llamaRCA Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 thank you for reply i have download the amigo cafe im going to try that i deleted my companion from scatch i will start over it took me along time to get as far as i was but i was wanting to learn more to create vanilla companion from scratch and learn all the scripts and how to write tham the g e ck is very fustrating is there any other modding software out there to use thats better rhan the g e c k and its user friendly please help if cam u guys been very help thank you also i will look into the vNPCFollowers quest too No, the GECK is it and like Quetzl said earlier in the thread one of the best ways to learn how to use it is to take a look at other companions and companion mods and see how they were made. You can learn a lot by studying the esm and other mods. At first it is a little overwhelming and you aren't even sure what you are looking at, but the more you look at them the more it makes sense. I'd also recommend that you search through the forums whenever you have to do something with packages, dialogue, etc and look to see what others are asking questions about and the answers they get. That helps. You might want to take a look at this tut to help you understand the scripting done in FO3 and FNV. This is a helpful tut for dialogue. And the GECK wiki is your friend. It has a lot of good material. The search sucks but the front page has a directory on the front page on the right side and it matches up with the GECK by GECK section. It has lists of things like packages, what kinds there are and what they are good for; not everything you need to know about packages is there, but it's a good start so you have some idea. There's a good tut for a simple quest and you could get started doing a quest with that and between that and using a quest you were familiar with in the esm you could build a quest, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geekminxen Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 No, the GECK is it I read on another section of the forum that FNVEdit works like the Geck, but I haven't tried it and frankly from the description it sounded like just as much of a learning curve. :> You can learn a lot by studying the esm and other mods. At first it is a little overwhelming and you aren't even sure what you are looking at, but the more you look at them the more it makes sense. Boy, I cannot stress enough how true this is. It was my own shouldn't-be-doing-this-at-4-in-the-morning mistake that messed me up; otherwise, I got everything for the companion wheel put together from looking at the followers quest and the individual follower characters' object scripts. I would never have had the guts to start mucking around with the geck without all the tutorials Llama pointed me to, and even then it was monumentally confusing to me until I'd done and redone things a few times. The pieces are starting to fall into place for me now...it's starting to make sense. :) As for those four-in-the-morning sessions? You're right, llama, it's addictive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llamaRCA Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 I read on another section of the forum that FNVEdit works like the Geck, but I haven't tried it and frankly from the description it sounded like just as much of a learning curve. :> Here's the link to Miax's training manual which makes it accessible. You can make some changes in it that are GECK like (changing the DT of an armor say) without having to know how to use the GECK or every having it. But for me, because I'm not terribly sophisticated with it, the most important thing I use it for as a modder is cleaning my mod and checking in it for errors as I'm modding. Also, just as a player it is very useful for checking for conflicts between mods, for getting object IDs so you can console things into your game (I rarely go hunting for clothing mod containers) or copying faces of NPCs and fun/good stuff like that. Re: 4am lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LVB2 Posted September 5, 2011 Author Share Posted September 5, 2011 i know how to use the g e c k pretty much i have created a companion threw the nccs system but i like ti create one from scatch and learn about scrits and know how to right them and i llike cto know how to update or patch a mod to make it compatible with FNV version 1.4 i like to lear more about that stuff so i can start doing bigger mods and patch or update mods for my own enjoyment is there anyway someone can show me how or explain it it thank you in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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