Hello, everyone at TES Alliance!
I'm completely new to modding, and I wanted to ask for some guidance. Yes, I know there's a lot of good tutorials for beginners here, but I believe my questions are even more broad.
Let me get to the point: there are tutorials on the creation kit, for example, but do every mod need the use of the creation kit? I understand the kit is a piece of software created by the developers themselves, but do modders always need this help from the developers? I believe not, I'm assuming people with programming skills probably learned how to modify the game. So I think what I'm asking is how to learn the data structures, where and how the data are stored, how to access it. I hope I not being too ambitious asking those things. I'm not a programmer or anything, but I know some C, and with good guidance I believe I can learn. And please don't get me wrong, I'm not criticizing the creation kit, I just want to know exactly what can I learn to do, so I can choose when to use the CK and when not.
(I'm really sorry if someone already asked something like this, I searched but haven't found anything)