Ultimate Combat (Hasn't changed)

Getting a Dodge I like:

Removed TK Dodge and tried TUDM, which doesn't allow you to change your dodge key.  I use Mouse-4 as my dodge key but it wants me to use my sneak button, which, IMO, is clunky.  If your dodge key is Alt, and my hand is having to press a direction while I press alt, that is carpal tunnel inducing and not at all fast, like a dodge should be.

(Not my actual keyboard or hand)

On a controller, you press something with your right hand (maybe the circle button on a PS controller) and press a direction with your left hand.  Thus, I made my dodge button one of my auxiliary mouse buttons.  So I went back to CGO for my dodge needs, for which you can define your dodge button. [It is possible to use the new TK Dodge RE, but I chose this, less slots].

But the problem with CGO (and the reason I wanted a separate dodge mod in the first place) is their first person dodge KEEPS YOU IN FIRST PERSON while you dodge.  So if you're trying to avoid damage, you get super disoriented because your dude is flipping around.  What I have settled on is using CGO, and going into the folder and manually replacing the dodge animation with TK Dodge's animation (if this doesn't work I might replace it with the step dodge animation, so I step dodge in first person).

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/318

I've had this in my 'Mods for Later' folder for months.  It restores 8 of the cities that were in TES Arena but removed before the release of Skyrim.  The problem is:

It takes up 8 ESP slots!!  I checked in xEdit, and every single one of them has too many references to compact for ESL.

Side note:  I also found a Voice Files addon, which I casually dropped into the voice folder for the mod before I moved forward.  The mod's own voice folder is filled with silent clips for Fuz Ro Doh/Fuz Ro Bork.

I also consulted @gregaaz a little while ago and he agreed that Merging seemed like the best option.  As you can see above, I got on zEdit and merged them.

I've been using Player Voicesets for a while, but they only have a handful of options for your character.  There is a Bring your own voice option, but you basically have to manually replace it in the folders whenever you switch characters.  Which, is not going to work for me.

I've decided I'm going to switch to PC Headtracking and Voicetype,

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/11993

which allows you to Bring your own voice, but you can build however many voices you want.  And it has the added benefit of people actually making voices for it.  Unfortunately, none of the voices I use actually have the built.  So I'm going to build voices for all of my characters using a combination of xVASynth, using existing voices to fill in the gaps when possible (like, getting hit noises are impossible to do in xVA but that can be done either using original game assets or subbing assets from Skyrim's native voices if there's a close match.

Then I'll be releasing them on the Nexus.

But as you might imagine, this is a large project.  Not in complexity, but in time it will take.  So I'm going to leave this for later. 

Bijin Series All in One

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/1825

Pandorable's NPCs to fill in the gaps.

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/19012

Citizens of Tamriel

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/29069

Balgruuf's Daughter and Wife

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/69369

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/69368

Meru (Reinstall)

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/42773

TES Arena Towns

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/318

Inns and Taverns  

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/12223

Thanedom of Jarnborg

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/67992

Ebonvale

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/8472?tab=description

Timber Springs

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/43743

Already Implemented:

Seapoint

Folkstead, Haafstad, Nyhus

The Elder Scrolls Online Imports (Includes Old Windhelm, and a bunch of small areas)

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/11729?tab=videos

Ultimate Markarth

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/66024

Fortified Whiterun

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/40094

Vargr - Whiterun

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/46205

Already Implemented:

Riften Extension

Windhelm Bridge Overhaul

Capital Windhelm Expansion

Cities of the North - Dawnstar, Morthal, Winterhold, Falkreath

You may have noticed Riften and Solitude are the only locations I don't actually have an update for.  Up to this point, I didn't find a Riften extension I liked, and I was keeping Solitude vanilla-ish to allow for the Assault series.  Everybody says the boat doesn't show up, and I think it's because they have the docks expansions.  I also left Windhelm's docks alone for this reason.

Raven Rock Reborn

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/30154

Solstheim the Lost Levels

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/55148

Skaal Village Overhaul

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/53733

DMT's Honorhall Orphanage

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/46426

DMT's Jorrvaskr

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/32758

Markarth - Help the Warrens

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/45144

Restoring the Aretino Residence

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/30447

Blue Palace Terrace

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/35180

Sounds of Skyrim 

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/8286?

Immersive Sounds

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/523

Skyrim 2020 Parallax

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/2347

aMidianborn Book of SIlence

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/35382

Embers XD

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/37085

Forgotten Retex Project

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/7849/

Noble Skyrim

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/21423

Blended Roads

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/8834

Skyrim 3D Furniture

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/23552

Statue of Mara Dressed (Already Implemented, this is the big boob clothed one)

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/63559

New Statue of Boethiah

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/57779

Daedric Shrines - Hircine, Mephala, Sanguine, Hermaeus Mora, Sheogorath

(Hircine) https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/63155?tab=description

All by the same mod author, adds new shrines.

Lux Via

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/63588?tab=description

ENB (With Grass Collisions)

http://enbdev.com/download_mod_tesskyrimse.htm

Rudy ENB for Cathedral Weathers

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/39113

Minty Lightning

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/8778

Water for ENB

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/37061

Origins of Forest

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/45719

The Jedi Trees

(This is not actually available, I found this on one of the alternative mod sites)

Obsidian Mountain Fogs

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/13539

Majestic Mountains

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/11052

Figured I'd give this it's own section.  So every mod you have has a number of 'references,' permanent and temporary.  P Refs are loaded when the game loads and are generally unlimited.  Temp Refs have a cap of about 1 million in a save file, and you need a little bit of room for the things you do in the save game (I dropped an iron dagger in the street here, and add up quicker than you'd think) etc.

It is possible to basically make temp references from mods into (not perma) but ones that don't count against your total by turning a mod into an ESM.  I have a script to do this.  

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/28046

xEdit can just flag a thing ESM, but like ESLifying, I think there are some fiddly bits I don't quite understand, or can be done quicker with scripts.

With ESLifying, it basically just lines up all the formIDs as tight as they can be, and if it's smaller than 2000, you can flag it for ESL.  The compact function in xEdit (together with the script https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/56396) changes references in other mods so they point towards the correct new formID, as long as you have it all open in xEdit, this is 'flowing down changes.'

From what I've heard ESMifying can bring it's own risks, so I suggest doing it with the above ESM script.  Once upon a time I researched this, but I've only done it a couple times so I don't remember the specifics, and the script seems to work.  I do remember when I started reaching the ref cap in my savegame I started to get random CTDs that made no sense.

The script (not included with xEdit) Count_Loaded_Refs_in_Load_Order:

https://gist.github.com/aers/953a50c61b3028bce7e5376e8590abed

Tells you exactly where all your references are, and gives you a total, discounting all the ESM mods.

Then apply the above script to ESMify what you need to.

For me, Biggest Offenders were the TES Arena Merge (40k) and Jedi Trees (15K) but most my big temp references I had in the past were already ESMified by me (AoS was 200k, AoV was 300k, Nyhus series was each 60-70k, etc) or by the mod author.  I'm way off the references cap with about 200k now, lots of room for growth. 

count_loaded_refs_in_load_order.pas

__ESPFEFollower.pas

__ESPFEFollowerCELLFree.pas

ESMifyer.pas

ESMifyer_with_persistent_unique_NPCs.pas