Any good guides for people that want to start making mods?

[G9ai]

Do you know any guides to get into making mods? Im interested but dont know where to start.

[Guest]

That really depends on what kinds of mods you're looking to make.

If you want to make house mods or dungeons, look up tutorials for those - there's hundreds. If you want to learn outfit-oriented stuff like skinning and conversions, look up some OS tutorials. If you want to learn scripting for Skyrim, idk if there's any tutorials for that sort of thing because I've never attempted it but there's probably plenty of people here willing to help. If you want to learn modelling and texturing, that's all done the same way as it would be in the industry save for the process for putting it into Skyrim. For textures, it depends on the program you're using and for modelling, you can start anywhere but a lot would suggest to start with Nightasy's tutorials.

 

Beyond Skyrim have a lot of good tutorials that cover a wide range of topics including information on NifSkope which is usually outdated elsewhere. The Creation Kit Wiki has a ton of tutorials for things involving the Creation Kit that range from beginner to expert stuff. DarkFox127 and Elianora both have a lot of useful tutorials as well. Elianora's are more centered to her line of work which is house mods.

 

If you know any authors who are making the things you want to try making, you can probably ask them for a few pointers too. 

[G9ai]

Thank you very much! I'm checking them out right now.

[goaway]

The creation kit page is a very handy reference guide in general.  I almost always have a tab open to it while modding just in case I need to double-check something.  A lot of the stuff in creation kit is rather... non-intuitive, especially some of the options on things like actors or magic effects.