» Sat Jun 23, 2012 9:06 pm
Below are some of the things need to make sure have changed and aligned to your add actor/creature ... within these you have to make sure that they point to each other. Also not knowing what other mods you may have loaded and your load order since you have added to existing LVLN if using some of the other mods and they are loaded after yours then they are used not yours (unless make a Bash patch). Additionally might have to wait or force a cell respawn for the changes to take effect ... with the mod I did for stonecrabs the Bash patch took care of issue and the new critters started showing.
I general start by typing crab (or whatever is common between what creating and actor/creature adding to ... if frostspider would go with say *spider) in the filter and then going to All at the bottom in object window. This brings up all records associated with mudcrabs, which based these off. 1st thing changed was the 'naked' ARMA record (refs the nif here), then did the ARMO and then created a new race record. Other records end up touching are:
CLAS + character class
SPEL .. if creature has, crabs have water breathing and for giant extra damage (mod'd this last one since making a bigger crab).
INGR .. if get such when kill the thing .. for crab this is yes.
NPC .. for each version and a LvL record .. I did 3 diff crabs so had more then 1 entry in a lot of the record areas.
LVLN = Leveled Actor ... for who/what shows up when place the M on the map, had some issues with this in terms of getting alt levels to work so made everything the same level and worked, have to do more work here.
Leveled Item .. If have a treasure that is called when the dude dies .. in addition to the ingredient.
Load screen .. Description and pix of the thing.
Again if multiple variants then would have to do more ARMA, NPC packages, and Armors at minimum. Now I could have missed some things won't know until test in game but the list is all the really modable records found so far. If need more detail let me know and will try to gt back to u on this but I am sure others have better grasp then this and will chime in eventually. Good Luck .... it helps if you are a book keeper on this stuff ..