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Hello I do not consider myself a modder but I do know somethings about voice generation - still a noob tho. But I tried making a vomprehensive guide for it For experts and beginner alike I am creating this so we have something to look/guide us if we return after taking a long break from gaming/modding. This is not only for one of the most famous mod "Dragon Born Voice Over-DBVO" but also voice generation in general. 1. Extraction of dialogues I find Xedit .pas scripts to be most effective and nigh perfect for this job. You can extract both mod files dialogues and DBVO dialogues 2. Generating the voices Today thanks to AI we have many options nowadays Elevenlabs is almost obsolete thanks to QwenTTS. I think many new or old modders will generate voice mods of next generation in recent times. The hurdles a.) .lip generation - .lip file is a animation file which tells how the character's mouth moves You can get it here https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/40971 or https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/17765 (its inside its subdirectories) How to ??? ---->> https://github.com/Nukem9/FaceFXWrapper b.) .wav cannot generate workable .lip files. This is because the program will only work on 16Khz mono-channel audio. ffmpeg can do it in. For reference even in dual core CPU from 15 years back it could convert 10,000 files in around 20 minutes. For modern CPU its barely a problem. c.) Then later fuze both as .fuz file and characters will move their mouth with voice. (Don't make final .fuz with 16khz mono channel audio its a lower quality voice) The most famous option for Voice Packs generation is XVASynth. BUT I can bet that it will change soon because of voice cloning can be done in around 1-2 minutes. I created femaleelfhaughty voice clone in around 2 minute using Nvidia 3060. Why even in our community where people have absurdly powerfull PCs we don't have good Voice Packs?? Because XVASynth the most used option for voice generation has problems 1. with its .csv handling. its delimiter is commas `,` its a legit problem 2. Every Voice is generated for every voicetype. So if a mod has line for Ysolda saying - "Wanna buy my skooma?" The said voice line will be generated for every voicetype by XVASynth's logic. And this makes process around 10 times more longer. Its a headache to deal if voice contains around 100,000 voices (this number is actually on lighter side!!) 3. the .lip generation - For newbies who use XVASynth it produces .fuz for every file along the way so the lines per second is not that high (1.2-2.8 even on high end PCs) nor efficient at all and it takes stupid amount of times like 2-3 days of constant pc running. Because it produces the .fuz for every single line individually. What I do is make a unified cache of .lip and use .lip for every voicetype there is so it cuts production time of voicepacks to around 90% (2-3 hours only) - it has problem because no 2 voice types has exact same voice length but people never noticed until now, so they never will until someone spilled the beans. Oops. I actually believe with full faith that in near future people will use newer AI models for voice generation as its so much more expressive its not even a joke. Now lets tackle the elephant in the room the DBVO voice packs IDK why people think its a strength that DBVO picks up dialogue lines as voice lines but its a headache the only benefit it provides I think is if 100 mods have voice line `What?` so we don't have to generate `What_.fuz` 100 times Its a mess - I do not care how many I offend but its a fact. Anybody can extract the voice lines and make voices but the GOD-DAMNED naming is awful it has many limitations 1. first DBVO voice lines cannot have long lines. if your skyrim is installed in Drive://directory/sub-directory/sub-sub directories/TES - Skyrim - Anniversary Edition the DBVO will have a long address to fill the fragile skyrim world and it can, no it WILL crash the game. 2. "the character handling" many mod authors sometimes use fancy characters (i mean « » * < >) in mod - which itself is not a problem perse but DBVO bugs out here. 3. From what i can gather some experienced Mod authors are using normalization to tackle this which is fine but from what I can say after experimenting with it is -> `!` is allowed but `? * < >` is not -> ` ` space is not allowed. -> `()` is allowed -> `[]` is not allowed actually except normal brackets `()` no other parenthesis is allowed. Character will stay silent -> leading spaces ` What is your name? ` `What is your name? ` `What is your name?` `What is your name!?` all 4 are different -> every not allowed character has to be replaced with underscore `_` -> parenthesis are just not consistent. I think even this guide `https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/articles/12180` is not complete as it misses so many things. Even i don't understand clearly. But its for a fact that some lines will not get voiced no matter what you name them the game is essentially blind to it simple technique I do is just use a script to make DBVO fix and just replace all the damned parenthesis with nothing so game at least sees the text. it does at least voice every single dialogue then "No I will not release that as I cannot maintain such a project. and it will render all existing voicepacks useless." Thank you for taking time out of your day to read this If this helped you in anyway I am glad Feel free to ask anything here. If I can I will answer. If I don't I just could'nt wait a few days. Thanks.

INTRODUCTION Skyrim VR is aging. The SKSE site lists the different game versions, and Skyrim VR is the oldest and no longer receiving updates. This is good, in the respect that Bethesda won't change anything about the game that breaks mods. But it's also bad because mod developers are not making mods that are backwards compatible with the VR version. In this list, I'll provide exact versions and URLs for where to find the mods I use, if I can. Some of these are no longer available. Ask me if you would like the version I have. If I get enough requests, I'll put them on a cloud drive. LEGEND 👄 means Adult content ♀️ means female main character content ♂️ means male main character content INSTALLATION Start with a fresh Steam install of Skyrim VR. Ensure you have no files in "My Documents / Save Games / Skyrim VR" or "Skyrim Special Edition". We're starting clean. If cloud saves put games back in, that's ok. Run Skyrim VR once, as is, without any mods, in SteamVR. This will create and populate "My Documents / Save Games / Skyrim VR" with some files. CLEAN MASTER FILES This could be considered an optional step. Some modders swear by it, others never mention it. I've done this both with and without cleaning and I honestly can't tell the difference, which is why I call this "optional". This is the YouTube video that I follow. Everything you need to know is in there about how to get SSEEdit 4.0.4, configure it for SkyrimVR, and how to clean the files. I'll post some notes about this below the video. I also don't have an opinion on when to clean. Before you start Skyrim? Before your first save? After? I will leave that up to you because I don't think it makes any difference. NOTES: At this point in the video, he's just a little impatient. Dawnguard takes a bit to load and the offending line will show up in red if you let the application work for a moment. Autoclean Update Autoclean Dawnguard Manually clean Dawnguard - Cell block 5, sub-block 3, in the RIGHT HAND pane, 4th column - remove "RiftenRatwayZone [ECZN:0009FBB9]" - Cell block 2, sub-block 1, Guard - remote the whole record - Cell block 8, sub-block 1 Test - remove the whole record Autoclean Hearthfires Autoclean Dragonborn DO NOT CLEAN SKYRIM SETTING UP VORTEX Install Vortex. If you prefer another mod manager, that should be fine, but I've only used Vortex. Use Profiles. This will keep your mods and save games in sync. Maybe you want to be a breton today, tomorrow a khajiit. By using profiles, you can switch between them as if they're separate installs. NOTE: you cannot change the settings of the mods, just whether or not the mod is installed, so keep that in mind when configuring later in SkyUI. Take note of your profile's ID. It is used for where your save games will be written to. For example, mine is "SkS-j0XPh" and so my save games are written to C:\Users\corysia\Documents\My Games\Skyrim VR\Saves\SkS-j0XPh. If you have trouble saving your first game, it may not have created that directory and you'll have to do it yourself, and then save. I've only had that happen once, but it's easy to fix. My Steam Library is on D:\Games, so Vortex needs to be configured to use the same drive. In settings, under the Mods tab, I set my staging folder to be "D:\Games\Vortex\staging\{game}" and set Deployment Method to "Hardlink". In Settings, under Download, I've got my Download Folder set to "D:\Games\Vortex\downloads" SET UP SKYRIM VR FOR MODDING Start Vortex. When it first starts, it may need patching and provide a number of alerts in the upper right corner. For loose files, just press 'fix'. The rest we can ignore for right now. We'll fix them as we progress. Visit SKSE and download sksevr 2.0.12. That's the version for Skyrim VR. On the SkyUI VR GitHub page, you'll find SkyUI 1.2.2 Skyrim VR Tools 2.3-BETA UIExtensions 1.2.0 Install Fores New Idles in Skyrim [Required] FNIS Behavior VR 7_6 XXL (Optional) FNIS Creature Pack SE 7.6 if you are going to use creatures (I do) (Optional) FNIS Spells SE 7.0 (I don't use this one) Configure FNIS in Vortex to auto-run. Go to the Mods tab and then click "Configure FNIS" along the top menu bar. Be sure to check the Skeleton patch, as we'll be needing it shortly. Also, if you run Fores by hand, it may repeatedly bring up this "Create a shortcut" menu. If you read the message (I didn't, for the longest time! ), if you hit [Cancel], it won't ask you again. 👄Install SexLabFrameworkSE_v163_BETA8 because this is the last version that still supports VR. Install the SexLab VR patch beta8 38-test, tell Vortex to load after the SL framework Install the SexLab VR patch hotfix for v38, tell Vortex to load after the previous patch you just added. Install XP32 Maximum Skeleton Special Extended (XPMSSE) 4.80. This is what we needed the checkbox in FNIS for. For options, I select the following: Skeleton - Physics Extensions Character Creation pg 1 - Racemenu (we'll install that shortly) Character Creation pg 2 - Out of sync Animation Variants - none for everything First Person Animation - none Mounted combat animations - none Compatibility pg 1 - 👄Schlongs of Skyrim (we'll install shortly) Compatibility pg 2 - none, I don't use Deadly Mutilation Compatibility pg 3 - none, I don't use Enderal Install RaceMenu Special Edition v0-4-9 This specific version. Install RaceMenu VR 0.4.14 Delete skee64.dll and skee64.ini from <your_steam_install>\steamapps\common\SkyrimVR\Data\SKSE\Plugins NOTE: When you install the next mod, you'll get a warning about deleting 2 files. It's OK. Install PapyrusUtil VR 3.6b. NOTE: This version does not need the Address library When prompted, override SexLab with this version (in other words, Load After) VR Address Library Papyrus Tweaks NG Install VRIK Player Avatar v0.8.1 Build 28. NOTE: If you're going to play the vanilla introduction and not use Realm of Lorkhan as I do, disable these VRIK mods until after your hands are freed. (Optional) Install VRIK Rift-Index-WMR Controller bindings. This will remap some of your controller keys. (Optional) Install Arctal's VRIK Tweak, tell Vortex to override VRIK. 👄Install HDT-SMP VR (Skinned Mesh Physics) for Havok breast physics. Install BodySlide and Outfit Studio v5.5.2 Options: BodySlide and CBBE Body Physics, RaceMenu Morphs for CBBE Install Caliente's Beautiful Bodies Enhancer - v1.6.2, tell vortex to override BodySlide when asked Base Options: Curvy, ?None, Vanilla, Face Pack, Thin + Trimmed Brows Optional Features: check everything 👄Install Schlongs of Skyrim for VR 1.0.7 Default body, Hairy, and all addons Load after XP32 Install Fuz Ro D'oh VR Run BodySlide Studio. You'll want to check the meshes checkbox and the "Build Morphs" checkbox, then press "Batch Build". You'll get another dialog box asking about which sliders to choose. I select ?"CBBE Body HDT" which will make my character nude when undressed. There are other options for Undies, etc. On the next screen, you'll also see a list of outfits and you need to pick a shape again. Here, I choose CBBE Physics (I'll try to grab a screenshot next time). It should generate morphs for 292 items. OPTIONAL PRE-GAME MODS These are some additional mods I typically start with prior to creating a new game. Achievement Mod Enabler to enable Steam Achievements Install Realm of Lorkhan v.3.6.1 Install Realm of Lorkhan - Unbound patch (Optional) Realm of Lorkhan - No Shards No Starting Spells No Racial Starting Spells KS Hairdos SSE CREATING A NEW GAME In this section, I'll describe how I configure these mods from within the MCM. I won't go over all of my personal settings, but I'll call out some important ones. In the end, you should set it up the way you want to play. (Optional) Disable RaceMenu while you initially create your character. I do this because I just want a Breton. After you create your character and make your first save, you should re-enable RaceMenu. I find Race Menu too hard to work with in VR. Leave it on if you want the full functionality of it. Start a new game and create your character. I have found that when I try to switch from Male to Female, SteamVR locks up and I see my harddisk running solid for a bit. Sometimes I have to restart, other times I can just wait a bit and the female model will eventually show up. It didn't used to do this, but I am running in to this often now. Just be patient and keep trying if you're going to play a female character. After your character, configure VRIK. Go in to your Magic menu and select the VRIK Calibration Power. First, go with "Headset Height". After the power cooldown delay, go in again and choose "Default". I'm 5'3", so I then choose "shorter" a few times to get me at the height I want my character to be. Finally, choose "VR Scale" and then done. You can now unselect the VRIK Power option. Next, in the MCM, select VRIK. Under Controls, I like to check "selfie" and set the compass to "left hand up" so I only see the compass when I look at the palm of my left hand. For SexLab, first you need to choose Install and then exit the MCM. After it is installed, go in to the MCM again and under VR I like to choose "Lock view to body" and then I usually prefer to "disable 3rd person" so it's all 1st person. Under Animation, if you want creatures, turn that on and then exit the MCM. You'll get two notifications that Creatures is installed and you have to wait for both of them before the MCM will respond again. Go back in to Animation and set your preferences. If you want aggressive animations, be sure to set them to be allowed here or you'll get messages later saying how they were blocked. Under voices, I change my voice from Random to a voice I prefer. For NPCs, I set them to reuse their voice. Quit out of the MCM and save your game. Now is when you verify that your saves are going in to the correct subfolder. In my case: C:\Users\corysia\Documents\My Games\Skyrim VR\Saves\SkS-j0XPh Re-enable Race Menu if you turned it off. These are the core mods I start with. The rest of them are Quality of Life changes, adventures, and bugfixes. I'll continue to update this post periodically. QUALITY OF LIFE MODS In this next section, I'll list out all of the mods I add just to improve Skryim VR. Amazing Follower Tweaks SSE 1.66 - lets me turn anyone in to a follower and gives me the options to give them more commands than the default game. Audiobooks of Skyrim - I love to read, but not in VR. Audiobooks of Skyrim Gopher Collection 1 - Audiobooks read by Gopher Audio Settings for Audiobooks of Skyrim - gives a separate volume slider for the audiobooks. Be Seated v4.2.5 - really fun one where you can sit at a bar in an inn and order a drink and they bring it to you! Note: I have no luck with beds, I get stuck in them, so I disable that. Requires Skyrim VR Tools The Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch v.4.2.6 - later versions won't work with SkyrimVR requires SkyrimVR - USSEP Compatibility Patch Campfire - a complete camping mod - My Breton is a forsworn, so she should be able to make basic bows and such in the wilderness. Papyrus VR should override Campfire. SexLab should override Campfire. We want PapyrusVR to be the latest Papyrus engine. Carriage and Ferry Travel Overhaul - More options to where the carriages will take you. (Optional) No Fast Travel - I'm using VR and a treadmill, I want to have to walk or pay for a ride. Crouch to Dodge VR - You'll break a sweat doing squats, I promise! Darkened Dungeons SE - dungeons should be dark Replaced in favor of Enhanced Light and FX Dual Wield Block VR - because you should be able to block even if you're holding two weapons or a weapon and a spell. Fishing in Skyrim VR - teach a girl to fish, you feed her for life! Footprints - because you should leave tracks in the snow. HIGGS Enhanced VR Interaction - because you should be able to touch everything in your world. Holidays - who doesn't love a party? In the MCM you can set your character's birthdate. Immersive Sounds Compendium - several improvements to sounds. I leave the Nirnroot as vanilla, however. Immersive Draw & Sheathe Sounds VR - a patch for the above compendium Modern Brawl Bug Fix - because for some reason, probably cloaks or something else, interferes with brawling and they always pull a weapon on me. Realistic Water Two SE v5.6.0 - water looks so much better Smoking torches and candles - I prefer the subtle option. Replaced in favor of Enhanced Light and FX Static Mesh Improvement Mod (SMIM) - really improves the looks of things. You'll have a lot of conflicts with this one. Always load it 'before' because the rest of the mods are newer, I'm sure. Super Simple Lock Bash - because you should be able to break in to a chest VR Bound Bow FX Restored - makes bound bows like the non-VR version Weapon Throw VR - so you can throw weapons, torches, etc. Lots of options in here. Wet and Cold SE - I like seeing my cold breath, etc. MAGIC More Valuable Spell Tomes - because magic shouldn't that cheap. Spell Research 2.2.2 SSE - to research magic rather than just reading a book. Be sure you go in to the MCM and import spells. No Spells From Vendors or Loot, to force me to do the research rather than saving up a ton of money Immersive College of Winterhold SE - a wonderful expansion to the College. A must-have if you play a mage. College of Winterhold - Quest Expansion - More quests for the College, and they're actually good! iUnlock - Spell Research version - import spells in Spell Research to pick this one up as researchable. Simple Mark & Recall - I loved this pair of spells from Morrowind. Not researchable, unfortunately, so it's going to be expensive! Teach Followers Spells Full SSE - do I teach my follower or do I sell that spell tome? Hmmm.... Wards Functionalities Extended - a ward can't stop an arrow?? Now they will. But shouts should break wards. Face Changer - I get this one mostly so I can change my hair style. Collage Days - Tuition, ugh!! bHaptics and KatWalk No Stamina Drain For Sprinting - This sounds overpowered, but I'm using a KatWalk. I promise you, my stamina drains faster running Real Life than it does in the game! TactSuit SkyrimVR - Only useful for someone with bHaptics toys. They're so much fun! Skyrim VR Configuration Tool - This handy tool allows you to adjust a lot of things. I read about it on reddit. I'm 5'3" and to physically crouch on a KatWalk with the default settings is more burn than I can handle right now, so this let me adjust it to a more comfortable stoop and still let me walk. NOTE: Another very useful feature is it allows you to increase the priority of Skyrim VR, making it run smoother. At this point, I run the game again and configure the MCM. And make another save game. Here I also joined the Forsworn faction and chose the Lover's Stone. Next, we'll start installing the Adult mods. Here we have to be careful because loading too many of these at once can overtax Papyrus. So, I periodically start the game and configure the MCM. RSSE Children Overhaul 1.1.3 with hotfix 1 - USSEP patch, 2K Aventus, Facial animations Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions JContainers VR 4.1.13 Enhanced Lights and FX - loading this later as it detects mods 👄Sexlab Aroused SSE Loose 29 👄ZaZ Animation Pack+ CBBE HDT V8.0+SEREV3 - ZaZ is going to give you a lot of extra items and put collars around the necks of a lot of people. Lots of slavery in Skyrim! Be sure you register SexLab in its MCM settings. 👄ZaZ Animation Pack+ CBBE HDT V8.0+SEREV3 Voice files 👄ZaZ 8+ - VRIK No Spin - VR Patch - this will cause a conflict, load it after to override. 👄SexLab Sexual Fame 0.99 - visit the MCM for rules, you might get arrested! 👄SexLab Sexual Fame Comments 3.31 👄SexLab Sexual Fame Comments Voice Files 3.31 👄Creature Framework 3.0 and More Nasty Critters. Be sure you look at the video there to understand how to put the 3-part file back together. 👄Fertility Mode 3.0.1 - choose Skyrim Special Edition and BSA. Ignore the Special Edition Patches, they're no longer needed. Choose HMA + SexLab. In the MCM, I like to deselect auto-inseminate PC, select only unique men and women. And I slide the UI bar ♀️ over from 900 to about 925. I also set the race to random between mine and the father. 👄Fertility Mode v3 Fixes and Updates Fertility Mode VR Name fix ♀️ Fertility Adventures - I disable the sleep creep. It happens too often. 👄SL Defeat - I would prefer to use Naked Defeat, but it doesn't play well with VR. This one is still good, tho. You need to turn on SL Defeat in the MCM. NOTE: If you find yourself being molested and the molester is suddenly attacked by the town guards, this is due to a setting down in Player as Victim called Witness Intervention where you can allow others to join in or save you. TURN IT OFF! Especially if you're a town or inn and don't want your NPC attacker to be killed. NOTE: If enemies stop attacking you, you probably need to go in to this MCM menu and CLEAN because your state is stuck in recovery mode. It's to allow you to get away and not be repeatedly victimized. But it gets stuck now and then. 👄SL Defeat Voice Files This is enough for now. I start up the game, and wait a bit for the MCM to catch up. The game might crash. Just try again. If it keeps crashing, start taking out mods and retry. Configure the MCM, and make a save. Now for the next batch of mods... 👄Devious Devices SE & VR 5.1 - I choose CBBE SE, FeuerTin, Bunnyhopping, no beast race, ♂️Devious Devices for Him, and Skyrim VR. I have Devious Devices override ZaZ conflicts. 👄Devious Devices 5.1 VRIK No Spin Patch - the patch should override the original. 👄Devious Cidhna 👄Devious Cidhna Voices 👄Sexual Persuasion 👄Sexual Persuasion voice 👄SL Animation Loader SE 👄Rydin SLAL Pack - You'll need to enable these in the SL Animation Loader MCM. 👄Absolutely No Naked Comments 👄SexLab Achievements - gamification of naughty activities! Time to break again to let Papyrus handle this. Before starting the game, run BodySlide to update the morphs for your new outfits. You'll get a list of options to choose. I choose HDT or CBBE SE whenever it's offered. It should be up to 448 morphs now. I always get an error on the Khajiit chain harness and the Breast Rope Extreme harness. I don't know how to fix it, so I ignore it. It hasn't messed me up so far. Skyrim Utility Mod (SUM) 👄Prison Overhaul Patched 5.32 (requires SUM) 👄Prison Overhaul Patched Voice SUM & POP No Spin VR Patch - load after-all 👄♂️Flower Girls SE and VR - remember to go back to Fertility and monitor FG girls if you'd like. 👄♂️Flower Girls SE Adventures 👄Public Whore 👄Public Whore voice 👄Public Whore SlaveTats Public Whore SE/VR patch 👄♀️Submissive Lola Resubmission 2.1.0 NOTE: If you don't set this to nickname mode or your character's name will be changed to Lola and it will affect your save games. When you end your service, you can get your name back. But you will need to save and restart your game for it to work properly. NOTE: By default, zaz slave control is off. Unless you've another mod that would conflict, I suggest turning this on because it will require other NPCs to ask your owner for permission first. ?Submissive Lola voice 👄♀️♂️Radiant Prostitution Gigolo SE 7.0.4 - This mod does not fully work, none of the additional quests will load in Skyrim VR. I've been trying to figure this out, and I think it's due to JContainers VR not being as current as JContainers SE. But the basics work. 👄Radiant Prostitution RMCW Edition 👄Radiant Prostitution v7.0.4 Voice Pack Gen4 👄Simple Slavery Plus Plus 6.3.19 [SE] 👄Simple Slavery Plus Plus voice 👄Spank That Ass SE v4.5 (25-Jan-2021) - there is a voice file for this one, but it doesn't match my chosen voice. Oddly, this will sometimes show up as "trial run alpha". 👄Dripping When Aroused SE (DW 2022-03-03) - also called Dripping Wet or Dripping When Wet. 👄Love Sickness 1.0.1 - Set this for hearts only on onset so you know when you first enter this stage. I have a lot more mods installed. I'll list them here, in no particular order. If there's interest, I'll track down the exact URLs like I have above where I can. But I'm not sure anyone's read this far! Skyrim VR Change Your Bindings NOTE: If you try to load VRIK Rift-Index-WMR Controller Bindings V2.1.0, this app will throw a parsing error. It turns out that the VRIK map adds an unexpected Activate option to the "Favor" section of the file. If you open the file in a text editor and delete Line 229, the VRIK mappings will open in this app. NOTE: combos are supposed to work, but I can't get them to, so maybe this is useless. 👄Body Search & voice files - gets repetitive, so turn it way down. 👄♀️Troubles of Heroine - can be Troubles of Hero, lots of options. I disable some side quests I don't personally care for. 👄♀️A Forsworn Story iNeed Food Water and Sleep Continued v1.93 - I can only see 1.94 now, so I don't know if one can still get this version. iNeed Water VR 👄Amorous Adventures All Male Housecarls light version 👄Animated Prostitution 👄TDF Prostitution 👄Bathing in Skyrim - I ended up removing these because of conflicts with layers on my character. 👄Bathing in Skyrim Tweaked Becoming a Bard & voice 👄Dark Desires Club 👄Devious Lore 👄Devious Enslaved Continued v13.25.0 👄Dibella Sisterhood 👄Fade Tattoos 👄Rape Tattoos & Rape Tattoos Tweaked 👄Horrible Harassment + no spin patch Improved bound sword and dagger collision 👄Sex Slaves aka Mia's Lair Immersive Good Boy - for Meeko, if I pick him up. Quiet Dog - Sit - I'm tempted to go with Complete Silence, but I don't want to break conversation. Ride Sharing Semi-open guard helmets 👄sex with thieves 👄Dangerous Nights - turn this WAY down or you'll never get any sleep 👄SL Kidnapped Spouses Enhanced Blood and Silver - vastly increases the size of Cidhna mine. 👄Skooma Whore Relationship Dialog Overhaul Relationship Dialog Overhaul - RDO SE - RDO - AFT SE Patch Final

A guide to make a bashed patch that works. Why? Because most guides to making a bashed patch neglect to mention that not all mods have bash tags. Or how to add them. Benefits: Proper Bash Tags in your important mods, will be utilized by Wrye Bash to create a bashed patch that will resolve more conflicts. LOOT will utilize these Bash Tags, to assist in sorting your load order. Annoyances in-game can be avoided or minimized. i.e. having to have an NPC in your cross-hairs, enter MCM for Schlongs of Skyrim to set the "Revealing" Keyword repeatedly Makes making a "Merged patch" in SSEEdit obsolete. Makes the game stable Resources required: Wrye Bash: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/6837 SSEEdit: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/164 Generate Bash Tags script from https://github.com/fireundubh/WryeBashTagGenerator ****Install to "Edit Scripts" folder of SSEEdit**** Skyrim SE Mod Organizer 2: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/6194 LOOT: https://loot.github.io/ Patience General installation guidelines: Make sure the mods you install ARE SE compatible - several guides located here: https://www.loverslab.com/topic/94228-se-compatibility-tracking-jul-19-6272/ Even mods that are downloaded from Skyrim Special Edition Nexus can have missed textures, animations and meshes! It is highly recommended to install Steam, Skyrim SE, Mod Organizer 2 & your other tools outside of Windows UAC control. This means not in "Program Files" or "Program Files (x86)" For Mod Organizer 2, I recommend the installer version {ends in .exe}, this will add entries in the system registry. On first run of Mod Organizer 2, select the "portable instance" option, this will keep your files out of the %LocalAppData% folders. Again, that is to keep clear of Windows UAC issues. A guide to installing Mod Organizer 2 - https://www.loverslab.com/topic/136543-v112-mod-organizer-2-other-tools-from-zero-to-hey-sexlab-is-working/ The folder structure I use: Setting up Windows Explorer to prevent confusion: Wrye Bash Configuration in MO2: Note: The folder listed in "Create files in mod" was created by: Setting SSEEdit up in MO2: Running the Bash Tags script: The script will remove any bad tags, and write the missing tags to the header. Exit SSEEdit, making sure to save the plugin. Making the Bashed Patch: Well that was complicated, but worth it. I'd like to thank user @Mertz for advice given and the users at the forum AFKMods https://www.afkmods.com/index.php?/topic/4966-wrye-bash-all-games/ @tasairis for the hard work keeping the SE Compatibility thread going https://www.loverslab.com/topic/94228-se-compatibility-tracking-jul-19-6272/ All the users here who have offered free advice over the years, you know who you are Excellent reading for those who want to know more: Tome of xEdit: https://tes5edit.github.io/docs/ REALLY in-depth look at modding & conflict resolution Wrye Bash : https://wrye-bash.github.io/docs/Wrye Bash General Readme.html#intro

I love having a ton of followers but hate it when my available plugin slots in NMM starts to drop down. So, finally went through a few attempts to find that its pretty easy to convert small follower mods from esp to esl format. Requirements: 1. SSEEdit 2. NifSkope For this guide, am going to use Sori Follower SE (CBBE SE version) created by songgod and ported to SE by ff7legend. I use NMM, so am going to use it in the process. You may have to do the appropriate steps if use MO2 or Vortex, since they use a Virtual Folder system using symlinks. The workflow: Step 1: Install the mod using whatever mod manager you use or install it manually and then activate the mod. Step 2: Then Fire up SSEEdit and open the freshly installed mod i.e. Sori.esp If you check the header section it shows that the mod esp only has 28 records, and for only 28 records wastage of 1 plugin slot is not cool. It could be easily handled by a lite or esl plugin. Step 3: In SSEEdit, select "File Header", then right click on "Record Flags" in the "Record Header" tree. In the popup menu which appears, click on "Edit". A message box will come up, select the "Yes" option there. This would be followed by a screen with many Check boxes. Tick the ESL check box and press "Ok" button. Step 4: In SSEEdit, right click on Sori.esp and click on "Renumber FormIDs from". A small popup will come up, type in 800 there. A message box would appear, press "Yes" there. Step 5: In SSEEdit, save the esp. Step 6: In SSEEdit, go to the tree under Sori.esp and open the "Non-Player Character (Actor)" branch and note down the Form ID of the follower Sori. Then close SSEEdit. Step 7: Now, open up Explorer or whatever File Manager you use and navigate to <Skyrim Installation Directory>\Skyrim Special Edition\Data\textures\actors\character\facegendata\facetint\Sori.esp depending on your file system. Select the dds file there and rename it to "00000800.dds". The last three characters are important for an esl file. In SSEEdit, you have seen that the Form ID for Sori is 02000800. The first five characters has to be replaced by Zeroes. Step 8: Next in Explorer or whatever File Manager you use navigate to <Skyrim Installation Folder>\Skyrim Special Edition\Data\meshes\actors\character\facegendata\facegeom\Sori.esp depending on your file system. Rename the Nif file present there to 00000800.nif, the reason being the same as in the previous step. Step 9: Now open up the Nif file in NifSkope. We have to correct the tintmask file name in the texture path. Navigate as shown in the pictures, then rename the dds file in the tintmask file path. Finally save the Nif and close NifSkope. Step 10: Now open up NMM and check the Plugins tab. It should show Sori.esp is not using a plugin slot. Step 11: Close NMM, then go find Sori in-game in Sleeping Giant Inn at Riverwood. She will be there if everything went fine. And indeed she is there. Yell at me if you face any problems. Till then peace out.

How to install Devious Devices 4.2 SE and Deviously Cursed Loot 7.3 SE (beta/experimental) There's a lot of confusion on what to install to get a working Devious Devices/Deviously Cursed Loot setup with SE. For your convenience, I list all the necessary and recommended packages here. The list is based on Pfiffy's conversions of the devious mods and uses the CBBE body. This is a beta/experimental setup. Some stuff doesn't work as expected yet, most notably BodySlide/SMP is largely a work in progress. My thanks and appreciations to the mod authors and everyone else doing the hard work. Requirements Skyrim SE 1.5.62 Skyrim Script Extender (SKSE64) 2.0.12 (direct download) SKyUI 5.2SE (mod manager download) Fores New Idles in Skyrim SE - FNIS SE Install FNIS Behaviour SE 7.4.5 (mod manager download) Install FNIS Creature Pack SE 7.0 (mod manager download) Recommended: FNIS Sexy Move SE Install FNIS Sexy Move SE 7.2 (mod manager download) Optional install 360 Pack for the Female Player v7.2 (mod manager download) RaceMenu SE v0.3.2 (mod manager download) XP32 Maximum Skeleton Special Extended - XPMSSE (mod manager download) BodySlide and Outfit Studio v4.7.0 (mod manager download) HDT Physics Extensions (HDT-SMP) Install HDT Framework and HDT Skinned Mesh Physics (more information) Caliente's Beautiful Bodies Enhancer - CBBE Install Caliente's Beautiful Bodies Enhancer v1.5.3 (mod manager download) Install CBBE SMP Config v1.0.6 (mod manager download) Install Normal Map Options v1.4 (mod manager download) Schlongs of Skyrim SE Install Schlongs of Skyrim SE v1.1 (direct download) SexLab SexLab SE 1.62 beta 4 (direct download) Recommended: SexLab Animation Loader SSE 1.0.0 (direct download) You'll need to install some animation packs (*TODO) ZAZ Animation Pack 8+ CBBE rev 2 (direct download) SexLab Aroused Redux SSE v29 2.9 (direct download) Devious Devices Devious Devices assets 3.0e SE (direct download) Devious Devices integration 4.2 SE (direct download) Devious Devices expansion 4.2 SE (direct download) CBBE SE slidersets (direct download) Hotfix (direct download) Devious Devices SKSE 1.5.62 runtime 2.0.12 (direct download) Deviously Cursed Loot Deviously Cursed Loot 7.3 SE (direct download) Notes * TODO - It works for me, your mileage may vary

Custom LUT creation with ReShade and Gimp 4.10 By arse22 on Oct 30,2020 Intro First I will cover some basics, for those who don’t know what a LUT is and why you would want to use it as part of your Hook/ReShade setup. A LUT is a .png file which contains color information used by the game. Using a ReShade shader we can change the default and override with our own settings, creating changes we want in-game without any cost to FPS. In fact, the strain on your system is greatly reduced on account of the fact that only the color itself is changed and color-related shaders do not need to be loaded at all. You can of course, load some to make further tweaks, but personally I prefer to make such edits afterwards and in another program. Why would you want to do this? Besides saving you FPS, the power it offers you is easy to underestimate. In truth, everything is color, even shadow and light are created by color and modify color that produces any image. The color changes that can be made are fairly complex and remain uniform, saving you time to have to mess with the settings in-game. Essentially you will create a ‘preset’ of color in your favorite image or photo editing software and apply it directly in game, while giving you performance boost. Pre-Requisite -Image/Photo editing software such as GIMP or Photoshop. I am using Gimp 4.10. -Latest Hook and ReShade installed and working. I am using H5free and ReShade 4.8.1. Basic LUT LUTs can come in different configurations and sizes, but the most common is 32x 32x32. That is 32 tiles of 32x32 pixels. For this tutorial I will provide and use 64x 64x64 LUT and show how to configure the shader to use it. Here is the default LUT we will be using. I don’t know the technical details but 64 creates a nice 4k LUT and I read that any higher is supposedly ineffective in current games. This is a basic LUT, when you enable the shader that applies it, no change will be made because it’s the default colors. It is a good idea to test this in your game. So, download LUT.png above and place it into your reshade-shaders/Textures folder. Make sure the LUT you downloaded is 4096x64 dimensions. Backup and overwrite the existing one if you already have one in there. Then, make sure that in your reshade-shaders/Shaders folder, you have a shader named “LUTTools.fx” and if you don't have such a shader, search the Shaders folder that ReShade installed and move it in. This puts it into the active shaders to be loaded by the game and this is the shader we will be using. In my version, it was originally installed into a sub-folder called Fubax. If you still can’t find it, you can probably download it through Google, directly from the author. Open the file LUTTools with a good text editor like Notepad++, because it’s hard to see in Notepad. This is the changes we need to make, so that the shader reads our LUT file as 64 tiles. Change the name and both instance of 32 to 64. After you made these changes, save the file. You are ready to load the game. Loading LUT with ReShade Once it is loaded, hit F5 or whatever you have configured your ReShade window key-binding to be. Then create a new ReShade preset or just turn everything off in your current one if you don’t care about it. You will see two options for [LUTTools.fx] : ‘Display LUT [LUTTools.fx]’ and ‘Apply LUT [LUTTools.fx]’ You can safely ignore ‘Display LUT’ because that is used to create LUTs through the shader and this tutorial uses a different method and we will not be using it at all. Enable ‘Apply LUT [LUTTools.fx]’ instead. You won’t see any change and that’s good, as I previously explained, the LUT provided is a ‘default’ one that you will want to make a backup of if you don’t want to rename the one you will apply into game. I prefer to name my LUTs different things and change the name inside LUTTools.fx. When you make changes to the shader .fx in this way in text, all you have to do to apply the changes in-game is hit reload at the bottom of the ReShade window. Finally, what you want to do is take a picture or two with ReShade shaders turned off, just some screencaps of your game with just your basic Hook settings and no other shaders, as we will be using it to create a new LUT in the next section. Creating a New LUT Open the screenshot in your favorite image editor in its own layer and place the LUT.png you downloaded earlier into another layer. Adjust the screenshot so the LUT is at the top if you want (I did this in the pictures,) but it doesn’t matter, whatever is convenient for you. Then make a copy of the LUT layer. Now merge the LUT layer with your screenshot and hide the copy. You are ready to make changes to your LUT and you will use the screenshot as reference. Remember, only COLOR changes can be made, that means no blurring or outlines or any other such effects will work and may potentially mess up the LUT. So, only change colors and saturation and settings of the sort until the picture looks good to you or what you want to achieve with your LUT. Now that the LUT has been changed, we are ready to crop it out. In GIMP I used Magic Tool on the hidden copied layer to get the exact size and then selected “Image->Fit Canvas To Selection” Finally, you are ready to “File->Export” the LUT and name it. When you are exporting you want to make sure you export as .PNG and that there is NO compression of any kind. Name it “LUT_new.png” and export into the reshade-shaders/Textures folder. Make sure the LUT is 4096x64 png and in the proper location. Here is the LUT that I created in the pictures of this tutorial: Loading the New LUT Just in case, here again is where you would change the name in the LUTTools.fx to have the shader load it, instead of the one we changed it to in the beginning of this tutorial. When you apply the new LUT, your UI will change color too, this is normal. And here is an example of how it looks applied in-game. It is never 100% exact for me, I’m not a pro, because the LUT is very sensitive and applies every change and even the slightest changes by the saving process or something like that. The changes the coloring of the LUT are relative to the image used, so any difference between the screenshot and the game will be reflected in the applied LUT. In the case of the example picture, the lighting I used is darker, the actual LUT worked perfectly because I only did some basic steps to turn everything blue. This aside, we can see the potential power of using this method to apply LUT. Graphical changes straight from your GIMP or image editing program, directly into game through only color. Tips Not every LUT needs to be as dramatic as the one in this tutorial. I only did this to make things more clear. When you use a screenshot to compare while you color the LUT like we did in this tutorial, it's good idea to use a collage of multiple screenshots, preferably from various settings and Hook lighting setups. Hook and backgrounds can add color too, so it has to be taken account. The more extreme the LUT, the more likely it will not work in every scene, causing color errors and if you have multiple picture for reference while you’re making changes and be able to detect the problem. In particular I would try to use as many different shades of color that are usually in your most used settings, to try to adjust the LUT to fit as many of them as you can. This is not really a requirement, it’s just something to experiment with. In general though, I would say it depends on what you are trying to achieve. Some LUTs can be used to create a nighttime effect, another for a de-saturated “mech” setting and yet another can be more general and work with most scenes, or an old photograph, or maybe you like the particular color errors you found and want a “glitched-out” effect for some pictures. Ideally you have a LUT for every job, they allow your pictures to look uniform and unique in appearance without having to guess by hand every time since the color adjustments are applied with code. Which brings me to the last thing: Another powerful tool for GIMP is a filter suite called G’MIC, which can be downloaded free : https://gmic.eu/ It also includes a filter called “Simulate Film” which actually allows you to apply exact color presets from a wide variety of cameras, consumer to pro, rather than making changes by hand using this method. You can find the filter in G’MIC under Colors section, once you have it installed. The LUTs you create with it will give your screenshots a more professional quality. Also it has other color-related filters, including various “color transfer” effects which allows mimicking the specific color scheme of any photo, screenshot or painting to some degree. Things to Remember When customizing a LUT, make sure to only use color settings and filters, many experienced users only use ‘Levels’ to make their LUTs and nothing else, but anything color-related is ok. The LUT is PNG color data, it cannot record and interpret code of things like blur. Color changes made to the LUT are relative, so if you change your screenshot a lot before using it as reference to the LUT, you may get unexpected results, without those exact settings in-game. Rooms can have unique Hook lighting that apply color and potentially not work with a LUT if you didn’t use it as reference. Other things like ReShade settings, such as ones that change color. As long as you are using it in the reference screenshot, you can make sure the LUT will work, but depending on the changes you made, it may not work that well without. When creating a collage of screenshots to use for reference in creating new LUT, it is a good idea to include a variety of colors, lighting and maybe even shaders that you want to test out. This allows you to more easily see where the LUT can be best utilized and where it will have problems or won’t look good. If you made a new LUT, don’t forget to change the name in the shader .fx file and hit reload in the ReShade window if you already opened the game. Conclusion I created this tutorial because I noticed that a lot of Hook presets do not have this shader included or any LUT shaders for that matter. There is a way to do it through H5 as well, but I prefer to use Reshade since that is the settings I work with most, I never touch my H5 settings at all. Hopefully it was helpful to someone who may not be familiar with the power of such a common and IMHO fundamental method of graphic enhancement.