Step-by step guide to setting up a scripting enviornment in MO2 for Sexlab and SLA 1.0.0

So, after googling for hours and reading over old posts, I figured I should put together a guide on how to get the creation kit to work with MO2 with a focus on SL scripting.

(Download is just a word document version of this post)

 

1. Install creation kit from bethesda.net, and point MO2 to the creation kit executable through this box:

 

2) Install SSE creation kit fixes and multiple masters fix:

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/2786

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/20061

 

3) If you haven’t already, install SKSE and be sure to keep the .psc source files handy for the next part.

 

4)Now, create a new mod in MO2 by simply opening your MO2 profile dir and making a new folder. Inside, you will need to create 2 folders: scripts and scripts\source.

 

5)Move the SKSE .psc files into the \scripts\source folder

 

6)Now, go to your skyrim data folder (<skyrim installation path>\data\scripts) and grab a zip file called Scripts.zip. You will need to extract it into your new MO2 mod, and be sure to keep all the .psc files in the \scripts\source folder.

 

7) After that, you’re going to need a few more dependencies before you can start developing:

• SkyUI Developmet sdk: https://github.com/schlangster/skyui/wiki
• RaceMenu developer: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/29624?tab=files (download modder’s package)
• FNIS (FNIS ships with its sources, but you need to change the file structure. FNIS has its sources in sources\scripts, and you need to move them to scripts\sources)
• PapyrusUtil

8 Now you need to unpack RaceMenu’s BSA, which you can do with Cathedral Asset Optimizer. Just open it up, and point it to RaceMenu’s mod dir:

You will need the RaceMenu source scripts when you are compiling.

9) Now you need to change the CK ini file to reflect your script directory:

 

[Papyrus]
bPerforceEnabled = 0
iMinMemoryPageSize = 128
iMaxMemoryPageSize = 512
sScriptSourceFolder = ".\Data\Scripts\Source"

 

After that, you just have to boot up the CK and load Sexlab and SLA as your master files, along with any other .esps you will need. Then you’re good to go for scripting!

 

I'm pretty sure I got everything covered, but its entirely possible I may have missed a step after getting everything working - so please let me know if I missed something.

 

Some mods with good example scripts that you can look at: