New to modding, need help

[Akymo]

AFAIK (as far as I know), both Vortex and MO2 install mods in a system that uses virtual links, where the files are actually held in the mod manager, and the links tell Skyrim what to load. If you are using the 'Mods' feature on the Skyrim menu, you are defeating yourself. It won't show anything you installed through a mod manager, because the manager is bypassing it...

 

I think that you should go to the Vortex discussion and help (found in the parent Nexus Mods site and forums), look through the stuff there. You might not be 'deploying' the mods after you install them. You remove mods from the 'Mods' interface found on the left side of the Vortex display. Right-click on the file name of the mod, and you will get several options, one of which is remove. You can also find remove under the 'Actions' column, which is on the far right of the 'Mods' interface.

 

I tried that and it didn't work. So its not safe to uninstall vortex at all?

 

I never clicked the "Mods" button in skyrim (game)

 

Half of the mods i installed dont work, the other half work.

 

The mods doesnt install in the right folder thats the problem.

 

In EVERY video i looked they show the folder for their PC and mine doesnt look like that.

 

Is there a discord channel i can ask for help?

 

This is getting really frustrating..

[showler]

If I recall correctly, MO2 requires that you launch SKSE/the game from the link in MO2 and MO2 has to be running while you are playing. The virtual files it creates are dependent on MO2 entirely.

 

Vortex, on the other hand, uses standard Windows virtual links. Which means that once the mods are deployed they will appear correctly in any Windows program and you can launch the game without Vortex running in the background.

 

That's a major difference between the two managers.

[Akymo]

anyone can help me in discord?

[7531Leonidas]

Sorry, Akymo, I misread your intention with respect to Vortex. Start Vortex, and click on the 'Knowledge Base', then click on the 'Removing Vortex' entry. That holds the instructions for removing Vortex completely.

[Akymo]

Sorry, Akymo, I misread your intention with respect to Vortex. Start Vortex, and click on the 'Knowledge Base', then click on the 'Removing Vortex' entry. That holds the instructions for removing Vortex completely.

 

Do I need to remove vortex completely and then reinstall to make a clean slate? Or is there another way to "cleanse" it how it was at the beginning?

 

I just want make my mod to work, thats my goal.

 

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[7531Leonidas]

Sorry this is so long!

 

If you are going to use MO2, then I think that you should remove Vortex entirely, and NOT reinstall it. Only use one or the other. Once you decide which one to use, start slowly, with only one or two mods, especially the Unofficial Patches for SSE and for the Creation Club content. Make sure the game loads and is working before you install others. Things that do not make changes to the game, like simple followers, can often be installed several at a time, one after the other, then testing. Landscape, texture, and mesh mods can also, just remember that the earlier installs get overwritten by later mods if they try to change the same things. Gameplay changes, NPC makeovers and quest mods should be limited to a single installation, then testing in the game, at least until you get much more experienced. Even if you use a collection, just install the collection, then test.

 

Your first image, that shows the basic Vortex dashboard, look to the far left. Below the Dashboard highlight, there are two sections: General, then Mods.

 

Click on the Knowledge Base entry to access its list of help items. Scroll down below your picture field of view, you should see a section titled 'Pages in category Vortex'. There you will find the entry 'Remove Vortex' under the letter R. That will lead you through the process of getting Vortex off of your computer.

 

Your seventh image, of the 'Mods' display, shows that you have a filter on for 'alternate', this blocks viewing all of the other mods you have on your machine. Click on 'Clear all filters', and you should see a listing of 376 mods, if I am reading the image correctly. It is a little blurred on my computer. This is the section you will need to 'remove' installed mods from Vortex. Anything listed with a green 'Enabled' button will have to be 'removed'. Do not worry about the 'Plugins' tab, it will take care of itself upon uninstalling individual mods.

 

Your ninth image, the one for 'Plugins', suggests that you did not 'deploy', or activate, the mods you have installed. This implies that you have made changes to your installed mods, and that one or more may no longer be enabled, or have been enabled after you opened Vortex. The default setting on Vortex is to deploy a mod when it has been marked as 'Enabled' on the mod page. You can find that setting inside the 'Settings' entry right above the 'Mods' entry. Your 'Plugins' list does indeed show that you have no active plugins past the base Anniversary Edition installation.

[Akymo]

I ended up using MO2 as I thought it was much easier to use and user friendly then Vortex.

 

Call me old fashioned but I like the white simplistic userface where you can see and control everything better then Vortex which is just pretty UI but everything seems to be hiding under the hood.

 

I manage to install and run some basic mods on MO2 that works, I don't know what I did different other then change the install directory.

 

I'm stuck now on what *most* people also get stuck on, body studio, body presets, and I think eventually updating mods yourself or finding solutions how to make them work or find alternate routes since they are not compatible with my skyrim version.

 

Currently im stuck on how/where to install body presets since there is six ways of doing it that I can think of and I don't know which one is the correct way.

 

It's not helping when it just says

"Install as usual"

and how every guide is about converting or using body presets but doesn't say how to install them.

 

From I learned "install as usual" is never the right way.

[Algabar]

Bodyslide presets usually go to Skyrim SE/data/CalienteTools/Bodyslide/SliderPresets.

 

Most of them here on the Nexus already have that file structure. So you can indeed install them like any other mod. That's what people probably mean by "install as usual".

 

If a bodyslide preset you downloaded has a different file structure than the standard path I mentioned above, you would have to tell MO 2 to install it to the right folder. Since I don't use MO 2 myself, I can't help you with that. But I think, a tutorial on MO 2 should cover that.

 

On a side note: Don't forget to "build" your desired preset in Bodyslide. Just selecting a preset doesn't do anything. You have to "build" it in order to take effect.

[Wererommel]

[A1SUACE]

does anybody know what is going on with my game? I am using a couple mods and the wall exteriors are vibrating and shaking. I tried to disable lighting mods of mine, and the textures that I am using. Does anybody have any suggestions?