HELP!

[TESfinatic]

Im am new to this whole pc modding and gaming in general and i have watched video after video of how to geyt the sexlab and osex working i have installed it all and i have tried several times but no matter what i do it wont work wether it be skyui saying skse is not installed when it is or it being the animations not working in game i am rly lost and could use some real help plz.

[WakahisaSensei]

Im am new to this whole pc modding and gaming in general and i have watched video after video of how to geyt the sexlab and osex working i have installed it all and i have tried several times but no matter what i do it wont work wether it be skyui saying skse is not installed when it is or it being the animations not working in game i am rly lost and could use some real help plz.

1. Well for one, you obviously need to install SKSE which is a script extender. It allows for the more complex mods. When you play the game, you open it via SKSE rather than Skyrim or the skyrim launcher. Otherwise the mods will not work. https://skse.silverlock.org/

2. In order to get the animations themselves to work you need a tool called FNIS and you must run the tool prior to playing the game. https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/11811

3. Use a tool to sort your load order (as the order the mods load is very important to a functional game). i recommend a tool called LOOT. https://loot.github.io/

4. Since you are fairly new to this you should familiarize yourself with the mod-manager vortex as a way of installing mods, if you haven't already. It is available on this site.

5. Make sure you have the required mods for osex and/or sexlab such as netimmerse override https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/37481 and the OSA acendency engine https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/76744. Also, I'm reasonably certain osex and sexlab are entirely different mod families. But I only dabbled with adult mods very briefly so I can't be 100% sure of that. The good people on Loverslab can probably help you with those particular mods further. To my knowledge, sexlab is itself just a framework and requires other mods to make its content usable. I wouldn't know what mods those would be but I know where you can find them, Loverslab.

 

However, if you follow all of the above steps (and assuming these are the only mods you're trying to use) you should be good to go. If you intend to get into more complex stuff and install a significant number of mods, that may change things. If you use a large number of mods or mods that are graphically intense you may have to deal with memory fixes to prevent crashing.

 

Also, and you may or may not know this, even if you get the above mods to work the characters will be clothed unless you have a body mod that makes them nude. The only body mod I've ever used was CBBE, but other bodymods are exist. UNP is another popular one. Scout around and see which ones suit your preferences and I imagine most will have a nude option if you so desire. Both CBBE and UNP only deal with female models. I can't recommend a good male body model as I'm still looking for one myself, haven't found any i care for. I used to use one called Better Males but I honestly can't tell the difference between Better Males and vanilla.

Edited December 23, 2018 by WakahisaSensei

[Zebsi]

You should do everything WakahisaSensei said except this:

you should familiarize yourself with the mod-manager vortex

Use Mod Organizer 2 instead. It's made by the same guy who's developing Vortex, except it's been out longer, does everything Vortex does and more, and it's just all around better.

[WakahisaSensei]

You should do everything WakahisaSensei said except this:

you should familiarize yourself with the mod-manager vortex

Use Mod Organizer 2 instead. It's made by the same guy who's developing Vortex, except it's been out longer, does everything Vortex does and more, and it's just all around better.

Technically speaking, I prefer Mod Organizer 2. However, as I think i mentioned it has a rather high learning curve. They said they were new to modding and gaming in general. I figured they should take smaller steps and then switch to MO2 once they're more comfortable. Switching can be a pain but it might be to their benefit to start small. However, if TESfinatic is willing to take on a little extra challenge, then by all means try MO2 first. If you can learn it, it is certainly the better option. And it does come with a tutorial (plus plenty of youtube tutorials as well.)

 

Regardless, I often find its useful (or even necessary) to run mod managers in administrator mode. So you may want to give that a shot as well.

[Zebsi]

 

You should do everything WakahisaSensei said except this:

you should familiarize yourself with the mod-manager vortex

Use Mod Organizer 2 instead. It's made by the same guy who's developing Vortex, except it's been out longer, does everything Vortex does and more, and it's just all around better.

Technically speaking, I prefer Mod Organizer 2. However, as I think i mentioned it has a rather high learning curve. They said they were new to modding and gaming in general. I figured they should take smaller steps and then switch to MO2 once they're more comfortable. Switching can be a pain but it might be to their benefit to start small. However, if TESfinatic is willing to take on a little extra challenge, then by all means try MO2 first. If you can learn it, it is certainly the better option. And it does come with a tutorial (plus plenty of youtube tutorials as well.)

 

Regardless, I often find its useful (or even necessary) to run mod managers in administrator mode. So you may want to give that a shot as well.

 

That's a fair point, I only brought it up because you didn't mention it.

 

And even though there's a curve, it's better to just try to learn it right off the bat. Because as a new mod user, he's bound to screw up his load order once or twice like the rest of us did when we started, but with MO's virtual drive system, no significant problems can really occur.

 

I will say, that it's nice to see someone else here who actually prefers Mod Organizer. There's so much bad advice here about using Vortex, it's wild.

[WakahisaSensei]

 

 

You should do everything WakahisaSensei said except this:

you should familiarize yourself with the mod-manager vortex

Use Mod Organizer 2 instead. It's made by the same guy who's developing Vortex, except it's been out longer, does everything Vortex does and more, and it's just all around better.

Technically speaking, I prefer Mod Organizer 2. However, as I think i mentioned it has a rather high learning curve. They said they were new to modding and gaming in general. I figured they should take smaller steps and then switch to MO2 once they're more comfortable. Switching can be a pain but it might be to their benefit to start small. However, if TESfinatic is willing to take on a little extra challenge, then by all means try MO2 first. If you can learn it, it is certainly the better option. And it does come with a tutorial (plus plenty of youtube tutorials as well.)

 

Regardless, I often find its useful (or even necessary) to run mod managers in administrator mode. So you may want to give that a shot as well.

 

That's a fair point, I only brought it up because you didn't mention it.

 

And even though there's a curve, it's better to just try to learn it right off the bat. Because as a new mod user, he's bound to screw up his load order once or twice like the rest of us did when we started, but with MO's virtual drive system, no significant problems can really occur.

 

I will say, that it's nice to see someone else here who actually prefers Mod Organizer. There's so much bad advice here about using Vortex, it's wild.

 

It is good to learn it right off the bat. But if I tried to do that when I first started modding I probably would have given up on the whole thing. My knowledge level was really low when I started and MO2 might have driven me off of it due to how alien it would have seemed to me. But I also knew relatively little about computers in general. It really depends on where your starting point is. If someone understands tech well enough but not games, they could probably learn MO2 easily. I knew games, but not tech. Played for years, but it wasn't until I started modding with NMM that I began to learn any of the vocabulary most computer people take for granted. I still don't know a lot, but I've improved a great deal through trial an error. But if I started with MO2 and all of its eccentricities, I'm not sure I would have stuck with it (because I wouldn't have even understood the help people could offer).

 

But again, I started modding with significantly less knowledge than most people would have when starting. My skill sets have always been in other fields.

Edited December 26, 2018 by WakahisaSensei