high and the game didn't crash after an unexplained peak. I also enabled Papyrus logging, in the hopes that the log could shed some light on my errors. Here's my Papyrus log: https://www.dropbox.com/s/alx8gr950xso49i/Papyrus.0.log?dl=0

Update: Nope, it wasn't that. I uninstalled it and while my horse has thankfully remained un-'mutated', I still get the issues. I also looked around a bit and noted that people were having problems with a mod that changes Meeko into a husky and, after I dismissed him, I uninstalled the mod. Still having the issue.

I think that may actually be it. The modder says that you should keep it, but I've noticed that people are complaining about it messing things up and that installing Convenient Horses and then uninstalling the Uninstaller will make everything work. The Better Horses Uninstaller is, as the modder says, a way to stop any 'mutations' (read: errors) caused by removing Better Horses.

No, I do not use AA at all. My eyes don't really seem to notice the difference, so I turned them all off. I did notice that towns are more prone to these issues, but the issues are not exclusive to them. I've looked through Expanded Towns and Cities and haven't found any reported incompatibilities. Is there anything on my load order that could be causing a conflict?

I've pretty much hit my wit's end with troubleshooting. Basically, my game is able to run butter-smooth on Medium graphics and I'm very happy at that setting. What I'm not happy about, however, is the fact that the game likes to freeze up and force me to restart my laptop. Occasionally, it will be nice and actually CTD, but most of the time its just a freeze. While there is no specific scenario that triggers a crash (wouldn't it be lovely if there were?), I have noticed that it usually occurs out in the overworld and that menus seem to be a little more likely to cause a freeze than other things. I use NMM to keep track of my mods and I use LOOT to keep my load order from falling apart. I've already tried several things to fix these freezes, but nothing has been successful. I have tried: ENBoost SKSE Memory Blocks Patch Turning down my minimum CPU speed (it was set to always run at 100% and I figured maybe that was overloading it) Cleaning my masters and any dirty plugins Using BOSS instead of LOOT to sort my plugins Tweaking (read: lowering) graphical settings Creating a new character (problem still persists) Obviously, I have not been successful... :/ I'll attach my load order, as I was advised that these kind of issues could be caused by a conflict or load order problem. Thanks! EDIT: Forgot to post my specs. Please find them below.

Hello, I've been having issues with CTD's lately. I am able to get to the main menu and begin a new character without any trouble, until I finish character creation. Once I get control, the game crashes shortly after. Loading any existing characters is also impossible, I don't even make it past the loading menu. Here's my Load-Order: And I was told that I should get a Papyrus log, so here it is: I don't really know too much about mod-making, so none of that really makes much sense to me. Thanks to anyone who takes a look, extra thanks if you have an idea what's going wrong.