The Elder Scrolls Modding For Dummies

... and it shouldn't, take a look at your scripts' variables. Remember Skyrim bakes their values into the scripts and you could have there things you weren't expecting.

This video explains how to properly blend normal maps It can also be used to add more intensity to normal maps if you duplicate your original normal map instead of adding a new one. Summary of the video: Add the Other normal map (that "other" could be a duplicate of the normal map you want to strengthen). Duplicate Other. Fill the blue channel of original Other with a 128 gray and set it to Overlay. Fill red and green channels of duplicate Other with white and set it to Multiply. Profit.

Right now, many DDS plugins seem to have problems opening BC7 compressed textures, so you can do this to manipulate them. Convert them to *.png using Paint.net . Work on the PNGs. Save them as *.tga Convert those TGAs to optimized *.dds using Cathedral Assets Optimizer . Profit. This workflow also seems to avoid color changing issues too.

Lesson learnt today: If you add new things to an existing ESL, always compact it in the Creation Kit (CK) before releasing it: Lest you want to corrupt savegames and cause CTDs. Form IDs from records in an ESL can only be  between xxxxx800 and xxxxxFFF .

I created this blog to record my misventures while learning to make mods for Skyrim SE. That way I won't forget my lessons learned. ... hopefully.