A small update but progress is slowly being made

https://github.com/downloads/uesp/skyedit/SkyEdit0.02a.zip
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Tes5Mod:SkyEdit

Changes from the previous version include:

• Several crash bug fixes and other minor things fixed
  
• Addition of editable enchantments and spells
  
• Expanded editing of existing records
  
• Several record types added to the list display
  
• Added missing record drag capabilities

I've received a lot of good feedback and bug reports from the last release so keep it coming!

Fantastic. Just downloaded and will give it a go. This is the tool I used to use the most with Beth games beside the CS (CK, GECK, or whatever): it's very practical for quick edits and mod fixing/verification. Thank you!

Dave, any chance you'll be putting this up on TESNexus? It's really good! Thanks so much for your hard work!

Thanks for your work on this Dave Humphrey!

Has anyone figured out how to edit the damage values for spells and other perks?

Thanks for that! Now I can check out the spells(wow..the magicka costs are so high in this game @_@)

Got that right. Expert level destruction spells cost way too much for the amount of damage that they deal. Don't even get me started on the dual-casting cost modifier (2.8x) and the damage modifier (2.2x).

I can, if desired, at least in a few releases when the feature list is a bit fuller. I've never really used it much since its a "competitor" to UESP.


For spells it should just be a matter of editing the "Magnitude" field of each effect in the spell (in the EFIT subrecord if you are editing the data directly). Spell cost should be the "Cost" field although AutoCalc may have to be off for this to not be overridden (I'm unsure how AutoCalc works at the moment).

Also a note about dual casting: it looks like there is simply a different version of the spell for the left hand, right, and dual casting so it should be a simple matter of just editing the "both hand" version (untested assumption at this point).

Yes, Autocalc needs to be unchecked in order to use the cost field, otherwise it uses the base cost of the underlying magic effect to set the cost of the spell.
The different hand-versions of spells seem to not affect the player at all, only the normal spell is used. Might just be remnants from development...

Oh, and thank you for all your hard work on this editor, really great!

"Magnitude?" This is while the Skyrim.esm is open, right?? If so, I'm not seeing it at all.

I've just been playing with v0.02 for a couple hours. Dave, you seriously saved my Christmas! I've already been making some fun changes to spells.

One small question: The Game Settings values in Skyrim.esm are the same thing as the GMST records, correct? It seems that some of them are not being shown by SkyEdit. I found a mod on the Nexus site that increases the number of times you can train per level. TESVSnip shows the game setting being modified by that file as iTrainingNumAllowedPerLevel. However, SkyEdit only shows two integer values under Game Settings that start with "iTraining": iTrainingExpertCost and iTrainingMasterCost.

Any idea why I'm seeing this discrepancy?

Thank you SOOOOO much for making this tool!!

SCC, a lot of GMSTs use hard-coded defaults and aren't specified at all in Skyrim.esm. That's probably what's going on here. You can add them to an .esp and they'll work fine (doesn't even matter if the FormID is valid).

There is something strange going on with GMST (Game Settings). New ones created in SkyEdit don't appear to show up in the game, or at least the console, for no obvious reason. Whether this is something wrong with SkyEdit or the hardcoding mentioned by tejon ,or both, I'm not yet sure. If you can let me know the name of mod you're trying to load and I can take a look.

Does anyone know where I can find the magnitude and cost values? I'm a total noob at modding skyrim so I have little knowledge on the file formats and programs needed to open them. I do know (after some googling) that it has something to do with EFIT files.

Here's a download link for the mod I referenced that changed the "iTrainingNumAllowedPerLevel" game setting: http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2814.

In the small mod I'm making for myself with SkyEdit, I was able to change the game setting iMaxPlayerRunes from 1 to 3, and tested in game that 3 was working correctly.

noobish question: on the right-click menu, under Flags, what do Toggle Ignore and Toggle Delete do? Toggle Quest Item seems pretty self-explanatory.

If you're editing spells click on the "Spell" item on the left hand side to display all the spells and double-click a desired spell in the list to the right. Every spell is composed of one or more base magic effects which are listed at the bottom of the spell edit window (just like the other magical records like enchantments and potions). Click an effect in that list and the edit the magnitude/duration/area as desired. Note that different effects may only use specific fields.



If Skyrim is the same as Morrowind/Oblivion: Setting a record to "Delete" means the game will actually consider that record deleted in the game. "Ignore" may be similar but I don't remember exactly the difference (its not deleted but the game doesn't do anything with it). For the most part you shouldn't need either for typical mod editing.

Very good work. Even though I know how to edit things by hand, having a tool to autoreference all those formids makes my life so much easier. Thanks.

Thanks for the update. Any estimation when weapon speed/reach and other stats will become available?

Just wanted to let you know... this program is EXCELLENT. Seriously, great work. I don't exactly have experience with similar programs to judge it by, but for me it's been a great help.

Quick question: am I correct in assuming there's a lot of data in each MagicEffect and/or Spell that isn't visible yet?

Thanks for this new revision. Going to have a great time editing spells and creating new ones.

Thank you for the update!

I'll go back and relook at the weapon format and see if I can figure things out with the info from the last thread. Once I figure it out adding it to the interface is easy.



The MGEF (base effects) have a bunch of stuff missing at the moment. Spells/Enchanting are actually almost 100% with only a few things missing (bounds data and script info namely). There are several fields whose values are not completely understood but they are still editable in SkyEdit (guess a value and hope for the best until we figure them out).

What am I doing wrong here?

I made a new spell, with a FormID of 0x01001005.

Now in the load order this becomes 06001005, so i use that(the above of course wont work like that), but it comes up as an error when I try adding it via player.addspell.

Edit: I got it. It was supposed to be 07 instead.

here to show my appreciation for this amazing little app.
thank you for all your work on this Dave,
i have been very keen to increase followers (not quest followers that would break anything)
just to have a Player Faction and create a Follow Package for a spawned npc/s, the key i assume is in the PACK (packages section)
when these are editable, i will be over the moon
all the best.