» Wed Jun 20, 2012 6:51 am
A bit of simple advice from someone who was in your exact shoes at one time. Go to the CK wiki and do every tutorial there. Based on your initial post it sounds like the quest tutorial would be the best place to start, as it covers everything you specifically asked for help with. Do each step exactly how they are shown, watch the videos over and over, and practice, practice, practice. Start experimenting with what the tutorials teach you, and apply those lessons to different scenarios. It’s a lot of frustrating work in the beginning just trying to learn. But if you force yourself to do the tutorials now, it will save you a TON of time and frustration in the long run.
I said I was in your same exact shoes once, and I meant it. When I first started with Fallout 3 I didn’t want to do the tutorials because what I wanted to build was nothing like what the tutorials were teaching me to build. However, I begrudgingly did them and discovered what I learned in the tutorials are actually concepts and techniques that are universal and can be applied to almost any quest mod in one way or another. (BTW, the Skyrim quest tutorial is light years better than what we had for Fallout 3.)
They’re just very basic, and one or two objectives that are simple. But used over and over and controlled by various conditions, they are the foundation of how every quest in the game works. When it all boils down we basically use dialog, objects, more dialog and events to control every quest in the game. And you learn those fundamentals in the tutorials. (That’s oversimplified I know, but it’s basically true.)