Me and my friend from my country (I live in USA, but I am originally from Slovakia in Europe) are gonna start a mod, but we wanna learn some modelling and skinning teqniques, so that we could do a good job.

What I am planning for now is a small mod where I redo some skins from the game according to the cameos in the game. My friend is learning how to model at the moment, but since the school year is about to start, it will take a while until we actually accomplish something. I already tried playing around with the INI files, but as you know, it will take a while until I get used to them.
Oh yeah, one more question. If I make a just Generals mod (not ZH), will it work on computers that have ZH. I dont personally have ZH, but I wanna buy it soon. I played it before, but I just dont have it yet. But if I release just a skin edit mod, will it work on Gen + ZH? Thanks!