Attempt to mod: Change ingame announcement? (etc)

[Sorith]

Greetings,

 

I am trying my hand at modding so I can possibly also create some fun/nice mods myself, I am completely new to it though and have no experience at all so I look up all I can find on youtube and creation kit tutorials etc and then just try it and see if it goes right hehe.

 

I am however wondering about something, is it possible to alter the text of an ingame announcement?

With that I mean for example an announcement like 'Soul captured' which you see when you capture a soul.

I want that text to say something different like possibly 'Magic captured'.

And text at the bottom of a full soul gem, you know, 'Filled with ?? soul', I want it to be 'Filled with ?? magic'.

I really hope that can be done, and if it can be done, where in the ck can I do that?

 

I also want to change text descriptions on items, spells/spelltomes and effects.

 

Having a whole mod in my mind and well, why not directly jump in the deep. Trial and error right?

 

This is of course for Skyrim, and naturally if I get the hang of it and turn out to like it who knows.. maybe other games too.

[Guest Ragna_Rok]

items? weapons description can be changed when you look under "weapons" .. when you open their entries you can set the text to display for those in a field on the down-right.

[Sorith]

Yes, items I figured out quite well I think, thanks. (Cool avatar by the way)

 

What I just can't find in the ck is where the text  'Soul captured' is located, when you capture a soul that text will pop up on the top left of your screen.

Well, I want to change that text so that when it pops up next in my game it will say something like 'Magic captured' instead.

 

Does anyone know where to find and how to change that text?

[Sorith]

Hi there,

 

Well, I am attempting to create the mod and I am completely new to that but it does not seem really hard on some things in the creation kit.

However, I intend to duplicate anything that has to do with soul gems and soul trap spells/enchants and alter the duplications into what I want, with the look I want.

What I want is rather simple, everything about soul gems, soul traps and enchants has to stay the same, the only thing I want to change is change the look and every bit that says Soul ingame with those items/spells/enchants into the word Magicka on the things I duplicate.

 

Examples:

 

Gems:

Filled with Petty Soul to Filled with Petty Magicka.

And that with any type of gem, I will definitely use Azura's Star. (duplication of course)

 

Spell tome and spell:

Soul trap to Magicka trap.

If target dies within ?? seconds, fills a Soul gem to If target dies within ?? seconds, fills a Magicka gem.

 

Enchantment:

Soul trap to Magicka trap.

 

I certainly think I am able to do that, however, when you capture a soul you will get the notification Soul Captured on the top left of your screen and I just can't seem to find that sentence anywhere, and under weapons I found nothing either.

In the Creation kit in Magic effect under Magic I looked inside SoulTrapFFActor and EnchSoulTrapFFContact and saw magicsoultrapfxscript and SayOnHitByMagicEffectScript and looked inside those by choosing Edit Source but I did not find the sentence Soul Captured within them.

You can also choose Edit Properties instead of Edit Source but rightclicking anything under Property Name there does not give an option to Edit so no idea if any of those things have that Sentence in them.

 

So the question is, do you know where I can find that sentence Soul Captured so I can duplicate whatever file/script that is in and change that sentence into Magicka Captured.

Then I can use that for my duplicated soul gems/Azura's star/spells/enchants (whichever causes that text to appear).

 

 

With the mod I intend to create I will of course create a different name instead of Azura's Star and Soul gem.

All soul gems, spells/enchants and Azura's Star or the Black Star will function and say exactly like and what they always do, only my duplicated altered versions of them will say Magicka in them instead of Soul.

So the mechanics stay completely the same, I will only change the word soul to magicka in all of it.

I am completely new to modding and have not ever done anything as such so woohoo, challenge!

 

I'd really like it if someone can help me out on this and thank you kindly,

 

Sorith.

[Veladarius]

In the Creation Kits main menu (file, edit etc...) go to Gameplay then Settings. All the messages displayed for SoulTrap are there.

[Sorith]

Thank you Veladarius, I shall certainly take a look at that tomorrow as I should really go to bed now.

Good night.