guide Skyrim AE for Beginners - V 3.1.0

[_Warhawk_]

3 hours ago, Fakein said:

Good day!
I just finished installing mods from the "User Interface" category and decided to see what happened, but ...
Gives an error when starting. What to do with it?
The error itself: KiLoader detected a new or changed setup and had to reconfigure itself. Application needs to be restarted for this to take effect. Exiting the process now…

Just run the game again. It just needs to generate/regenerate its configs and it requires a restart.

[Assholomio]

Hello, and thank you so much for this mod list!

 

I've been working my way through it on and off for about, erm, five months now. I didn't really know what I was getting into, and as an actual beginner to modding Skyrim, I must say I'm not sure a list of nearly 2000 mods should rightfully be titled "for beginners" anymore.

 

Nevertheless, I'm glad I persevered, because the results are awesome, and I've also learned a lot about modding in the process.

 

I finally made it to the Final section... haven't yet done the grass/LOD generating, the final frontier, nor have a thoroughly explored the world for bugs. But figured I'd post some thoughts/suggestions/observations.

 

1. As a true newb to this, I did NOT realize we had to install and run Pandora before SexLab animations would play! I lost a couple days of troubleshooting to this. I eventually gleaned it from the thread, but I don't see this mentioned in the actual instructions; I humbly suggest adding a disclaimer of some kind that Pandora needs to be installed and run after the SexLab section. (Or even after the general Animation sections? I don't think all of those were working before I ran Pandora, either, I just didn't notice).
2. MO2 produces text files of the plugin load order and modlist. Have you considered providing those files? It would give us an easy quality control method to verify we are using the intended load order. For instance, we could load your textfiles and our textfiles into something like MS Word and generate a redlined compare document that shows any deviations in our list from your master list.
3. Have you considered making (or perhaps already made and I missed) a consolidated list of mods you have tested and confirmed are incompatible with this mod list? I see you are noting throughout the thread where you have removed or rejected things, but... it's a long thread.
4. "Heels Fix - Settings Loader" states it is now obsolete and included with the latest "Heels Fix" v.1.9. I assume that's fine. (I don't think I've actually seen heels in-game yet.)
5. There are a lot of patches for AI Overhaul, but they're all looking for the AI Overhaul esp master, which doesn't seem to come with AI Overhaul Lite. I assume we do not actually need any patches for AI Overhaul Lite and should ignore any FOMOD options for AI Overhaul... right? For instance: "Interesting NPCs (3DNPC) - Patches" seems to be doing nothing here because there is no AI Overhaul esp.
6. Echo the feedback others have given (which helped me troubleshoot a forever loading screen) that Great Town of Ivarstead has problems and needs to use v1.2.
7. Ditto the feedback regarding Cloaks of Skyrim causing a black face bug on Idolaf and needing to be moved from "Light Armor" to above High Poly NPC Overhaul in "NPCs" to fix it.
8. Not sure if others had this issue, I could not find mention of it in the thread, but Lux Via gave me a CTD when starting a new game. Couldn't figure it out. Skipped it and its dependencies. I don't think I've seen issues as a result.
9. "Glow Be Gone - Skypatcher" blocks the cum textures from "SexLab Advanced Cum Stages (SLACS)" from appearing. The "GlowBeGone - Magic Effects.ini" file in the Glow Be Gone mod needs to be modified by adding "SLACS.esp" to the "modNamesExcluded" line. I also added "DW.esp" in case that matters.

 

Thanks again for this awesome list! The game is looking great and seems pretty stable.

[66q5]

After installing the sex module I'm getting a DLL plugin failure, saying PapyrusUtil.dll has been disabled (Hopefully the image with the error attaches correctly). However, I have installed the most recent versions of both SKSE and Papyrus. Has anyone gotten the same error message?

 

Upd: I fixed it, if you're getting the same error as me, try placing PapyrusUtilities main file below sex mods in the left window of Mod Organizer

Edited June 3, 2025 by 66q5

[SignoreSupremo]

Hi, I just started my playthrough (so luckily nothing important was lost) and I got this crash

2025-06-04-20-03-16.log - Pastebin.com (hopefully you can read it)

Anyone can help me understand it?

 

EDIT: also, do you know what causes things to blur while on third person? In particular, it gets blurry while standing still, but if I move everything is fine

Edited June 4, 2025 by SignoreSupremo

[hardcoremanuel]

2 hours ago, SignoreSupremo said:

Hi, I just started my playthrough (so luckily nothing important was lost) and I got this crash

2025-06-04-20-03-16.log - Pastebin.com (hopefully you can read it)

Anyone can help me understand it?

 

EDIT: also, do you know what causes things to blur while on third person? In particular, it gets blurry while standing still, but if I move everything is fine

The blurry effect is probably from the ENB Depth of Field setting. Bring up the ENB settings menu (usually with Shift+Enter) find the Depth of Field setting and disable it.

[SignoreSupremo]

2 hours ago, hardcoremanuel said:

The blurry effect is probably from the ENB Depth of Field setting. Bring up the ENB settings menu (usually with Shift+Enter) find the Depth of Field setting and disable it.

 

Thx

And for the Pastebin, do you know anything that could be causing that crash?

[SignoreSupremo]

On 6/4/2025 at 10:15 PM, hardcoremanuel said:

The blurry effect is probably from the ENB Depth of Field setting. Bring up the ENB settings menu (usually with Shift+Enter) find the Depth of Field setting and disable it.

 

Thx

And for the Pastebin, do you know anything that could be causing that crash?

 

EDIT: also, cannot imagine what causes it, after a while of game play (should start timing it to be safe), the game freezes. Anyone knows what could be causing it?

[Sarodinianzu]

OK, as a complete newbie to this, I'm going through and grabbing the mods on the list, sorting in MO2, and the like. I come across this:


 

How exactly do I accomplish this? Bear in mind, I've not done this before, so a lot of common terms may need explained to me

[hardcoremanuel]

2 hours ago, Sarodinianzu said:

OK, as a complete newbie to this, I'm going through and grabbing the mods on the list, sorting in MO2, and the like. I come across this:


 

How exactly do I accomplish this? Bear in mind, I've not done this before, so a lot of common terms may need explained to me

Flagging the "Freaks Floral Fields.esp" as a master was for an older version of the mod (prior to v1.2). The mod is currently on v3.1 and no longer has that issue.

[weeb_piglet]

On 2/18/2025 at 4:05 PM, Suidisir said:

Slowly but surely making my way through the installation list. I'm now at the "Grass Cache" portion and am looking at the STEP guide, it's telling me MO2 should have a button to select "Precache Grass." I do not have this option in MO2, so I'm wondering what I missed. Anyone have something similar?

 

Sorted, the optional .py file had to be shuffled over to the plugins directory. On we go with the LOD processes...

 

 

Hold up, which .py file?  How do we sort it?

[hardcoremanuel]

1 minute ago, weeb_piglet said:

 

Hold up, which .py file?  How do we sort it?

No Grass In Objects has an optional file called "Grass Generation MO2 Plugin" that contains "GrassPrecacher.py". Manually download the file.

Place the .py file in the "plugins" folder of your MO2 installation.

[weeb_piglet]

Thank you so much.  I couldn't figure out what I missed!

[Sarodinianzu]

Still going through this list, got to the Creatures - Fauna section. Finished installing the mods there, enabled, did a test run, and now a lot of the random animals and giants look great, but simply t-pose or stay in default pose and don't move at all or react when attacked.

 

I don't think anything's screwed with the animation yet, so I don't know if this is something that further mods down the list will resolve, or if I've screwed something up?

[Varithina]

8 hours ago, Sarodinianzu said:

Still going through this list, got to the Creatures - Fauna section. Finished installing the mods there, enabled, did a test run, and now a lot of the random animals and giants look great, but simply t-pose or stay in default pose and don't move at all or react when attacked.

 

I don't think anything's screwed with the animation yet, so I don't know if this is something that further mods down the list will resolve, or if I've screwed something up?

 

If I remember things right, the animations section including Pandora is lower down the list, if so then running Pandora should sort it out at least well enough to test it, though you may want to delete Pandora's output when you start adding stuff again, though you may be able to just keep it at the bottom.

[Sarodinianzu]

Yeah, Pandora alone didn't do anything. I'll test it again when I have the whole section installed. 

[weeb_piglet]

If you have pandora and OAR installed they might be expecting you to install creature animations that you don't have yet?  I'd try disabling the whole mod until you get to the actual animation sections.

[_Warhawk_]

I just wanted to let everyone know that the Creation Club Content Patch has been updated and brought back individual patches for people who don't use all the AE content. Letting people know since I missed that it updated back in April.

[PervertInside]

it's been a while and i cant seem to find is, but has there been an updated excel list yet?

[_Warhawk_]

8 hours ago, PervertInside said:

it's been a while and i cant seem to find is, but has there been an updated excel list yet?

Not yet. Aylis hasn't been around since the beginning of May so there haven't been any updates.

[PervertInside]

Ah, i was hoping it was "finished" (as much as it can be) and i could work through it and not worry about changes half way through. That borked my install last time, i missed a few of them and didnt want to start all over back then.

[_Warhawk_]

On 6/18/2025 at 6:37 AM, PervertInside said:

Ah, i was hoping it was "finished" (as much as it can be) and i could work through it and not worry about changes half way through. That borked my install last time, i missed a few of them and didnt want to start all over back then.

Yeah, I get you. It is kind of difficult to keep track of what you do in the current state of the mod list and that will make it easier.

[DaMan1]

so im in the "PC" stage of the modding list, my fps drops to around 40 fps on vegetation heavy places, Does the fps get better if i go all the way down with mods and do DynDOLOD stuff? Or is it just hilldown from there

[weeb_piglet]

On 6/22/2025 at 7:17 AM, DaMan1 said:

so im in the "PC" stage of the modding list, my fps drops to around 40 fps on vegetation heavy places, Does the fps get better if i go all the way down with mods and do DynDOLOD stuff? Or is it just hilldown from there

 

It's hard to say because it depends on your hardware but for the most part the mods lower down on the list aren't going to make it better.  Especially not the LOD stuff.

 

If the vegetation mods are taxing your system that much, you might want to go back and start replacing them with downgraded textures.  Especially whichever option you went with for the tree mods.

[DaMan1]

46 minutes ago, weeb_piglet said:

 

It's hard to say because it depends on your hardware but for the most part the mods lower down on the list aren't going to make it better.  Especially not the LOD stuff.

 

If the vegetation mods are taxing your system that much, you might want to go back and start replacing them with downgraded textures.  Especially whichever option you went with for the tree mods.

thanks i guess i guess i'll give up on next gen grapics things. I also tried all those parallax shit aswell, i guess it was the real deal. It humbled me 

[_Warhawk_]

On 6/24/2025 at 1:03 PM, DaMan1 said:

thanks i guess i guess i'll give up on next gen grapics things. I also tried all those parallax shit aswell, i guess it was the real deal. It humbled me 

Yeah, parallax is good but it also has a big performance impact I believe. I think I had better performance switching from Freak's Floral Fields to Freak's Floral Meadows. Its by the same author and designed as a more performant option to Floral Fields. You can try that or only use Parallax on the things the guide says to use or pick and choose what you want to be parallaxed.