Looking for advice and help on making a new mod.

[Vaikran]

Well im looking into getting into modding. So im looking up tutorials and experimenting a bit to see how everything works.

 

Basically im trying to make a mod similiar to Tundra defense but different with more content.

 

So if you guys would be so kind as to help me learn and form my ideas into an actual working mod that would be great.

 

First step im trying to learn how to make a consumable object that spawns a world object such as a tower, structure, ect.

[Pevey]

My advice, for whatever it's worth:

 

1) Start small and build from there. You know, get that first "hello world" mod under your belt.

 

2) The Creation Kit wiki will become one of your very best friends. Visit her often: http://www.creationkit.com/ ;)

 

3) The mod talk thread here and the Creation Kit thread at the official Bethesda Skyrim forums are good places to go when you are stumped with very specific problems. If you read a few of the older posts, you will get a sense of which types of questions get responses and which don't. (Hint: be as specific as possible, and explain what you've tried so far that hasn't worked.)

 

With respect to your specific question, on the consumable object, you will need to use a http://www.creationkit.com/Papyrus'>Papyrus script attached either to the object or (more complex approach, maybe to try down the road) to the player as a quest alias. To do what you're looking to do, you will need to do a good bit of scripting, so I would start by working through some of the Papyrus tutorials.

[Vaikran]

I had a feeling i was gonna need to do that after looking at the CK for awhile :P unfortunately i think i accidently F-ed up my skyrim by editing the terrain in whiterun. But thank you for the advice, i will start looking into scripting with Papyrus.