Video Tutorials

Overview

This page is the place to look for official video tutorials from Bethesda and unofficial tutorials from the Creation Kit modding community. Any tutorials involving the use of third-party software, alone or in addition to the Creation Kit, will be indicated as (Advanced). Use of third-party software is at your own risk, and Bethesda Game Studios is not responsible for any damages which may result.

Official Tutorials

Note - Where applicable, companion videos are linked from their corresponding written tutorial pages. The following tutorial series is available on youtube as a playlist for continuous viewing as well.

1. Introduction to the Kit
2. Basic Layout
3. Basic Layout II
4. Clutter
5. Navmesh There is currently an issue causing navmeshes in .ESPs to stop working if you travel a few cells away from where they are placed. NPCs stop moving and will not resume until the game is restarted. This issue is being addressed, and a fix is in the works.
6. Basic Encounters
7. Traps, Prefabs and Activate Parenting
8. Portals and Optimization
9. Lighting
10. World Hookup

Community Video Tutorials - Listed Alphabetically by Creator

Azurech's Tutorials

1. YouTube Show - Skyrim Creation Kit (German)

Baratan's Tutorial:

1. Creating a Merchant NPC (No Audio)

Best in Slot's Tutorials:

1. Creating and Adding NPCs
2. Creating and Adding Weapons/Armour
3. Building a Dungeon
4. Adding Clutter to Dungeons
5. Creating Cave Systems
6. Connecting Dungeons To The World
7. Creating a Follower
8. Creating A Merchant
9. Making Navmesh
10. Enemy Encounters
11. Creating New Spells
12. Lighting and FX
13. Basic Papyrus Scripting
14. Quest Dialogue

Danatoth's Tutorial:

1. How To Give the Player an Item from an NPC
2. How To Make a Home Owner
3. Making NPCs Carry Objects
4. Setting up guards and a jail
5. Making Npc's talk to each other

DatenTheilt's Tutorial:

1. Custom House Upgrade via NPC

Doug's Quest Creation Tutorials:

1. Quest Starting Scene
2. Extending the Quest
3. Forcing the Player to Act
4. Custom Quest AI
5. A Courier Quest

Elec08215's Tutorial:

1. Creation Kit - Papyrus: Basic Teleport Spell Tutorial

GKalian's Russian Tutorials:

1. Intro (Вступление)
2. Basics (Основы)
3. Simple location (Создание простой локации)
4. Grid (Сетка)
5. Landscape Editor (Редактор ландшафта)
6. World Space (Закрытые миры) (with english subs)
7. Import Heightmap (Импортирование карты высот)
8. Making LODs (создание лодов)
9. Creating and adding Weapon (Создание и добавление оружия)
10. Creating Merchant (Создание торговца)
11. Creating Weapons Rack and Plaque (Создание стендов и стоек для оружия)
12. Creating Mannequins (Создание манекена)
13. Creating Display Case (Создание витрин)
14. Lighting and FX-effects (Освещение и FX-эффекты)
15. Navmeshes(Навмеши)
16. Small advice and traps (Небольшой совет и ловушки)
17. Quest Creation - Part 1 (Создание квеста - часть 1)
18. Quest Creation - Part 2 (Создание квеста - часть 2)
19. Quest Creation - Part 3 (Создание квеста - часть 3)
20. Quest Creation - Part 4 (Создание квеста - часть 4)

glocklan2's Tutorials:

1. New Worlds and Landscaping
2. Flat worlds and More Tips

H4wkeye's Tutorial:

1. Custom NPC Merchant (No Audio but Subtitles)

HarleyVATS' Tutorial:

1. Creating Unique and New Species using existing models.

hellcat5's Tutorials:

Creation Kit Menu System:

1. menu system: file menu and properties
2. menu system: edit menu, batch actions, all hotkeys
3. menu system: view menu
4. menu system: world menu
5. menu system: navmesh menu
6. menu system: character menu, perk editing
7. menu system: gameplay editing and form validation

Creation Kit Object Window:

1. object window: actors
2. object window: audio
3. object window: character
4. object window: items
5. object window: magic
6. object window: miscellaneous
7. object window: specialEffect
8. object window: world data
9. object window: world objects

Troubleshooting:

1. optimization: validating room marker and portal alignment
2. navmesh: pathing test and finalizing
3. quest: debugging a quest model
4. quest: debugging quest alias order

Basics (updated often):

1. creating a property in script
2. how to make a dragon sit using packages
3. creating a package to program NPC behaviors
4. creating a lighting template
5. creating image spaces
6. controlling gamebryo animations with activators
7. partial word searches on creationkit.com
8. scripting traps
9. 31 lights in a room
10. analysis of bethesda's courier process - detailed
11. creating a light switch - detailed
12. creating a light switch
13. creating and understanding weapons racks
14. how to make an NPC give you an item through quest dialog
15. voice types and LIP files
16. recording voice overs
17. Advanced Voice Overs for Skyrim
18. Creating a Race in Skyrim
19. creating a .BSA file manually
20. adding depth to your dungeon with image space
21. Creating Ambushes
22. Adding Triggers to Objects
23. Building Mannequins - Detailed
24. Building Mannequins - short version
25. Adding Armor to Mannequin using Quest Alias

Story Manager:

1. Managing Quests with the Story Manager
2. Making Locations for the Story Manager
3. Chaining Quests in Story Manager
4. Where to Add Your Nodes in Story Manager

Object Oriented Programming:

1. Object Oriented Programming 101 for Scripters
2. Object Oriented Programming 102 for Scripters
3. Object Oriented Programming 103 - Functions
4. Object Oriented Programming 104 - arrays
5. Object Oriented Programming 105 - type casting
6. object oriented programming 106 - default values
7. object oriented programming 107 - events
8. object oriented programming 108 - expressions
9. object oriented programming 109 - flags
10. object oriented programming 110 - identifiers
11. object oriented programming 111 - Keywords
12. object oriented programming 112 - understanding language reference notation
13. object oriented programming 113 - Literals
14. object oriented programming 114 - operators
15. object oriented programming 115 - properties
16. object oriented programming 116 - statements
17. object oriented programming 117 - how to layout a script
18. object oriented programming 118 - programming with states
19. object oriented programming 119 - Variables
20. object oriented programming 120 - scope
21. object oriented programming 121 - objects

LeckerHamster's Tutorials

1. Weapon Model+Textures+Import part 1 (Advanced)
2. Weapon Model+Textures+Import part 2 (Advanced)
3. Weapon Model+Textures+Import part 3 (Advanced)
4. Weapon Model+Textures+Import part 4 (Advanced)

LouisAT444's Tutorials:

1. Custom House Basics
2. Gizmos Summary & Active Files
3. Connecting to Skyrim with Load Doors
4. Connecting to Skyrim & Map Markers
5. Custom House Furnishing
6. Altering Weapon Stats
7. Creating A Mannequin
8. Creating a Bookshelf
9. Creating a Display Case
10. Creating a Custom Book
11. Creating an Ore Vein
12. Creating Weapon Racks & Plaques
13. Water
14. Exterior Worldspace Generation
15. Weather & Climate Basics

M1LL3R B0Y's Tutorials:

1. Installing the Creation Kit
2. Getting Started
3. Making an NPC
4. Making a Follower
5. Making a Merchant
6. Making a Quest (Part 1)
7. Making a Quest (Part 2)
8. Making a Quest (Part 3)
9. Making a Quest (Part 4)

Mrpigrizzla Tutorials:

1. Creating a Teleport stone to anywhere

presidentevil4zombie's Tutorials:

1. Basics
2. Making a Custom Weapon
3. Position, Rotation, Scale of Objects
4. Making Rooms

R3NNW's Tutorial:

1. Creating a Player Bookshelf (No Audio or Subtitles. Watch in 720p HD)

So Much Monsters' Tutorials:

1. How To Make New Recipes and Items with the Creation Kit
2. How to Create Unique Armors in Skyrim!
3. How To Get Custom Weapons into Skyrim (Advanced)
4. How To Get Custom Weapon Blood Effects into Skyrim (Advanced)
5. How To Get Custom Armor into Skyrim I (Advanced)
6. How To Get Custom Armor Into Skyrim II - Weight Sliders (Advanced)

Syneris' Tutorial:

1. Adding Perk Ranks and New Perks to Skill Trees

thekarithian's Tutorials:

1. World Building: L3DT to Skyrim (Advanced)

Wheeze201's Tutorials:

1. Beginner tip for seamless cave rooms

Yotrig's Tutorials

1. Get Custom Models in Skyrim (Advanced) (pre-CK)
2. Get Custom Models in Skyrim (Advanced) (post-CK)
3. Explination/tutorial of how Skyrim handles character models (Advanced)