Difference between revisions of "Creating a new race"

Hello, and welcome to my tutorial which covers race creation for Oblivion. By the end of your tutorial you will probably have learned the following and maybe more:  

General Data will set what skill bonuses your race will get, how much for each attribute they'll have when they start out, which spells they will have when they start out, and also the sound for Male and Female. Let's start with the attributes. Since they are abbreviated, I'll go through them.

Next to the abbreviations are how much attributes they start with for both Male and Female. If you want to have a little more role-playing experience then do something like me.

The first numbers are male, and the next are female.

<br>Personality = 0 and 20. Females tend to be more mannered than the men. Why I picked 0 for the males is cause the Grevo race are ruthless, terrifying and evil creatures.

<br>Now, let's see. Under the Male and Female attributes are some numbers. They indicate how many points both genders have spended in total. If you followed my attributes exactly, then they both should be 370. These numbers are what balances the genders. You should have these equal, especially if you plan to release your race mod to the public.

<br>This leaved me with 1 dropdown box that says NONE. But I've reached my own set limit, 45. I won't give more skills.

The only spell I gave my race was Summon Scamp, beacuse my attributes are unbalanced with 70 points.

Now under the spell list there are two dropdown boxes, Male Voice Race and Female Voice. I want my Grevo to sound like Dremora's so I pick them from the dropdown list for both female and male. But now comes a problem: The dremora's have almost no talking recorded which leaves me with 3 options.

1. Just let it be like that. Text can still be readen. Or don't place any NPCs with your custom race. The player doesn't speak anyway.  

2. Pick another race from the voice menu.

I sticked with Option 1. This concludes the General Data section.

Important warning note: Making any changes at all to eyes and hairs, even adding new ones in a new race, will make your mod incompatible with other mods that do so.  Main culprits include Ren's Beauty Pack, Capucine's Eye Textures, and the Cosmetic Compilation (which contains both of the above).  The creators of that mod generally will give permission for you to merge their mods with yours if you give them credit, so don't hesitate to contact them about this option.

This sets how much your race will like other races. If you want to change this, right click and press New. Then at the Opposing/Affiliated Race dropdown menu you choose what race and under it you choose how much to dislike/like. If you use a negative number such as -5 your race will dislike them. I took -30 for all races except for Grevo, VampireRace and Dremora.