guide Skyrim SE for Beginners - V 3.2.6 (3BBB / HDT-SMP / HPH)

[jaeos]

Diversity faces and a holy shit my skyrim looks better

Side note. Amren is behind battle-born trying to convince his wife to let him go looking for his daddy's sword

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 now to recompile dyndolod and see where we go

[Aylis]

@jaeos

1. Yes, CBBE does, but we're overwriting the textures and then its gone. Also it is not in 3D. ?

 

2. Thats the problem with adding mods. They can have some unforseeable consequences elsewhere.

 

3. Diversity is one of the mods where imho the faces are too smooth and the age groups melt together.

 

For DynDOLOD you should lower the brightness of the LOD for the trees by one or two.

[jaeos]

5 hours ago, Kythana said:

 

For DynDOLOD you should lower the brightness of the LOD for the trees by one or two.

maybe. my char hasn't made it past level 1 yet, so far i started as a pentus oculus, took a wagon ride to whiterun,, ran to riverwood, rescued hadvar and made my way back to whiterun to warn them of dragons. i'll set it at night so blacks are black and not almost black. then see what it shows 

Just to clarify. when i run dynolod i go from 0 to -2 or got to +2? i honestly couldn't tell a differnce between 0 and -2, loading screens seemed brighter though.

[Kuross]

5 hours ago, jaeos said:

Well as far as blackthorn you actually don't need to collect anything if you choose not to, the author put in a cheat chest with all the mats you need.

it may have something to do with a skse error. it shows in MO2 on the Notifications, it says

The failed plugins are:

• Couldn't load SetVehicleFixPlugin.dll (MoreNastyCritters v11 4CSE). The last error code was 193.

• SNCTSave plugin version 1 (SNCTSave.dll, Audio Overhaul for Skyrim SE) reported as incompatible during query.

but thats all it is. a notification. but then i couldn't tell if the audio is working well or partially, i keep the sound turned down low enough you can barely hear the dog next to you. but damn i gotta get hadvar away from the pornstache he got stuck with. and i may have done something wrong but the males all look like they've been drug a mile down a broken glass road. on their face. Which is from the men of winter mod. going to try diversity and see if they look better. but on that if you use diversity the esp has to be loaded after cloaks if you use that mod as well. no idea why. but alot of people get the blackface of cloaks is below the esp for those people. balgruff, the imp just as you walk into whiterun (whoever he is battle-born i think is the last name) move cloaks above any esp that edits them and no problems

I have the same 2 errors The setvechile one just delete that .dll is what the mod maker said

Idk about the audio overhaul thing

[jaeos]

4 minutes ago, DarkDog17 said:

I have the same 2 errors The setvechile one just delete that .dll is what the mod maker said

Idk about the audio overhaul thing

Thats the wonderful thing about MO2, i can just uncheck it and done.

[Kuross]

So umm https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/2620?tab=description for some reason makes you a male......

[jaeos]

 

24 minutes ago, Kuross said:

So umm https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/2620?tab=description for some reason makes you a male......

i'm gonna go out on a limb and say you went to the Hall of Ascension - Allows the player to upgrade their character's base stats (Health/Magicka/Stamina), Crafting Skills, Damage/Skill Modifiers, and Physical Appearance/Sex/Race?  went and changed your stats and it changed your gender? you could always ` showracemenu and hope your facegen data didn't get toasted. seems like a cool place, but i honestly wouldn't use it. to much for my personal taste.

[jaeos]

and honestly you could so all that without using a forceav command, and it would level you up more or less naturally. i would use advskill myself but then i'm lazy on that. i want arrows to hit like a cruise missile, legendary roll archery a few times and bam or enchanting, or blacksmithing so it will upgrade armor into legendary at fairly low levels for yourself.

[Kuross]

9 minutes ago, jaeos said:

and honestly you could so all that without using a forceav command, and it would level you up more or less naturally. i would use advskill myself but then i'm lazy on that. i want arrows to hit like a cruise missile, legendary roll archery a few times and bam or enchanting, or blacksmithing so it will upgrade armor into legendary at fairly low levels for yourself.

Nope just downloaded installed got in and i was a male with a female head uninstalled was back to a female 

[jaeos]

i might hafta go test it just to see wtf

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i think its a mod you have or something. 

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I didn't have a problem at all on a level one test pc. But it is a rather large and over the top castle,, i'll give him that. But not my preferred style. and how many people are in this damn thing.. all unnamed mages and such. go work for the thalmar ya bastards.

And i may not be remembering it right, but i think that area gets used in the rigmor mod. 

[Fuppert]

Im happily playing Skyrim with all your mods (also the FPS heavy). FPS keeps around 60, even with ENB @ max settings. (Yay!)

 

I still have some flaws in my game. I hope someone here knows some solutions

 

 

• A lot of my female NPC's use heavy make up and look like dragqueens. Cant find the addon/settings that reduces this.

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• My quiver cuts into characters pants/ass (using your Aylis preset, just with different hair/eyes)

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• Using helmet with my current hairstyle looks like shit

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• Many of the male bodies and heads look weird, cause of the hairy chest. (Ive seen a setting about this while installing, but cant find it.. )

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• I also encounter dead NPC's falling from the sky. Every ~30min. Seems random. Sometimes a guard, sometimes a creature.. Twice it was a woman with a penis..

 

Ive installed everything with Vortex. If you need any Vortex screenshots or anything for you guide, ask

(maybe start your guide with that you dont recommend using Vortex, I saw this really late, cause its only mentioned later in your guide)

[jaeos]

1 hour ago, Fuppert said:

Im happily playing Skyrim with all your mods (also the FPS heavy). FPS keeps around 60, even with ENB @ max settings. (Yay!)

 

I still have some flaws in my game. I hope someone here knows some solutions

 

 

• A lot of my female NPC's use heavy make up and look like dragqueens. Cant find the addon/settings that reduces this.

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• My quiver cuts into characters pants/ass (using your Aylis preset, just with different hair/eyes)

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• Using helmet with my current hairstyle looks like shit

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• Many of the male bodies and heads look weird, cause of the hairy chest. (Ive seen a setting about this while installing, but cant find it.. )

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• I also encounter dead NPC's falling from the sky. Every ~30min. Seems random. Sometimes a guard, sometimes a creature.. Twice it was a woman with a penis..

 

Ive installed everything with Vortex. If you need any Vortex screenshots or anything for you guide, ask

(maybe start your guide with that you dont recommend using Vortex, I saw this really late, cause its only mentioned later in your guide)

the Hairy bodies is CBBE. just reinstall CBBE with the hairless option.

the makeup is just.. wow. almost looks like vampire makeup though looks like lydia and camilla shared the same paintbrush. but look at the face geometry for them in the pic. they are identical even though they are very different in facegen (different lips, eyebrows, and nose) it looks like x overwrote y for every female. does aela look like this?

and can i suggest an outfit mod thats here on LL? sunjeongs LL collection and her ninyrm ported outfits? if the armor weights are not enough for you, ,you can edit them in xedit and really just make your pc a walking tank if you choose. nothing like seeing a little 3' forest nymph (thanks trykz) decimate the entirety of marcarth with a few flashes of forest wrath.

[Aylis]

Updating Status to 'Release 1.2.4'

Looks like the new 3D plants and trees had a sideeffect which had to be adressed.

 

MOVED mods:

Static Mesh Improvement Mod                  - to 'Foundation'. (Done)

 

REMOVED mods:

Realistic HD Mushrooms Remastered        - led to floating mushrooms on the new rotten trees. (Done)

 

Added mods:

Flora Respawn Fix                                      - to 'Override'. (Done)

Flora Respawn Fix SE for Beyond Skyrim  - to 'Override'. (Done)

Honored Hounds                                        - to 'Physics'. (Done)

Moonlight Tales Special Edition                  - to 'Override'. (Done)

Moonlight Tales Special Edition - MCM      - to 'Override'. (Done)

[Aylis]

@Kuross

That might be connected to the mod that reduced the waiting time for female chars. While testing i ran into similar issues and thats why i removed it.

 

 

@Fuppert

1. That are the tintmasks combined with the ENB. Some combinations can look over the top. What texture are you using?

 

2. Thats XPMSSE and 'VWR'. Go to the MCM and try a different setting for the quiver. Sadly there's afaik no way to prevent clipping completely. I intend to come up with a FOMOD for 'Vanilla Weapons Replacer' to fix a few things with this mod. But i need a list from the author to do that.

 

3. The old problem with hairmods. Some combinations simply won't work. Either use a different helmet, one of the armored circlets (thats what i usually do) or a different hairstyle.

 

4. Already answered by @jaeos. ?

 

5A. Thats a bug Bethesda never bothered to fix. Sometimes its messed up positioning data, sometimes loading lag.

5B. 'Twice it was a woman with a penis...'  O.O What? Thats something i never encountered before… and definitely not normal.

 

Mentioning MO2 in the first post is something i'm thinking about. I got some flak for doing it in the thread for FO4. ?

 

€: Hehe, added it to post #2... ?

 

 

@jaeos

SunJeong got some awesome armors. But most need HDT, a big No-Go from my side, or high heels, again a big nope from me.

[Kuross]

@Kythana

Is that the one "Avoid the Wait When Changing to Female in Character Creation "? If so then i cant uninstall it

[Aylis]

1 hour ago, Kuross said:

@Kythana

Is that the one "Avoid the Wait When Changing to Female in Character Creation "? If so then i cant uninstall it

Yes, thats the one. I noticed way too late that it can screw up in combination with other mods. Lost my lvl. 52 char because of that… 

[jaeos]

1 hour ago, Kythana said:

@Kuross

That might be connected to the mod that reduced the waiting time for female chars. While testing i ran into similar issues and thats why i removed it.

 

 

@Fuppert

1. That are the tintmasks combined with the ENB. Some combinations can look over the top. What texture are you using?

 

2. Thats XPMSSE and 'VWR'. Go to the MCM and try a different setting for the quiver. Sadly there's afaik no way to prevent clipping completely. I intend to come up with a FOMOD for 'Vanilla Weapons Replacer' to fix a few things with this mod. But i need a list from the author to do that.

 

3. The old problem with hairmods. Some combinations simply won't work. Either use a different helmet, one of the armored circlets (thats what i usually do) or a different hairstyle.

 

4. Already answered by @jaeos. ?

 

5A. Thats a bug Bethesda never bothered to fix. Sometimes its messed up positioning data, sometimes loading lag.

5B. 'Twice it was a woman with a penis...'  O.O What? Thats something i never encountered before… and definitely not normal.

 

Mentioning MO2 in the first post is something i'm thinking about. I got some flak for doing it in the thread for FO4. ?

 

€: Hehe, added it to post #2... ?

 

 

@jaeos

SunJeong got some awesome armors. But most need HDT, a big No-Go from my side, or high heels, again a big nope from me.

Theres also a mod for some vampire dragon armors that do not need it, and those look just as good. but i'm on a no shoes kick at the moment and theres like 3 outfits my little half sized forest nymph can wear. the one from the mod. sun's red nose outfit, and one more from a differnt mod also called forest nymphss but it's on nexus and that outfit comes with /shudder flip flops. or sandals if you want the actual name. so i just add in the armor value from the flip flops into the body armor and then just to be an ass, triple it. and yet followers still won't wear it. 900 armor on a chest and lydia wears her busted ass steel armor.. SMH

[jaeos]

@Kythana i had to delete the merged sisters of dibella. i was getting the infinite load after bethesda logo issue, and went back to the dibella page and the merged patch is gone.

[Aylis]

1 hour ago, jaeos said:

...went back to the dibella page and the merged patch is gone.

I'll look into that...

[kesryth]

12 minutes ago, Kythana said:

I'll look into that...

Looks like the merged was taken down and replaced with the April 2019 SE edition (two files). Trying it out now.

[jaeos]

46 minutes ago, Kythana said:

I'll look into that...

 

32 minutes ago, kesryth said:

Looks like the merged was taken down and replaced with the April 2019 SE edition (two files). Trying it out now.

It loads fine. i was getting a refusal to load and i'm at least getting to the continue/new/load menu. then i started having a second one with diversity and ai overhaul patch from quin. looking at possible mod order lock up now. but then again every time i run LOOT/BOSS i need to reorder diversity and cloaks

[kesryth]

 

13 minutes ago, jaeos said:

 

It loads fine. i was getting a refusal to load and i'm at least getting to the continue/new/load menu. then i started having a second one with diversity and ai overhaul patch from quin. looking at possible mod order lock up now. but then again every time i run LOOT/BOSS i need to reorder diversity and cloaks

For LOOT, you could put custom rules for those ESPs and set their Load After rules so you don't have to reorder them manually every time. I have done this in the past with a couple of mods when I do use LOOT. In LOOT, i think it was a double-click on an ESP lets you set those rules.

[jaeos]

15 minutes ago, kesryth said:

 

For LOOT, you could put custom rules for those ESPs and set their Load After rules so you don't have to reorder them manually every time. I have done this in the past with a couple of mods when I do use LOOT. In LOOT, i think it was a double-click on an ESP lets you set those rules.

i like to think of it as good practice. i've reordered all of quin's patches to the top 50 along with the mods they patch just above them. since the diversity to ai overhaul patch was causing the infinate load screen i''ll see what happens if i leave just it off and start a new game.

[jaeos]

@Kythana i'm still not sure which way i need to change the lighting. is going to a - value going to make it darker or lighter?

[Aylis]

6 hours ago, jaeos said:

@Kythana i'm still not sure which way i need to change the lighting. is going to a - value going to make it darker or lighter?

Its only the LOD for the trees. Changing that value to a negative number makes the distant trees darker. My setup here needs -5 to give them the right shade.

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With -2 still wrong…

 

 

The new 'Dibellas Sisterhood' (aka April) looks good so far. No instant crash like the one after 1.32.