ElJard

There's several topics discussing LotD and clearly some people have made it work... back in 2022. So two tries: first, I tried disabling book covers. Unfortunately, the step patches depend on them. And that probably means that after I remove them as masters, I will have to reapply the changes to legacy. Second try was just loading the full step 2.3 with Legacy. Now my game randomly freezes and I have to kill it with task manager, and that also means it doesn't make a crash log. Anybody else make it work?

They do the same thing so they would fight with each other. Hopefully that means IED can also do a sword on back setup. I'm a little worried I'll have to handle draw/sheath animations separately though.

For finding a botched mod, do a boolean search. Start by disabling the bottom half of your mods and running again. If it works, enable half of the mods you disabled. If it doesn't, disable half of your remaining mods. It should take nine searches to narrow yourself down to a single culprit mod. Do note that the boolean search is less useful if there is more than one mod causing a problem. But it did allow me to find my botched TK children install in less than ten minutes.

The only other question I could find was on the LE STEP guide from eight years ago. I tried installing the full XPMSE skeleton like I normally would but my scabbard was still at my hip. Also IED says not to use it. Can I actually make this work with IED? This is my first Skyrim build since 2019 so I'm very behind on a lot of the new animation mods and combat overhauls.