Raygereio posted:

We don't really have any details yet. But it looks like it will essentially be Skyrim's assets, updated/remade and placed in FO4's iteration of the Creation Engine.
This means that most of your basic mesh & texture replacers can be ported over. However the question will be if for example a face texture replacer will still look good in the new lighting.
Any plugins however will have to be recreated in an updated version of the Creation Kit. Hopefully for your average mod user, things will be backwards compatible enough that you can simply open the plugin in the CK2.0, have it automatically update records and all you have to do is save the newly converted plugin. If we're unlucky a lot of mods will have to re-created, which means trouble for mods whose creators have moved on.
Also from what footage we've seen so far, it looks like they're taking advantage of the larger memory budget available to them and are placing some extra stuff in the gameworld (plants, rocks, etc). Which can cause issues for existing mods that add stuff to the gameworld. Think a mod's merchant stall clipping with a tree that wasn't there in the original version.

The biggest potential problem will be SKSE. F4SE is nowhere near to having the features SKSE has. The SKSE team have already said that - if possible - there will be an update. But expect it to take a while. Which in turn means it will also take a while for mods like SkyUI, or any other mods that depend on functionality added by SKSE, to get an update.

As for modding in general: It will continue. Though with the introduction of Bethesda.net as a mod distribution platform and console-mods, expect an increase in modders throwing hissy fits. We already have some wonderful early entries. Be sure to stock up on popcorn and enjoy the show.

bloodclot posted:

Oh, and another thing. There is a navmesh conflict between JK's Skyrim and the latest release of USLEEP which results in a crash upon entering Windhelm.. The problem is not present for users of JK's Cities - Lite and Superlite.

The USLEEP team doesn't consider this to be their responsibility to fix, and has provided no way for users to downgrade to an older version where this issue was not present. For the moment, the two mods should be considered incompatible.

TescoBag posted:

So is there a version of SPERG kicking around for SE anymore?

wiegieman posted:

Wait, is the SPERG guy a hugboxer now? I thought that guy was cool.

Internet Kraken posted:

I thought I would get a simple, easy answer

Modding is hard.

Internet Kraken posted:

I keep getting the urge to play this but holy gently caress trying to figure out which mods work and which are broken and how to install them just kills me.

I'm too stupid for this stuff.

Ra Ra Rasputin posted:

I'm in the same boat, I don't want to go through delving the nexus again ever since my mods I left for a couple years were broken and needed to be replaced, hoping for those not-a-modpack modpacks to happen.

quote:

The general idea behind this program is fairly simple. Given a Mod Organizer 2 folder and profile, generate list of instructions that will allow a program to automatically recreate the contents of the folder on another machine. Think of it as replication, but without ever distributing copyrighted files or syncing data between the source and destination machine. The end result is a program that recreate a modlist on a computer while respecting the rights of the game publisher and the mod authors.

Ass_Burgerer posted:

What's this new racial mod thing you want me to judge? I wanna see. I got opinions.

Also, here's arthmoor's response to the change to exe:


*As in, users too dumb to install and manage a load order themselves.

Skwirl posted:

It doesn't support MWSE mods, which means it doesn't support the Fallout 4 style looting mod, so it's a non starter for me until that changes. (Also means I couldn't use my current multi mark mod, but I think there's others that don't use MWSE so that's not as big a deal)

However you can use it to play Morrowind on Android.

Edit, didn't realize which thread I was in. There's a Morrowind thread that's relatively active and has people in it who have used Open Morrowind that could probably tell you more, aside from the MWSE issue it sounds like it's pretty solid now.

DACK FAYDEN posted:

Is the users.nexusmods.com domain inaccessible for anyone else? isup.me agrees with me that it's down. I can't log in (or log into Nexus via MO to link the two) and I have to update just a few things on my finally-working new computer but I can't log in.

Commander Keene posted:

I can't sign in either.

tonberrykng posted:

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/1137

Sigh. Does anyone know what "vanilla plus modding trends" means, like, at all?

Edit: or maybe not. Ordinator was briefly hidden by Enai for dumb mod drama reasons. Proof:

https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/ethso8/ordinator_has_been_hidden/

Pwnstar posted:

You take down your old mods because otherwise morons will DM you that version 0.34 (the last version you uploaded is 1.50) is causing issues in their 200+ mod list and you have to answer them immediately about why you let that happen.

Shady Amish Terror posted:

Do literally any creative thing/content creation for the internet and you will quickly find that a small portion of the population is violently self-centered, toxic, and stupid, and there is nothing stopping that small sliver of people from doing everything in their power to make your life worse. Small miscommunications or entirely imagined sleights blow up into being doxxed or brigaded or receiving death threats or being stalked for years by some intensely strange person who has literally dozens of alt accounts created over multiple years on multiple sites for this express purpose.

Most of these people are Too Online or too dim to actually do much harm, but it's sort of exhausting to deal with, especially with the stress hanging over your head that maybe, some day, one of these gits will actually try to make good on their threats. In context it's sort of wild that anyone puts anything out on the internet.

Rocko Bonaparte posted:

Final thing: what is the mod ecosystem like for spear combat? I want to do spear with shield but it doesn't seem to be mature thing.

Ra Ra Rasputin posted:

Hope you never played oblivion and noticed all of the rivers leading to the imperial cities ports have little stone bridges across them making it impossible for all the large ships to ever leave the city, let alone make it through the shallow winding rivers even without them.

veni veni veni posted:

Thanks. I just kind of ignored the "suggested" Vortex load order and went with what was logical and everything seems to be working now.

Also, what are your guys thoughts on Skyrim 2020 textures? I feel like it's a real mixed bag. The towns look quite nice. Like wood structures, things like that, but I think most everything else looks bad. Paths, rocks, mountains, undergrowth etc. etc. It's very high definition (which is pretty nice for VR) but it all feels very haphazardly slapped on to create a pretty unnatural look. I actually just ditched it in favor of Tamriel Reloaded HD, and despite being noticeably more low res than 2020 textures, it just feels a lot more natural and well put together. Also the foliage looks fantastic and it actually gave me a performance bump. Guess I'm sticking with this for now. it's a shame losing that clarity since VR is so up close though.

Also, I can't believe I have been playing without SMIM until now. Wow, what difference, especially for VR. There were so many flat, simulated textures that now have some sort of depth to them.

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

wiegieman posted:

I'm finding it intensely amusing that the Skyrim mod scene has followed the exact same trajectory with respect to mod packs as the Minecraft scene did. Bitching and moaning by a small clique of prima donnas, who immediately became completely irrelevant because everyone wants mod packs.