Modding & Toolset tutorials?

There are a few basic tutorials  (and a lot of very useful info) on the toolset wiki.

Recommendations for tutorials or guidance would be easier with some indication of what kind of  mods you are interested in making, but I'll go ahead and mention some other information I found valuable when I was learning what little I know of modding DAO:

Beyond Ferelden
weriKK's Custom Items tutorial
Whuffie's Blog (esp. the good basic info on morph creation)

And I find that all of my other bookmarks to tutorials/info are dead, with the demise of the old!BSN boards... that really was a trove of good information for both beginners and more experienced modders, and it's sad that it has all been lost.

if you also learn to retexture armors, call me, i have some armors i would love to have retextured to wear them in future playthroughs and give some more diversity to my wardens.

 I love your site!  A lot of useful info...where to start?

Sadly, find myself with the usual problems.  The jenga construct that is my override file is broke again.  I added a mod to give an additional mor and now, all of sudden, the added hairstyle mods.  I tried adding the chargen files at your site and then re-compiling them, but no good.  I assume I have to uninstall and reinstall all the hair and skin files...oh well....

Once I do that, I do want to try modding.  Now if I wanted to change an NPC's clothing to something already in the game, would Toolset work best?  Or the 3rd party utility you mentioned?

No idea what might cause that. Maybe check the Nexus discussion page for the compiler for other reports of the issue/a solution?

And you've stumped me again.

You have the most interesting issues, and I never seem to have answers... with a double fail on my part this time: I don't install pyGFF to the game folder (I stick it in Program Files, on my dedicated Programs drive - I don't install anything on my C: drive other than the operating system) AND I don't use Windows Defender.

The only 'tweak' I ever make to pyGFF is to have it run with admin privileges.

Sorry to not be more helpful.

Wanted to ask.

You have an idea on how to make an existing model have a different id or whatever, to then feel free to put a retexture mod without basically making the shared/same models "conflict" thus, the rexture only touches the "unique" model instead of the same/shared models?? (i think i explained myself rather poorly)


Let's see if with this example i can make my question clear.


I'm using the armor mod, Armor of the Wardens Burden: www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/2706/?

and i want to use this retexture, but most important, his optional file: www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/4230/?

what's this about? i have installed Grey Wardens of Ferelden, and if i want to use the optional file, all my helmets will have the black retexture, and what i want to achieve is, use that optional retexture without all the helmets changing to this black retexture, only one, that's why i ask if it's possible to reuse the model to make one "unique and different" piece that doesn't conflict, and if so, then how to do it.

If I understand correctly what you want (a unique item that uses a specific texture, without overriding similar items which have the same model), then yes, that is certainly possible.

You'd need to create a 'standalone' version of the item... unfortunately, the tutorial I'd normally point you to is broken (the explanatory images are gone) -> here.

There might be some information in the Nexus DAO modding forums, if you are inclined to spend some time digging through the posts there.

Yeah, (sorry for the trouble) that's exactly what i want to do, let's see if i can make it, thanks for the help