TFCGWolf

Managed to go through the tutorial and get it working. but once I put it into creation kit it crashed. I dont have any collisions cause each time I attempt to it comes out too small or crashes the system. anyways, heres the file. no idea where to go from here to fix it or even get the collisions to work: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5RVv4zaYv2rbFoybml2WXRZMzA/view?usp=sharing

I would be fine if I knew about this kind of stuff, but I'm super new to animating for Skyrim, even Oblivion. but I did give the author a PM about it after I tried the tutorial. to be honest I kinda wish there were more tutorials out there of this kind of stuff. I've also gotta learn the collisions for the objects aswell. :/

same as what joebenz said, images help me out a lot. when doing this stuff.

I've been looking for a long time aswell. However there are two ways to do it. You can 1: Replace the mesh of the door with one of your own, or 2: make a custom animation. I have not found really any tutorials, but I may have found a beginner one here: https://www.darkcreations.org/forums/topic/9830-how-to-animated-models-with-collision-to-skyrim-from-3ds-max/. I just wish there were more tutorials on custom animations as I too dont know much about animating for Oblivion or skyrim. Hope I helped a bit. and if you found any tutorials, please let me know.