Alrighty. I'll try to make sure that I always provide a transcript along with the video.
Unfortunately I have no experience with animations. So I couldn't do a tutorial on that.

Tutorials I'm considering heavily right now:
- LOD. A step by step guide on how to get working tree, object, and land LOD for your new worldspace.
- Voice Acting. Not the technical, but the social. Where to find them. How to hold auditions. How to interact with them and what to do to gurentee that your mod has quality voice overs.
- Level Design. The theory behind it. What tricks are there to make your levels engaging and fun? What tips for good levels, and things to avoid.
- Story design. Again not the technical. How to plan a good story. What devices exist. Things to avoid. How to make a positive impact on the player.

The last three aren't so much tutorials as they are 'discussions' on those topics. Since I'm not telling exactly how to do something, I'm just giving tips and what I've learned to help you out. Maybe I'll make two series, a tutorial series, and a discussion series.

Does that sound any good? Or should I just combine it and call them all tutorials?

Two series sounds good to me. I'll be looking forward to both sets of information either way .

I for one would like some explanation of package tree and functions. Some sound simple but others are a bit more tricky and the order of them etc... These are not only used in Actors of course but in Scenes to have an actor follow steps...

There is one in the wiki http://www.creationkit.com/Bethesda_Tutorial_Layout_Part_1

I've used it, it was pretty helpful. And it helps out more if you glance at existing dungeons in the CK to see how they are setup.

We need a tuturial that shows us how to make fully custom spells like Midas magic

I'd like to know how to begin a quest from an activator. E.G. Click on something, box pops up with some text, quest is activated

Hurray!

I consider myself at 5-6 in a scale of 10, and there's nothing as difficult as that! THANKS!

All other things you can get tons of tutorials and you can learn for yourself, many thanks again and I'm looking forward for your tutorials.

EDIT: don't forget water LOD

If you do that, and everything works fine at my end, I'm making a tutorial about creating worldspaces with gecontrol that points to your tutorial for the LOD part.

Right now, it would be nice to have a straightforward, step-by-step set of instructions for creating collisions in 3ds max/blender, and exporting propertly to .NIF that can actually be used in the game.

I tried creating a simple plane, no textures, with collisions following the various guides available and the editor just shows a marker error, in spite of everything being where it should.

I don't know why it must be such a chore to do something as simple as import/export 3D, but it seems the process has become increasingly convoluted and unsupported since Morrowind.

I feel your pain, everything "out of the box" is simply a NIGHTMARE, be it blender, nifskope or other programs. That said, I must add that nifskope is one of the best and more user friendly.

Blender? What a nightmare.

Another proof that LOD is a nightmare:


http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1381788-the-new-unofficial-creation-kit-bug-list/page__st__120

I haven't dealt with those at all yet. I've used 100% default package tree's. However it's something I'll most likely inevitably learn at some point, and if I ever do, I'll make sure to do a tutorial on it.
I've never delt with that kind of thing. I assume by fully custom, you mean including new nifs for the effects, which is outside of the CK, ala I have no clue. xD
Now that I can do. I'm very proficient at quest scripting. That could be my second tutorial. A smaller one, but crucial to learn when you're getting started with quests and scripting.
Water LOD is part of the land LOD. And again it's fairly simple, but maybe I've just been lucky with my land...
Again, nothing explicitely outside of the CK (Except for Oscape...). I have about 2 hours of experience in Blender in like 2nd grade, and that's it. However my friend will hopefully be helping me soon, so maybe I can get him to do a tutorial on that once he learns it.

It's not just lucky, it's KNOWING what to do, when I open the LOD options in the ck I almost have an heart attack (not like blender but...), we need a window by window tutorial, with print screens and stuff.

It's just too confusing and hard, I don't know what to do or when to do it. Btw, I hope its not a problem that my water is at 400.

Thanks again mate, I'm really waiting for this, a clear simple step by step LOD, other tutorials might be handy too, so thanks again!

New looking spells, with different textures, such as a flames spell that shot black or blue fire or something. I've been trying this for a while, but can't figure it out

Regardless, I believe that data is stored in the nif, and I know little to nothing about those, especially in Skyrim. (I messed with them a bit in NV, but not much) I'll have to keep my tutorials to areas that I know a lot about. After all I don't want to make an incomplete, or incorrect tutorial.

id definately like to see some more scripting tutorials, there is a decent amount out there, but one of the biggest problems is the tutorials either dont explain what specific commands do/are used for and just say 'to make the npc do this, type this'. Otherwise they just dont explain much at all and you are stuck following directions and making a quest to kill random npc, but have no knowledge of how to script anything yourself so doing anything outside of that tutorial is impossible.

Id like to see 3-4 different tutorials on scripting,

1: basic scripting commands, what they are, how they work
2: basic scripting setup
3: intermediate scripting
4: advanced quest scripting and layout.

Alex, have you decided what tutorial you're going to do yet ?

I was going to do a web based tutorial on world creation and region editor texturing/LOD generation. I would do a video, but nobody will understand my Scottish accent

I made a basic 32x32 world this morning, taking screenshots along the way -

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tambos.turf/Skyrim/World_LOD.jpg

From nothing to this in under 45 minutes. Just the base textures put down, to be built upon and LOD generated with the CK. No statics added, but that would only take another 5 minutes to do and generate object LOD. I maybe go a little bit further and add a smaller tutorial for the finishing touches to the textures.

This is just a quick test world. If anybody wants it, let me know and I'll upload it somewhere (possibly on the Nexus).

I think my first one will be a short one on simply generating LOD. Just to practice and get my first tutorial up.

I'm not sure when I'll do it though, I have a rather busy week of working on my mod planned out. I'll have to work 'try doing a tutorial and hope I don't fail miserably' in there somewhere.

Then I think my second tutorial may be a basic explanation of scripting. I'm also considering possibly doing one on navmesh, since the Beth one skips some of the more basic explaining.

Then I'll also do 'discussions', but those are far more complicated and will probably take longer for me to get going. I'm going to do one on getting voice actors, then somewhere down the road I'll probably do ones on level design, and quest planning/story writing. (I may seperate those two things... I donno)

Hopefully you guys will get something out of all of this. I know I'll have fun making it.

ForceGreet. If anyone has the knack of making ForceGreet work reliably and robustly, I'd love to see some sort of brain dump from them. I've got another actor who just stands on his mark and looks sinister rather than launching into his big speech.

remember that you can always just make a post on some things (IE: level design) with best practices and advise, and then just answer any questions that pop up in the thread and edit the main posting with those Q&A's. That is something that you couild probably throw together fairly quickly with little effort and then just check every once in awhile and answer any questions

I would like to add that, if possible, you discuss the correct (up to date way) of doing things when modding. I feel like I have looked at so many tutorials that show a method that was outdated or incorrect, creating a dirty mod for example, that I'm not sure what is the best way to do something. If you could mention and elaborate on the process you use during your tutorials as to why something should be done this way vs. a different way that you are aware of, I think it would help others develop a clearer understanding of how things work.

Thanks!

I would love to see a tutorial on how you did it. Please post it when you are able to complete it.

Thanks!

Is that image the LOD? Looks good.

Yes he said he was going to make a step by step LOD tutorial but he also said he didn't know when, but there's a lot of tutorials the community needs.

True, but I feel like I could explain so much better in a video than I could in text. Also a lot of people may be intimidated if I have a HUGE post describing level design and many may shy away from reading it or think they don't have time. Whereas people would be much more likely to listen to a 10 minute video of me speaking about it.
What exactly do you mean 'correct way'? It's kind of a REALLY broad topic to want to know 'The correct way to mod' since modding involves soooo many things. Can you elaborate?

Well, if I may put my oar in, I found it frustrating in Bethesda's tutorials to do so much of a quest and then be told, actually, we should have been using aliases all along. Particularly since if you go back later just to check how to do something in one of the earlier tutorials you aren't going to remember that they tell you later to do it differently. I think it's much better to do things properly from the start, even if it does take a bit more preliminary explanation.