First, I never made a mod in my life and only looked at a mod in TES4Edit (not understanding 80% of what I see).

With that said, there is a great mod called ROM (Revised Oblivion Mod) that has a great feature. It caps you minor skills at 50 and only allows you to max the major skills. I think that is a great feature and I am unable to find a mod that does this.

Since ROM creator Underground09 has given permission for the community to work with his mod and even posted the scripts for the Mod,
Quote from his thread:
"Actually, I have some news: it seems I might be traveling abroad for my work soon, and I will be unable to access my work. I don't even expect to have regular access to a computer at this point, but that might change. In the worst case scenario, at least mods are always open source to the community, so I would not forbid anyone expanding or doing with ROM what they please. I will keep you posted! "

I figure to give a shot at taking the leveling feature into a new mod to use in my game without the complete ROM mod, which requires OOO, and I would rather not use OOO anymore, want to try something else. I just don't know how best to go about it.

I have some programming experience so first thought comes to mind is strip everything but the leveling and use that. But I do not know how or what to strip that will not break the leveling feature.
Next would be a clean mod with just the leveling added but I do not know what it is that I would need to copy/create to do that.

I have read the modding tutorials but they do not deal with what I want to do, or at least I do not see the relation if there is one. I have looked at mods that revise birthsigns or provide alternate start but so far can't grasp how that would relate to what I want to do.

If anything I figure this leveling mod would have to run after exiting the sewers and be running all the time to check if a skill is advanced. At least that is my understandiong of the script ROM has for this.

I do not want to take up anyone's time for an in depth explanation of how to do this (unless they are so inclined ). I would be grateful for just some input on the following:

Is there a mod that I can look at that does this already?
Is there a mod I can look at that would be a great example for creating this leveling mod based on ROM?
Is there a tutorial that deals with the process I would need to create this mod specifically?

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Who knows, if this works out perhaps I can go further and make ROM modular, as it has some nice features that could be used in any game. Even remove the OOO requirement.

I'd suggest posting this in the TESA Study Hall as well. Here: http://www.invision.tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/forum/20-study-hall/

We have a few terrific Scholars in the Modding School who are genius with scripting, including WillieSea. :foodndrink: They'd likely be able to help you figure this out.

Looks like a great site. I will post my question there also. From what I saw of the tutorials there jsut now, they may help. I usually learn by reading alot of things about a subject and evantually it all makes sense. I am just hoping to speed the process by posting this question. Thanks very much for the suggestion of TESA!

Om nom nom. :drool:

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