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Iunnrais
Jul 25, 2007

It's gaelic.
I used to use Dragons Diversified, until I got the Dragonborn DLC which is apparently not compatible with it. Are there any similar mods that still work and add additional dragon species? I fondly remember fighting the dragon that summoned saber cats and bears to kill me, for instance ("Wild Dragon").

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Ynglaur
Oct 9, 2013

The Malta Conference, anyone?
Apologies if this has been posted, but in the "How to Mod Skyrim In a Billion Easy Steps" sequence, should Wrye Bash's bashed patch only have "Leveled Lists" selected. There are a total of 6 options:
  • Alias Mod Names
  • Merge Patches
  • Import Names
  • Import Stats
  • Tweak Settings
  • Leveled Lists
In particular, should Wrye Bash or TES5Edit be used to merge patches to get under the 255 limit?

How to Mod Skyrim In a Billion Easy Steps posted:

Pre-requisites:
Install SKSE, Mod Organizer (MO), BOSS, TES5Edit, and Wrye Bash
Setup the last 3 as executabes in MO

1. Launch everything through Mod Organizer. Seriously, everything.
2. Load mods into Mod Organizer
3. Select the mods you want to use
-- SkyUI will complain about not seeing SKSE. It will work fine anyway.
4. Run BOSS
-- If any mods are unrecognized, add them manually to your BOSS list and re-run BOSS.
5. Use TES5Edit to clean mods marked as dirty by BOSS.
--Some mods should remain dirty, and are indicated as such in their documentation.
--Does anyone have a good list of common mods where this is true?
6. Organize the mods in the left-hand pane of Mod Organizer in the same priority as BOSS organized the ESPs and ESMs in the right-hand pane
7. Run Wrye Bash
8. Create Bashed Patch
9. Activate Bashed Patch
10. Run TES5Edit
11. Create Merged Patch, removing Levelled Lists)
12. Go into the Overwrite folder, and re-run Wrye Bash
13. Delete the contents of the Overwrite folder
14. Activate Merged Patch
15. Create various proccer patches (e.g. Automatic Variants)
-- Ensure you run proccers from inside of MO
-- Using SUM can help do this quickly and reliably
16. Activate various proccer patches
17. Run SKSE_Loader
18. Play Skyrim until you decide to play with mods some more
19. Install ENB
20. In case of savefile bloat, add an .ini file for skse and write ClearInvalidRegistrations=1

Agents are GO!
Dec 29, 2004

Iunnrais posted:

I used to use Dragons Diversified, until I got the Dragonborn DLC which is apparently not compatible with it. Are there any similar mods that still work and add additional dragon species? I fondly remember fighting the dragon that summoned saber cats and bears to kill me, for instance ("Wild Dragon").

Deadly Dragons.

Ernie Muppari posted:

1. took them until Dragonborn to make waves for shorelines, 2. that they didn't backport those waves to the base game, and 3. that they couldn't even be bothered to create environmental noise for coastal areas so you could pretend that there were waves you just weren't seeing.

The WATER mod does this.

Inverness
Feb 4, 2009

Fully configurable personal assistant.

Scyantific posted:

The Frostfall armor spells don't work with SPERG's Mage Armor perk, but they do scale with your Alteration level so at Alteration 100 they last a long time.
There is a way to get around this involving setting some global variables from the console. I made a post about it sometime back.

Edit:

Inverness posted:

I wasn't suggesting that they work just like the normal armor spells in SPERG, only they work as if you had the level 3 vanilla Mage Armor perk.

Edit: After some research and frustration, I discovered that I can set some global variables to 1 in the console to make Frostfall think I have the vanilla mage armor perks. Setting _DE_ArmorPerk1Active, _DE_ArmorPerk2Active, and _DE_ArmorPerk3Active to 1 in the console will make things work.

Ernie Muppari
Aug 4, 2012

Keep this up G'Bert, and soon you won't have a pigeon to protect!

Agents are GO! posted:

The WATER mod does this.

I know, I use WATER with the three major bird mods and HOLY poo poo, it's like Dawnstar is all like on the coast and stuff, with gulls constantly screeching and everything!

omg chael crash
Jul 8, 2012

Macys paid for this. Noodle Boy and Bonby are bad at video games and even worse friends.


Does Sounds of Skyrim still work?

GrizzlyCow
May 30, 2011
Schlongs of Skyrim work

Agents are GO!
Dec 29, 2004

omg chael crash posted:

Does Sounds of Skyrim still work?

I use the CoT sounds addon. Works fine.

ughhhh
Oct 17, 2012

is there a way to use keyboard hotkeys with a 360 gamepad?

Edit: nmv, found this that lets me use hotkeys and also Skyui lets me use group bindings with the 360 gamepad. now i can finally switch my lantern on with a push of a button.

ughhhh fucked around with this message at 09:21 on Feb 10, 2014

omg chael crash
Jul 8, 2012

Macys paid for this. Noodle Boy and Bonby are bad at video games and even worse friends.


When ever I use the FNIS patcher(through MO) MO just goes away and the patcher never runs. Any idea what I'm doing wrong.

Edit: Never mind, I'm dumb.

Synthwave Crusader
Feb 13, 2011

aMidianBorn Imperial Light Armors

Dude says he's planning on releasing the Penitus Oculatus and Imperial Heavy Armor next.

kedo
Nov 27, 2007

Scyantific posted:

aMidianBorn Imperial Light Armors

Dude says he's planning on releasing the Penitus Oculatus and Imperial Heavy Armor next.

God drat CaBaL and his insatiable desire to use up every last mb of my VRAM and make my game take fifty years to load.

Inverness
Feb 4, 2009

Fully configurable personal assistant.
It seems like SPERG is really making Alteration too easy to level.

Just having the armor spells on all the time has raised my Alteration level rapidly. It's 92, which is 30 points above my next highest magic skill, Conjuration at 62.

Of course I like that I don't need to get constantly hit or anything to level up, but it seems to be going too fast. Will need to edit the INI.

omg chael crash
Jul 8, 2012

Macys paid for this. Noodle Boy and Bonby are bad at video games and even worse friends.


Wasn't there a goon who was retexturing all of the vanilla weapons? What happened to that?

Anti-Hero
Feb 26, 2004
I think that project died a long long long time ago.

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Basically, if it's a goon project that doesn't involve scat porn, don't get your hopes up.

Berke Negri
Feb 15, 2012

Les Ricains tuent et moi je mue
Mao Mao
Les fous sont rois et moi je bois
Mao Mao
Les bombes tonnent et moi je sonne
Mao Mao
Les bebes fuient et moi je fuis
Mao Mao


What is the deal with the legion armor looking normal (and good!) in some screenshots and then hilariously low cut with cleavage in the other?

I think one picture has a female imperial with a legion armor bikini.

Synthwave Crusader
Feb 13, 2011

Berke Negri posted:

What is the deal with the legion armor looking normal (and good!) in some screenshots and then hilariously low cut with cleavage in the other?

I think one picture has a female imperial with a legion armor bikini.

Cabal gets other people to do the mod screenshots for him. I think he said he's got a low-end rig that can't handle high graphics settings for display.

omg chael crash
Jul 8, 2012

Macys paid for this. Noodle Boy and Bonby are bad at video games and even worse friends.


So, just want to make sure, when using MO, I should install the Uncapper first and THEN SPERG?

scamtank
Feb 24, 2011

my desire to just be a FUCKING IDIOT all day long is rapidly overtaking my ability to FUNCTION

i suspect that means i'm MENTALLY ILL


omg chael crash posted:

Wasn't there a goon who was retexturing all of the vanilla weapons? What happened to that?

That's Millenia/Arenovalis/whoever. He probably just got bored of swords, since he's still putting up new guns to the New Vegas Nexus.

Super No Vacancy
Jul 26, 2012

omg chael crash posted:

So, just want to make sure, when using MO, I should install the Uncapper first and THEN SPERG?

Install the Uncapper
Install SPERG
Go into the SPERG directory of your /mods folder and make sure the DG and DB .esps are in the main data directory and not the optional folder
Go into the SKSE folder in the SPERG directory and find the .ini, copy it
Go into the Uncapper directory of your /mods folder and replace the .ini in that SKSE folder with your copied SPERG .ini file

Ynglaur
Oct 9, 2013

The Malta Conference, anyone?

epitasis posted:

Install the Uncapper
Install SPERG
Go into the SPERG directory of your /mods folder and make sure the DG and DB .esps are in the main data directory and not the optional folder
Go into the SKSE folder in the SPERG directory and find the .ini, copy it
Go into the Uncapper directory of your /mods folder and replace the .ini in that SKSE folder with your copied SPERG .ini file

I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, but: "How do you do this when you're using Mod Organizer, which isolates mods from each other?"

I'm on 4 hours of sleep, and am hoping the answer isn't hilariously obvious.

Super No Vacancy
Jul 26, 2012

Ynglaur posted:

I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, but: "How do you do this when you're using Mod Organizer, which isolates mods from each other?"

I'm on 4 hours of sleep, and am hoping the answer isn't hilariously obvious.

That's how you do it in ModOrganizer. The SPERG installer is seemingly broken so you have to move some things around. Just find the SPERG and Uncapper directories inside the /mods folder inside the ModOrganizer folder.

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

Ynglaur posted:

I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, but: "How do you do this when you're using Mod Organizer, which isolates mods from each other?"

I'm on 4 hours of sleep, and am hoping the answer isn't hilariously obvious.

The way I do it is install each mod by double clicking the package in the download pane, selecting "manual" and make sure your data folder structure is correct. It should have a green check mark if it does. Install both this way, it doesn't matter which order. Then, in the left pane, make sure SPERG is loading after the uncapper, and it's ini file will automagically overwrite the uncapper's when loading Skyrim. It's really very simple. You can right click any mod in the left pane, select properties and then conflicts to make sure that certain files are being overwritten. It does not require you to manually edit your Skyrim folder in any way.

omg chael crash
Jul 8, 2012

Macys paid for this. Noodle Boy and Bonby are bad at video games and even worse friends.


I went from 15 to 20 with one handed weapons and leveled up, that's not normal, right? Using SPERG, of course. Did I gently caress something up?

mbt
Aug 13, 2012

omg chael crash posted:

I went from 15 to 20 with one handed weapons and leveled up, that's not normal, right? Using SPERG, of course. Did I gently caress something up?

From level 1-2? It might be normal?

primaltrash
Feb 11, 2008

(Thought-ful Croak)

omg chael crash posted:

I went from 15 to 20 with one handed weapons and leveled up, that's not normal, right? Using SPERG, of course. Did I gently caress something up?

That's normal for level 1 to level 2, even in the vanilla game.

omg chael crash
Jul 8, 2012

Macys paid for this. Noodle Boy and Bonby are bad at video games and even worse friends.


Ah, fair enough. Been a while.

zonohedron
Aug 14, 2006


Are the Best Friend pets added by SPERG supposed to equip armor you give them? And if so, does it actually benefit them to have good armor?

Right now I have a netch calf seemingly wearing Elven Gilded Armor (and a hat!) and while the mental image is pretty amazing, I'd hate to either have to take its armor away when I send it off to sell things lest it sell armor I'd improved for it.

Also, what do I have to do to get it to drop stuff off in my house? When I ask it to take things home it tells me it doesn't know where to put things, even though I told it we were home the last time we visited my house.

seorin
May 23, 2005

2 Sun's Dusk (Day 78)
Of the Seven Visions of Seven Trials of the Incarnate, I have now fulfilled the Fifth Trial.
To the best of my knowledge, the armor on them shouldn't do anything. I also found it funny that they randomly seem to equip it for no reason.

When you tell it to store things at home, it looks for a container near where you told it home was. Try giving it a home point closer to the container you want it to store things in.

Crazy Ted
Jul 29, 2003

Any of you have experience with the Expanded Towns and Cities mod? I've run BOSS, cleaned all dirty mods (that aren't supposed to be left dirty) with TES5 Edit, created a Bashed Patch, and I have a Merged Patch active too, but the game crashes every time I try to enter the Dead Man's Drink in Falkreath. I highly suspect there's something screwy in the mod because it's only one I've added to the set of mods I run since I decided to start over with a new character.

Mr. Crow
May 22, 2008

Snap City mayor for life

Crazy Ted posted:

Any of you have experience with the Expanded Towns and Cities mod? I've run BOSS, cleaned all dirty mods (that aren't supposed to be left dirty) with TES5 Edit, created a Bashed Patch, and I have a Merged Patch active too, but the game crashes every time I try to enter the Dead Man's Drink in Falkreath. I highly suspect there's something screwy in the mod because it's only one I've added to the set of mods I run since I decided to start over with a new character.

I used to use it and it was fine, though... that doesn't really mean anything to you. You might try Immerive Settlements, it's what I'm currently using.

Quift
May 11, 2012
i aldo had problems with crashes in falkreath with that mod. so i removed that esp and installed one that turns falkreath into a stone city instead which i love.

might be called imperial falkreath or something like that

Titty Warlord
Apr 28, 2013
Millienia, please get hired by obsidian, thanks in advance.

Lazy_Liberal
Sep 17, 2005

These stones are :sparkles: precious :sparkles:

seorin posted:

To the best of my knowledge, the armor on them shouldn't do anything. I also found it funny that they randomly seem to equip it for no reason.

My little mudcrab pet equipped the ebony mail so he turns all shadowy and evil from time to time. <3

Crazy Ted
Jul 29, 2003

Mr. Crow posted:

I used to use it and it was fine, though... that doesn't really mean anything to you. You might try Immerive Settlements, it's what I'm currently using.
Actually I had the same thought and installed it. No problems so far aside from a misplaced bridge in Darkwater Crossing, but at least that doesn't cause a crash.

Beeb
Jun 29, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 19 days!

scamtank posted:

That's Millenia/Arenovalis/whoever. He probably just got bored of swords, since he's still putting up new guns to the New Vegas Nexus.

Yeah I think he made a post a while back, just saying they didn't interest him as much or something along those lines. Plus his PC got mega hosed in a move, so he wasn't able to do much of anything for a while :(

zonohedron
Aug 14, 2006


seorin posted:

To the best of my knowledge, the armor on them shouldn't do anything. I also found it funny that they randomly seem to equip it for no reason.

When you tell it to store things at home, it looks for a container near where you told it home was. Try giving it a home point closer to the container you want it to store things in.

Aha! Here I was thinking "home is the building we're in" rather than "home is the coordinates we're standing at". Thanks.

[Edit: Norm is now making great use of the Ebony Mail. I'm going to have to remember to remove it from him so he doesn't sell it. Because it's great.]

zonohedron fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Feb 12, 2014

CFox
Nov 9, 2005
I'm sure it's been asked before but this thread is huge now but I'm wanting to put a level cap of 30 on my current game, is the skyrim community uncapper what I need to look into to do this?

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mbt
Aug 13, 2012

CFox posted:

I'm sure it's been asked before but this thread is huge now but I'm wanting to put a level cap of 30 on my current game, is the skyrim community uncapper what I need to look into to do this?

Yes. It's pretty straightforward, just edit the ini.

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