Total Convesion

[Don88]

Hey,

 

I want to make a total conversion mod, possibly a .esm and I want to know how. If this has been answered before just tell me where I can find it, plz. I want to keep the nifs and icons from morrowind. is there any way to do this? without geting the nifs from the cd because i'm pretty sure i can't find them on it!!! help plz

[Lord Of The Cheese]

to make esm:

 

go to morrowind.ini and find the section that says [whocanmerge] (for me its right above the level up info) under that type in the computer username(or name of the computer)=1

 

if you dont know what it is, look in the programflow.txt and there will be something that says computername=(name) copy that into the above field

 

now when you go into the editor, when you go to the date files, there will be a button that says Merge, select the files you wish to merge then press that button, it will generate an .esm

 

i dont remember if it destroys the source files, but i would back them up incase.

 

if u enclude morrowind or tribunal or bloodmoon, ill see you next week because this will take forever. so you will manually add the stuff, or make an esm that is dependant on morrowind. otherwise you can possibly find an empty esm that has the morrowind stuff in it, but beware of viruses...

 

 

thats how you do it, i dont know if it was answered elsewhere on these boards(search), but now it has..

[orochi_dp]

...Hehe, pretty much a copy+paste job from the last post i made...

 

You need this program, TESDTK.

It can be found Here.

It can change those .esm files to .esp [and vice versa]

It can also change the versions, too.

You need the Java RunTime Environment, too.

The JRE can be found here.

Make sure you get the JRE and not the SDK...

 

 

it ALSO makes dependencies (Hence, it's name.). Overall, It's my new best friend. Especially if you're an XBOX'r.

[Don88]

Thanks for the info guys i'll go try that stuff and if works (fingers crossed) you hopefully wont see me asking too many questions in the forums! thanks again. :D

[Don88]

Hey so far so good, haven't tried TESDTK yet cos its downloadin'. But LOTC, i did what you said and i don't see a button. Any advice?

[Don88]

TESDTK works like a charm. Now that I have a .esm I don't really know what the benfits are but thanx for all the help!! :blush:

 

p.s. If anyone knows where to get the .nifs and .tgas from the morrowind disc, point me in the right direction. i only got one disc with both tescs on morrowind on it!

[orochi_dp]

Look for a BSA extractor on Morrowind Summit.

Then extract morrowind.bsa, bloodmoon.bsa, and tribunal.bsa.

There, all of the data files you can ever hope for.

...Though, I didn't notice any .tga files...

...If you need textures, you mean .dds.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Photoshop can handle them with a plugin...

[Wookiee]

LMAO and no one has put instructions on how to make a blank esp for you to start with (that can be later murged into an esm but thats the last thing you do)

 

to make a blank esp open up the CS paint a defult land tile on wilderness 0,0 (this will save the exterior world so you dont have to import one later... trust me) and save the blank work it provides as somthing esp

 

*no spoilers here*

 

now try and open it again ... see all the errors you get!

fix all these by adding in what it wants to see

 

when you dont get any more errors in the cs opening your blank esp

 

try to load it up in the game by itself no other esm's or esp's loaded...

 

WOW more errors

 

all these need to be adresed again :) lots of fun

 

now youll need to play with all the setings ether manualy or by importing the morrowind ones you can export... but what fun is that if you wana make a TC!!!

 

also you will need a Main script as this fires atomaticly on game start

 

AND you will want to make the global variables

 

Day Month Year all shorts

GameHour float

TimeScale float

 

these are so stuff can be manipulated

 

Also

 

*spoiler*

 

Very important CharGenState (float) you will want to add as you can only save a game if this is set to -1... funny that aye :)

 

this is not a comprehencive step by step guide becouse i cant be botherd wrighting one BUT this is the main lil bits and problems you will hit and a general direction to hed in towards making your blank esp

 

(bisides the sence of acomplishment when you did it all yourself can be enough to drive the rest of the TC onwards and you learn valuble aspects of many diffrent parts of the TES CS that will help you in the future)

 

*TIP*

 

chen bui ghans scripting for dumbies 5 is a good thing !!!!

and you will prolly need it to start the script "Main" and get everything working properly

 

Da Wookiee

 

edit: added another tip to avoide a pothole i came across

[Don88]

hey thanks for the blank esp tutorial. i haven't tried it yet cos it will take a while, so i will later and tell you how its goin. I have scrpting for dummies 5 but i haven't done much with it yet. But if i can make a blank esp like that it would rock! Orochi_dp, i downloaded that when I went to the link on your last post. i didn't know what it did but i knew it would come in useful sometime. I was actually lookin for the inventery icons when i said it. Ok i've just been informed that my friend has all the nifs nd stuff. Crisis avoided, phew :) . ok em thanks to all for your help nd eh... ill try all that cool stuff you guys said

[Don88]

Thanks for all the great ideas guys. i will try them all. I found all the nifs etc. on my friends cs disc. :D sorry for all the questions bout that!! :blush: well thanks for all your help!! If i ever need help again, ill know who to annoy!! ;)