guide Skyrim AE for Beginners - V 3.1.0

[SirusRobomage]

I seem to be having trouble going into SL Defeat and changing the tag settings for animations. The menu to edit tags never comes up, and doing so seems to make the MCM for SL Defeat just stop working entirely.

[Guest]

22 hours ago, KCOLL said:

i had dialogue issues when trying to run sexlab p+ and eager npc . i reverted back to pure sexlab. just seem to have no luck running p+ 

Nice tip.  I don't use P+ but will be aware now.  🤗 After some more testing something is blocking dialogue options now for everyone.  I'll keep deleting till I fix it.  I can ask or respond to one comment, the followup options simply are not there for me to respond with.  Just my prior comment all ghosty white and unclickable.  I hate mid-game bugs.  Modding.😢

[Guest]

6 hours ago, SirusRobomage said:

I seem to be having trouble going into SL Defeat and changing the tag settings for animations. The menu to edit tags never comes up, and doing so seems to make the MCM for SL Defeat just stop working entirely.

I don't know how to use it but trying to.  Saw it recommended recently on the Naked Defeat mod post.

[Dez65]

 

On 4/5/2025 at 5:24 PM, PubliusNV said:

Did you install "College of Winterhold - Quest Expansion"? That adds 7 short quests you have to do, one for each school of magic, before you can do Saarthal.

I do have that installed!  I guess I was expecting some sort of prompt for the additional quests.  The only prompt after the initial ward scene is to talk to Tolfdir.

 

Thanks!

Edited April 7, 2025 by Dez65

[hvalla]

Fjotra Remastered has been removed from nexus and Konahrik's Accoutrements - 3BA Bodyslide Preset set to hidden

[CaptainFexis]

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/86132?tab=description

Guys how do I integrate this into 'this' modlist, anything I should know of beforehand? I mean like is there any mods/files to deactivate or some external tool to run if I install this.

[hardcoremanuel]

3 hours ago, CaptainFexis said:

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/86132?tab=description

Guys how do I integrate this into 'this' modlist, anything I should know of beforehand? I mean like is there any mods/files to deactivate or some external tool to run if I install this.

Using different replacers for NPCs is fairly straight forward but can cause the black face bug if you don't know what you are doing.

For this list place Bloodline after High Poly NPC Overhaul - HighRes FaceTint (left MO2 panel). Make sure your mod is overwriting the facegendata .nifs and facetint .dds from High Poly NPC Overhaul. Place the .esp from Bloodline after the .esp from High Poly NPC Overhaul (right MO2 panel).

It is likely you will need to rebuild your Bashed Patch.

When in doubt use SSEEdit to check for conflicts.

[trgdolors]

On 4/8/2025 at 3:46 AM, hvalla said:

Fjotra Remastered has been removed from nexus and Konahrik's Accoutrements - 3BA Bodyslide Preset set to hidden

As for Fjotra, on this mod's page, MW Fjotra Replacer - The Sybil of Dibella as a Young Adult - ESL, the original FR author Allison Wade comments that FR was taken down by Nexus staff. There is a ko-fi.com link to the original mod here, AW Adult Fjotra - Sybil of Dibella [Skyrim SE/AE mod], and allegedly it is free, but I didn't confirm it. Maybe it needs a login?

 

Next time Aylis does updates, perhaps an updated link is in order? Though I am curious why the mod was taken down.

[Mecesis]

On 3/13/2025 at 6:55 AM, hardcoremanuel said:

Download and install everything in the order presented by the guide.

Especially in the mesh and texture sections of the guide you will see file conflicts (the + and - symbols in Mod Organizer). Only the file winning the conflict gets loaded by the game. These sections are the ones that will affect your frame rate the most apart from your ENB.

Many of the texture mods have various quality options available (4k, 2k, 1k). Which one works best for you will depend on your GPU and how much vRAM you have.

Hi, sorry for the delay in my response. I've been unable to dedicate time to gaming for a while

 

My graphics card is a 2060, with 6G RAM, and my PC has 8G RAM. I don't think there's much to it. That's why I was asking about prioritizing one mod over the other.

 

Thanks for your response, I'll continue following the guide

[Fakenet]

7 hours ago, trgdolors said:

... Though I am curious why the mod was taken down.

It's probably a case of the reverse of the 1000 year old loli.

It's agrown ass woman that technically isn't 18. Just how in some people's minds you can't bang flash-grown clones for the same reason.

I never understood the obsession with numbers when it's in my opinion more important what they look like.

[Varithina]

6 hours ago, Mecesis said:

My graphics card is a 2060, with 6G RAM, and my PC has 8G RAM. I don't think there's much to it. That's why I was asking about prioritizing one mod over the other.

 

 

I ran a 2060 for ages, though I did run 16GB of ram at the time, not 8, when I was playing around with the list, though it was a couple of version ago, the way I found to keep fps up was to drop any of the 4K or higher textures it stated down to 2k, or in some cases, especially for the smaller stuff down to 1K, and I normally had about 50-60 FPS everywhere at the time, keep the same load order when you are installing though.

 

It might be worth while just installing the list as is, try it see what FPS, and how playable the game is, if it is not playable, then go through and drop the textures down from 4K to 2K, especially on the world objects, and armours that are distributed to other NPC's.

[Fakenet]

IMO you only need 4k textures for screenarchery. I do not believe that most people can tell the difference during regular gameplay. So I have already picked the 2k for a lot of stuff without testing the performance.

[Basicman]

Hey all i would really appreciate your help because due to a mistake in modding I have deleted these weather configs in the upper right of the screenshot. I would find it very helpful if someone could tell me the mod that contained these configs so I can re download them.

[hardcoremanuel]

8 hours ago, Basicman said:

Hey all i would really appreciate your help because due to a mistake in modding I have deleted these weather configs in the upper right of the screenshot. I would find it very helpful if someone could tell me the mod that contained these configs so I can re download them.

I'm fairly sure that error message is from your ENB.

ENB is looking for mod added weathers and lighting templates.

My guess is the ENB was built for a weather and lighting combination that this list doesn't use.

[Dez65]

On 4/5/2025 at 5:24 PM, PubliusNV said:

That adds 7 short quests you have to do, one for each school of magic, before you can do Saarthal.

Testing this again and still the only prompt after the initial Ward lesson is to talk to Tolfdir for more lessons.  I talk to him and the only lesson he has is more information on wards.  I don't get any new prompts after that and no quest markers for more quests.

 

Who do I speak with about the additional quests, or would that be a spoiler?

[PubliusNV]

2 hours ago, Dez65 said:

Who do I speak with about the additional quests, or would that be a spoiler?

 

Faralda, Drevis, Phinis, Collete, and Tolfdir will each teach you a new spell and then give you a short quest to use it. Urag will lecture you about books. Sergius will ask you to enchant a weapon for him and the deliver it to a customer.  It's been a while since I did these quests, but if I remember correctly I had to talk to one of the others before the dialog option with Tolfdir would show up.

[Grey Cloud]

On 4/11/2025 at 8:12 AM, Basicman said:

Hey all i would really appreciate your help because due to a mistake in modding

It's a Community Shaders thing.  More precisely one of the add-ons, though I can't recall which one. Might be a Kreate or DALC preset thing. I had it myself last week but got rid of it somehow. Might be Azurite 3 related.

[Grey Cloud]

On 4/11/2025 at 4:53 PM, hardcoremanuel said:

I'm fairly sure that error message is from your ENB.

ENB is looking for mod added weathers and lighting templates.

My guess is the ENB was built for a weather and lighting combination that this list doesn't use.

It's Community Sahders rather than ENB but pretty much what you said weather wise.

[Dez65]

57 minutes ago, PubliusNV said:

It's been a while since I did these quests, but if I remember correctly I had to talk to one of the others before the dialog option with Tolfdir would show up.

Nice!  Thanks!  So it's expected that there are no quest markers for these quests?

[Dez65]

2 hours ago, PubliusNV said:

Faralda, Drevis, Phinis, Collete, and Tolfdir will each teach you a new spell

I think there must be something wrong with my installation of this quest mod.  I talked to Drevis and he had no options to teach a spell.  He did give me the Explorer's Guide to Skyrim when I asked about Doomstones but the book appears to be about standing stones and doesn't unlock a spell.   Same with Phinis.  I'll try Faralda and Collete, but, as said, I think my installation of this mod is somehow borked.

[PubliusNV]

3 hours ago, Dez65 said:

So it's expected that there are no quest markers for these quests?

 

As I recall, there were no quest markers to indicate who you should talk to, but once a quest is active, there is a marker for it. For example, Tolfdir teaches you the Waterbreathing spell and tells you to meet Arniel Gane to dive on a wreck and recover something for him, and there's a marker for where you meet him.

 

There is a patch needed if you also have At Your Own Pace - College of Winterhold, and the installation instructions do list a few load order concerns:. Installation instructions and link to patch are here: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/66666

[trgdolors]

15 hours ago, Dez65 said:

Nice!  Thanks!  So it's expected that there are no quest markers for these quests?

If I am understanding your situation, if you go to College of Winterhold - Quest Expansion, there is an optional download called: 

 

EASY MODE - Show Direct Quest Markers

[Novosin]

Quick question. 
I used to have beautiful light beams in way more interiors in my game. Now there's only a few of them in some places and they don't look as good as they used to. I'm guessing it's because I used LUX and then switched to Skyrim is Luminous as LUX was removed from the guide and SIL was added (which brought way more stability to the game).
Would that be a correct guess?

[Novosin]

5 hours ago, Novosin said:

Quick question. 
I used to have beautiful light beams in way more interiors in my game. Now there's only a few of them in some places and they don't look as good as they used to. I'm guessing it's because I used LUX and then switched to Skyrim is Luminous as LUX was removed from the guide and SIL was added (which brought way more stability to the game).
Would that be a correct guess?

Did a little research and an experiment. Others might find it useful. 

I added Skyrim is Luminous - Enhanced to Skyrim is Luminous. 
I then added Window Shadows Ultimate RC 6. I know it's supposed to be standalone, but I found information that it would go well with SIL Enhanced. We'll see. 
And finally Enhanced Dynamic Lighting.

Here are a few screenshots of the results. 
https://imgur.com/a/O3yGSJV
These are captured without any ENB. Just SIL and the three mods in my experiment. Oh, and the improved dust mods from the guide. However, some textures were overwritten (as can be seen in the dust particles), so I'm going to shift some mods around. 
And I'll also be trying out a couple of ENBs to see which one I'll go with for this. 

I have not tested this anough yet. I did get a CTD in Temple of Mara in Riften just as I noticed a floating chest in the small corridor/area behind the altar. So might be because of this experiment, it might not. Still, I need to do more testing. 
And I don't get sun beams/light shafts on as many windows as with LUX. But this seems like a compromise that gives me some of what I'm looking for with far less hassle and far more stability than with LUX. 

Hope someone finds this useful. 

Edited April 15, 2025 by Novosin

[Dez65]

On 4/14/2025 at 9:16 AM, trgdolors said:

 

EASY MODE - Show Direct Quest Markers

Thanks.  I have that installed.

 

Turns out that if I setstaged to 21, the quest proceeded normally to the Saarthal quest.  I figure, based on info at the mods description, that that's the result of a fairly script heavy load order.

 

One disturbing thing was that the little mage girl in the first quest gets the mage clothing from BD Armor and Clothes replacer after she is accepted at the college, along with the physics and a miniature version of the 3BA body for that outfit.  Going to have to figure how to have her wear the vanilla mage clothing if I'm going to keep that mod.