Custom Vampire Lord seperate from vanilla Vampire Lord

[Jake15000]

Hello all. I am relatively new to modding Skyrim so I don't have everything down pat so I need some guidance from more experienced modders about this particular issue. So I recently created custom Vampire Lord meshes and textures for the player and was able to get them to work in-game. The problem is that Harkon also uses the same meshes and textures as the custom Vampire Lord. Is there anyway to make it so that the Custom Vampire Lord only affects the Player Vampire Lord and Harkon keeps the vanilla Vampire Lord meshes and textures. I haven't seen a tutorial on how to do this or seen a forum post that addresses this issue so I'm kinda stumped on this. Any help would be appreciated.

[PeterMartyr]

OMG it been so long since I've done a custom race to play with.. yes it can be done, I would start with learning how to make custom playable race, baby steps, start with the basics

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/10165

welcome to coding, btw  if you get this working and release this, you will need this as a master

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/24168

so your mod plays nice with other Custom Races

just let me add, the above guide  is 100% accurate and working, the Greatest Modder on the Planet wrote it, any errors will be you, do not expect to get it right the first time, if you do ? Good On Ya

use a proper text editor too, choose one, or try all three to see what you like

• NotePad++
• Visual Studio Code
• Sublime Text

packages for Notepad++ is on the CK wikki

packages for Visual Studio Code is self built gets

packages for Sublime is on the Nexus or Github

https://github.com/Kapiainen/SublimePapyrus

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/60810

the reason I use a custom race was it was pre FNIS Alternate Animation / Nemsis and I used the original PCEA

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/14871

if get you frustrated with the coding, just go for a walk to clear your head, delete everything and try again, you do not have the set skill to find errors, it will drive you even more crazy.. "bring back to formula"

[PeterMartyr]

Just so we are clear, and on the safe side, you do not need the original PCEA, it is outdated and obsolete now..  

Plus since you like Vampires? are you aware of this

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/80159

there maybe some problems, that are already solved, no need to reinvent the wheel, also notice heaps of Race Compatibility Patches.. do not ignore that 

also if you are a MO user, you will need Work A Rounds, baby steps, do the Custom Race learning in the real world.. If there is a "Reader" that knows these MO creation kit coding work A rounds.. feel free to to tell @Jake15000 what they are.