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Welcome to the start of the Quest and Dialogue Implementation assignment series at the Arcane University. These assignments will introduce you to a great deal of relevant topics so that you'll be in a position to contribute to a mod project, or develop your own mods. This first page is not quite an assignment yet, but guidance on using the official Bethesda tutorials to get you up to speed.

• If you haven't worked with the Creation Kit yet, see Getting Started
• Then, begin doing the Quest Design Fundamentals series
• Next, do the Intermediate Quest Design series

These tutorials were created by Bethesda staff to coincide with the release of the Creation Kit. They are very good, but differ from modern day common practice in a few ways (more points will be added if they come up):

• The tutorials use the Dialogue Views system, which very few modders use in practice. Dialogue views are just an optional way to do things that are otherwise done with the Player Dialogue Tab; however, the Player Dialogue Tab is *not* optional as it will show you all of this kind of dialogue that is contained in the quest, whereas the Dialogue Views Tab might not. Therefore, better get familiar with the Player Dialogue Tab sooner or later, whether or not you intend to keep using Dialogue Views.

After doing Quest Design Fundamentals, and again after completing Intermediate Quest Design, it may be a good idea to post your work in the Discord channel and request feedback. To do this, gather up the following files and package them in a .zip archive with the original folder structure intact:

• Your .esp file
• Compiled papyrus scripts (.pex file extension) in the Scripts folder
• Papyrus script sources (.psc file extension); the default folder for Skyrim Special Edition is Source/Scripts
• Your .seq file (in the seq folder) if you generated one
• Facegen data if you generated it, in Meshes/Actors/Character/FaceGenData and Textures/Actors/Character/FaceGenData

If you aren't using a mod manager, then the Creation Kit will dump all of these files in the respective directories in your Data folder and you will need to gather them up manually. Sorting by modified date may help. If you are launching the Creation Kit through Mod Organizer 2, then the files will be outputted to the Overwrite folder, which may make it easier.

You do not need to package either compiled or source Default scripts since they come installed with Skyrim and other users will already have them as a result.

If you end up contributing to a mod project, you won't have to generate and include a seq file or facegen seeing as that will need doing by the build maintainer after your work has been merged. If you are releasing a personal mod, though, all of these need including.

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