Skyrim for Noobs: Immersion modding step-by-step guide

[Rusey]

Hey all. Spent a lot of time putting together an immersion playthrough for myself and decided to turn it into a guide for people who are maybe intrigued by the playstyle but intimidated by modding. Finally got it up and running on my new blog.

 

Skyrim for Noobs: Immersion Modding Guide

 

The guidelines I used when putting this together were:

• Must be usable with any combination of Skyrim and DLCs;
• Must cover main immersion mods
• Must also represent optional, but popular, categories like world texture packs and character creation mods
• Mods must be highly polished and impactful to avoid overwhelming user (IE, floral overhaul yes, prettier bottle label textures no)

 

If it looks long, that's because I skip no steps. It covers everything from downloading to installing to setting them up in-game (where applicable). Hopefully it helps some people and I'd love feedback. Especially let me know if you check it out and notice mistakes or typos! :smile: Site's still under construction so ignore random colour changes for now lol.

 

And if you wonder what your game will look like when you're done, here's a small gallery. I use these mods for my playthrough as well. :)

Edited December 4, 2013 by Redlost

[MorielAtta]

Thank you! I'm replaying Morrowind at the moment, but after that I am going to have another go at Skyrim - my first playthough was right after it came out, so there were almost no mods. Having a nice concise guide like this wil help me greatly in setting my new Skyrim game.

 

[ItsScootsMcBoots]

Gopher did a video tutorial series on modding for beginners, including immersion mods. I don't know how much traffic you'll get for this, unfortunately, but kudos on putting it together regardless.

 

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE7DlYarj-DdhDG41roBVJfNCqvO5MmKP

[Rusey]

Gopher did a video tutorial series on modding for beginners, including immersion mods. I don't know how much traffic you'll get for this, unfortunately, but kudos on putting it together regardless.

 

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE7DlYarj-DdhDG41roBVJfNCqvO5MmKP

 

I think it's nice to have both video and text. My spouse is all about video tutorials while I much prefer reading, so I think there's definitely a niche to be served :)

[MorielAtta]

I'm with you Redlost - text is much preferable to video in my opinion. I can easily scan a piece of text to see if it contains anything interesting to me, whereas a video has to be watched in it's entirety before I can know whether or not it has anything useful to me. I also usually have music playing on my computer, so watching a video means I have to stop the music or else listen to a cacaphony of conflicting sounds that become unintelligible.

 

Yay text!

 

[BCbrad]

I like it, but what to do if you don't want to start a new character? I recently did a fresh install an more or less followed the steps without know this post existed. I have added few other mods like player head tracking, temptress race (the existing character) and a few other armor and player/npc beautification mods. I ctd on every fast travel or after about 2 minutes of play. Frustrating!

[Prosercunus]

Thanks for this topic. I wouldn't call myself a complete noob (I have used and played with a lot of these mods) but it has been quite awhile since I played or modded skyrim and have had a fresh install/computer since that point. This guide helped me remember a lot of mods I used and loved without having to browse Nexus.

 

Appreciate it.

[Rusey]

I like it, but what to do if you don't want to start a new character? I recently did a fresh install an more or less followed the steps without know this post existed. I have added few other mods like player head tracking, temptress race (the existing character) and a few other armor and player/npc beautification mods. I ctd on every fast travel or after about 2 minutes of play. Frustrating!

 

You were crashing before you installed the mods I suggested or after? I can't promise anything but if you wanna list everything else you're using I can try to take a look and see if anything screams conflict. Off the top of my head I can't think of any problems a custom race would cause with these mods though. It could be the NPC mods conflicting with Amazing Follower Tweaks (though one of the reasons I picked AFT is it's less likely to cause conflicts).

 

You might also want to check out the STEP project's clean save procedure here. It's a hefty undertaking though.

 

Thanks for this topic. I wouldn't call myself a complete noob (I have used and played with a lot of these mods) but it has been quite awhile since I played or modded skyrim and have had a fresh install/computer since that point. This guide helped me remember a lot of mods I used and loved without having to browse Nexus.

 

Appreciate it.

 

Heh well noob just has a better ring to it. :wink: Glad it was useful!

 

And on that note, if anybody wondered what the game looks like VISUALLY if you install what I suggested, I put up a small gallery.

Edited December 4, 2013 by Redlost

[BCbrad]

I am doing a clean install again. But slower... I will put more time into it and test each mod. I was crashing a lot prior but I was running about 90 mods but probably had 150 deactiveated. Almost two years of mods. I will be selective this time around and look for stablity before moving on.

[Rusey]

Yeah, I did quite a bit of testing weeding stuff out myself. With a couple of additions I use this modlist myself so it should be stable. :) It's a pain because it usually takes me at least a week when I start playing Elder Scrolls games again to get a working, stable modlist that I'm satisfied with and then start a game "for real."

 

The custom race you want shouldn't be a problem, though I haven't used one myself. I like playing orc ladies :P