Hey everybody,

I've been messing around with the CK a little bit. Doing things like adding more followers for the early part in Whiterun and Riverwood. What i'm trying to do right now is to see if it was possible to modify a Housecarl, specifically Valdimar who you get after becoming Thane of Hjaalmarch (Morthal). He is primarily a caster it looks like with scaled armor. But i want to outfit him with plated steel and change him to a 2h melee type character.

I'm been looking at Best in Slots youtube videos and it seems easy enough. But the part i'm having trouble with is i cant even figure out how to find his actor info. I tried file > data > skyrim.esm and update.esm, and i dont see him (i saw the vanilla housecarls though). I tried file > hearthfire.esm but i get an assert error message and then the CK stops responding.

Valdimar is added by the Hearthfire DLC, so you'll want to open HearthFires.esm. In order to open the DLC in the CK, you'll need to do the following:

Find "SkyrimEditor.ini" in your base skyrim folder and open it. Look the "SResourceArchiveList2" entry and add the DLC .bsa files to this list like this

"SResourceArchiveList2=Skyrim - Shaders.bsa, Update.bsa, Dawnguard.bsa, HearthFires.bsa, Dragonborn.bsa"

Save the .ini file and you should now be able to open Hearthfire in the Creation Kit.

To find Valdimar, look for "BYOHHousecarlHjaalmarch".

ahh cool, i will try that tyvm