[LE] Noob modder needs help from experienced -

[Chizznuck]

Hi, so with all the free time, I wanted to try to finish a mod I've been working on, purely as a hobby and creative outlet (I enjoy writing), but my background is not at all in the tech field, let alone game design, so please be gentle.

 

So my two mods are well-liked by people who play them, Volthar Manor and Mistress Kira's Fine Adornment, but they are mostly puzzles, living areas, places to explore and easter eggs, merchants, followers and Lore/backstory, for vampire gameplay. I'm working on a new dragonborn themed mod to add a house in an empty spot in solitude that's always bothered me, Wultar the Brave's house, an old war 'hero' (and secret talos worshipper). If I was good modder, I'd want Wultar to have a joinable faction you can join - a group of do-gooder mercenaries you can do radiant quests for and level up in the guild, maybe even just one quest to kill outlaws or something, get a cool sword and extra skill as a reward. nothing fancy, just more stuff to do. But all my mods so far miss a lot of what I wanted to include. I had trouble making quests, so there are no quests or quest markers, I wanted characters to be hostile/friendly depending on if your character is a vampire or not, and i wanted to add radiant quests for whatever faction you side with.

 

Okay so its a long list of stuff I'm too much of a noob to do, so any help would be GREATLY appreciated from this community of modders and genius creative types i have so much respect for YOU nexus ppl. So heres what I failed at in (both) my mods and I'd love at add:

 

- Courier to deliver quest starting letter (and change letter depending on vampire or not)

- Simple main quests (discover this area, kill this guy) and radiant quests (join vamps or hunt them)

- Hostilities (If you're vampire, your friendly, if you're not, they attack)

- upgrades to estate (for Volthar i wanted you to be able to purchase Guard/barkeep/stable)

- other things i failed at like a shout, add a small dungeon quest, and put unique items in.

 

Okay so for unique items I'd need help, the 3d stuff is way beyond my pay grade. I wish i could put in custom jewelry and apparel in but i would need to find someone willing to let me put it in. Is that possible? do people do that?

 

heres links to my mods, they're at least good enough ppl ported them to SE and I'm fairly happy with them overall considering my inexperience.

 

Volthar

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/87828

 

Kira's

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/95901

 

 

And I want to do Wultar's house, i have it built already, but with my lame bag of CK tricks i feel It would kinda just be more of the same i've already done, which i'm bored with. And FYI i have watched many many YT tutorials and am a good self-learner, so I know when I've hit my wall without extra help, and this is basically it.

 

Any help would be appreciated guys and gals, and thanks for the years of entertainment and great mods!

 

Cheers,

 

Chizz

 

 

 

[Gerheardt]

I wish i could help. It means i could be able to help myself with similar stuff! I read entirely, in case i could help with what i know, sadly i can't help you, but i guess it's better to know people are reading and cared and wanted to help than having no or very few answers.

[NexBeth]

As to the courier quest, here is a detailed instruction vid that worked for me in my mod:

 

There are modder's resources for apparel you can check out. You can also ask for permission from modders who have published clothing mods. You are likely not going to find anyone who will just makes something unique for you.

 

For Hostilities, if you mean that you want non-vampire NPCs to attack the player then you do that through modifying factions, particually the PlayerFaction.

 

Your list of things you want to learn is pretty comprehensive and is not something that you're going to accomplish quickly, especially things that involve scripting and questing.