Looking for help/tips after fresh install !

[Finaltime]

(This is my first post here, so dont kill me pls, lol)

So I recently re-installed my Skyrim completely and deleted all Mods because it was still the old installation from back in 2011 when it was released and I dont think I ever updated my Mods so I figured, I'd tidy up all the non-up to date Mods with that so I can get everything get running on the newest updates.

Screenshot of my old character:



I currently dont have a "load order" besides Skyrim & the unofficial patches + SKSE/FNIS since I deleted most of the mods again

Problem now: Female character have Neckseams and different color on face+neck in comparison to the body and my skin is not as 'smooth' as before with Sevenbase

(forgot to take a screenshot sorry, maybe gonna get one later)

So yeah I basically wanna get everything back to work, after my 2nd reinstall from skyrim&mods I'm really struggling

I also wanna try out this Sex-animation thing here from Loverslab.

I used the newest version of SKSE and FNIS

As I've tried many things (ofc not EVERYTHING) in the last 2 days I'm looking for help on all of this and it's become really depressing haha

Now I'm looking for help from people who know their way around with those mods

Just so you know: I'm using a Laptop(2yrs old) for Skyrim so I wont be able to go ALL OUT on 4k textures or stuff like that but it was running with some performance enb but I will get a better graphics card for my computer in december, so then I will be reinstalling skyrim yet again -> Im gonna need to do basically the same as now

What I wanna go for now:

-Female character
-Sevenbase body - more bounce
-RaceMenu or ECE, I've only worked with racemenu though
-I wanna have nice skin textures along with makeup / tattoos / more warpaint , but as I said - Im getting these neck problems
-decent enb, for playing & screenshots
-(female) npc overhaul (most likely gonna take npcs of dibella)

-just any good suggestions


as you can see this is really like a Glamazon-ish character, dont judge me

After that all works, I wanna get into Sexlab framework (idk if that's the correct name) and it's variatons and test out how all that works

I basically only used NMM for mods and never really dived into the load order

I'd appreciate help or even just a link to a 'guide' so thanks in advance
(I've looked at STEP guide but I was really confused)

I will go back to googling and researching videos, but I figured I ask the community itself, while I'm AFK.

 

[Alpia]

well a lot of people will recommand mod organizer (MO) for instaling and using mods I personally rather stick with manual install or for the lazy ones NMM

For your load order you don't have to trouble yourself with guides you can do either read a lot or don't bother with that and use LOOT its a nice little program that makes the load order for you. I would also recommend wyre bash if you stick with manual instaling or NMM its pretty self explaining.

 

if you want tattoos warpaints etc. I would stick with race menu the overlay feature is great for that ECE dosen't have something like that.

You allready know what body you want so for the skin texture I would stick with SG Skin http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/35267/?tab=2&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Fskyrim%2Fajax%2Fmodfiles%2F%3Fid%3D35267&pUp=1 I don't know for sure since I use cbbe, but as far as I know 7b should work with all UNP skins correct me if I'm wrong. People seem also to like http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/51602/?tab=1&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Fskyrim%2Fajax%2Fmoddescription%2F%3Fid%3D51602%26preview%3D&pUp=1 Fair Skin or http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/32986/? mature skin. Well if you have neck seems with any of this I'm quite sure here are some people with knowledge of unp 7b

 

Well for ENB presets there are so many I would suggest Real vision the performance version, but well thats up to your taste. if you get yourself an enb do yourself a favor and look into this guide http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/50214/? the section Shensons memory patch is something you should take a look into also SKSE/Memory blocks log if you never had issues with ILS you can skip this guide if you want, but it dosen't hurt

 

As far as it goes for sexlab mods just take yourself the time and look trough the download section there is so much stuff and everyone has their own prefrences whatever mod you choose there are allways in the description requirements make sure you have them and just follow the install guide in the description.

 

 

As I've tried many things (ofc not EVERYTHING) in the last 2 days I'm looking for help on all of this and it's become really depressing haha

Not quite sure what exactly is the problem if you be more specific you will get the help you need here.

 

[Finaltime]

Big thanks, gonna try that stuff out later !

[Varithina]

If you are intending to go for a lot of player made armour and weapons, and the crafting associated with them, I would suggest these 3 mods as well;

 

 

General stores

Prerequisite for the next mod

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/18340/?

 

Crafting cloud storage and retrieval - General Stores

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/33963/?

 

Get or store crafting material from your general stores cloud storage at any crafting station. When using the station for crafting automatically get all relevant items from storage. When you choose storage all applicable items are stored automatically and it opens the cloud storage inventory.

 

Supports forges, tanning racks, grindstones, armour tables, alchemy, enchanting, and cooking

 

And to save you time in getting armour/weapons into the hands of your enemies/shops and random loot tables

 

Lootification by Dienes

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/32339/?

 

Hope these 3 give you at least a start on some things you may not have seen before, rather than the just new armour/weapons stuff you may already be aware off.