Can an experienced modder help me with this?

[ASpaceOstrich]

I want to make a mod, but I have literally never modded before, I saw a mod that was exactly what I was after, but it was coded poorly and corrupted my game, after the arduous reinstall process, I still want to use this mod, so I've decided to make it myself, with some tweaks.

 

The original mod used force av to lower you health, stamina, and magica regen to 0, so that eating and sleeping would raise it by 50% each. As you can imagine, it f*#@ed up immediately. The idea is sound though, so I want to make it. My idea would be to somehow deactivate health and stamina regen (I'd rather leave magica untouched) while still keeping your regen values intact, and then applying half of your regen for having eaten and the other half for having slept. This way, your perks, armour, rings, blessings, etc. still work, but you still need to eat and sleep. How would I begin, keep in mind that the Skyrim Creation Kit is not working very well (I can't resize it, and despite having a massive monitor, it has made itself bigger than my screen) so I'd need help fixing that as well.

 

Thanks in advance.

[unuroboros]

I think you do have the right idea of looking at another mod to get an idea for how you'd build your own. If I may make a suggestion though... use a different mod to learn from. :) ForceAV is definitely not the way to accomplish this, you want to use Spells and Magic Effects. Very similar to how a potion or poison would accomplish the same thing. (Actually, very similar. In Skyrim, food is technically a potion.)

 

There are lots of needs mods out there to choose from, so if none of them actually suit your "needs", then one of them is bound to have a similar setup to what you want, and you can look over it. I'd recommend either Realistic Needs & Diseases or Eat & Sleep. Again, what you're looking for are how potions and MGEF's interact to apply penalties or bonuses for your regen.

 

About your CK: The app itself is just a little... buggy. In my experience, most toolsets for games are. :p The best you can do is go through as many generic CK tutorials as you can stomach, to get an idea for how it acts up for most people, then you'll know what to expect yourself. Something I notice almost half the time I launch it is that the main window, the one with the File menu, starts orphaned in the background. You have to minimize all your other windows and possibly drag the other CK windows around before you can find it, and maximize it. (Or, try this tip: As soon as the CK is done launching, if you notice this has happened, use the Windows shortcut "Alt+Space, X", which is the shortcut sequence to maximize.)

[ASpaceOstrich]

Thanks for the info, I was actually commenting on how the mod used force av being a bad thing, as the force av broke immediately. I'll have a look into some tutorials, I'll likely have to code for this to work, but you never know.