Need help getting started with modding

[Endorenna]

Okay, I'm not sure this is in the right place. It probably isn't.

 

How can I take a console, relocate it, and put totally new options on it?

 

Also, I want to put a plasteel cylinder somewhere and make it where certain actions will spawn certain items inside. I can use all the help ya'll can give. I have no clue what I'm doing.

 

PS: This mod will be for TSL.

 

Edit: Guys, please, help! I looked at the tutorials, but I don't know which ones I need to use. Could you please post a couple links to the right ones? Thanks!

[rexman1000]

check the "Tools" section and get k-gff, and kotor tool.

use kotor tool to extract the map's area info, then open the info file with k-gff.

find the object's reference, and set the X and Y locations.

as for new options to the terminal, they are in the dialog files.

[TriggerGod]

find the object's reference, and set the X and Y locations.

As for getting the X Y Z coordinates, go to the tools, and download the whereami armband. Ignore the fb.exe thing.

 

As for getting the dialog to be like a computer, make the new dialog, and, in the first thing (the new dialog part when you ask to make a new dialog) you click "Conversation Type: Computer" (it'll be a button you can click.)

 

use kotor tool to extract the map's area info, then open the info file with k-gff.

Apparently, this isn't the best method (I'm not saying it is or isn't, I just find it easy, as my opinion). There is a script you can use.

/* Possible Object types:
OBJECT_TYPE_CREATURE 
OBJECT_TYPE_ITEM          
OBJECT_TYPE_TRIGGER    
OBJECT_TYPE_DOOR        
OBJECT_TYPE_WAYPOINT 
OBJECT_TYPE_PLACEABLE
OBJECT_TYPE_STORE  */

// for the 3 floats in the function below
// you can use the X, Y, Z coordintates from
// the whereami cheat code
vector vPosition=Vector(0.0, 0.0, 0.0);

location lWhereToSpawn=Location(vPosition,0.0);

CreateObject( OBJECT_TYPE_CREATURE,
"object_template",lWhereToSpawn);