Help with the order of generating patches

[speckledsnake]

I posted this in the wrong place...moving it here...

I have all my environmental mods/texture mods/body+skeleton/armor mods/etc. I'm now on to the tricky stuff.

I have installed (but not yet patched):

Perkus Maximus

ASIS

Automatic Variants

FNIS

and have not yet installed:

PCaPP

DSR (waiting to do this the very last)

I'm following GamerPoets videos, which indicate to create my Merged (TES5Merged) Patch, followed by my Bashed Patch, and then all other patchers. (As his video has one unchecking all the patches other mods create, and then remaking them, I assume this is the same process for the first time through.)

Questions:

1. Where in this process should I install PCaPP?

2. Am I really understanding it correctly that before I make my TES5Merged patch, I should deactivate (at left) "...any mods that have their own patchers..." (per GamerPoets video), and by that, their corresponding ESPs/ESMs in the plugins window? As in, I should have ASIS, Perkus Maximus, Automatic Variants, and FNIS deactivated completely, before I run TES5 Edit to make my patch? Or does it only mean the PATCHES for those mods should be disabled?

3. After I make my Merged Patch, I'm going to make my Bashed Patch. I have a lot going on, and I can't find tutorials that gives direction for (all of these together), so I'm trying to find the right order in which to create these subsequent patches:

PCaPP Patcher

FNIS Patcher

ASIS Patcher

Automatic Variants Patcher

PerMa Patcher

DSR Patcher

(the above is my current best guess). Does that look right?

Thanks for any help.

Edited September 13, 2017 by speckledsnake