Video Tutorials

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Overview[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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
  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[edit | edit source]

Alexander J. Velicky's Tutorial:

  1. Worldspace LOD (Advanced)

Azurech's Tutorials

  1. YouTube Show - Skyrim Creation Kit (German)

Balok's Tutorial's:

  1. Skyrim Custom Oil Paintings - Getting Started (Beginner)
  2. Skyrim Custom Oil Paintings - Cropping and Scaling your Screenshot in GIMP (Beginner)
  3. Skyrim Custom Oil Paintings - Use filters in GIMP to customize your Screenshot (Beginner)
  4. Skyrim Custom Oil Paintings - Creating Normal Maps for your painting in GIMP (Beginner)
  5. Skyrim Custom Oil Paintings - Getting your custom art into the Creation Kit (Beginner)
  6. Skyrim Custom Oil Paintings - Loose Ends and final thoughts (Beginner)

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
  15. Quest Scripting
  16. Quest Objectives

Bottled Zebra's Tutorials:

  1. The Basics
  2. Interior Decorating

Creation Kit Brasil's Tutorials:

  1. Creating Unique Item Displays (Portuguese) (Advanced)

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

DARKF0X127 Productions' Tutorials:

  1. Followers
  2. Inn Keeper Tutorial
  3. House Creation 1: Building your House or Dungeon
  4. House Creation 2: Items and Lighting
  5. House Creation 3: Link to the World
  6. House Creation 4: Navmesh
  7. House Creation 5: Packages - Part I
  8. House Creation 6: packages - Part II
  9. Conjurable Creatures
  10. Create a Blacksmith
  11. Create a Fully Upgradable Weapon
  12. Create a Hireling
  13. Create a Bard

DatenTheilt's Tutorial:

  1. Custom House Upgrade via NPC

Dfac364's Tutorial:

  1. Create a Training Room
  2. Fast Retextures for Dummies

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: [NOT AVAILABLE]

  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. NEW - grey face npc fix with a side of death
  2. Managing and Troubleshooting Mods
  3. troubleshooting audio after renaming topics in a dialogue
  4. optimization: validating room marker and portal alignment
  5. navmesh: pathing test and finalizing
  6. quest: debugging a quest model
  7. quest: debugging quest alias order
Creating Custom Followers From Scratch:
  1. creating followers from scratch - part 1
  2. creating followers from scratch - part 2
  3. creating followers from scratch - part 3
  4. creating followers from scratch - part 4
  5. creating followers from scratch - part 5
  6. creating followers from scratch - part 6
  7. creating followers from scratch - part 7
  8. creating followers from scratch - part 8
  9. creating followers from scratch - part 9
  10. creating followers from scratch - part 10
Voice Overs:
  1. Advanced Voice Overs for Skyrim
  2. voice types and LIP files
  3. recording voice overs
  4. adding someone's voice overs into the game
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. Creating a Race in Skyrim
  16. creating a .BSA file manually
  17. adding depth to your dungeon with image space
  18. Creating Ambushes
  19. Adding Triggers to Objects
  20. Building Mannequins - Detailed
  21. Building Mannequins - short version
  22. 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

Jim Lawrence's Tutorials

Quest Aliases:
  1. Aliases: Why They Are Important

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

Player Two's Tutorials:

  1. Weather - Part 1
  2. Weather - Part 2
  3. Weather - Part 3

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 (Removed from YouTube)

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: [NOT AVAILABLE]

  1. World Building: L3DT to Skyrim (Advanced)

Wheeze201's Tutorials:

  1. Beginner tip for seamless cave rooms
  2. Method to fix Z-Fighting/Texture Glitches in the CK
  3. Basic Data Structure
  4. Version Control

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)


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