New to making Mods for Skyrim SE - Can someone help me?

[Zoresh1]

Hey. Im new to making mods.

I like Argonians, and alot of the followers who are pressent on Nexus Mods don't live up to what I want for "my" Follower.
So I decided to try to make my own mod for the first time. A simple Argonian Follower named Saliandros.

My problem is not to make him, he are walking around in my game.

The problem comes in Creation Kit because, I wanted to make sure that this guy was a assassin so I downloaded the Creation Kit again and made the setup with Creation Kit Fixes and downgrade it, so it can run with the fixes.

When I then try to save and quit the Creation Kit it happens.

1) it opens a "Save As" instead of just Override the file I opened it from.

2) If I try to override the "SaliandrosESO" file (The Follower) it says that the Master file is running, and cant be overritten.

• I then have to options, ether just leave it be and use the version I have already made. Or I can save a new .esp file and give it another name. It will by this way require the SaliandrosESO.esp file to run

 

I dont get why it suddently changes to a master file it doesn't get the .esm file type ether. and does still require the "Skyrim.esm" to run. I have tried to search on Google but without any luck.

So what I want is to make so this Mod only contains one file. and a able to load if Skyrim.esm is installed on the system.

What I did to come to this problem:

1. Downloaded Creation Kit - Got new PC so thats why it wasn't installed
2. Implemented the Fixes and downgraded
3. Opened Creation Kit
4. Found my "SaliandrosESO.esp" file that i made on the old PC.
5. made my changes to my "Follower" this includes
   
   - Made some perk changes
   - Made his Custom AI
   
6. Tried to save my file and this is where the problem happns

Edited August 6, 2023 by Zoresh1

[showler]

When you loaded your mod did you make it the "active" file?