Looking to get into CK.

[evilsqueegee]

I've never done any CK work in my life. But I'm starting to consider it for personal use.

My current character is a female UNP mage; there are lots and lots of armors available that I would positively love to make use of.

 

The thing is that none of them have stats appropriate to my build: Specifically, every Mage armor under the sun on the Nexus is Light armor, and I play an armorless Mage Armor perk user. Mods like the Warhammer Sorceress Robes or the Blood Witch Armor are things I would !#%!%ing love to use; I would love even more to use them with the vanilla Archmage's Robes enchants (or Master Destruction robe enchants, if I ever decide to switch.)

I'm assuming that these mods can have their stuff loaded into the CK and tinkered with, but I don't know where to start (hell, I don't even know where to get the CK yet.)

Is this worth doing? Difficult? Simple?

[Guest]

Absolutely worth it and and very simple. 

[evilsqueegee]

Update: I have downloaded Creation Kit, and acquired the armor mod I wish to alter. I figured I would tinker and research and learn hands-on the way I always do. However, I cannot find the mod I wish to modify anywhere. CK only recognizes my default vanilla install because I use Mod Organizer to keep a clean installation around. 

 

Not certain how to proceed.

[Robton]

Move the armors files into the data folder while tinkering with them, and move them into MO afterwards

 

CK can't use the files in MO's directories.

[Silver Wolf]

for some reason my CK crash every 20 minutes. I already tried verify it through steam but still crashing

[evilsqueegee]

Move the armors files into the data folder while tinkering with them, and move them into MO afterwards

 

CK can't use the files in MO's directories.

 

Derp. I should have thought of this. Thank you, will attempt (and, I imagine, come back with more questions shortly.)

 

Doing this while ratting in Eve Online is going to get me blapped. I can already tell.

[Guest]

for some reason my CK crash every 20 minutes. I already tried verify it through steam but still crashing

The CK is a rather buggy program. A fresh reinstall of the CK appeared to make the CK crash less frequently, but it still crashes at the most inconvenient times. The best advice I could give is just to save your work after every action. Better safe than sad. 

[Silver Wolf]

Well I have ancient pc, too (E5700@3.7ghz, 3gb of DDR2, hd 5670 512mb) that would be like salt upon wound

[evilsqueegee]

Okay, so if I'm following this correctly...

 

1) Boot up CK.
2) select mod's .esp file.

3) Hunt down the items I want to alter the stats of. 

4) find item I want to change
5) set armor value to 0
6) change armor type from Light to None

7) set keywords (I'm basically just duplicating whatever I see on the Archmage's Robes)

8) save file in CK

9) take mod's ESP, replace the original ESP with it
6) Profit?

 

I can't help but notice CK loads in the base Skyrim data and not just the mod ESP, if I don't change anything but data I know comes from the mod, it won't overwrite anything but the mod's .esp file, correct?

[Guest]

When you save the .esp, it automatically overwrites the esp you edited, but profit indeed.

And, correct, the CK will not modify the Skyrim.esm since it's used as a master file. 

[evilsqueegee]

When you save the .esp, it automatically overwrites the esp you edited, but profit indeed.

And, correct, the CK will not modify the Skyrim.esm since it's used as a master file. 

 

this seems to have worked. Thank you so much.