Here’s a tutorial from mod guru Gopher to get you started.Ī lot of the mods in this list can be used in tandem, but even compatible mods can have a falling out when they’re not put in the correct load order. If you’ve modded Fallout 4, you’ll already be au fait with the manager, and you can use it for several other games, including The Witcher 3. It looks a bit intimidating at first, but once you’ve got it set up, you won’t need to worry about it at all. There are several good ones, but Nexus Mod Manager is your best bet.

You can hop directly to the kind of mod you want via the links below.Įven if you’re just planning on using a few mods, grabbing a mod manager will skip so much hassle. We've only picked the very best Skyrim mods, but there are so many available that we've had to break them down by category. The fewer mods you’ve installed, the easier it will be to pinpoint any problems or conflicts. You don’t need to fire up the save after every mod, but it’s worth checking a few times during the process to make sure everything’s working. What I like to do is create a new, unmodified game, get somewhere like Riverwood and then create a save that I can use for testing. It’s also recommended to do a clean install of Skyrim and start a new game, especially if you’re going to be throwing a lot of mods into the mix. Missing armor (cloaks as well) is ALWAYS concidered a biped slot conflict or missing assets, there are NO other known causes for it, and as cloaks doesn't have anything else touching its biped slots, then its an asset issue.Watch on YouTube How to install Skyrim modsīefore you start turning dragons into 'Macho Man' Randy Savage, there are a few things you’ll want to install first. Water mods (which are worldspace edits) and horse mods (which are scripted) and related bugs with them are much more intricate then missing objects, so please do not try and compare causes between different types of mods and different types of bugs because with Skyrim things are not that simple. General rule is that if a LOOT sorted load order runs worse then a 'anything goes' load order, you have mod conflicts that need a patch or some other sort of fix, rather then a load order problem.

That's not to say LOOT doesn't get things wrong, it can, but the errors in placement are almost exclusively in merged plugins (which you should always hand place anyway) and newly updated mods that the LOOT team may not have any custom info about. Please stop suggesting that LOOT is always at fault when a mod isn't working because generally its a user error or mod error long before its a LOOT error.

Again (as I also mentioned this in another thread you posted in), Cloaks of Skyrim doesn't have any conflicts which make load order importaint for it. That's my best guess based on programming experience and limited knowledge of modding anyway. I didn't include the unofficial patches above, since it didn't fit in otherwise. I might be missing something, if you feel like it, you can check out my mods list here Ĭloaks.esp is on load order 27.

I checked my entire list and i'm pretty positive nothing conflicts with the Cloaks mod. In your case, I imagine there's some cloak texture, maybe an HD pack? Or maybe a mod that modifies the mesh and/or animation of cloaks that is loading after and conflicting. I just put it back manually and everything works again, but still have the gray outline artifact.īasic premise is that anything loaded after that effects the same thing will take precedence. I tried it for some weapons graphics artifacts using Pure Waters (still unresolved) and it had me rearrange (an otherwise working order) to the point were my horse mods' functions weren't working, some other textures weren't appearing, some armors appeared in the wrong smithing positions or not at all, and so on. Originally posted by kdodds:Yes, but LOOT isn't perfect.

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