New Modder - SaintClare -

[SaintClare]

Greetings. I am a new modder with lots of great new ideas that are coming to fruition, especially in Fallout: New Vegas. If anyone have some tips for novice modders, I'd be glad to hear what you have to say. Glad to be here.

[cccddd123]

Well, what kind of mods have you done before? i don't consider myself a modder, i really suck. But if it helps, i started making Radio stations, functional merged mods and simple retextures. Now i'm going for a companion mod. Maybe you should start there too.

[SaintClare]

Well, in the past I've worked with simply adding buildings and NPCs to Oblivion, but I've been trying to learn how to script and build quests. I don't have much experience with the GECK, but I'm learning.

Edited August 4, 2013 by SaintClare

[Matth85]

Well, you're asking a rather difficult questions. You see, modding is not one thing, it's a lot of things. From using the GECK to place a new NPC, to editting stats, to making new scripts, to modelling and texturing something. It all depends on what aspect you are going after.

For instance, if you only want to work in the GECK, I suggest building a custom vault and add a quest to it. Perhaps a few new equipments and all.

If you'd rather edit some models, then Nifskope copy/pasting is an option. Albeit it will take some work to get used to Nifskope. It took me quite a while at least :P But in the end it is understandable.

For modelling/Texturing you better start somewhere else than here. It's not worth confusing yourself with import/export settings, riggings and all that nonesense if you can't make anything anyways.

 

Personally, I make models and texture. Well, I used too at least. Now I spend more time trying to help others, and do the occasional retexture ;)

 

If you need help, don't be afraid to ask! But remember to ask a little more specific :)

 

Matth