Thanks for the reply! I'm referring to this portion of the installation instructions: "....downloading the actual texture pack, and extracting it to a specified location." That location is the "mod" I'm referring to. Per the readme that comes with each "asset pack" (set of textures), you have to download the texture mod and extract it into mod organizer 2 mods folder (at one point, I tried to solve the issue by zipping and installing directly through MO2 so it gets the little "meta.ini" file but it didn't work). For example, here's a paste from the mature skin instructions: "Manually download Mature Skin - CBBE from https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/26017 4a: Extract the contents of the Mature Skin - CBBE-26017-2-15-2-1560516171.7z archive into Mod Organizer 2\mods\zEBD - Mature Skin SD CBBE\textures\MSSC." These are the "mods" I'm referring to. I followed all teh instructions (I think), and the mod mostly works, except I'm randomly missing head/face textures on certain vanilla npcs in a mostly vanilla (alternative start for testing, skyui for sanity, and some other things along those lines) load order. Otherwise my game runs fine, MO2 runs fine... but the error is in MO2, and the wording of the error about not "finding the path" makes me think my solution might be here... thoughts? THANK YOU!