Where to Find External Tutorials

[FIREFLY11]

Hi all! This is for anyone out there who might have any info on this: I've noticed that you get directed to the DA Keep for many of the tutorials under the External Tutorials section of the Toolset wiki when you click on them. I've checked in the Keep's Tapestry section, but there are no sign of the tutorials. Are these gone for good, or is there some way to access them? Also, I keep forgetting to ask this question, so here it is: For anyone with modding experience, is there any particular order in which to learn to create mods that you would recommend for those new to modding? Items/armor/weapons seems the easiest & I've largely mastered that, but what would be a good next step? Thanks to anyone with info!

 

Best regards,

 

FIREFLY11

 

P.S.: Sky if you see this, I tried your suggestion about altering the physical Antivan boots under the armor section to customize them. That did the trick--thanks a bunch! :thumbsup:

[theskymoves]

Glad you got your boots sorted! :smile:

 

The 'social.bioware.com' external links on the toolset wiki were originally to a much different site than the current portal page you are being redirected to. The old 'Bioware Social Network' was a Bioware-operated community hub site that included the toolset wiki, message boards, a simple blogging platform, hosting for game patches, DLC and mods, and a precursor of sorts to the Dragon Age Keep in the form of player 'profiles' to which player character data for some Bioware games could be uploaded.

 

That site was closed to new content in 2015/6-ish by Bioware and (to the great detriment of the gaming community) shut down completely in late 2017. Bioware has indicated that there will be no replacement site and that there would be no future access to any of the content, apart from the toolset wiki.

 

The good folks at the Bioware Continuity Network have compiled information on where to locate the extant remnants of BSN; some content from the message boards and blogs was archived to the Bioware games section of Fextralife, and I've found a few tutorials and a good bit of information there I'd thought were lost to the memory hole, including weriKK's custom item tutorial, but I've haven't investigated whether they scraped everything linked from the toolset wiki. (The most efficient way I've found to locate content on the site is using targeted keyword or phrase searching with the Google Advanced Search feature and restricting my searches to 'fextralife.com/forums'.)

 

(ETA that I was able to locate werriKK's item statistics tutorial.)

 

And for locating old non-BSN/non-Youtube tutorials, I'd use the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive.

Edited August 5, 2019 by theskymoves

[FIREFLY11]

Thanks a lot Sky! I'll check those out & see what I can learn. It's a shame that Bioware pulled the plug on all that info. How do they expect newer modders to learn how to create things? Guess the modding community will have to work together to keep the knowledge alive (you do a yeowoman's work as it is--can't thank you enough for being around to help!). BTW, I was able to create that engagement ring for my HNF from Alistair (she'll have another one to go with the one from your mod :smile: ) with Rak72's help & the Fextralife article. Have to learn about plot flags a little more, as I'm not sure if it showed up in my loaded save where Alistair & my Warden are already engaged b/c it recognized the plot flag in ARR (in ARR they can become engaged as early as after Arl Eamon is revived) or if the ring will show up in all my saves. Guess I should check on that. :tongue: All the same, I wouldn't have been able to do it w/o your help--thanks as always for pointing me in the right direction!

 

Best always,

 

FIREFLY11