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Cosmos Kit Usage may seem overwhelmingly complicated at beginning, and while it may take a while to completely sympathize, information technology is much easier if you take a guide to aid you. This page contains tips on using the tool along with explanations of multiple commonly used aspects. This is not a comprehensive page on modding; check out the Creation Kit wiki for more assistance with that. If you are looking for information from the Creation Kit just practise not know how to or cannot use information technology, yous may put in a request on this page.

Contents

• 1 Getting Started
• 2 UI
• 3 Cell View
  • 3.ane Return
  • three.2 Objects inside cells
  • 3.3 References
• 4 Object Window
  • 4.ane Actors
  • iv.2 Quests
  • 4.3 Leveled lists
  • 4.4 Items
  • 4.v Magic
  • iv.vi Miscellaneous
  • 4.7 WorldData
  • iv.8 WorldObjects
  • 4.9 Use info
• 5 Other
• half-dozen See Also

Getting Started [edit]

You may find the Creation Kit (CK) by heading to your Steam Library, clicking on "All Games" next to the search bar, and selecting "Tools". It is a complimentary download for Skyrim PC players.

Once the CK is open up, click "File" at the tiptop and select "Information...". A list of files will appear. Double-click on the ones you wish to load. .esm files are main files; all mods are dependent on them. .esp files are plugin files; these are mods which cannot be loaded on their ain. The merely .esm files yous should see are Skyrim.esm, Update.esm, Dawnguard.esm, Hearthfire.esm, and Dragonborn.esm, depending on which ones you ain. The latter four are all dependent on Skyrim.esm and the last iii are also dependent on Update.esm (which holds patch content), but they are not dependent on each other.

If you would like to edit a preexisting mod file, double-click to add it to the load list and, keeping it selected (so that it appears as a bluish bar), click "Fix as Agile File". This means that any changes yous make in the CK may be saved to this file. If yous do not select an active file, then any changes you make may exist saved as a new .esp file. Information technology is strongly advised Not to edit the .esm files.

Some items in the CK may have their IDs preceded by DLC01, DLC02, or BYOH. These denote Dawnguard, Dragonborn, and Hearthfire content, respectively.

You may save at whatever time when the CK is open. An asterisk ways that a certain object has been inverse; an asterisk at the elevation of the screen (Creation Kit*) means that something has been changed since you lot opened the data files. If you endeavor to close the CK without saving, it will give yous a warning about saving your changes.

When loading files, cells, and a few other things, you may exist given a warning about sure objects not loading correctly. This is normal and you may ignore the warnings in virtually cases.

UI [edit]

At the top of the main Cosmos Kit window is a listing of functions nether which the main points are illustrated.

• File
  • Data... allows you lot to select files to load and to gear up every bit the active file (the file in which your edits will exist saved). If there is no active file, then on exiting the CK y'all will be prompted to relieve your changes equally a new file.
• Edit
  • Find Text lets y'all search the unabridged CK for a term, including a Ref ID, which is very useful for finding a detail use of an object.
• View
  • You may select which toolbars/items to show in the UI and certain items to show or hide in the Return window, such every bit trees and lights.
• World
  • Yous may edit the backdrop of world spaces, regions, and cells. You may also create local maps, which will export a grey map of the selected surface area to your \Skyrim\Data\Textures\Maps\Skyrim folder.
• NavMesh
  • You may use this to set a path to tell actors where they tin can walk and navigate.
• Character
  • Histrion Values allows you to edit base of operations values that are practical to all actors.
• Gameplay
• Help

Cell View [edit]

In the cell view, the first important section is the World Space drib-down list. Nearly of them have recognizable names, such every bit Blackreach or DLC2SolstheimWorld. Each world space just involves the outside world. Interiors, on the other paw, contains all inside locations, such as houses and castles.

In one case you have selected a world space to wait at (using Interiors equally an example here), yous will see a list of cells in the left section of the window. They are automatically sorted alphabetically past "EditorID", a unique name given to every object in the game to make data sorting easier. By clicking on "FormID" or "Name" at the top of the listing, you may sort alphabetically by those values instead. "FormID" is a unique number given to each detail and "Name" is what you see in-game. Virtually names are similar to the editorIDs, but sometimes it is easier to sort past name.

The first ii cells in the list, AAADeleteWhenDoneTestJeremy (or TestTony) and aaaMarkers (or Marker Storage Unit), are test cells. You do not demand to worry about them; you lot won't meet them in the game unless yous access them via the panel.

Decide on a prison cell from the list that you lot desire to apply. Left-click on it in one case. (For a guided example, apply AnisesCabin01, which uses the name Cellar.) Yous will see on the right one-half of the Cell View window a list of items, again sorted by editorID, only also sortable by formID, type, ownership, lock level, loc ref type, persist location, initially disabled, or leveleditem; y'all may non sort past the particular's name. You may besides search through these items by typing something into the search bar above the objects, beneath the words saying [Cell editorID] Objects (such as AnisesCabin01 Objects). Most interior cells will contain a volume of some sort; type "book" into the search bar and see what items come upwards. There should exist four of them in this example cell.

If you double-click on AnisesCabin01 on the left side of the window, and so the Render window, which starts out with a gray background, will load the cell for yous to view. If you double-click on an item in the left side of the Cell View window, the cell will too load in the Render window, merely centered on that object. You may receive a warning nigh an object being unable to load; select "Yes to all" to ignore the warnings, equally they should not affect anything.

Return [edit]

Y'all must select the Render window to use it. Hither is a quick list of controls:

• Delete object: Right-click on an item and select "Delete". Alternatively, left-click to select it and and then hit the "Delete" cardinal on your keyboard.
• Movement object: Left-click on an item to select information technology and and then left-click and hold while moving the mouse to drag information technology around the prison cell.
• Motion view: To move effectually the entire cell in the window, click and hold the scroll wheel and motion the mouse effectually.
• Rotate view: To rotate your view of the cell in the window, agree the shift key and move the mouse around.
• Select: To select an particular, left-click information technology once.
  • To select multiple items, left-click and drag your mouse to comprehend all the items you want to select.
• Zoom: Employ the scroll wheel on your mouse.

If y'all open AnisesCabin01 and zoom out, you will detect a large red foursquare on your screen. If y'all are just looking at the cell or otherwise practise not mind altering it, y'all may select this red square and delete information technology to make the cell more hands visible. No changes volition exist saved unless you relieve them yourself.

Objects inside cells [edit]

Nigh objects, such as books or alchemy tables, appear equally they would in the game. All the same, a number of objects appear as bright colors.

• Blue arrows mark where certain texture objects are placed, such equally puddles or Shadowmarks.
• Grayness shapes betoken where fog or wind is placed.
• Gray lightbulbs are light sources.
• Green shapes exist around certain static objects. In the example cell, the iii green shapes are around cobwebs.
• Red items are triggers. These are used to beginning or progress quests or events.
• Orange items are leveled or random items. For instance, of the potions in the example cell, both named DummyPotion, one volition be a leveled Fortify Enchanting potion and the other a leveled poison, as indicated in their references.
• Orange and blue objects are activators. This means that either you or an NPC may perform an activeness here. Activators are usually automatically fastened to certain items, such as arcane enchanters (assuasive yous to enchant objects), ore veins (assuasive you to mine ore), and wood blocks (allowing you to chop woods). In outside cells, there are usually a number of tiny ones lying about that permit bugs to land on plants or the ground.
• White shapes indicate a sound effect.
• Yellowish objects are door markers. They indicate a transition to a new area and are ever continued to a 2nd one in a separate cell. These objects appear as rectangular prisms with a darker yellowish pyramid fastened near the meridian.
• Yellow arrows are due north markers. They point towards whichever direction will be marked north on the in-game compass.

References [edit]

When y'all double-click on an object in the prison cell in the Render window, you lot will run into a reference window popular upwardly. Not every object'south reference window will have the same tabs or information. At the top is a space for a Reference Editor ID, which is a unique proper name you may requite to that unique object in the Creation Kit. For example, you could name a potion AnisesCabinPotion1. It does not alter the object in whatsoever manner and only makes it easier to find. Beneath that bar is a space named Base Object. You may click on the "Edit Base" button to view the basic item's data. Beneath that is Encounter Zone.^(?)

Below these bars are various tabs, each with unique functions:

• 3D Information lists the XYZ dimensions of the detail. Altering this or altering the calibration can brand an item larger or smaller.
• Ownership notes whether the particular is endemic by an NPC or a faction. Many of these factions are not joinable by the player. If the item is endemic by a faction, it may have a rank that information technology is owned by. If it is owned by an NPC or faction and y'all are not at the correct rank in the faction or friends with the NPC, then taking the particular volition be considered theft.
• Extra has a listing of somewhat unrelated values. These include how many objects are in that spot (usually 1), how much health a person may have, the charge on an enchanted object, the soul within a soul gem, and a few other values.
• Spawn Container ^(?)
• Leveled Item shows whether or not an object is leveled apart from its Base Object. The Leveled Item Base Object is a list containing diverse items that change based on your level. Usually you can tell what it is from the editorID it displays. For the potions in AnisesCabin01, one uses LItemPotionFortifyEnchanting while the other uses LItemPoisonAll.
• Linked Ref and Linked From indicate whether an object is connected to another in some way.
• Activate Parents {{{huh}}}
• Enable Parent: A reference having an enable parent is only enabled while the parent is, if the "Fix Enable State to Opposite of Parent" checkbox isn't selected. If it is, the reference is only enabled while the parent isn't enabled.
• Emittance allows an object to emit light, which may vary based on whether the object is inside or outside.
• MultiBound
• Location Ref Type
• Scripts can give the object a certain script, which can alter it in whatever mode possible based on what commands are in the script.

At that place are besides a number of checkboxes beneath these tabs. The most important of these are "Initially Disabled" (which will disable an object until a script or quest enables it), "Respawns" (which volition respawn the object later a certain amount of time), and "Starts Expressionless" (which will spawn an NPC as a corpse).

Object Window [edit]

The Object Window has a Filter bar at the top left; this is substantially a search bar. It will only search for editorID and formID and will not search for a name. To search through or meet all objects, select *All from the bottom of the left-paw list.

Actors [edit]

Explain all tabs. Also add relationships, races, voicetypes, factions, etc. under "character" section.

The first section of the Object Window is Actors. If y'all expand this, at that place will also exist Actor, Actor Action, BodyPartData, LeveledCharacter, Perk, and TalkingActivator.

Under the Role player subsection, there will exist a listing of all NPCs in the game. This includes creatures among the regular people you communicate with in the game. To view an NPC'southward data, double-click on the name.

On the left side of the Actor window volition be a number of checkboxes determining certain aspects the actor has. Is Chargen Face Preset determines whether or not the actor's face is selectable every bit a preset when creating your character. Essential will make the actor unkillable. Protected will make the actor unkillable by anyone except for you. Invulnerable will make them immune to all damage and effects. Simple role player ^(?). Respawn, Unique, Summonable, Is Ghost, Doesnt [sic] Bleed, and Doesn't affect stealth meter do equally they say. There is besides a box that shows what scripts apply to the role player. At the bottom left is template data. The template is an NPC from which the selected actor takes certain aspects. If there is a template used, you lot may select which aspects are used by clicking on Use Traits, Utilise Stats, etc.

There are various tabs at the summit of the Actor window with lots of information about the NPC:

Traits

Most of this section is self-explanatory. Each role player has a race; in that location are lots of possible races to choose from. FoxRace is a placeholder race. There is also a checkbox to marker if the actor should be female instead of defaulting to male. Height is typically 1.0000; weight has little effect on the game. Pare alters a character's advent without giving them the items that would normally brand upward such an advent. Voicetype is simply the voice that an actor has, which will also limit the lines they tin can say. Disposition is their base disposition towards you. Expiry Item is an object that volition be spawned on the corpse of the NPC at death and thus cannot be pickpocketed.

Stats

Leveling Information determines whether or not the actor is leveled and, if so, by what amount. A leveled player'southward level scales with the thespian's. If there is a leveled multiplier, then stats for the histrion are automatically calculated. To modify these stats, you may add together a positive or negative value to the Health/Magicka/Stamina Offset sections. You may likewise select the player'southward class and manually alter the points they have in all their skills.

Factions

This contains a list of factions that the NPC is in and their ranks in those factions.

Relationships

This shows the relationships that the thespian has with other NPCs. These can be family, friend, or enemy relationships, and affect certain quests such as this ane. Annotation that not all relationship values are actually correct concerning in-game occurrences; some NPCs may be listed as siblings or parents when they are in fact unrelated, for example.

Keywords

This is a list of keywords applying to the NPC. They are used to determine a number of things; for example, the ActorTypeUndead keyword will make an NPC be treated as an undead existence, involving weapon effectiveness confronting the actor and whether they can be seen via Notice Life or Detect Expressionless.

AI Data

These values decide what sorts of crimes the NPC will study and how they volition behave in combat. Aggro radius behavior determines how close an enemy needs to be before the actor warns them (usually by cartoon a weapon and watching the enemy), attacks them, or does either ane. Gift Filter^(?).

AI Packages

AI Packages are an role player'due south daily beliefs. They are normally named using iii to four sections: Faction or place, activity, start time, duration. For case, in Aela'due south packages, her first 1 is CompanionsShift1Train15x5. This indicates that she volition railroad train starting at 15:00 (3pm) and end v hours after. The tiptop packages has height priority; if Aela had some other package saying CompanionsShift1Eat15x6, she would only swallow for one 60 minutes instead of 6, because the commencement 5 hours are spent training. You tin see specifics nigh the package by double-clicking on it; this will bear witness whether it allows for eating, sleeping, and other actions during that time.

Generic packages have Sandbox in the name along with a designated area in which the player may practise generic activities, the default existence 512 units.

Inventory

This lists the objects that an NPC has in their inventory, forth with the amount. If an object'southward ID ends in a number, that number is the percent risk that the NPC will have the item (unless the number is very small, in which case information technology is simply a part of the item'south unique ID, such every bit Torch01). Any outfits or habiliment that an NPC is wearing will be dropped on death unless they are unwearable.

Some of these leveled or random objects, or objects with percentages, may be constitute nether Items -> LeveledItem in the object window.

SpellList

A listing of spells and perks that the role player has.

Sounds

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Animation

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Assail Information

This determines what attacks an actor may use and how much impairment they do.

Character Gen Parts

This is what the graphic symbol looks like. You may preview the full graphic symbol or just their caput by marking the advisable checkboxes at the bottom of the window.

Character Gen Morphs

These affect the specific shape of the actor's facial features.

Confront Anim Preview

This allows you to preview what an player's face volition expect like during certain animations.

Quests [edit]

Objectives and stages, hidden quests (achievementsquest, etc.), wilderness interactions, reading scripts. Explain all tabs. Explain global tags from "misc" section.

Under the Graphic symbol department y'all will find the Quest subsection; this is where all the quests are. Dissimilar NPCs and cells, their editor IDs are not similar to their names. Below is a listing of quest ID formats and what they mean, if they are not obvious similar BardsCollege:

ID	Meaning	Notes
ArenaCombat	Windhelm Arena	Not added in the game
BQ	Bounty Quest
C CR	Companions	CR is radiant
CW	Civil War	CW##A indicates an Imperial quest; CW##B indicates a Stormcloak quest
DA	Daedric
DB	Dark Brotherhood
dun	Dungeon
Freeform MS	Miscellaneous
MG	College of Winterhold	Stands for "Mages Guild"
MQ	Main quest
RH	Radiant Dawnguard	Stands for "Radiant Hunter"
RV	Radiant Volkihar
RR	Raven Rock
TG	Thieves Guild
TT	Tel Mithryn
VQ	Volkihar
Nosotros WI	Wilderness events and globe interactions

Many quests exist merely to hold dialogue besides, and some to act out little scenes. Multiple quests accept intro or startup quests that run before them to set them upwardly. These quests, forth with Nosotros/WI quests, do non appear in your quest journal.

The quest window has diverse tabs in information technology. Annihilation that happens in a quest is too recorded in the quest script.

Quest Data

The type of quest volition determine what scrollwork epitome is shown next to it; it is purely aesthetic.

Quest Stages

When you select a quest stage, its script (nether Papyrus Fragment) and journal entry are shown. The script tells you at what phase an objective is shown or completed by saying setObjectiveCompleted(#) and then setObjectiveDisplayed(#).

Quest Objectives

The number of the objectives and the objectives' text will be shown here. Weather condition for the objective to be shown will be listed beneath this.

Quest Aliases

This is a list of NPCs and objects required to progress the quest. Certain aliases may be optional or required, and they may be set to starting time the quest expressionless or alive. They tin take special inventories, scripts, keywords, factions, or spells for the quest.

Dialogue Views

Conversations between the thespian and other NPCs are displayed here in dialogue trees.

Histrion Dialogue

The aforementioned conversations displayed in the previous tab will exist shown here in a different format, but may merely be viewed one co-operative at a time. Each branch will take topics to select from, the dialogue of which volition then be displayed. Double-click on the dialogue to view the weather, speaker, and other such data. After bringing upwardly the Topic Info window, you may double-click on the Response Text to bring upward an Edit Response window. This volition show dialogue notes, animations, and emotions. To heed to the audio, double-click on the path under the Audio section of this window.

Favor Dialogue

^(?)

Scenes

Scenes are conversations between NPCs which practise not involve the player.

Scripts

Every quest has at least one script attached to it; some employ multiple scripts.

Leveled lists [edit]

Under Items -> LeveledItem you will find items that are leveled or random. They tend to have a basic naming scheme. If there is a particular number fastened to the name, similar l or 75, this is the pct hazard that it has to appear. Specifically leveled items will usually have LItem in the name. For leveled NPCs, they are all listed under the Actors -> Actor department, usually with the words Enc or Lvl in them.

Items [edit]

Ammo may be marked as bolts; otherwise, it is arrows. Ammo and weapons have specific damage values. Armor, weapons, and ammo all accept inventory icons, pickup/putdown sounds, visual models, and values, and may exist marked as playable or not. Weapons and armor may be enchanted. The residue of the sections should be self-explanatory.

Books show their text, which has font and size designations. Ingredients use magic furnishings. Keys exercise not take locking data on them; doors are what make up one's mind which keys may open them. Outfits are collections of items which NPCs wear.

Magic [edit]

Enchantment, Potion, Scroll, Shout, Spell: Uses ane or more effects at sure magnitudes and durations.

LeveledSpell: Used by NPCs. Randomly selects from a listing of spells to requite one to an NPC, or has only a pct to practice then.

Magic Outcome: This is the near important section. It determines virtually aspects of a spell, enchantment, or potion, including how the damage is washed and what type of harm information technology is. It doesn't exist on its own, but is used by other objects.

Give-and-take of Power: Words of power for dragon shouts. They show the dragon word and translation, only don't do anything on their own and are instead used by other objects.

Miscellaneous [edit]

Keywords may exist added to anything in the game. They exercise cipher on their own except to tag an detail. A quest or script may read this tag and then utilise it, however. For example, the WeapTypeIron keyword may be added to an iron weapon and so that it is temperable with iron and and then that it is effective confronting any creatures sensitive to iron.

LoadScreens are but loading screens. They all have the foggy effect and black groundwork, just you may change the model or message that is shown. The scale, rotation, and other tweaks use to the model used in the screen.

Messages will prove upwards during gameplay when an in-game action triggers them. They can exist shown every bit a message box, which will interrupt gameplay, or equally a bones message, which will show up in the acme left-hand corner during gameplay.

WorldData [edit]

Climate: You may change the length of days, sunrise, dusk, which moons appear, how long a moon phase lasts, lord's day color, lord's day glare, and weather blazon. World spaces use climates.

Lighting: Change ambient, fog, directional, and specular lite colors in worlds and cells.

Location: These determine map markers and which cells are in certain locations. The type of map mark is determined by keywords. Whether or not a location is clearable also depends on keywords. The parent location is usually a hold or a city.

Location Ref Type: Determines the color of markers for items within the Creation Kit when viewing a loaded cell.

Shader Particle Geometry: In these, images are used in unlike sizes and densities to create a certain visual result such equally pelting or snow.

Visual Event: All sorts of visual effects are managed here, including those for spells.

WaterType: You may determine the water'due south colour, opacity, and other aspects, including how much damage it will do (if any at all).

Weather: Alter wind, sky color, clouds, atmospheric precipitation, and other such things to exercise with weather.

WorldObjects [edit]

These are the objects which you find throughout the world.

Use info [edit]

With whatever object, you will see "Count" and "Users" listed as numbers. Right-click on one such detail and select "Use Info". There volition exist two charts: The pinnacle ane shows you what uses the objects while the lower one shows yous the cells in which those objects are placed and how many are there. To select and view an object in its cell, double-click on the cell you wish to see. To view an object'due south user'south data, double-click on the user's proper noun. For case, an NPC will likely be used past a quest; double-clicking on the quest proper noun from the employ info window will open up the quest window, but won't straight bear witness you how an NPC is used.

Other [edit]

Other deportment which are possible but practice not fit into whatever specific section.

• At whatever time, yous can press CTRL+F5 to consign the currently selected table to a text file.

See Also [edit]

• Cosmos Kit Wiki

Source: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim_Mod:Creation_Kit_Usage

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