ArthriticGamer

No, not at all. To me, I assued, it was just another visual mod that acted simply as a texture replacement. No understanding as to why it would not be compatible. I didn't know it needed light. I didn;t know I had light to begin with beyond the sky and ENB and the ELFX step had me add. \ yes, I have installed step. I am so amazing, and I might say dedicated,...that I have installed it THREE times. That's right. Your biggest fan....That and webroot destroyed MO2 and then I broke things the 2nd time because..who knew you could simply MAKE a profile from the end of STEP and start breaking that with out consequence???? Well, by golly, I know now! And I have 5 profiles ready to decimate ! Per the mod, it's like any person alive. OH LOOK! I have installed JK's Skyrim, which based on your above making sense in retrosepct, works fine Lights....the lights ceom from the buildings too ? Still trying to wrap that one up and resolve it. I found out that my game LOOKS BETTER without ENB! Which tells me I should just run ol HIGH on one of those profiles because the game should,or I assumed, look BETTER, with ENB. I mean my skys are Blue Jay blue without it. WIth it..it looks like wintery death is coming (If you live in a cold region you will know the type of sky I reference) I am short-cut cheating a bit. I just grabbed a few high ENBs via nexus. going to slot, mix about, and see what settings are where, and what I overlooked..or so I hope. i am here to ask questions. Don;t take it any other way. No pumping for info to make my own Wabbajack list or Nexus collections, or anything of the "take and take and never give" nature. I jsut want to play the sexiest-looking game I can play I can imagine you're busy, so answer questions when the time allows, no rush on my end for sure So, what IS the difference between Skyland and the JK's Skyrims? I thought they were "Whole city" texture mods. Grass mods matter? I want verdancy in the grassy areas and blue ice in the snow areas. I have the ..what did it say to install Vivid Landscapes and vivid snowy and Landscapes Cathedral concept. Are the landscapes foilage mods or jsut coloring what is already there? These are questions that I should have asked in any number of discords over the last year i'm sure, but the whole STEP format and the way it was done jsut makes it seem like I can ask stupid ones here with no judgement as I assume you guys have heard em all and many I couldn't imagine Ok, anyway. I love the guide. I am greatful for the guide. If I can figure out when to merge and when not to merge, when to patch, ....how to patch, what does light do and where does it come from, then well, I'll have more questions then I assume

THANKYOU for this. The step guide. The hold your hand process, and the venue to make changes and ask questions. As an older person with all such entails as it pertains to learning new things, this format has been amazing. I have learned how to merge mods, which is so simple in retrospect, but no one had explained when asked. I have learned how to hide folder and specific files without deleting them. I have learned how to use MO2 instead of vortex. I have SO MUCH more to learn and will try. I went all VROOM VROOM yesterday after I finished the list. I slapped everything under the sun on the back end, then pressed loot and POW! Hit the ground running. But wait, I needed more. The towns are dismal. I need A,B,C,D...I mean you get to where you are going in 40 directions So back to the base and from there on. I wanted to integrate these 2 mods as my overlay to what is vanilla. I am fine with dreary weather as I swear it rains every 15 seconds, but compounding that is sad, grey buildings, torn up carts, dead animals, but i need COLOR in all of that ! The 2 mods are Skyland AIO and Skyland Fantasia I installed fantasia and Enable, and I noticed some changes, but not a LOT. That may be due to my ENB settings and choice. I used STEP on medium and maybe should have gone with high. I may do a new profile and ground-up the thing based on your views. I enable Skyland AIO and after visiting Whiterun, maraketh, Riften, and Solitude, i assumed it jsut did not stick as nothing changed. However when I removed it and went back in-game to solitude , the walls were untextured messes. The conflict page for Skyland AIO is INANE! It's enormity is all-encompassing to me. The "APPARENT" issue is a file I am unable to determine , NOR , do I know if I should/could, as I have played with modlists for 15 months and have broken crap in any way it can be broken. I have learned little in the ways of organization and allowances. That was COMPOUNDED by the tutorial having me hide files...had NO IDEA that was an option OR when it should be done (Still don't) But I am TRYING to learn Any step forward works. You don't have to do the work, just point me to the road and I'll break it by myself Here's DUO! Count em TWO...whole screen images to start the healing process. https://imgur.com/a/ympk7mc Maybe later I can point to a post on Nexus and someone can say "Why, he used this program to do that" as some guy has Untained UI working and I REALLY like that shout meter...but another dog for another day.

Nice catch, 35 minuets ago he updated. i JUST finished the list, was working on clearning from stuff loot was showing ,will add this and the character file now

Pyscho, I saw your post as I was tryign to comprehend Mo2 modding, breakign away from vortex, and was told to try Step as an intro for comprehension due to it showing you how to hide, remove, created backup INI, etc,etc. having gone through the pain since Dec 5th across 11 modlist installations and fix attempts, I was trying this WHILE updating to the current 1.6.111 formats. When it did the test launch, crashed without a screen, I came here and saw this and your ensuing reply IF IT HELPS...This, from the last 2 weeks of OMG BRAIN PAIN! modlist and file digging, is NOT the only potential issue in this modlist. I am on step seperator 16 and one that is glaring at me are these right now. Flashing game saves fix (Now conflicts with Bug fixes) Whose quest is it anyway =Scaleform broke, so this is broken Character sheet= Scaleform I will add more as/if I come across them as I continue my "Tutorial" BTW This is a good resource that it took me 5 days of back and forths to finally bookmark it as I realized crap was NOT getting fixed anytime soon https://modding.wiki/en/skyrim/users/skse-plugins