guide Skyrim SE for Beginners - V 3.2.6 (Outdated)

[Aylis]

29 minutes ago, jaeos said:

@Aylis i may have done the wrong version etc but beyond skyrim was causing ctd for me, but if i remember right there was a work around being load everything else first then load it. Funny thing is, it was crashing after about .25 seconds into the game (maybe i ran out of memory) /shrug i dunno, i haven't killed alduin in a long time, so i'll stick to just skrim and mess with it later.

I'm going to kick it with the next update. It is a good mod, but it bloats the crafting screens and can be a bit fickle. Then all the patches on top of it.

[Aylis]

Updating status to '2.0.7'.

With all the changes to the landscape (those were the last ones) you will have to rerun DynDOLOD. Sorry, there's simply no way around it. But it should be a looooong time 'til this is necessary again (i guess only when the team of 'Beyond Skyrim' makes a big release).

 

MOVED mods:

Textures:

Rapid Rocks Update                                                                           Moved to 'Weather and Lighting' 

 

 

REMOVED mods:

SKSE:

Dynamic Equipment Manager SSE                                                       Will be replaced

 

Area:

Whiterun Stores - A Simple Little Clean Up                                          Modconflict and flying clutter.

 

Area Expansions:

Beyond Skyrim - Bruma SE

 

Area Patches:

Beyond Skyrim - Bruma - Tweaks Enhancements and Patches SSE

Beyond Skyrim - Bruma - Joy of Perspective Patch

Imperial City LOD fix for custom lods (Beyond skyrim Bruma)

 

Textures:

Webs                                                                                                      Will be replaced

 

PC:

ENB Brow Fix                                                                                            Not needed anymore

Weapons and Armor:

CBBE Armour and Clothing Conversions for Beyond Skyrim - Bruma   Not needed anymore

 

Override:

All Geared Up Derivative SE - AllGUD                                                    Scripts interfere with two other mods. 

Flora Respawn Fix SE for Beyond Skyrim                                             Not needed anymore

Ordinator Bruma Patch                                                                          Not needed anymore

 

Weather and Lighting:

WEBS S.E Lighting Patch                                                                      Not needed anymore

 

 

ADDED mods:

SKSE:

Dynamic Equipment Manager SKSE Updated

Skyrim SE Shader Bundle - 1.5.73 and earlier

 

Area Expansions:

Beastess Lair SE v5.1

Raven Rock Reborn

 

Textures:

Spider Webs and Particles for ENB

AMaR SPP - Patch (File)

 

Weapons and Armor

Aevrigheim - Miraak's Sword and Staff Replacer
Glass Blades - Glass Sword and Greatsword Replacers

 

Override:

FleshFX

 

Sound:

Daedric Voices

 

Weather and Lighting:

Skyrim Particle Patch for ENB                                                                     (Source in case there's an update)

ENB Light

 

 

Dibella Sisterhood:

This is inofficial ('til @DeepBlueFrog approves it (or not ;)). So if your adventurous you can give it a shot. I couldn't find any major problems with it anymore. This mod is one of the very few 'must-have-in-the-game'!

Dibella Sisterhood

Dibella Sisterhood Sisters

Dibella Sisterhood - Textures (I assume the bugfix will be included with the official release)

Dibella Sisterhood Bodyslides

 

Loadorder:

Spoiler

Disregard 'Dibella Sisterhood SSE'. Thats my old FOMOD which i used the whole time and will now be replaced with the new files.

 

 

Files:

Those might be overkill to redo, but i rather err on the side of caution than accidently create a problem.

 

Rudy 5.0C

One required change (enblocal) - two recommended changes (enbseries).

Rudy ENB 5.0C.7z

 

DynDOLOD

Without it the creation of the 3D-LOD of the trees will not work properly (i modified the one from the latest version of DynDOLOD). It has to be extracted and copied into '…/DynDOLOD/Edit Scripts/DynDOLOD'.

DynDOLOD_SSE INI.7z

 

Patch for 'Authentic Mountains and Rocks'

If the OA doesn't want to do it make your own.

AMaR SPP - Patch.7z

 

 

Future:

It now boils down to bugfixes (there are three i know of), some convenience mods that are not really necessary (but nice to have) and that should be all for now.

 

As always: ask if you have questions and if you think something is missing then give me a link and i'll check it out. Quite a few mods were added to the list 'cause you recommended them...

 

Stay safe and happy gaming!

[VXDraco]

I don't usually post in forums but this problem has been driving me crazy. I've been trying to add more Overlays to Race Menu / Slave Tats so I can have more body paint options at the same time. Searching around I found that I had to edit my "NiOverride.ini" file, but I don't have one. A bit more searching and I find that it's now been changed to "skee64.ini". Sure enough the options I needed to edit are in there. When I edited those values though, there was no change in game. Then I noticed that in that file the "body" section was set to 6, in game I only get 3 slots though. On a long shot I tried copying and renaming that "skee64.ini" file to see if it would make any difference. Nothing. Am I missing something here? Do any other files edit the number of body paint options? My game is otherwise quite stable, I just want more body paint options. Any ideas @Aylis? (Nice guide btw, thanks)

[Aylis]

You're welcome.

 

Sadly i can't answer your question. For that you might better ask in the support thread of 'Slave Tats'. It could be (no idea if thats the case) that you have to edit the ESP (if that exists) too.

[VXDraco]

From what I can tell Slave Tats seems to create an easy way to apply the body paint options in Race Menu, I might be wrong though. With you using Race Menu I figured I'd ask here first, seen as though I've been lurking this page for a while. It's been really useful. I think I'm gonna try a fresh install, maybe I messed something up at some point, if not I'll ask around on some of the mod pages. I am modding on everything on Linux though so maybe there is something I've overlooked at some point. Cheers. 

[wollboi]

@Aylis Which two mods was AllGUD messing with?

 

@VXDraco I remember making the change you are describing and it worked okay. I also use body paint and ended up going another route. I used paint.net to overlay the multiple bodypaint sets that I wanted to use into one file, then added some files and folders to the Slavetats directory to be able to use them through the MCM. It sounds a lot more complicated that it really is.

 

Basically just create another folder under Slavertats in SlaveTats\Textures\Actors\Character\slavetats. Drop your new warpaint file into the folder you created. Then create a file labeled mywarpaint.json (or whatever you'd like for it to be called) in the same SlaveTats\Textures\Actors\Character\slavetats directory and mirror the settings found in "basic.json", changing the folder name to your new folder name and the paint names to whatever your paints are called.

 

i.e. for your newly-made hand warpaint, it would be:

[

    {"name": "MyWarpaint (Hands)", "section":"mywarpaint", "texture":"mywarpaint\\my_warpaint_hands.dds", "area":"Hands"}
]

 

In that example "MyWarPaint (Hands)" will be the title of the paint in the Slavetats MCM, "mywarpaint" is the name of the folder containing your custom paint, and "my_warpaint_hands.dds" is the name of the file you created for your new hand warpaint.

 

Again, sounds more complicated than it actually is. Also, be aware that changing that value in skee64.ini to something higher than the default has the potential to make racemenu more unstable. That's another reason I just combined my custom paint.

[Aylis]

18 minutes ago, wollboi said:

@Aylis Which two mods was AllGUD messing with?

On 4/6/2020 at 4:31 PM, Aylis said:

All Geared Up Derivative SE - AllGUD                           Scripts interfere with Bathing in Skyrim and Dynamic Equipment Manager SKSE Updated

It's all there... ?

 

 

@VXDraco

For me racemenu is primarily to save presets and reload them. I tinkered with the one for Aylis for around two days and i hope i never ever have to do that again.

[VXDraco]

@wollboi Thanks for the response, I'll have to whip out the GIMP and have a shot at combining some of my favourite tats when I'm feeling up to it. Do you know what change caused all this to happen? 

[wollboi]

@VXDraco Not sure what change you mean. The extra hoops I jumped through were just because it was easier than combining a dozen warpaint skins in Racemenu.

[Daikomyo]

Hi @Aylis, the Skyrim Particle Patch for ENB link in post goes to Spider Webs and Particles for ENB.  Is this the same thing, just renamed?

[Aylis]

26 minutes ago, Daikomyo said:

Hi @Aylis, the Skyrim Particle Patch for ENB link in post goes to Spider Webs and Particles for ENB.  Is this the same thing, just renamed?

Thanks for that.

 

I did indeed copy the wrong link. (Fixed)

[Aylis]

Fixing ?

Found the solution to the two visual bugs i encountered (fixes will be added to post #1603).

 

Rocks in streams

Spoiler

Before the fix

 

After the fix

Fix: moving Rapid Rocks Update

 

 

Shiny rock formations in the landscape

Spoiler

Before the fix

 

 

Looking for a solution (Noble works)

Fix: patching Authentic Mountains and Rocks (informed the OA hopefully she can create a patch). Nope had to make my own.

 

Two down - the last one is still driving me nuts...

[jaeos]

@Aylis i did promise you a new screenie once i got skyrim up and running. This is the aylis preset as a forest nymph race by @Trykz 

different hair style same color 

Spoiler

 

[Aylis]

V1.1 right? I love the eyes...

 

Btw. did you find something difficult to install which i should elaborate on/make an installation guide for?

[wollboi]

@Aylis I'm confused now. On the list, "Particle Patch All-in-One Installation" (first mod listed) and "Particle Patch for ENB" (under Weather) both go to the same URL. Do we just put the .esp patch itself under Weather and put everything other than that up top?

[Aylis]

Oh crap! Sorry!

 

Moved it further down in my list here and forgot to delete the first entry... (Fixed)

_______________________________________________

 

Usable Lanterns/Quick Light/Wearable Lanterns                             Nope. Only 'Usable Lanterns' comes close to being realistic. Maybe later with more options.

_______________________________________________

 

I may have found the solution for Authentic Mountains and Rocks (only 7 hours to figure it out ?) now it depends on the OA what will be done about it.

Spoiler

 

[Aylis]

Also a way to solve it. The OA of  Authentic Mountains and Rocks just labeled the problem 'Not a bug' and then closed the bugreport after i told her which of her files were causing the problem... So no help (aka fixed files) coming from that side.

 

Then it comes down to my solution...

AMaR SPP - Patch.7z

 

Updating post #1603 (Done)

________________________________________________

 

Back to normal business:

 

Found the updates for the 'Improved Bards' now it is worth taking a closer look.

Improved Bards - Special Edition (Looking good so far, no 'Black Faces' here... Still got to check more locations)

Improved Bards CBBE SE - updated esp (Works fine)

Improved Bards - CBBE 3BBB (3BA) Bodyslides (Not sure they look a little bit off)

 

Then i have to catch and tame a horse and can take a look at:

Convenient Horses

[Trotf]

I've just finished installing all the mods and updated your latest changes and dependencies but am getting two annoying CTDs.

The first one when trying to enter the inn in Riverwood (all other buildings work). After 2 seconds the loading screen freezes and then the game crashes.

I wanted to check if the same happens in Whiterun but I didn't get that far. When I try to cross the small bridge shortly after the stables the game immediately CTDs. Has anyone experienced something similar?

I installed pretty much everything except the ENB and all scriptheavy or as FPS marked mods since my graphic card is not the best.

[wollboi]

@Trotf How beefy is your machine? Whiterun is notorious for causing CTD at that particular location with or without mods. No idea about the inn. Does papyrus throw out anything suspicious?

[Aylis]

@Trotf

These sort of problems usually are related to missing/broken meshes and/or the skeleton. Textures are possible but that is rather rare.

 

Scripts are not handled by the GPU. So they won't matter in that regard. You did read the entry 'Hardware' in post #6, right?

 

Another thing is that some mods in the list were made for the use with an ENB. That might, don't know for sure as i always use one, become a problem if you don't have an ENB installed.

[slough_monster]

I have an update on a couple of the bugs I was seeing.  Might help you @Trotf.

 

The first bug was that in the vanilla beginning scene, either the female captain or Hadvar (or whatever his name is), would be completely missing, seemingly depending on the gender of my PC.  It seems it has to do with the legion armor replacer mod.  if you look in the posts, there is this:

 

Quote

A head's up for anyone using this, the Guard Armor Replacer (GAR), Immersive Armors (IA), and Royal Armory (RA):
P.S. Also using Alternate Start, not sure how this works with normal vanilla start.

Starting the game with all enabled will cause issues. If you disable the IA Imperial Armors then try to go into the game some characters (like Legate Rikke and Tullius) will have the IA armor, and the RA weapon b/c RA uses a quest script (it creates a quest to inject the weapons then completes the quest) which replaces the armor of the npcs and reverts it to IA armor.
The way I found to fix this is to load your game without RA active in your plugin order. Do the IA configuring. And then save and quit without doing anything else. Activate RA, and then go into game and let RA run its script. You'll know it's done b/c the quest will show you it completing by saying "Completed: Add items via script" Then you can choice your start and you can play. You can't just use "Resetinventory" b/c that deletes their RA weapon since it resets their inventory to what this mod makes it

A note about IA and this mod: Don't choose the start to be in the war if you have these three mods I've mentioned. This is b/c after doing the IA config, the npcs won't be updated and still have their IA armor. If you do a start somewhere else (ex. Own the Markarth house) then go to the respective commanders (Tullius & Rikke or Ulfric & Galmar) then they will have their respective Imperial or Stormcloak armor. (Although Stormcloaks seem to be ok, I'm still mentioning them just in case.)

~ForcefulMocha

I did as he recommended, and tada, all the NPCs are there as they should be.

 

The second issue (which might be related to @Trotf) I had was that I was crashing at Dragon Mounds and twice seemingly unrelated to location (once by white run, and once outside the abandoned prison.  The repeatable one was the dragon mounds, and this actually took me a while.  At one point I was convinced it was also gender related, as it was only happening to my male characters, but that unhappy coincidence.  It turned out that I only crashed in rainy weather and that the female characters had sunny weather and the males rainy. 

 

It has to do with installing your True Storms patches correctly.  The https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/2472.  Make sure that you have selected ONLY ONE of the 4 options (I am actually not sure what I selected the first time.  the plugin I had said it was luminous and I only had one plug in, but I might have chosen luminous twice), AND  you also need to select the patch for Audio Overhaul.  Or at least that is what worked for me.

 

What worked for me was the alternate spectral patch (alt. patch includes the water fix, I may end up liking having all the fog and go back to no water fix).

 

@Trotf, If you are having the same crashes as me, is it only happening in rainy weather?  If not, then I don't know.  My crashes were also almost non-existent, I had two instances, other than dragon mounds.  I have no idea why the weather and the dragon mounds hated each other.  It also only happened (but was very very repeatable) when I walked directly across the middle of the mound.  If I just circled around it, no problems.

[jaeos]

On 4/8/2020 at 5:53 AM, Aylis said:

V1.1 right? I love the eyes...

 

Btw. did you find something difficult to install which i should elaborate on/make an installation guide for?

it says 1.1.7, only issue i've come across is i input it as "shaved" and she has a light covering, her tattoo doesn't show well, but hey, maybe i clicked the wrong button on install, no big deal

Nope, i'm still messing with a lot of black faces in game, there were 5 in the inn at solitude, so it's just a mess with load order once i figure out whats causing the conflict

[Aylis]

@slough_monster

The only difference i noticed going through the 'normal' beginning of alternate start was Hadvar missing when you leave the cart. I assume this is because he starts the character creation (which you already did in AS).

Spoiler

As he appears later, after the run through the burning houses, i don't think thats a real problem. Just not perfect...

 

On the other hand i don't get why AS gets installed only to use the normal start anyway. In that case i'd skip AS completely and not install it at all. ?

 

 

@jaeos

Hehe, you fell for it. ?

 

That seven belongs to the compression 7z. It got nothing to do with the version of the file (but sometimes i got to take a second look too).

 

Will check the inn. Just in case...

 

€: Nothing unusual there. Can you give me some names?

[Ewigan]

good morning everyone

 

about the Aylis Preset (thanks again, I really like it): the 1.1 version has no .jslot file ending. I wondered why no preset showed up after removing 1.0 and installing 1.1, I renamed the "Aylis 1.1" to "Aylis 1.1.jslot" like the 1.0 version and it was there again.

One bug(?) that I encountered since (Aylis Preset) version 1.0 is when loading the preset in RaceMenu, you can see the changes applied to the character, but only sometimes the skin color updates to a slightly darker tone (as intended i think), sometimes it stays at the skin color level that was set before loading the preset (on a female breton). In that case I just keep loading in the preset until it updates correctly.

 

I wanted to add the new 4.1 stage to the 3BBB installation instructions but it seems you've already updated it

 

I'm still trying out a lot of stuff, but so far I'm really happy with the results your modding guide provides.

Thank you again for https://www.loverslab.com/topic/141764-test-procedure-for-3bbb-and-hdt-smp/

I didn't really understand what I was doing and installing with all the body and physics stuff and what might interfere with it, what i have to set up manually etc., but getting these values correct helped. After that I pressed + on my numpad, 3BBB physics activated and i was like oh, NOW I get it

I also deactivated all the wetness stuff in the newest ENB, my character was showing a very, very glossy and reflecting skin (indoors) like she just bathed in oil... took me a bit so find the settings but now I'm happy again

 

[Aylis]

1 hour ago, Ewigan said:

the 1.1 version has no .jslot file ending. I wondered why no preset showed up after removing 1.0 and installing 1.1, I renamed the "Aylis 1.1" to "Aylis 1.1.jslot" like the 1.0 version and it was there again.

What?!

 

Will upload the corrected file asap. No idea how this could happen. I copied it out of my game... (Done. And still no clue how that was even possible ?)

 

 

1 hour ago, Ewigan said:

One bug(?) that I encountered since (Aylis Preset) version 1.0 is when loading the preset in RaceMenu, you can see the changes applied to the character, but only sometimes the skin color updates to a slightly darker tone (as intended i think), sometimes it stays at the skin color level that was set before loading the preset (on a female breton). In that case I just keep loading in the preset until it updates correctly.

There seems to be some lag 'til the changes are applied. For me the char got white-blonde hair for some seconds. 

 

 

1 hour ago, Ewigan said:

Thank you again for https://www.loverslab.com/topic/141764-test-procedure-for-3bbb-and-hdt-smp/

I didn't really understand what I was doing and installing with all the body and physics stuff and what might interfere with it, what i have to set up manually etc., but getting these values correct helped. After that I pressed + on my numpad, 3BBB physics activated and i was like oh, NOW I get it

You're welcome.

 

You have no idea how much i was struggling with it for the first few hours. Whats in that thread is exactly how i finally got it running on my system...