Nozzer66

They're only textures. If you prefer one over the other then just delete the one you don't wish to use. Still saves the disk space.

Just had a quick look at my original, prior to the merge ICH patches install. All the nif's you say you're missing are present for me. I'm wondering if something's gone 'phut' with either your download/installation and/or the merge, with Merge Plugins not copying assets correctly. Having said that, they all copied into the merge as well for me. Try checking your original ICH Patches install and see if the meshes are there but haven't copied over to the merge. We were actually going to put a notice on the Merges page that things like this sometimes happen. If you unchecked ICH Patches after doing the merge, try rechecking it and see if that sorts it?

Yeah that Vahlok one looks decidedly strange. The Vosis one admittedly doesn't look silver, but does at least have the right texture on it. Bugger. Ok thanks for that ceilingrat.

Gotta agree with you on that score. Cheers.

Couple of fixes coming: 1) Change the RUSTIC SOULGEMS install. Do NOT hide the esp as previously suggested. It will get merged later on. 2) A change to the Men of Winter install I mentioned above as the Grey Cowl patch is already worked into the Merge for NPC changers that Darth provides. 3) Oh and a fix as suggested above to Rustic Children. In my defence I had far too much blood in my caffeine stream at the time of writing that instruction. Will eyeball the ICH versus LOTD issue mentioned above by ceilingrat. If anyone has the chance to look in game at the items in question and pop up a screenshot or two it would help in decisions.

Oh and before anyone says it: I'm aware that the install instructions for the new version of Men of Winter have you install a patch for Grey Cowl of Nocturnal that will throw a missing masters error if you follow the written instruction to hide the Men of Winter.esp. We're working on this, will likely provide another merged esp to fix it once darth has a peek and adds his opinion. Either the above will happen or the install instructions may change to not install the patch and/or we'll try and build the patch's changes into the CR patch.

Also I've installed both: The Immersive College of Winterhold Archmage's Enchanting Table Fix and Timing is Everything - Afflicted Fix Will try and see if I can roll them into the CR, but if not will add them to Other Fixes at some stage.

That ESP is the result of merging the two ESPs in the mod. You'll see that instruction on the merge page as well. It's there on the mod page there just in case someone happens to do the merge straight away. Don't worry about it for now and set the value after doing the merge. EDIT: Also all mods should now be updated to their current versions. As usual, I will be expecting you lovely people to find any mistakes and let me know. Cheers! EDIT to the EDIT: Now to go back through the thread, find the mod suggestions and toss them in for testing purposes. But before that I need a coffee and a sammich.

Have a peek here: https://wiki.step-project.com/Guide:DDSopt But I always do the whole texture folder and have not seen an issue yet.

Fixed. Good old C and P editing SNAFU.

No, because all it is a single esp file with no other content that is a merge of the esp files for the Bijin mods. No point downloading something and installing it when it'll just be overwritten by the Merged file for all NPC changes provided later. Even if you did the merge yourself it wouldn't be needed as you'd just merge the original Bijin files with all the other ones in that section. Anyway, have added a little note regards the CORE PACK and patches therefrom in The Forgotten City patch installation that should clarify things there.

Personally, I don't give a thought either way on the ENB Manager/Changer as once you have a handle on installing ENB's it's pretty easy. So no real opinion. You can add any mods or subtract any mods you like/dislike. About all you might need to do is check your new additions for possible CR fixes you may need to make. D1Z4STR that is part of the CORE PACK. The main file on that page. Download the CORE PACK, unpack it and install the correct patches.

If you set UseEffect=false you may as well not install an ENB at all.

Oh there'll be mods added, no problem there. Not sure exactly what just yet but that'll be sorted shortly :)

I'd rather take my time and get it RIGHT than get it done quick and find issues later is all :)

I do, but I'm doing a quick reinstall (on a fresh profile) to check the guide flows OK. Wont be long now. Just have to fix that and write up the finishing steps a bit better and we're good. While the current provided CR IS out of date it'll fix the majority of issues. There's bound to be a few new USLEEP fixes to carry through and so on, plus possible issues with new mods etc.

This is now also done. Also cleaned up a few merged file names so they are all the same with --- and not --- and ++++ in a mix like they were

This should now be fixed.

There's times where we ask you to delete or hide files. If you don't extract the bsa for that file you (often) can't hide or delete said files. This isn't always the case, though. Usually more the case for script, dds and nif files. Most readmes etc are packed outside the bsa. As I have said before if you don't unpack them it's fine but make sure you have them all ticked in archives else a horrorshow may occur. They're not unpacked for space reasons, just that loose files will take precedence over those in bsa files at load time. There's discussion about pros and cons of doing it; but it is a discussion for another thread. Space wise you should be fine. If you want to save a little space on your SSD though, direct MO to download files to a directory on a discrete hard drive. This saves me about 39 gig.

Yes thats a mistake on our part. I am unable to fix that at this moment. I'll add it to the fix list.

Must have missed this earlier. Cheers Sir Jesto!

Thanks, we are aware that the merges do need to be added. We are also aware that some files may link to older versions. The guide is still a bit fluid and is a work in progress. Files will be updated as myself or Darth get to them. Give us a little time, please. If you do happen to find one that's not yet updated then you're going to be fine using the newer version. The guide will be updated shortly to reflect the new versions. A new conflict resolution patch will be issued to reflect this as well. Many thanks.

Nope, written by me to make it easier for people who were finding it confusing as to which file they needed to copy back to Data. Maybe don't assume who's writing things too fast. If you prefer to do it the other way that's perfectly fine, too.

That's a suggested change by Mangaclub for Vividian ENB as seen here under Important Information: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/36067/?

Takes shoe from foot, adds tomato sauce and pepper. I actually meant to say DON'T Extract em, but as usual... PEBKAC. I have self-delivered an uppercut.