modifying one character of a mod

[lordgdavid]

Hey! I have not yet made any mods but I am quite interested as I happen to have a bit more freetime nowadays. I read that to start modding I should fiddle around existing work to understand how things work. What I first would like to do is take a female character from another mod and replace her with a male character. I would voice the character and make more quests with devious deviced as there are pre existing ones. So my question is that with my goals in mind, what apps do I have to download to do this?

[Seijin8]

1) Scale it back. Pick one simple thing (switch female to male) and do that first.

 

2) You need Creation Kit at minimum. 

 

3) You need to know how to work a search engine.  Everything you need is out there already, along with hundreds (maybe thousands) of tutorials, but asking for yet another person to write yet another tutorial you clearly aren't interested in reading is a poor start.

 

TL;DR: Google that shit.

[Kishuna]

Hello lordgdavid,

 

So I'm guessing you want some kind of starting off point, which I'm more than happy to try to help provide. So Creation Kit would be the start, which takes some effort to get working properly because Bethesda, but nothing beyond some .ini tweaks. It will flag a bunch of errors, just power through and ignore them and continue to load. Afterward, fire it up, and from there, find the NPC, and you'll see a bunch of boxes open up with various settings for you to fiddle with. This alone is enough to get you started. Creation Kit is provided with Skyrim from Steam. Simply look for Tools in your Library drop down menu, and work with it. There are quite a few places to draw information as far as specifics. Hope you enjoy modding as much as I do. Fair warning, personal use for mods is fine, but if you want to publish or share anything, make sure to double check with the original author of whatever mod(s) you're using. Permission is ALWAYS important.