Tes3Mod:Modding

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Contents 1 Tools 2 Cells 3 Dialogue 4 Scripts 5 Background Info 6 General How To 7 Advanced How To

[edit] Tools

• TES Construction Set
  • Editor Features - List of the major features to be found in the official game editor.
  • Keyboard Shortcuts - Useful list of the CS keyboard shortcuts.
  • General Editor Tips - Some short tips to help get you started.
• Additional Tools - Additional tools for creating and repairing mods.

[edit] Cells

• Editing Interiors - Editing interior cells.
• Editing Exteriors - Editing exterior cells and landscape.

[edit] Dialogue

• Dialogue Notes - General tips to editing dialogue in the CS.
• Dialogue Pitfalls - Common and unexpected dialogue problems and how to deal with them.
• Dialogue Avoiding Greeting Conflicts - Specifically deals with the common problem of greeting conflicts in dialogues.

[edit] Scripts

• Alphabetical Function List - All scripting functions, sorted alphabetically.
• Categorical Function List - All scripting functions, sorted by category.
• Scripting Basics - An introduction to scripting.
• Scripting Pitfalls - Common and unexpected scripting problems and how to deal with them.

[edit] Background Info

• GMST Contamination - What it is and how to avoid and/or repair it.
• References - How references are defined and what can go wrong with them.
• Runtime - What happens when Morrowind starts up, saves and loads files.
• TES3 File Format - Technical details of the TES3 file format used for mods and savegames.
• World Map - The world (zoomed out) map. Problems with it and some solutions to them.

[edit] General How To

• Id Standards - Standards for picking ids for globals, objects, factions, journal topics, etc.
• Naming Standards - Standards for naming objects, quests, cells, etc.
• Licensing - How to license your mod.
• Cleaning Mods
• Creating Clean Mods - How to make sure you mods are 'clean' and avoid the dirty save bug.
• Merging Mods - How to safely merge multiple mods. And how to adjust dependent savegames afterwards.
• Refactoring Mods - Safely renaming objects and variables. Breaking a mod up into several pieces.
• Releasing Mods - Cleaning. Readme. Versioning. Packaging.
• Resolving Mod Conflicts - Types of mod conflicts and how to avoid, repair and reconcile them.

[edit] Advanced How To

• Form Change - Change PC into an animal or another person.
• Formatted MessageBoxes - Arrange the text put into a MessageBox.
• Math Functions - Modulo, trig functions, etc.
• Scheduling - Put NPCs on a schedule.
• ToggleMenus and HUD workarounds - Dealing with HUD problems after using ToggleMenus.