bigglebojiggle Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 I love cheskos wearable lantern mod (http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/17416/?) and the other day I thought "you know what would be cool? If there was a lantern that had a soul gem in it and used the light from the candle light spell." I wouldn't really expect anyone to bother updating a mod that's been out as long as it has, so if anyone could point me in the right direction I'll make the add-on myself, even if it's only for me (I don't know if chesko would want someone to send out an add-on to his mod). I would love to make it so you can craft it, but I really don't have the slightest idea how to use the Creation Kit. If anyone could give me some pointers or link me to a good tutorial, that would be appreciated.
modslave Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 Chesko is working on an indy game project and has largely been off scene far as Skyrim modding goes for the last couple of years. The idea of a wearable glowing soul gem as a light source I don't think has actually been done as yet....and its kind of a ridiculously simple idea that I'm surprised no one has done. The CK side of things is all pretty well explained in the Creation Kit wiki, but the modeling or re-modeling of a soul gem into a wearable magic light source is a different set of challenges. I may poke at this as something to do, I've been out of the mod scene for awhile. But knowing my luck someone will upload a finished one about the time I'm ready to show off some test images.
bigglebojiggle Posted February 25, 2015 Author Posted February 25, 2015 Chesko is working on an indy game project and has largely been off scene far as Skyrim modding goes for the last couple of years. The idea of a wearable glowing soul gem as a light source I don't think has actually been done as yet....and its kind of a ridiculously simple idea that I'm surprised no one has done. The CK side of things is all pretty well explained in the Creation Kit wiki, but the modeling or re-modeling of a soul gem into a wearable magic light source is a different set of challenges. I may poke at this as something to do, I've been out of the mod scene for awhile. But knowing my luck someone will upload a finished one about the time I'm ready to show off some test images. I was trying it out to see if I could figure it out, what I did was copy the standard wearable lantern (not either of the bug ones), and try to go from there. I'm not really sure how to do it, but the plan was just to put a mini grand soul gem inside, or a lesser soul gem, basically I was going to try to scale a grand soul gem down to fit in the lantern. I figured out how to do simple things like copying the base file, adding a description, and renaming the lantern; I'm just not sure how to get it to do the specific light, add it to stores, make it craftable etc. I did manage to almost make a house and I played around with the light sources so I do think if I keep messing with it I can figure it out eventually, I just have pretty much zero experience with CK so it would take a while (for example I accidentally made that house a plot of land and not a house). I'll check out the wiki and see if I can learn anything, but if you fell like doing it yourself then absolutely feel free to.
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