Newbie question: How to mod?

[bonewire]

Hi guys, I simply ove this site. Unbelievable how people put all their hard work into modding skyrim so it looks better. I really appreciate your work.

 

To my topic: How do I mod my files? I downloaded many mods and most of the say, that I have to copy the files into my steam\steamapps\common\skyrim\data folder. But there are no textures. I can only find .bsa files. And before somebody asks: This is NO piratetd copy. I just bought it today and Steam downloaded Skyrim for me (took 4 hours). I read in another thread where somebody asked about the modding and he had only .bsa files and the moderator said he has a pirated copy and should leave the forum.

 

So how is that possible, when I just bought the game? Is this the new Steam Version of Skyrim and I can´t mod it like all you guys?

 

Thanks a lot for help

 

Cheers

Glenn

[Bicolor]

Offcouce you can mod ,im sure, easiest way , find NMM in Nexusfiles, download it, and use that for mods, i do that for 90% mods, but some dont work this way, look at hwat the mods tell, good luck

[Cornpipe]

The reason the textures folder isn't there is because you haven't created it yet. By default, Skyrim gets all of it's assets from the .bsa files located in the \data folder. BUT, it first checks to see if there are any files in folders named the same as the .bsa files and uses the assets located in those folders instead of the ones in the .bsa files. Make sense?

 

In order to install a mod that replaces some textures, simply copy the textures folder from what you downloaded into the \skyrim\data folder. You can even build off of that with additional mods. If you download another one that changes other textures, do the same process and Windows will combine the two into a single textures folder with the same file structure as the corresponding .bsa archive.

 

Same goes for: Animations, Interface, Meshes, Misc, Shaders, Sounds, Textures, Voices, & VoicesExtra

 

Hope this helps.

[bonewire]

Thanks guys,

 

yes that helped! I created the texture folder and Skyrim uses the new textures instead of the .bsa textures. Great!

But why did that moderator say, that if there is no texture folder it is a pirated copy and that guy should leave the forum?

 

thanks and cheers

Glenn