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Moving On to the Amateur Level, Skyrim LE Episode Five - It Must be Love?! From the last episode of this particular blog ( How the hell do I mod my Skyrim LE? Series 4 ), we installed and used the Sexlab mod that enables your character to have sex with the selected partner by using the menu or by spell. Actually those are the only basic guide on using this Sexlab mod, there is a better guide and explanations out there that is why I didn't tackle it any further on the tutorial. I also want you, the new modders of Skyrim LE to discover it for yourselves. You will only enjoy using this mod and have fun if I don't spoil too much attention about it right? I also explain how to use GIMP which is also a basic one to give you an idea on how to use it. Changing the color of the textures are one of it's use so if you have background or have a knowledge how to use Photoshop, then they are basically the same. But don't worry, I will raise our level on how to use GIMP and Paint.Net later on and so we will have another tutorial about it. To start on with our guide, I will show you all on how to use the BodySlide and Outfit Studio application once again. But this time around, we will particularly use the BodySlide and not the Outfit Studio program. So now let us begin... If you notice from the previous screenshots I have used, there are some parts of those which are hidden so that you will not get confused on using them with your build. And also I hide them so that you will not bother me on where do I got these mods. Actually some of it are private mods which I might share on the future as well, and so it all depends on the situations. You will see below that there are two BodySlide and Outfit Studio, one for BHUNP body types (UNP) and another for CBBE body. That is the very reason why I hide the other one on the screenshots which I used from the previous tutorials. You will really get confuse because I am using two. But anyway for the new modders of Skyrim LE, I recommend you to use or focus to only one body type for example - you only use UNP (BHUNP) or CBBE. For an advance modder like me, I can use two and there is really an ultimate reason why I do this. I am just preparing my Mods list for the mod that I will use later on which allows me to use any body types. So for now, let us forget about it first and just focus on only one body type which is the BHUNP body type. BHUNP got a very decent body parts physics, the only issue you might encounter later on was you might have CDT on your games. For me I still experience CDT for a while but that is actually normal for me because your PC or laptop will certainly reach a point for it's maximum performance. In short, I am expecting it to happen on my game for some time now but not all the time. If the CDT happens to you all the time by using this BHUNP body then your system was telling you that it is not supported to work normally of course unless you upgrade your hardware. Even you have the very best or latest computer specifications, CDT will still happen to your game not because you have a wrong mod lists or load order, but because there is a point where the performance have already reached it's maximum point and the system's way to prevent damaging your computer further is by means of CDT. It is like you reach the boiling point and to settle or to cool it down is by just turning the stove off. BHUNP body type is certainly a high performance mod that uses HDT SMP Physics and I use it because some body shapes and physics look realistic for me. We just focus on one body type which is the BHUNP body and deactivate the other BodySlide mod for CBBE body. I also deactivated the CBBE 3BA mod which is the All-In-One HDT SMP 3BBB Skyrim LE Setup so that MO2 will not get confused on which body it was using on the game. Since we are using BHUNP Body Shape, of course the skin textures will follow it. I deactivated all the CBBE Body Skin Textures and activated the Diamond Textures for UNP body types. Don't get confused between the BHUNP and UNP, what ever skin textures you used wether it is for BHUNP, UUNP, UNP, 7BO and more - they are all for UNP body types and very compatible on those. So just like what you see below I used UNP Skin Textures for the BHUNP Body type, it will work naturally and there will be no issues on doing it. Just focus on one body type and use one body skin textures that is compatible on the body type you are using. Deactivate the other mods which use are the same with them so that they will not overlap each other and the MO2 program will not get confused which ones to use. Then I downloaded the [NINI] Blue Elfin - BHUNP outfit mod for this particular tutorial. This oufit mod is a port meaning it was originally for Skyrim SE and I ported it to work for Skyrim LE. So I cannot give you a direct link where I got it and I am only after how to use the BodySlide program. I placed the outfit mod in Mods list in the left panel of MO2, just above the BodySlide mod and I do this as well on the right panel where the list of plugins are found. The two mods that will affect the outfit mod which is the [NINI] Blue Elfin are the BodySlide and Outfit Studio mod, and the Body mod name UNP Remastered BHUNP TBBP 3BBB Body LE. As you can see they all match together because all of them are/for BHUNP body type. Always remember that when you are installing an outfit mod, it should match the body type you are using or the one that is activated on yor MO2. So even I have two body types in the MO2, I deactivated the other body type that are not compatible on the body type that the outfit was using. In the left panel of MO2, right click the BodySlide and Outfit Studio mod by selecting Open it in Explorer. In the BodySlide and Outfit Studio folder, select Caliente Tools and open it. Then select the BodySlide folder and open it. There are a lot of files in this folder but we are only after the BodySlide program. You can choose either the BodySlide x64 or simply the BodySlide, just run one that you like. Their only difference is the BodySlide x64 supports colored viewing of body or outfit. When you run the BodySlide program, it will look just like below. You can see in the upper left corner, the Outfit/Body which is boxed in yellow. The BHUNP 3BBB Advanced Ver 2 is the body type I am currently using. You can drop down this Outfit/Body options, scroll it and you can select among the choices which body type or outfit you want to be active there. But for this tutorial we are just after the outfit that we download earlier which is the [NINI] Blue Elfin, we are looking for that outfit in the list. And I found out that it was not present there so it means that the Caliente Tools folder of the outfit is not working. We have to make it work so that we can prevent some issues to happen when we play the game. Those outfit issues were it is not visible in the game, another one is even the body of your character becomes invisible and lastly the body doesn't fit the outfit you are wearing. When the outfit we installed in MO2 is not present on the BodySlide program then we need to make it work by doing these succeeding steps or guide. First right click the outfit we installed which is the [NINI] Blue Elfin on the left panel of MO2, then select Open in Explorer to open the folder. Then select the CalienteTools folder, right click it and Copy that folder. Always remember that we can only do these steps for the outfit mods which had a CalienteTools folder. So if this CalienteTools folder was not present then just forget about doing this. Once you Copied the CalienteTools folder of the outfit mod, just go back to the MO2 program and select the BodySlide and Outfit Studio mod. Right click it there and select Open in Explorer to open the folder of this mod as well. When the BodySlide folder opens, right click anywhere on the files desktop and Paste the copied CalienteTools of the [NINI] Blue Elfin outfit mod. The base or default CalienteTools folder of the BodySlide and Outfit Studio folder will update where it adds up the presets from the outfit mod we copied. It means that we did manually copied the CalienteTools folder of the outfit directly to the CalienteTools folder of the BodySlide folder to make sure that it is going to work later on when we open the BodySlide program once again. It loads a bit then the Caliente Tools folder was now updated with the addition of the presets coming from the [NINI] Blue Elfin outfit mod. Then now let us open the CalienteTools folder once again. Then select and open the BodySlide folder. Then once again among the files there, you can either select the BodySlide x64 or the BodySlide program. Choose one which you would like to use and run it. On the upper left corner of the BodySlide which is the Outfit/Body, just drop it down once again When you drop it down and scroll a bit, there you can finally found the set of the [NINI] Blue Elfin outfit parts. In short the CalienteTools we copied before was finally working and we can now make outfit parts' presets for this oufit. Preventing us to encounter some common issues on the outfit mods we installed. You can also notice that these was supposed to be used in Skyrim SE but just like what I told you all before, I personally ported this outfit mod to work on the Skyrim LE game. I cannot change the name of the parts of the outfit so I just leave it like that. After you have selected you default body shape then in the lower left corner of the BodySlide program, there is an option with Batch Build... button and option to Build Morphs just beside it. Just tick the Build Morphs to activate it while making the bodyslide for your body or outfit. This is important so that there will be no shape error on your game when you modify the weight of your body or outfit in the game. Meaning you can modify the weight of your body or outfit in the game, which is from 0 up to 1 weight. Then tap the Batch Build... button and a new window will open afterwards. It will look just like what we can see below. At default all the body shapes and outfit parts were all tick so always remember to only select and tick those that you really needed. For example we need to have a shape build for the parts of the [NINI] Blue Elfin outfit that we were working so we only need all the [NINI] Blue Outfit parts excluding all the others. To exclude the other body parts shapes and outfit parts, first you need to click the very first option to turn it into a blue background. Then drag your left click to all options below to make all the options turn into a blue background. When you drag it down, the scroll will also go down until you reach the very last option. When you have selected all the options turning them all into a blue background which is making them all active, then tap SPACE key to untick all these option. When you are done with the previous steps, you can see that there are no more checks on all the options. Then find all the [NINI] Blue Elfin outfit parts, and select them all by doing what you did before. Select first the very first [NINI} Blue Elfin Feet and it will turn into a blue background then drag the selection up to the very last [NINI] Blue Elfin Back (SMP). When you are really sure that you have selected all the outfit parts that you needed then tap the SPACE button again to tick all your selected parts. You can see below that all the [NINI] Blue Elfin outfit parts was chosen and got checks on them. Then press the Build button just under that window. It will load just like below. Wait until it finishes the building of all the outfit parts. When it is done, it will just look like below. Then tap OK and then you are done. Now that we have build all the [NINI] Blue Elfin outfit, then let us check it on the game. I access the outfit by using AIM (Add Item Menu) spell, then I check if you can view it witout wearing it first. As you can see below, I can see each of the outfit parts evenwithour wearing it. The one thing you will notice is the skin textures or color are odd in some parts. There is a purple part of the outfit, it only means that there are textures that are missing, not working or unsupported by your game. To fix these issues, quit the game and go back to the MO2 program. Right click the [NINI] Blue Elfin mod in the left panel of MO2, then select Open in Explorer. A window will open showing the [NINI] Blue Elfin folder in the mods of the MO2 folder, just open the textures folder there. Then open the ninistuff folder. You can actually see on those sample pictures, that the appearance of the outfit is really different there. Then open the Blue Elfin folder. Let us look for a particular part/parts of the outfit that have some issues in the game. The outfit2.dds was mostly covering the main parts of the [NINI] Blue Elfin Outfit so I chose it to be fixed first. Maybe we will check mostly all of the texture files here in order to really comes close to the actual appearance of the outfit. Then right click the outfit2.dds file and open it with GIMP first. The GIMP program will load some time before it opens. It will just look like below when it opens first. When you tap the OK button... A notification will appear that the dds file is not not supported meaning it will not open using the GIMP program. Just press the OK button then and close the GIMP program. Let us go back to the textures folder of the [NINI] Blue Elfin outfit and select Open with the outfit2.dds using the paint.net program this time. This is the reason why I also recommended to install the Paint.NET program because we might encounter some .dds files that are not supported by the GIMP program. Most of the .dds format or compressions are supported by Paint.NET, the only issue using this is it is harder to edit the textures here. Now it open using the Paint.NET program just like what we can see below. On the Paint.NET program particularly at the upper left corner, select the File option there to drop down the other options under it. Select Save As.. and not the Save option because Save As... will overwrite the entirety of the exact file you are working now. When you tap the Save As..., a new tab will open and ask you to Save the file you are working. Just leave the File name as is and make sure that the file you are saving is at DirectDraw Surface (DDS) (*.dds) format. And Save it by tapping the Save button under. A notification window will open that tells you to Confirm Save As because it has the exact same file name that was already existing. Just replace it as is by tapping Yes button. A new tab will appear again but this time you are ask for the Save Configuration. It is a settings format of your save where as you can change the Compression format/speed, the type of metric and more. Skyrim LE was already considered a very old game so it's format supports old compression types of textures. I want the texture to fully work in our game so I chose the very simple compression type which is the BC1 (Linear, DXT1). I leave the other options as is or on it's default form, then press the OK afterwards. You can see on the compression speed that there are a lot of choices there, but we are playing Skyrim LE and it can only support up to BC5 which I enclosed with yellow box. Skyrim SE can support textures up to BC7 so it is no wonder it needed a x64 systems. We are playing Skyrim LE so I only selected the BC1 because the textures of the [NINI] Blue Elfin outfit was already tough for it. And when you press OK under, it will automatically replace the existing texture file with the same name. Also always remember to save a copy of the old file which is going to replace as a backup if ever you will encounter issues in the future about this. Run the game and check wether you finally fixed the textures of the outfit. I check every oufit and every parts of it, you can notice that it doean't look like the one on the photo examples that came along with this outfit mod. So it is not fixed yet and we just need to go back to textures files of the [NINI] Blue Elfin. And fixed all of the textures there one by one by using Paint.NET program this time around. I downgraded the Compression type/speed of all the textures of this outfit to BC1 so that it will really work as intended in Skyrim LE game. You can see below that it was finally fixed by just downgrading them. Now from the earlier guides or tutorial, you can notice that the outfit I am using was intended to be used on Skyrim SE. So maybe now, your questions are how did I use an Outfit from Skyrim SE to Skyrim LE?, how did I do it? and how did I make it work? Actually as I said before it was a ported outfit mod, meaning I converted the Skyrim SE outfit to work also to Skyrim LE. First we need a program that do this, the SSE NIF Optimizer. As the name suggests, it was a porgram to be used on Skyrim SE. It is but it also has a feature that can also port back Skyrim SE mods into Skyrim LE so even it is found in the Skyrim SE mods storage of Nexus Mods, it can still be used on Skyrim LE. The link of the download was available below, https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/4089 I already downloaded it before as you can see in the above screenshot. To install this is just by extracting it to another folder. You can see that it was an executable program. Then I also downloaded a Skyrim SE Outfit mod that we are going to use. For example I downloaded the [COCO] Succubus [SE] - BHUNP outfit mod that was supposed to work on my installed body type which is BHUNP. They should match on both the shape/meshes and skin colors/textures. Then I run the SSE NIF Optimizer v3.0.14 program which looks like below, There are two options that make this programs work in Skyrim LE as well, the Browse button and the LE option below. I installed the [COCO] Succubus [SE] on MO2, and placed the mod on the left panel of MO2 in their respective positions. I also done that in the right panel of MO2, where the plugins can be seen. Just remember to tick the LE below because we are going to port the Skyrim SE outfit file into Skyrim LE Outfit file. When you press the Browse button of the SSE NIF Optimizer v3.0.14, a new window will appear dor you to find the exact location the the folder you are going to port. For instance we are looking for the [COCO] Succubus [SE] - BHUNP mod folder, it can be found under the MO2 folder which contains the mods folder. Select the [COCO] Succubus [SE] - BHNUP folder to change the folder name below and then tap Select Folder to activate that folder. You can see that the destination path was changed into what we activated earlier, then the LE was tick below and tap Optimize afterwards. Just leave the other choices or options on their default form, we will have another tutorials covering about these options. It is running when you can see just like below where it was loading for quite some time. It will end and goes back normally. Just close the SSE NIF Optimizer afterwards and oprn the folder where you extract this program, you will notice that there is a notepad that was produced there. It is just the notices about the port you did using the NIF Optimizer. If there are errors or warnings, you can also see it here. After porting the outfit mod, let us open the BodySlide so that the outfit will fit our character. On the BodySlide program in the lower left corner, just tick the Build Morphs so that you can modify the shape/weight of your outfit freely in the game without any issues before tapping the Batch Build... button. A new window will appear just like below then find if the [COCO] Succubus outfit parts are present there. Only select and tick all those [COCO] Succubus outfit parts so that when you build these, it will not take very long. Then tap the Build button below afterwards. It will load just like below and it will time some time. When it is done, a new notification just like below will appear. Then tap OK afterwards. I play the game to check the outfit if it is working there. It is working just fine, no problem or issues on it. Yeah I love porting outfit mods especially when they look beautiful in the game. We will have more of this kind of tutorial on the next episodes for more practice and experience. This time aside from outfit mods, let us try another type of mod - for example a Beautifications mod. Let us port the Tullius Eyes Pack 6.1 SE because there are no Skyrim LE version of this mod yet. I already downloaded it before from the Tullius Channel, a Korean Site of Skyrim mods which are mostly for Skyrim SE. I cannot find the direct link for this particular mod anymore but it is alright because we are just practicing on how to port or convert Skyrim SE mods to work on Skyrim LE. Then I installed it on MO2 and placed it together with the other eyes mod so that it will look organize somehow. We group them together on the Mods List in the left panel of MO2 and we do this also in the right panel where the plugins can be found. When we are done, of course it will not work right away because that mod is for Skyrim SE right? So we need to open the SSE NIF Optimizer program to port that eyes mod. On the SSE NIF Optimizer program, tap the Browse button. Then a new window will open that lets you select a folder on which you would like to work on. In our case it is the Tullius Eyes Pack v6.1 because it is still on SE form, then tap Select Folder below. You will notice on the program that the address near the Browse button has changed to the address of the folder you are working to port. Then tick the LE instead of SSE because we are porting the Tullius Eyes Pack into Skyrim LE version. And tap the Optimize button afterwards. And the you will see that loads just like below before it finishes. When it is done then just close this program and see the outcome in your game. There are some eyes textures that are not working or not supported in the game but I have a way to fix them. It is just it is too laborious because there are plenty of eyes to work on. Vanilla Eyes + NINI Eyes + Tullius Eyes which total of 539 I think which almost 200 Eyes need to be fixed. 2021-10-07 00-21-37.mp4 2021-10-07 00-30-27.mp4 When you are done choosing the right eyes for your character you can see on the Enhanced CharacterEdit how I save my character presets. The eyes I really want to use had some issues so I will try to fix it. To fix the textures of the Tullius Eyes Pack, right click and Open in it Explorer. Then open the textures because most of the time when the part of the mod turn into purple color, it might mean that it is not working or not supported by the game. When you found that the textures are just icons of GIMP and cannot be veiwed actually, then it means that it will not open in GIMP program right away. So if we try to open it directly using GIMP, then this notification will appear meaning that the texture was unsupported format. Just press OK button to close this notification. But we can open it directly using Paint.NET program. So in order to open on the GIMP as well, we need to always do the succeeding steps. We can see how large is the file we are currently working by hovering the ppointer of the mouse on it. It is quite small size already but still it is an unsupported file by the GIMP and the game as well. So in order to make it work in the game it should be readable by the GIMP first. To make it readable by GIMP later on is don't do anything to edit it on the Paint.NET, but just save it by clicking the File option on the upper left corner of the program. Then select Save As... there. A new window will open and you can see/notice that it might overwrite the existing files which has the same name of the file. Just leave the File name as is and tap the Save button below. A notification will appear because we already anticipated that it might replacethe existing file with this file we are working. Just always remember to make a Backup folder and place there an original copy of the file you are working so that if you encounter some issues later then you can just use the backup copy of the file. Then tap Yes right away. Another window will appear again telling you to set the Save Configuration of the texture you are working. BC3 is supported and will be readable on both GIMP and the Skyrim LE game, so just choose that as your Compression Speed.Then press OK afterwards to complete the save. When all the textures you are modifying using the Paint.NET becomes photos of the files, it means that it will also be readable and can be opened using the GIMP program. When that happens then it will work on the Skyrim LE game as well. And when I run the Skyrim LE game, I somehow mange to make some of the eyes to work there. As you add/install more mods in the MO2, you will definitely experience issues, notifications and even CDTs more frequently. So the real modding of Skyrim LE game will really begin at this point, after all we have done - installing all the mods from the previous tutorials or guides. That is not considered modding yet? Maybe you will not understand my point but the previous tutorials was just about installing mods by using MO2 and how to place them in such an order they will work fine in your game. As I explained before, every mods you install in the MO2 are connected to each other and must have an harmony so that they will not cause some issues in your game. Modding was actually fixing, repairing and also a test of patience on how you make your game work without any issues at all when you added a lot of contents on it which we called mods that might modify not only the appearance but also the game itself. So modding is making your game still playable after placing all the files you want to include there. So the very start of modding is just by fixing the CDT of the game first, I am not saying that you will not ever encounter CDT on your entire playing of Skyrim LE. We will do this to somehow minimize the frequent CDT of the game because Skyrim LE is a very old version of the game so the required system specifications for it was also low. The game was made to perfectly fit or can be handled by a low specs system, in other words it is a x32 bit game. The reason when we used new mods at this point in time to work in Skyrim LE is it will not work most of the time because you had already reach the maximum limit or threshold of the game. For example when it comes to textures, most we used now in Skyrim SE will not be supported on Skyrim LE anymore because it was using the latest or the updated version or format. So when you try to play Skyrim LE using these mods with not supported textures will make your game CDT right away. Even if we modify, downgrade or port these mods, still we can not prevent the game going CDT. So some modders and authors research and find a way to prevent these issues happening in your game by creating and sharing these mods to everyone. These mods might prevent, and I am not saying it will entirely remove CDT in your game but somehow minimize it. The four files or mods are the Crash Fixes, the Safety Load, the SKSE for Lazy Users and the Skyrim Startup Memory Editor. These files are actually helpful especially when playing Skyrim LE that is why I recommended to use these in your game. The whole descriptions, usage, limitations and operations of these mods can already be found from their respective download links below so I will not elaborate further about them. Crash Fixes v12 https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/72725 Safety Load https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/46465 SKSE for Lazy Users (So that you will have SKSE.ini file where you can modify the amount of memory you are going to use in your game) https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/51038 Skyrim Startup Memory Editor (SSME) https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/50305 When you install Crash Fixes and Safety Load just placed them together with the Scripts file we did on the very start of the tutorials. Their usage are to fix/repair bugs, crashes/CDT, loading, and patches so we group them together with th eother mods like this. They will not produce plugins so just leave them like that. And the SKSE.ini should be placed at the very bottom, under the Output Overwrite folder we made from the previous tutorials so it will overwrite all the SKSE.ini file if ever it is present on any mods you installed earlier. It will not also produce a plugin and just proceed to the last step. To install Skyrim Startup Memory Editor is by extracting it directly on the Game file of Skyrim LE. When done, just leave the four files we install as is and don't do any editing or modifications on them yet. Just run the game normally and see if the loading of the game was somehow fixed, the loading of some menu, the loading of your game character and also the loading of the places you will go. Also see if the CDT of the was not as frequent as before. That's it for now and see you again on the next episode of the tutorials. To be continued...

Moving On to the Amateur Level, Skyrim LE Episode Four - It's Time for Sex! From the last episode of this particular blog ( How the hell do I mod my Skyrim LE? Series 3 ), we installed some of the important mods to be used in the Skyrim LE game. One of those are the Physics mods that will enable some of the body parts/clothing parts/object parts to move. Another one is the body type I am going to use in this tutorial which is also considered one of the body types which is hard to use - the CBBE 3BA for Skyrim LE. I will have another tutorial for other body types like the BHUNP 3BA for Skyrim LE so that you will see the difference between this popular body types in Skyrim wether it is LE or SE. Another thing we did from the last episode is how to corecctly install FNIS so that it will work in the game. In that particular part of the tutorial, we are able to make XPMSE to work finally because this was also it's requirement. When all of these are done then we can finally able to install animation and poses mods, and even the explicit Sexlab mod. We will do that here so maybe everyone will be excited about this. And lastly from the previous episode NPC Beautification mods that will make male, female and even children to have a decent appearance in your game. So now let us do this and begin... I already installed the Facelight Plus which is another version of Facelight. This version is brighter than the facelight that came from the NiniNoblePack so that is why I was forced to use this instead. The game itself got a very dark environment so I needed a brighter lighting especially on the head parts of the character/NPCs/followers. This is quite easy to install by using MO2 so I didn't elaborate it any further. I placed the Facelight Plus mod just below the previous Facelight mod we are using, then I deactivated the previous one. They have the same use so I didn't need another one of this same mod. Also Facelight Plus can be used even without the original Facelight mod. We need to move the FacelightPlus.esp plugin from the previous Facelight plugin I am using before. So if anyone wants to use this version of Facelight Plus mod, I shared the direct link below... https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/71063 Then I also installed the FNIS Sexy Move so that we can have a more girly/female-like walk and run in the game. I am not against the vanilla walk and run animation of the game, I installed this just to have a new set of animations in the game. It is also very easy to install using MO2 so I didn't need to discuss it any further. Just place the FNIS Sexy Move mod under the FNIS Behaviour mod in the Mods List at the left panel of MO2. We will do this same procedure at the right panel of MO2 for plugins. If you want to use this FNIS Sexy Move mod as well then you can download it from the link below, https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/54521 Then I Run the Skyrim LE game to see these two mods are working in the game. I first tested the Facelight Plus mod and it is working. Then I tested the FNIS Sexy Move, I set it to the very sexy walk. Now it is time to install the SexLab Framework mod in the game. We already met all the required mods of Sexlab Framework to be able for it to work. In my case base on experience if you install Sexlab Framework mod, it should always comes with SexLab Animations Loader (SLAL). The use of SLAL is to add more SLAL based animations on SexLab mod. The requirement of SLAL for it to work well in your game is for you to install the JContainers mod. I will no longer describe the technical descriptions of these three mods because that was already discuss on the descriptions from the link I will provide later on whre you can download them. Instead I will only describe how each of them works and how to use them in the game, in a simplified form for even the newbies in modding the Skyrim LE will understand these. In case some modders there also want to install these three, the direct download links were provided below. SexLab Framework v1.62 LE SexLab Animation Loader 1.5 LE JContainers 3.2 LE I already downloaded it before from my Personal Cloud Drives so we just need to install these normally using MO2. You can see below that the three were installed in the MO2. First activate the JContainers mod and place it together with the bug/patch fixes mods. Anywhere there on the Mods list at the left panel of MO2. This mod will not produce any plugin because the use of this mod has something to do with the programming. It should look just like below, And then select both SexLab and SLAL mods together, and just place them under the FNIS mod or any animation mods you installed in the left panel of MO2. While on the right panel of MO2, the Sexlab.esm plugin should be place together with the other .esm plugins just like what we can see below. While the produced SLAnimLoader.esp plugin must also place under the FNIS plugin, just like what we did in the screenshot below. When you are done with these steps, just run the FNIS by clicking the F icon on the right panel of MO2. If the update notification tells you that it cannot find the skeleton then just close that window and open the FNIS icon once again. This time the FNIS update will proceed and tells you the informations about the number of bones for each gender, the number of animations and the mods managed by FNIS. We do this step so that the animations on the FNIS will update since you installed Sexlab which comes with a built-in sex animations. This time, you will notice that you have more than 1k+ animations are installed and the same warning that you encountered previously at the end of the update. Don't worry and ignore it because it is just a warning that you didn't install the FNIS Creature Pack. Just close the FNIS window afterwards and then Run the game. The SexLab mod will not work right away unless you installed it manually in the game. While playing just press ESC key, then you will see the System Menu just like below. Select and tap MOD CONFIGURATION. Then the menu will change into something like what we can see below. Select and tap Sexlab mod there. The tab will change and Select the Install button there. Once the pointer on the left side of the Install appears, you can now finally Select and tap the INSTALL/UPDATE SEXLAB 1.62. After tapping INSTALL/UPDATE SEXLAB 1.62, the words will change into WORKING. This means that Sexlab is insatlling while you are playing so you need some time before it finishes. The Sexlab mod is successfully installed in the game and will work fine when you go back and check when the installation is done. It is installed successfully when you see just like what we can see below. Let us set some basic settings of Sexlab mod first. Just go back to MOD CONFIGURATION and tap Sexlab there. You can see just like on the screenshot below that there are a lot of options to set on the Sexlab mod. Well basically, we are just going to set some basic settings and I will leave everything else to you on how to operate this options. You also need some experiences on using this Sexlab mod, for not making it spoil with you. I also want you guys to have fun using this mod so in operating this, I will not further explain each and eveery options there. Remember that I am just after the basic settings so first on the Animation Settings, enable the Play Ending Effects so that the cum texture will appearatthe end of your sex scenes. I leave other option in your discretion and preferences so for you to know what each of those options do in the sex scenes. When you go to Player Hotkeys Menu, you can see there that you are allowed to set your own hotkeys for every actions or effects there. What you can see below is the initial or the default settings of keys. This is important because it will make you familiarize yourself on how to use the Sexlab mod - selecting your sex partner/s or actor beside the character you are using, starting/ ending the sex scenes/animations, switching between sex stages, swapping positions, aligning the actors in the sex scenes and lastly to switch/toggle into Toggle Free Camera Mode also know as tfc in ~showracemenu. Normally by default I just leave the N key for the Target Actor/Sex Partner. This will be usable when you want to view a certain or particular Sex Animation. The Toggle Free Camera Mode, in my case I turn it into B key so that I don't type anymore when I want to be on the free camera mode. This hotkey is up to you to set, and it doesn't neccessarily need to be B key as well just like what I did on my case. When you exit the Menu, try to find a particular sex partner you want. To choose him/her particularly, just see to it that the game crosshair was pointing directly to him or her and then press N key. You will notice that there will be a spell appearing around him/her. In my case for example, I choose Belrand as my sex partner in particular and when I see to it that the game crosshairs is pointing on the most part of his body, I press N key on my keyboard to select him as my partner. You will see if you successfully chosen your sex partner if he/she (his/her name particularly) will appear on your Sex Diary. In there you will see the Statistics on Sex of your chosen partner. You will also your current Sex Partner when you go to the Strip Item Editor. His/her worn equipment will appear there. There are two ways to start a sex animations, one is by using the Sexlab Menu and the other one is by spell. First let us learn how to start a sex animations using the Sexlab Menu. On the Sexlab Menu select Animation Editor, there are plenty of options to select and to adjust. Select the Animation Option to choose which sex animations you want to view. In this particular way, you can only view/start one sex animations set at a time. So every time you want to start a sex animation by this method you will need to do this steps repeatedly as well. On the Animation Menu, a new tab will appear where all the sex animations that was installed in your game. You can select one sex animation set at a time by scrolling the list up or down. And if there are a lot of of sex animations installed in your game, you can tap the NEXT PAGE there for another list of sex animations available to use. For example we select ROUGH MISSIONARY in the list, then see to it that the Position was set correctly. If you have a male character, the Position should be set in MALE POSITION 1/2 and when you have a female character then the Position should be set to FEMALE POSITION 1/2. When done then you can tap the CLICK HERE of the Play Animation option. A new tab will apear on your screen, a notification if you want to continue to play/test the animation you just have selected previously. Tap Yes there and a new tab will appear once again The selected sex animation will load and a notification will ask you if you want to Accept it. Just tap the ENTER button or press ENTER key to play the sex animation. Your character and your partner will automatically undress and face each other. There are also cases that your character and your partner will appear on the same spot/place so don't worry about this because the sex animation was only loading in this case. And then the First Stage of the selected sex animation will start automatically. While the sex animation is playing, you can check/test the set hotkeys you did previously. The hotkey for selecting between your character or your partner is K key. You can see that it is working when you see the spell switching back and forth on your character and on your partner. The selected character or partner is the one that will be active and his/her positionings can be adjusted after this selection. I chose my character as an active actor to adjust the position during the sex animations. To move my character positions forward, tap L key and to move backward is by tapping SHIFT and L keys together. To move my character positions upward, tap ; key and to move downward is by tapping SHIFT and ; keys together. To move my character positions to the left, tap ' key and to move to the right is by tapping SHIFT and ' keys together. To go to the next stage of the sex animation, tap SPACE key and to go backward is by tapping SHIFT and SPACE keys together. If you want to go to the next sex animation set, just tap letter O (ow) key and not the number 0 (zero) key. Adding SHIFT key together with this O key will bring you to the previous sex animation set. To toggle/switch into Toggle Free Camera Mode (tfc) is just pressing the B key on my case only. And to go back to the default third person camera mode is by pressing the B key once again on my case. This hotkey depends on what you set for the tfc. There are no emotions yet while having sex because I didn't set it on the Sexlab. I am just after the basic options of Sexlab that is why I don't elaborate any further. I want you to enjoy discovering the usages of the options on your own in the Sexlab mod. After the sex animations is over, you and your partner will be on dress again. But this idiot husband of mine cum inside me, I might get pregnant if he do this every time. ? The other way to start a sex animation is by spell. Here you can freely choose anyone or any NPC you want to have sex with. It is not set by N key but instead who ever the NPC/creature which your spell has fallen/vested then you and that NPC/creature will have sex automatically. The very first sex animation is chosen randomly by the system and when you switch to another sex animation, it is just on the next or the previous sex animation on the list. I just leave it to your imaginations on how you will figure these out. I already shown the basic use of the hotkeys so everything else is up to you. If you already have chosen a sex partner for example in my case, I chose Belrand once again. (Because I don't want a NTR here!?) I see to it that if I ever cast a spell unto him, I should be facing him. To activate the sex spell, press the TAB key. And then select and tap MAGIC. The Menu will show you ALL your available magic spells. The spell for sex are the Sexlab Debug spells there which can either be for Self or Target. We don't usually use the Sexlab Debug (Self) because it will require another mod or conditions for it to work and so we will only choose the Sexlab Debug (Target Spell). When I selected it, I press F key so that it will go to my Favorites Menu. Favorites Menu is an easy to access menu you can use right away by tapping Q key. When you are done setting your magic spell menu, just press ESC key to exit. Now press Q key to see all your stored favorite Spells/Equipments/Objects there. Since I place the Sexlab Debug (Target) on my Favorite List, I just tap it to make it become an active spell. You will see that a spell will be active when there is an R arrow icon in the left besides that spell. This means that particular spell can be casted by using the right hand of your character. R means right and L means left so your character may have two spells that can be actively use at once. To start using the Sexlab Debug (Target) spell, just tap R key so that your character or followers will be in combat mode. You can see below that the spell is working because there is magic spell on the right hand of my character. Just cast it to the NPC in front and he/she will be surrounded by a spell. From there a sex animations will begin so it is time to have sex. Goodluck! Have fun. Before we proceed further more on downloading other mods that I will have to introduce on this tutorials and also before the blog becomes sexually explicit content ?, I would like to introduce first some of the applications I used (maybe some of the modders also use these) in order to enjoy modding the Skyrim LE game. Always remember that this blog is for tutorials and not for your sexual enjoyment, Hahaha!!! ? I will first introduce these two applications that let's you edit the textures of the mods, GIMP and Paint.Net. There are other applications out there like the Photoshop but they require other patches or applications just to make it work like what the GIMP and Paint.Net is doing. So it is really up to you wether you would like to use them or not, I am only sharing this for you to have a very basic idea on how to use them in your game. It has no direct effect in your Skyrim LE game but somehow it can change the skin textures of the mods you are using if ever you are not satisfied with the looks or appearances of the skin/textures. Skyrim LE is well known to have a very dark environment so that is also one of the reason why I recommend these for you to use. It will somehow make a colorful game for you. ? I already downloaded them earlier because I might use them later on if ever I will play Skyrim LE/SE again. So you can see them below. I provided the links below so that you can also download them directly. GIMP - https://www.gimp.org/ Paint.NET - https://www.getpaint.net/ I install GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) first, When you tap the Install for all users (recommended), a new window will appear just like below. Tap OK there, Then the installation of GIMP will really begin, tap Install there but if you want to install this on another folder/place then tap Customize instead. Then the installation will load just like below, When it is done, it will look just like below. Then tap Finish there. We will not open this program yet but place it to where it is very accessible for you later on. Go to the MO2 Application, then on the right panel where you see the set of executable programs - drop it down and then tap the <Edit...> there. A window will open where you can modify the executables, tap the + (plus) icon on the upper left part. Drop it down then select and tap the Add from file... there. A new window will appear again but this time it will ask you to find what executable or application you want to add on the list. Find where the GIMP program was installed, find the application and then Open it. You can move it or adjust it's placement on the list and when you are done, just tap Apply and OK afterwards. Just go back to the MO2 program and then on the right panel where you can find the executables or applications, select the GIMP to make it an active file there. Then click the Shortcut option on the right side to drop it down and choose the Toolbar and Menu. It is just like what we did on the FNIS application before. Now you can see that the GIMP icon has appeared on the right side of MO2. Now it is very accessible for you whenever you want to use it every time. And then I also installed the Paint.NET, Just select the Express there if you want this program to be installed by default but you can also choose the Custom, if you want to change the destination path. Then tap Next afterwards, Then select I Agree then tap Next, It will load a bit before the installation will start... When it is done, don't let it tick the Start paint.net or when you close this window the Paint.Net program will start right away. Just tap Finish below when done. Just like what we did previously on the GIMP, we also place the icon of Paint.NET on the MO2 where it will be very accessible for you to use later on. Okay before we use them, I will first give you an idea on how to use the BodySlide and Outfit Studio mod and also the GIMP application. I have an Outfit or Clothing mod made by JackGa. I don't know where in the world I got this mod and it is in Russian Translation I think. I already have this saved on my Cloud Storage and I am going to use this as an example clothing mod that can be edited by using the GIMP or Paint.Net program. See below that I have already downloaded it before. After the installation using MO2, I placed the JackGa mod just above the BodySlide and Outfit Studio mod. I also place the produced Jackga plugin just above the plugins which use are for tools and functions in-game. You can just see what I did below. Then I run the game to see this outfit mod. I used the Add Item Menu mod to access this JackGa Outfit and select which equipment I would be wearing in the game. As you can see below this is the JackGa Kasumi School Uniform we are going to edit on the tutorial. White, Blue and Red colors are use on this particular outfit. In the left panel of MO2, right click the BodySlide and Outfit Studio mod and then select the Open in Explorer Select and open the CalienteTools folder. Then select amd open the BodySlide folder this time. Then select either the OutfitStudiox64 or OutfitStudio application. OutfitStudio x64 application will look like below Select the File option in the upper left corner of the Outfit Studio, there select the Import and then From NIF... option. Then find the MO2 folder so that we can find the mods folder. We are looking for the JackGa Kasumi School Uniform folder because that is the outfit mod that we are going to edit or modify. When you found it, open the meshes folder. In the meshes folder of the JackGa Kasumi School Uniform, we can find plenty of nif files we that can modify. We are particularly looking for the upper outfit that you have seen previously on the game screenshot. The name of that particular file is cuirass_1.nif so just select it. As you can see below, the school uniform out fit that we are going to modife or edit later on the tutorial. This is the first use of the Outfit Studio, to view the actual appearance of the outfit even without opening your Skyrim LE game. And after viewing the outfit, we can just close the Outfit Studio afterwards. Go back and find the JackGa Kasumi School Uniform folderagain on the mods folder of MO2. This time we will select textures and open it. You can see below that the oufits in this mod was made of different texture parts. One texture there represents one texture part of the school uniform. For example we will recolor or change the color of the collar of the school uniform so we will select the kasSh02.dds file. Right click it and then Open with GIMP program. The GIMP program will load and direct you to what you can see below. You will be ask if you want to load DDS, just press OK there. The file that we selected earlier will open in the GIMP program. You can see the collartexture of the school uniform below. Just remember to always make a Backup folder and a copy of the file we are going to modify. Always do this every time, you will edit/modify the textures of the mod. Then if we go back to the opened GIMP program we are editing, just for the test let us right click the selected texture. Select Colors and then choose Colorize to directly change the color of the whole texture or the collar part. You can see at the default settings of the slider, the color of the collar has automatically changed into light blue green. But if we scroll all the three sliders at the very left, the whole texture will turn into black. The white part of the collar will also turn into black so it is not recommended to chnage the color of the texture this way. Just press Cancel button to turn it back to it's previous color. To change the color of the collar in the upper right side, there is an icon which looks like a wand with a head of the star. This icon is called Fuzzy Select, just drop it down and select the other icon which is represented by three circles named Select by Color. Choose this option to change the active icon there. Press anywhere on the texture part which is on color blue, you will notice that the white part of the collar was not selected. Then right click the blue colored part of the texture once again, select Colors and then the Colorize option. Scroll all the three sliders named Hue, Saturation and Lightness to the very left of the option. Then press OK afterwards. Then when done, select the File option in the upper right part of the program. Drop it down and then select the Export As... there. A new tab will open just what we can see below, just leave the file name as is and then select Export afterwards. There will be a notification telling you that the files was already existed and if you want to replace that file. Select the Replace button to overwrite the file. Then a new tab will appear again that will ask you to export that file as a .dds file. Just press Export to save that file you have modifed previously. Open the meshes for the JackGa Kasumi School Uniform particularly the top part in the Outfit Studio, there you can see that the color of the collar part has changed into black. We use the Outfit Studio to view the outfit/clothing/armor we are editing without the need to run the Skyrim LE game. If you follow my every steps to change the color of the texture then you can also come up with something like what we can see below. Overall I changed the color texture of the entire school uniform. Don't worry about this, I will have another separate tutorial for coloring the textures of the mod. My only point here is for you even those new modders to have a very basic idea on how to use the applications I introduced earlier. It looks beautiful now right? ? Then I run the game and equip this particular school uniform and you can see the outcome below. Very Pretty!!! ? To remove the doubts of editing the color of the screenshot by using Photoshop or other applications, I also made a GIF. It will be harder to edit the color of the school uniform on a video. What you can see below is the school uniform before I edit it using GIMP. And below is the color of the school uniform after I used GIMP on it. Impressive, right? ? To be continued...

Back to Basic, Skyrim LE Episode Two - Mix and Match! Trial and Error! From the last episode of this particular blog ( How the hell do I mod my Skyrim LE? Series 1 ), you can notice that there are already mods in the Mod Organizer 2. I jump right away so I can show you how to use Enhanced Character Edit in Skyrim LE. So for this particular tutorial ( How the hell do I mod my Skyrim LE? Series 2 ), I intended to show especially the new modders/newbies/noobs in modding how it was done. So Mix and Match I can say, I will mix a certain mod in the list then I will tell you the reasons why do I have to install it and to what position it must be on the Mod List. Below shows the mods I already installed just very after installing the very first mod Scripts... So I just turn back the time and restarted it all over again from the time after installing the very first mod, Scripts. So be ready and see how can it guide you in modding Skyrim LE. From here the next mod that we need to install is called the Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch aka USLEEP. This mod is actually the latest and the very last patch update for Skyrim LE so it fixes a lot of bugs from the old Skyrim LE so once you check/tick this on the Mod List, you have to unchecked almost all the Unofficial .esp files on the Load Order which is found on the right side of Mod Organizar 2. You must uncheck the Unofficial Dragonborn Patch.esp, Unofficial Dawnguard Patch.esp, Unofficial Hearthfire Patc.esp and the Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp because it will only conflicts on the USLEEP and MO2 will detect it as an error. Actually you can still play the game even without this patch, it is just that some of the mods required this USLEEP mod so we are just anticipating in case we really need this mod. You can found the USLEEP mod on the link below. https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/71214?tab=files Now you can notice that I already installed USLEEP but i never tick/check it yet. Since I know that the game will still run without any issues from using the old patches then just leave it like that for now. The next mod we are going to install is called Dragon Soul Absorb Fix. Actually it is also a patch that fixes the bug that make you/your character can't absorb any Dragon Soul. In some modders, there is no such issues or bugs but for the sake of making sure that we don't need to encounter this anymore - just install this then. It is not a big deal in your mod list anyway. It doesn't add up any plugins to your Load Order so it is really fine to have this. You can find the Dragon Soul Absorb Fix mod in the link below... https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/31685?tab=files Just don't forget to tick or check it after you install it using Mod Organizer 2 so that it will work in your game. The next mod we are going to install is called HDT High Heel System because it is a requirement for some of the female followers and also when you are using a female characters. Actually it is also a requirement for the outfits which are using HDT High Heels System especially for footwears/ shoes/ outfit parts. It is a mod that can let you adjust/modify the elevation of the high heels on the ground. You can find the mod in the link below... https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/36213?tab=files Then after you install HDT High Heel System mod, check it in the Mod List to make it work in your game. On the Load Order in the right panel of MO2, place the hdtHighHeel.esm just right below the batches of other .esm files. (below HearthFires.esm) so all the .esm must be grouped together. Of course if there is a high heel system mod, the high heels sound mod must follow. It is also a requirement to other outfit mods so just install it right away. You can find the Heels Sound mods here in LoversLab (in the link below)... Download the right/correct Heels Sound Mod for Skyrim LE namely Heels Sound 1.5.7z and not the Heels Sound 1.5 SSE.7z because that was for Skyrim Special Edition. I tested and used the Heel Sound 1.5 SSE for Skyrim LE before and it still works without any issues, but it is still better to use or have a correct version of mod for your game. Just after the installation of Heels Sound mod, place the Heels Sound.esm together with the other .esm plugins so that it will be more organize later on. Then I downloaded the SkyUI and UI Extensions from my cloud storage but you can find the latest or updated versions of these mods from the Nexus Mods Site which are available on the links below: Sky UI - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/3863 UI Extensions - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/57046 The SkyUI is one of the most important mods that everyone downloads because it adds up another UI Menu which are for the lists of mods you are going to use in-game. You can also edit the look of the Menu or UI using this mod, in short the SkyUI also manages your mods in-game. Although you can still mod your Skyrim game without SkyUI but we prefer or it is recommended to use it so you can easily access some mods in-game using this. Then install it normally using Mod Organizer 2 like below, Now let us download HDT Physics Extensions because it is a requirement for the hdt HighHeels, some clothes and many more which uses HDT Physics. I already downloaded it from my cloud storage so if anyone needs the latest one you can just download it from the link below, https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/53996 And just install it normally using the Mod Organizer 2... Basically modding Skyrim LE using .rar or .zip files are really easy. Just download these mods files then insatll them normally using Mod Organizer 2. Then download the Alternate Start - Live Another Life mod for LE. I believe that you will never find the original version from Nexus Mods Site anymore and those available there are translations of this mod. Well you can see in the link below, https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/9557 So in case you don't have it or you cannot find it anymore, I have a copy here: Alternate_Start_-_Live_Another_Life-9557-3-1-7-1557703420.7z Just like the other mods we installed before, just install this Alternate Start mod for LE using Mod Organizer 2. The reason I recommended this mod is for you to start in prison instead of starting on the default carriage which consumes time in your gameplay. You will start right away on creating or editing your Main Character and will not undergo on the story mode of the game. In there after you create your character, using the statue you can choose among the choices on which life you will begin with and also where you will start your game. In this case, I will not show you how to start your game yet since we need to install every essential mods first before we actually begin to play. Then download Enhanced Character Edit (ECE) or RaceMenu (RM) depends on which you would like to use. These two mods manages your character creations but for this tutorial I am going to use ECE because many players are having issues on how to use this mod. It is not simple but it is not hard as well. When you learn the basic where you mostly used RaceMenu before, using ECE was actually easy as well. You can find ECE or RM on the links below, Enhanced Character Edit - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/12951 RaceMenu - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/29624 When you install Enhanced Character Edit, you will see this Menu Options right away. Normally we choose English as the default language but if you prefer other then it is up to you. Then tap next afterwards... Then on the next Menu, by default we choose Full Package so we will not miss any options in the ECE that will be needed in the future. That is if we are going to use ECE Presets. Then tap Next... Then on the Next Menu, choose More Body Sliders so all the sliders in the ECE will be available by then. Then Next... Now on this Menu Options was really up to you. I will just share what I usually choose when I install ECE on my Skyrim Game. On the first option, I choose Modified Cheeks for human female so that your character will have a rounded cheeks. Then on the next option, I choose No sunken so that your vampire characters, followers and NPCs will not look like dead or zombies. On the next one, it is either Slider 2x or Slider 2x and Step 2x. The only difference between the two is the Step 2x will have twice the number of vertices for the face. Then when you have more than 4GB Memory, you can choose the High-Res UV Map so that wetness, brightness and shine of the skin will look better. Afterwards, choose Install when you are done. It will automatically install then just like below... After the installation of ECE, it should look like below. You will notice that Enhanced Character Edit is at the very bottom of the mod list on the left panel of Mod Organizer 2. On the right panel of MO2, it produces 3 plugins namely CharacterMakingExtender.esp, EnhancedCharacterEdit.esp and RaceCompatibility.esm. We need to place them on their right positions that is why I emphasize this here. The right positions are shown in the screenshot below. In the Mod Lists on the left panel of MO2, just place ECE under or below HDT Physics Extensions so that ECE will load first before any physics that require larger amount of memory. Then place RaceCompatibility.esm at the very bottom of the other .esm files on the right panel of MO2. All the .esm files should alll belong together for easy loading of mods. And then place CharacterMakingExtender.esp and EnhancedCharacterEdit.esp just below UI Extensions.esp. Since the use of SkyUI is for the management of mods we are going to use in-game and ECE was for character making or editing, these two mods are very essential and so we need them to group together instead. Now we are going to install the XP32 Maximum Skeleton/Extended. In Skyrim Legendary Edition, there are two kinds of XPMSE namely XP32 Maximum Skeleton and XP32 Maximum Skeleton Extended. Well either of the two are going to work in your game because we all know that Skyrim LE is an old game. The difference between the two is XPMSE is the latest and the updated version which contains skeleton for the latest animations which we are going to use later on. So in short, it is recommended to use XPMSEbut if you are only for simple animations XPMS was already enough. I have both as you can see below, If you don't have XPMSE mod, you can download it from the links below... XPMS - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/26800 XPMSE - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/68000 On the first Menu, by default we choose the updated or latest version so just tap Next then. Here below, we choose Enhanced Character Edit because we are using ECE in our game. Just remember to install the required mods later on so that XPMSE will work in our game. We need to install NetImmerse Override - NIO and Fores New Idles in Skyrim - FNIS. Then tap next afterwards. In this next menu below, just choose what ever you prefer in your game then Next... Just like on the previous menu, you can choose what ever Animation Variants you want in your game. Then tap Next when you are done... Just tap Next right away because even if you choose any thing there, it will never work. They will require sounds which are not available yet in the game. It is almost the same on the previous menu but this time you can choose Belt-Fastened Quiver which places in the waist of your characters/followers and NPCs. Then tap Next... On this particular Menu below, you can choose The Joy of Perspective and Schlong of Skyrim. I tested them before and they somehow work in your Skyrim LE game but if you needed the full mods for these, then just install them later on. These mods are patches that is why they still work even without the whole mods needed for them. Then tap Next afterwards. It is almost the same with the previous menu because Deadly Mutilation patches will also work somehow even without the full mod for it. Then Next... On this paticular menu below, the Enderal Patches will really require the Enderal mod for it to work so I just tap Install right away since I don't have any plans of installing Enderal anyway. But if you prefer to use it, then you can easily find it on the Nexus Mods SIte. It will install automatically and it will look like this below, You can see that the XPMSE mods was at the very bottom of Mods list at the left panel of MO2 and it produces two plugins on the right panel of MO2 namely SOSRaceMenu.esp and XPMSE.esp. We need to placethem on their right positions so just see where I place them below, On the Mods Lists in the left panel of MO2, place XPMSE mod just above Alternate Start mod. That will be their permanent positions from now on, at the very bottom of all the mods you installed. While on the left panel of MO2, the plugins - SOSRaceMenu.esp and XPMSE.esp should be placed above Alternate Start - Live Another Life.esp. The reason for these is for the Alternate Start to load first in your game followed by XPMSE that really needed to load first as well because it manages the skeleton for your animations or poses later on. XPMSE will work perfectly in this position that is why I said previously that it might be their permanent positions from now on. For advanced modders, you don't need to actually follow my every step in positioning these mods. But for the sake of newbies on modding Skyrim LE/SE, these are the very basic positions of essential mods we are going to use in our game. You will not understand these things right away but in the long run you will know why. Then we need to install Add Item Menu (AIM) mod so that we can easily access any item in-game. The download link is just below, https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/64905 I already have it so just install it right away just like the other mods you installed before. Place it just next below UI extensions since it's use was for accessing or producing any items in-game. It must look like this below but you can place it any where you want and it will still work. It has no real effect on the positionings of the mods, I just do this so that the mods will be more organize and I group them together to what they do or purpose in the game. Now that we almost installed all the required mods for the next step of this tutorial, we can now use the mods called NINI Noblesse Packs. Actually NINI Noblesse Packs are not for free before and you have to be Noblesse Tier in order to get these mods. But ever since NINIrim, the author of these mods finally reach his goal. He then decided to make it free to everyone but only distributed by his trusted Patreons Partners. This mods are publicly distributed by another Skyrim Author named Sunjeong. So all the credits belong to the both of them, allowing us to use these exclusive and paywalled mods before. For everyone's sake, the links was still available and just look for it below. These mods are packages of mods for beautifying your main characters or at least make your Skyrim game, screenshot/video worthy. The packs are both available for Skyrim LE and SE so just choose on what Skyrim game version you have. NINI Noblesse A LE/SE - https://rinirim.tistory.com/1?category=950479 NINI Noblesse B LE/SE - https://rinirim.tistory.com/2?category=950479 Before I install these mods, let us look first what these packages are made of... This is from NINI Noblesse A LE (NiniNoblePack.rar) and for Skyrim LE game so if you use these for Skyrim SE, some of the mods will never work. As you noticed on the Screenshot below, it almost contains all the required mods for making your character look beautiful/pretty. Of course for Skyrim LE, we can use this NiniNoblePack.rar right away. So considering I will use this package particularly, I readily prepared the required mods for this package. If you all notice, NINIrim uses ECE (Enhanced Character Edit) for editing or creating player's characters so that is also that reason why I skipped using RM (RaceMenu). Firstly I showed you what this package contains because some of the folders there will never work directly if installed using MO2. So I will summarize first what each of the folders do in your game or will it work if installed directly. The 00. Animal Glow Fix and Skeever Replacer is for fixing the shining/texture bug of skeever skins. It will work directly but if your ENB is off, this bug fixer will not be very evident at all in your Skyrim LE game. 01. ankoENB BETA3 is an ENB of course which almost looks like SnapDragon or Rudy ENB. I can say it was almost comparable to Picho ENB for Skyrim SSE but was already a complete ENB without a need to tweak further more so just keep it as it is when you use this ENB. This will not work right away because it will need you to install ENB Helper which are required to all the ENBs before using them. If you notice as well there's a separate folder named ENB which contain the required ENB Helper and more so that ankoENB will work in your game, that is if you switch it on. I decided to have a separate tutorial for this particular ENB (ankoENB BETA3) so that even newbies in modding will understand how to use this. 02. ECE 1.4 is Enhanced Character Edit version 1.4 that will work readily when installed directly using MO2 but if you all remember carefully, I already installed an updated or latest ECE version on the previous steps. So we are not going to use this anymore, instead we will use what we insatlled previously. Another reason why we will not use this was because it was in Korean Language that mostly modders will never understand. If we skipped using 02. ECE 1.4, then it goes automatically that we will not use 05. ECEE 1.4.5 folder and 06. ECE More Body Sliders 2.0 as well. Because ECE 1.4 are connected to these two folders and it was in Korean Translations as well. 03. Realistic Force will also work right away when installed directly and it's use is for body after effects animations/reactions upon collisions from an actions depending on the environment. There is an effect like this but it is almost negligible or unnoticeable at all. 04. XPMSE 3.82 folder also contains skeleton for animations mod so we will not use this anymore because we already installed the updated version previously. We can use 07. NetImmerse Override 3.4.4 which is also one of the requirements of XPMSE mod and also the same version in the Nexus Mod Site. The use of this is for parts positionings, and a plugin which is needed for animations or poses. We will use 08. Nini Brows, 09. Nini Eyes and 10. Nini Hair folders respectively because it will add up additional brows, eyes and hairs which are needed for character creations and modifications. 11. Nini Female Body and Textures is a crucial folder that I am really after so we are going to use this. This folder contains the body shape (xml file) and the skin (textures) used by NINIrim. You can use this as is but a while later, I am studying how to edit textures so maybe I might use the edited version of this folder. The body shape uses CBBE Cosio with body parts physics and collisions so you can use it as it is without the need to install the COSIO mod. Just remember that this is for CBBE bodies so when used in UNP based body or other body types, the skin textures will look bad in your game. We will also use 12. Face Light folder because there will be times or instances that a setting will be a dark place and so we need an extra light source to let us see particularly on the head parts of the characters/followers/NPCs clearly. Of course CME will not work right away when installed using MO2. I will have a separate tutorial for using this CME Presets for Skyrim LE so that even modding Newbies will understand how to use them. Lastly a Read me notepad file which contains the instructions of how to use or install this NiniNoblePack.rar file. Now that I showed what the NINI Noblesse A Pack contains, then we will now proceed to the next step and that is the effective way to install this package mod. But firstly, let us see how it will look like if we install this package directly using MO2. Is it effective or not? You can see from the above screenshot that I already downloaded the NINIrim Noblesse A Pack namely NiniNoblePack.rar and then I installed it directly using MO2... There will be a notification saying that this file might or might not be a BAIN installer, another format of file that can be installed by Mod Organizer 2 but without further ado just tap Yes and install it. A BAIN Installer file in MO2 may look like below, on which you can choose which file or files you want to install or use in your game. Just like what I already explained previously, there are files that we don't need to use anymore because we already have the updated or latest of it. For example Enhanced Character Edit, the version in the installer is just 1.4 and is translated to Korean so we don't need to check it anymore. We already installed ECE 1.5xx previously and in English translations, and that is what we are going to use in our Skyrim LE game. You can also notice below, the checklist of files that as checked so just follow my guide if you are not really sure to what you are going to do next. I already explained previously what each of the folder will do in your game so that is the reason for these Checklist. Then press Ok to Install... Remember that this is just a test to show you if this will be an appropriate way to install NINI Noblesse A Pack so after the installation, your MO2 particularly on the left panel will look like below, If you check NiniNoblePack on the Mods List in the left panel of MO2, it will produce 6 plugins on the right panel. Then let us check what the NiniNoblePack contains by just right click and then Open in Explorer, Opening it will direct you to the folder just like below. You will notice that not all the files that we needed from above screeshot and below are not installed successfully so we can now say that installing NiniNoblePack.rar directly using MO2 is not really effective. Then just remove NiniNoblePack in the left panel of MO2. Afterwards, it will look like below. Back to where we didn't install the NiniNoblePack yet... This time I will show you the most effective or appropriate way to install NiniNoblePack.rar. First we just need to extract it to a New Folder. You can just rename that New Folder afterwards. Just like what I showed you previously, when you extract the NiniNoblePack, it will look just like below. You will notice that these folders are numbered or their file names are with numbers. Like what NINIrim said from the instructions on the Readme file, these numbers represents the position of that folder in the Mod List. You place them in your MO2 starting from 00 up to 12, their installation position should follow that order starting from above downwards. There are files that we don't need to install anymore because we already installed them previously. So I boxed in red all the files that we needed to install. Now go back to Mod Organizer 2, on the left panel just right click anywhere there particularly where you can find the mods you previously installed. Choose any mods there by right click and Open in Explorer. A folder will open which is the mod you have chosen. On the window you will see boxed in red is the up button, just click it so that you will be directed to the mods folder of MO2. It will look just like below. Now you are in the mods folder of Mod Organizer 2. Then go back to the extracted folder of NiniNoblePack before and Select all the files that we needed to install in the game. Just CTRL click using the mouse all the files that you want to select. It will just look like below which is boxed in yellow. After selecting all the files that we need, right click using mouse and then Copy them. And then just go back to the folder of mods in the MO2 folder, right click anywhere there and then choose Paste to paste all the files from the NiniNoblePack we selected previously. After pasting the files, it will look just like below. You will notice boxed in red all the files that we copied from NiniNoblePack. Close this folder and then just go back to Mod Organizer 2 program. On the Mod Organizer 2 particularly on the left panel, again just right click any where there where you find the mods you installed previously. Then select All Mods, in the drop down menu Select Referesh there. After the Refresh button, your Mods list refresh and you will see new set of mods there just like in the screenshot below. I have never check any thing there yet because we will do these one by one or manually. We need to place them in their right positions before activating them. Choose the first three mods of NiniNoblePack namely 00. Animal Glow Fix and Skeever Replacer, 01. ankoENB BETA3 and 03. Realistic Force by CTRL key in the left panel of MO2. And then place them under the Heel Sound 1.5 mod just like what you can see below. When you check or activate them, you will notice in the right panel of MO2 that it produces two plugins namely ankoENBBETA3.esp and dD - Realistic Ragdoll Force - Realistic.esp. Just like what we did on the left panel, we need to place the produced two plugins in their respective positions. Place the two plugins just under the Unofficial High Resolution Patch.esp. Then again back to the left panel of MO2, choose another three mods from the NiniNoblePack named 05. ECEE 1.4.5, 06. ECE More Body Sliders 2.0 and 07. NetImmerse Override 3.4.4 respectively. This time, we place them between the Enhanced Character Edit and HDT Physics Extensions mods. After activating them, you will notice that no plugins was produced this time. Well their are mostly additional sliders and a .dll file so no visible plugins on the right panel will be produced then. And lastly choose all the left NiniNoblePack mods from the list. Place them between the mods HDT Physics Extensions and XP32 Maximum Skeleton Extended because they are mostly for character beautifications. Upon activation, you will notice that it produces 4 plugins this time around namely NiniBrows.esp, NiniEyes.esp, NiniHair.esp and Facelight.esp. Place the 4 plugins above the XPMSE.esp plugin just like we did on the left panel of MO2. We need to ensure that XPMSE will load next after the Alternate Start mod. This time, we need to bypass the Korean Translations of ECE so that there will be no issues about it on the game. The main file Enhanced Character Edit mod we installed previously was already on English but the problem was the add-ons or the additional sliders we have installed. So in order to retain the language into English, we need to do these steps. There are two mods that will affect the language of Enhanced Character Edit (ECE) namely 05. ECEE 1.4.5 and 06. ECE More Body Sliders 2.0 so we just need to make sure to choose them respectively. First we select the 05. ECEE 1.4.5 from the Mods List by right click and Open in Explorer just like what we can see from the above screenshot. Then you will be directed to that folder and select open Interface folder there. In the Interface folder, open translations folder. In the translations folder, you will only see the CharacterMakingExtender_english notepad. Just select and delete that file. And then afterwards just close that previous folder and go back to the Mod Organizer 2 program. This time around, we will select 06. ECE More Body Sliders 2.0 mod. Just like we did on the previous step, just right click select and Open in Explorer that file. Then you will be directed on that folder in the mods folder of MO2. Just like we did before, select open the interface folder... In the interface folder just like we did before, select open the translations folder. In this particular translations folder, we can see three notepad files. There is no need to think anymore so just choose all the three notepad files by CTRL key and then deletem them all. We do this so that there will be no file that will translate your ECE into another language. If you notice there is a notepad file ending with _english but that particular file was not really on english but in Korean language instead. Now then, we will proceed to the next step of this basic tutorial on how to properly install the ENB particularly the ankoENB BETA 3. As you all know, even we did install the folder of ankoENB previously. It will still not work because there is a very crucial step we need to do in order to make it work in your game. That step was not complete yet without this particular step. Just go back to the extracted folder of NiniNoblePack, there you can see a separate ENB folder just like we can see below. That is the ENB Helper prerequisite to be able to run the ankoENB. Open the the ENB folder and you will find the following files just like below. CTRL Select all the files in the ENB folder and then right click Copy them. Then go to your Skyrim LE Game folder. Just find it and in my case it is on my Drive E: Just paste all the files you have copied from the ENB folder. You will know that you are at the correct destination path of the files when you see TESV Application and SkyrimLauncher Application .exe files. It will look just like below. When done then just close the Skyrim LE Game folder. Go back to the Mod Organizer 2 Application. Now we are ready to test the mods in-game. Now it really looks like the set of mods we had at the very beginning of this tutorial. Upon opening of the game, you will notice that there is an ENBSeries version at the above left corner of the screen, this means that the ENB is working correctly. Then let us try to play a New game. But before that we need to ensure that the ENB is not activated so that the loading of the game will not be slow. By default the ENB is always on or activated. So by pressing Shift and F12 Keys together, the ENB Menu will open up just like below. To see which of it was the universal switch that makes the ENB on, it is designated as UseEffect under GLOBAL. To turn the ENB off while playing, just uncheck this option. And then press Shift+F12 again to exit the ENB Menu. And now we can play the New Game. You will begin in the Prison Cell which is the effect of the Alternate Start mod. You will begin as a male, a Nord race. To switch gender, just go to the Body Menu. Then set the Sex option/slider into 1. From the previous tutorial which tackles how to use ECE Presets in Skyrim LE, by default there is no ECE Preset yet available in any slot of Enhanced Character Edit. So we will do this later on when we quit the game. Upon saving your very first character and naming it, your gameplay will turly begin there. But before we check other things, if you press ESC key then a menu just like below will appear. You will notice that an additional menu was already available there named Mod Configurations. Actually this is the MCM Menu of SkyUI, just like I discuss previously this particular menu will manage the in-game mods. When you click that MOD CONFIGURATION, you will be directed to the list of mods that can be managed in-game. For now there are three in-game mods. Checking the XPMSE, it is not working yet eventhough it was installed because there is still a mod requirement that we didn't installed yet and that is the FNIS (Fores New Idles for Skyrim). Exiting the Menu, your gameplay will begin, I removed the clothes so that we can see the real appearance of the game. It is quite pixelized most especially the shadow in the character's body. When I turned on the ENB, of course by activating the UseEffect under GLOBAL in the ENB Menu. Tapping Shift+F12 together will open the ENB Menu in-game. The apperance of the game more ecpecially the character itself will look different just like below. It is not a beautiful/pretty character for now because we didn't upload the CME Preset we have yet in the game. Turning off the ENB again and it will look decent on some angles specially on lightings. Then I saved my gameplay and then Quitted to Desktop. Of course for everyone who are using ENBs, I will show you how turned off the ENB by default so that you don't have to open it everytime you enter the game. First find the location of the enbseries configuration settings file, usually or by default it is found in the Skyrim LE Game folder. If you remember previously, this file is one of the files we copied from the ENB folder of NiniNoblePack. Just right click the configuration file and Open it with Notepad just like what is shown below. Then when you see the settings just like below, just like what I said before that the UseEffect was the one or the switch which controls the on or offf of the ENB. In the notepad file, you can directly over write it by using True which means on and False which means off. This might be case sensitive upon activations so just see to it that it follows everyone elses' inputs on the notepad file. I just rewrite the true into false, of course lower case in case of case-sensitivity. And when you are done, just Save the file and then close it afterwards. When you open your game again, ENB will be in switch off so you don't need to open it in-game because the game is loading slow situations. This time around, this step is just like what i showed in the previous Blog - How to use ECE Presets in your Skyrim LE game? Just always remember that the folder of ECE/CME Presets will only appear once you saved you very first character using ECE slots. By default it will always go to Slot 1. When you are done doing that then the folder will appear in the Documents folder. There you will find a newly made folder named My Games. Then open the My Games folder, under it you will find the Skyrim folder which designates for Skyrim LE game. Just open that Skyrim folder. There under that folder you will find several files and folders as well. The folder that we really need was named as CME_save. Just right click that folder then tap Send to and select Desktop (create shortcut). And then in your desktop, the CME_save Shortcut will be available meaning it will be easily accessible to you from now on. When you open that folder, you will see the save CME Preset file that you saved previously in-game. You can use readily made CME Presets of others by just replacing/renaming the number of the file name. Also no matter what Skyrim you are playing wether it is for LE or SE, CME will always work. The shape of the face/head will always remain, the only issues are when you didn't installed the required face/body parts yet. For example the CME preset was using Tullius Hair and you didn't installed the Tullius hair yet, the outcome in your game was that CME Preset will use the default hairs available in-game instead. So always remember when using CME Presets, to always know what are the required face or body parts to use in that particular preset before using it. To make it really look like the one you are expecting, then you need to install these required face/body parts mods. Well I already have the Ari and Arini CME Presets from Skyrim SE so we will just use those characters for now and replace the default. It will not really look like on the picture below because I didn't installed the face and body parts mods yet. I use my CME Preset 1 which is my Ari character in the Skyrim SE and look below what she looks like in Skyrim LE. To be continued...

Disclaimer: I am not claiming in any way that I am a pro or best or veteran in modding the Skyrim LE or SE, I am only sharing what I have done with my game through all the years of experience modding Skyrim starting from Skyrim LE and up to today Skyrim SE. I Started modding Skyrim LE manually and then I switch to Nexus Mod Manager and finally ended up using Mod Organizer. Now I am using Mod Organizer 2. I also know how to mod Skyrim using Vortex but this tutorial was not meant for that, and I will focus this tutorial using Mod Organizer 2. This tutorial might be effective to some people or players of Skyrim LE and might also not be effective as well to some, so it is still recommended that you do your own stuff, search for your own, resolve your issues, and mod your game with your very own style. Trial and error is one of the best way to use in modding Skyrim. Yes if we mod a game, of course there will be a chance that you are also breaking the game. So if you are not ready to break or your game might get some problems or issues, then I recommend that you stop modding it. I also encountered a lot of issues before especially on this Skyrim LE, from simple issues up to the issues that I cannot resolve anymore. The very good thing I always do is to backup my Base Games because you don't want to buy your game from Steam or other game store every time you will encounter issues on it. BACKUP your game, backup your saves, backup your working mods and backup everything that is normally running. But for every failure you/will encounter, you will eventually learn from it. Each and everyone might have their own unique taste/case/circumstances in gaming, and we can say as well in modding so that is why I am not saying that you do the way like I do, treat this as merely just a suggestion from me as well to make your modding easier in some way or somehow. In the first place, you might be using a diferent computer system than me. I am not using a high end computer system, just a mid tier gaming I think. Just enough to play Skyrim SE Base Game without worries, so modding it will/might be tough for it. So if anyone is claiming to be the best out there, saying they are very good/the best/pro/veteran in modding, then get the hell out of here. If you are here just to comment bad words or troll, talking shits and making dramas, acting like a child here boasting about you, being the best. You are not needed here and so even your written words are not even meant to be here that is if your only goal or aim is to bark like a dog. I will gladly accept my own mistakes and I even take good suggestions from good people*. I even accept reality or subjective criticism, but before you do that, think first for yourself. Do you have a right? Or do you have a right to bash/comment things the right way not hurting people because you are just suggesting and not forcing your own way/thinking to other people? Remember to respect other people so that people will respect you too. So first and foremost, please respect my Blog. This is my very own blog, I only made this to share what I experience before to all the people that might be starting modding Skyrim LE or SE or in different circumstances - people that might have the same experiences/stories like me. I have been modding Skyrim LE for a very long time, and the same principle of modding I apply to Skyrim SE now. There are some differences between Skyrim LE and SE but the very basics are almost the same in modding. Think first before you write anything. This is my very own business. And if you are one of the people who are just here, very jealous on the content creations of others and you want to become popular by making Dramas here. I am saying it out now - loud in your face, that THIS IS NOT THE PLACE FOR YOU. You are free to go and do anything you want, just don't involve me with it. In short, I don't care about you so just go ahead, kill yourself with it and mind your own business. Make your own blogs or content creations too if you want, no one is stopping you in doing it. Just don't spread your stupidity or negativity here. *Good People are considered true human beings while I considered Trollers/Shit Talkers as animals. So this is not the place for these animals, just go to the Zoo instead. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Back to Basic, Skyrim LE Episode One - So it begins... Again? I assembled my old PC again by fixing some of it's hardware issues. It is not a high end PC and maybe I can say that it is low system, enough to run or maybe Skyrim LE (Legendary Edition) may not be able to run on it. I will not use a graphics card and just use it's built in graphics software. I already ordered graphics card if I really encounter issues for this game when I mod it. I also am playing Skyrim SE to my another PC but like I said I enjoy modding Skyrim that is why I fix this old computer of mine. Without further ado, let us see if Skyrim LE will really run without graphics card and also if it is possible to mod it. This is my Skyrim Legendary Edition Base Game Like what I have done on Skyrim SE (Special Editon), I will not run this game through or using Steam because from what I said on my previous blogs - Steam updates every time I restart computer and sometimes it takes long time just for an update. This base game is a legal copy I bought before and I just back it up on cloud storage. Maybe I do have 3 cloud storages that contains my back up games, I install it fresh again so there will be no SKSE, ENBs, Creation Kit and other applications that will go here if you start modding it. I will mod it manually by using Mod Organizer 2. I ran the game by clicking the TESV Application Icon there, The Base Game is running smoothly as you can see, so maybe I can start modding this Skyrim LE. ? Like what I did on my previous blogs, I see the Base Game version in this way. Boxed in yellow 1.9.32.0.8, that is the game version of my Skyrim Legendary Edition. I continue to look around before I quit the game. Still pretty decent graphic looks for a very old game. It has no ENB which enhances the environment or overall look of the game. ? To start modding Skyrim LE, of course you have to find an application that will organize or manage your mods. For this tutorial, I specifically chosen Mod Organizer 2 just like on what I used on the Skyrim SE from my previous blogs. Get your copy and download it from Nexus Mods, you will never find it anymore on the Skyrim (LE) because it was available on the Skyrim Special Edition Pages. The link is just below... https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/6194 If you cannot download it directly without an account, then just register and make an account there. It is free anyway so it will only takes a couple minutes just to register there successfully. I made a new folder which I renamed as MO2 in the Downloads folder. I do this so in later time every time I make changes on the mods in the game, the mods will be very accessible then. Just like MO2, my Skyrim LE base game was also placed here in the Downloads folder. And also the same reason for MO2 folder, so that any changes I make on the Base Game itself will be very accessible in later time. Then I install the Mod Organizer 2, you will see the first tab just like below. Tick the I accept the agrrement then tap next. You will be given an option to where to place the Mod Organizer 2 files. In my case, I just find the MO2 folder I made previously so that all the mods that I will install will eventually go here. Just make sure you are on the correct output folder of the installer before clicking OK. As you can see it is correct, then I tap Next. On the next tab, you will be given a choice which of the following installers or apllication mods that will be installed by MO2 Installer. Normally you just leave it like that or by default just tap Next then. Then on the next tab, you will be given an option rename or place made Mod Organizer folder on the Start Menu. By default just leave it like that then just tap the Next button. And then an Option to make a Shortcut on your Desktop. Of course tick it so that MO2 application will be very accessible to you. Then tap Next. And finally check all the informations if they are all correct before you tap the Install button. Wait until the installation is done. Untick the Launch Mod Organizer so that MO2 will not run right away when you tap the Finish button. We do this because we need to run the MO2 as Administrator because that is the right way to run it or else some part of the applications will be blocked or firewalled by your OS even if you turned off the Windows Security. Just like I said on my Disclaimer, you don't have to follow my every step in installing this or that. This is just a mere suggestion so you have a freedom to make your own way on how you do things especially in modding Skyrim LE. My steps are made this way because there are reasons behind it, but if you have your very own understanding in doing things then you are free to do so. When we already know the Base Game Version of Skyrim Legendary Edition we have, then we go to this link below, https://skse.silverlock.org/ In this site, we find the correct SKSE version we need to install which matches the game version we have. In my case, my Skyrim LE base game version is 1.9.32.0.8 which was the last and the latest version. According to the site we need to use SKSE 1.07.03 which was the last for the 32bit Skyrim LE. I already have it before and was just stored on my backup cloud drives. I am just showing for the new modders where exactly to find the SKSE so that it will be a correct version and of course to be able to run the mods you will be using. SKSE is an engine that will run the mods in your Skyrim LE game. After downloading the SKSE, make a new folder and place the SKSE there. The new folder I made was also on my Downloads folder and I extract SKSE there. We do this so that there will be no overlapping of files and we can easily determine which files to be use on the SKSE extracted folder. Go to the extracted SKSE folder, from there only choose/select the three files bosed in red. These three files namely skse_1_9_32.dll, skse_loader.exe and skse_steam_loader.dll. Copy these three files and Paste it on your Skyrim LE Base Game where you can find TESV.exe and SkyrimLauncher.exe files. You can see that I pasted the three files from the extracted SKSE folder boxed in red and I placed them together with the TESV.exe and SkyrimLauncher.exe files which are boxed in yellow. After that I tried to run the game with SKSE by clicking the skse_loader.exe. It runs and loads smoothly until I press ESC button on my keyboard, of course to see if the SKSE engine is working. There is no error message saying for any issues or mismatch SKSE version. You can see the SKSE version besides the game version so we can say that the SKSE is working fine.? After I verified that SKSE is working on my Skyrim LE game then I quit the game right away. Go to desktop, then run the Mod Organizer 2 as Administrator by right clicking it. Then you will see a new tab like below. For this just tick the never show this page again before clicking Next button. On the next tab, you will be given two choices either Create a global instance or Create a portable instance. You will choice first if you will use MO2 for another game which will use this. And if not then just choose the 2nd choice which is Create a portable instance. By default, this instance will make a mods installation folder for one game for example Skyrim Legendary Edition. And since I have no way to play another game which will use MO2, then I just choose this 2nd choice. When you click Next from the the previous tab, then you will proceed on which game to be mod. By default MO2 detect your storage if there are games that are active and may need to be modded there. In this instance, it has detected Skyrim LE in your Hard Disk right away. By default just choose this and then click next afterwards. Then you will be directed to the new tab just like below. Normally MO2 will find where it's base folder was located. By default, the location is correct. But the problem with this is it will create a new folders for downloads, mods, profiles and overwrite into another system folder called Documents. We have to avoid the MO2 in doing that so just tick the Show advanced option below. The tab will expand and it will show you what particular folders it is going to make. These are the downloads, mods, profiles and overwrite folders. We have to do these one by one in the MO2 folder we have created before or the base folder of the MO2 in the Downloads folder we have created before. Mo2 will find the downloads folder but it will just say that the path does not exist. So even with these tabs opened, we can create a New Folder there directly and just renamed this with downloads. Don't tap the Select Folder yet until you are very sure that it is really the downloads folder that was chosen. You can see below that the folder name is New Folder. Just right after renaming the downloads folder, click it again. Now you can see that after clicking the downloads folder it matches the folder name below which is downloads as well. Then when they matched up you can finally tap the Select Folder below. You have to do this on the other three folders left namely mods, profiles and overwrite. You can see that you have the right folder paths when the names matches the red boxed informations below. When you are done, then you can finally tap Next buttton there. On the next tab, you are given an option to link your Nexus account on the MO2. For me it is alright to connect it to Nexus Mods when you have an internet connection so that when you download mods from the Nexus site, it will be easier later on. Below shows that it is not connected so just click the Connect the Nexus. It will read or load just like below and your browser will automatically goes to the Nexus Mods site when you are logged in there. If you are not logged in, then just log in and reload teh Connect to Nexus on your MO2. When the two was connected, you will see just like below that you are given a choice to Authorise it. Of course, just click AUTHORISE in the Nexus site. After authorizing, when the link is successful. You will see the notifications on the MO2 just like below. Then proceed Next afterwards. Then you will be directed to another tab, just like below. There you will just check if all the informations listed inside the box are all correct before selecting Finish button under. The Mod Organizer 2 will load up and for the first time use of it,You will be asked out if you will need a tutorial for it. If you are really new to modding Skyrim LE using MO2, just don't tick the Never ask to show tutorials because it might have some helpful tips for you. But since I already know what I am doing, I just tick it then click Yes afterwards. After loading you will be asked again if you want MO2 to handle Nexus Mods link, just tap Yes since it is very useful in downloading mods coming from the Nexus Site. For the first opening of the Mod Organizer 2, you can see on the right panel that the .esm and .esp files are not ticked or checked there. Just don't forget to tick everything there so that those plugins will work on your game. It short even if you install a mod and you don't checked it on the right panel of MO2, then the mod will not run in your game. The left panel list of Mod Organizer 2 is called Mod List while the right panel is called Mod/Load Order. It will start to read from the very bottom to above mods. So if you are prioritizing a mod, just place it on the very below of the Mod List. When starting to mod Skyrim LE, there are a lot of plugins on the right panel of MO2 compared to Skyrim SE which are fewer. The reason for this is Skyrim SE was a game on high resolutions so it doesn't need a plugin fot it anymore. It will be less later on once we installed the UNSLEEP patches which includes the updates for the Unofficial .esp files listed there. Then let us go back to the extracted SKSE folder we left before. Select the Data folder there and compress it using RAR or ZIP Application files. In my case I use WinRAR to compress files just like what you can see below. When the compression is done, rename the Data.rar into Scripts.rar just like what I did below. Then let us open the Mod Organizer 2 as Adminstrator and let it load until you can see just like below. In the left panel of MO2, there are icons there that represents different uses. The 2nd Icon above which represents Install a new mod from an archive is the one you have to use when manually installing .rar, .zip or .fomod files. Just click that Icon. Then find the location of the Scripts file we have compressed before. That is the very first mod we are going to install in the Skyrim LE Game. That mod will not actually adds up a plugin file so you will never see another file appearing on the right panel of MO2 but instead it will place all the scripts mainly composed of .pex and .psc files in your Skyrim LE game. These files are very essential files for your game. Select the Scripts.rar file and then Open it. Upon installing it, you will be directed into a new tab just like what we can see below. Just press OK there. Then when it is done on it's installation, it will be included on the Mod List on the left Panel of MO2. Just don't forget to tick or check the box to make it work on your game. When you try to Run the game on SKSE in the right panel of MO2 for the first time, a notification just like what we can see below. I will not use Steam just like what I said previously because it only adds up on the long loading of the game instead. So I choose to Continue without starting Steam and also select the Remember my choice below so that it will never appear again on the next Run of Skyrim LE game. I already skipped a lot and just install all the mods that are required on my game. As you can see below, there are a lot of mods there already. I just saved them before on my cloud storages and download them to use again on my game. You can see that I am using the NINI mods which are quite complete already by itself. The NINI mods are not in the compressed file but separated and numbered by folders, I just follow the numbering of NINIrim which tells on where to place them on the Mod List. I also installed all the required and essential mods for the game, for example I installed the Alternate Start-Live Another Life mod which will be very helpful to me so that I will not go through the prisoner opening scenes in the start of the game. Instead, I will start on a prison cell where you are modifying your starting character. Also if you noticed, I am not using RaceMenu mod for chracter modifications and creations but instead an alternate one which is the Enhanced Character Edit. I didn't use the ECE mod included in the NINI Pack because it was in Korean and not updated. I just download and install the ECE from the Nexus Mods. Remember that you can only use one mod that modifies a character so I just unchecked the other ECE there and also if you will have a RaceMenu mod, make sure to uncheck it as well so that it will not overlap the ECE mod. RaceMenu will always overlap ECE in whtever position you place it in your Mod List or Load Order. In short, ECE will not work anymore once RaceMenu was installed and checked in the Mod List. You can install it but never check it if you are using ECE in character modifications. When you check ECE, it also adds up three plugins namely RaceCompatibility.esm, EnhancedCharacterEdit.esp and CharacterMakingExtender.esp. RaceCompatibility.esm is a plugin required if you are going to use another Race on ECE modifications while EnhancedCharacterEdit.esp is a plugin for your character modifications and sliders, And lastly CharacterMakingExtender.esp is to expands the number of character presets you can save and also to be able to use CME Presets as well. I Run the game again under SKSE, it loads up and I just make a New Game. This time you will not undergo on the prisoner opening scenes anymore but instead you will begin on a prison cell just like what you can see below. The Character Creation and Modifications UI is almost the same on the default UI of Vanilla Skyrim LE. And since I want to create a female character, I will Select the Body above the UI. I just leave the Nord Race there which represents human race as well. I switched into female by sliding the Sex slider into 1 and then I Select the Slot Load. When you slide this, you can choose among the CME Presets loaded in your CME Saves. There are no available Saves yet in the beginning of the game of course so we just press R in you keyboard and you will be directed into Naming your Character. Just name it whetever you want, then OK. And you will be directed on to what Slot you want your default character preset to be saved. Just choose Slot 1 by default. Then the game will officially begins but for now is just Save it and then Quit the game. When you look on the Documents folder, you will find out that there is a New Folder that was made there namely My Games. This folder was made by the Skyrim LE game in default so that all your saves will eventually go here. This will only appear if you made a Character Preset Saves and also your Game Progressions Save. Opening it, you will find all the Saves, Presets and Configs of your Skyrim LE game. The folder we are looking for is this CME_save folder. Then I Right Clicked the CME_save folder to make a Desktop Shortcut for it. In this way this folder will be very accessible for us when we are going to use another CME Presets. I already have some CME Presets I am using in Skyrim SE. Remember that not all the CME Presets used on Skyrim SE are going to work on Skyrim LE. I already tested these presets before and it is working on either Skyrim LE or SE. The CME Preset of Ari was set on CME 1 namely _1_commonTriRaces.slot and when you copy these on the CME_save folder then it will going to replaced the default or existing one there for the Slot one of course. Then I reRun the Skyrim LE game again on MO2. At first you will just continue on your last game progression and will not start on chracter creation anymore. To be able to access the RaceMenu while on game just type in this key "~", then on the cursor just type in the words "showracemenu" continuously without space and then Enter. It will load a bit and the RaceMenu UI will open just like what we can see below. Just press "~" again to close the cursor and just proceed on the RaceMenu character modifications. On the UI, select Body again on the above choices. Then under it, select Slot Load. By clicking the Slot Load slider or presing the arrow keys left or right, you will go to another UI which lets yo select on where/what slot you are going to use on your character. From our previous steps, we copied a CME presets that uses slot 1 and 2. Ari preset was on the slot 1 so if we use it, it will replace the preset look below. Below is the preset of Ari using Slot 1. Actually the hair was different because I havenever installed the mods for more hair yet. I just used the default hair found on the NINI Pack. I only have 40 different hairs for now. Now that I can use the preset I have before on Skyrim LE, then I can play a bit. The MO2 contains the basic mods so there will be no good physics there. It will require FNIS and some additional physics mods. Still a lot of mods to install here. To be continued...