Sahana

There's a really clear explanation of the problem and the current solution in the mod's Nexus page (in the "posts" section, above five threads down from the top). As a total newbie, I didn't have any trouble at all understanding and applying it. So, from my perspective, while Saerileth is finishing up exams, people could be told to either just skip this one or else go there and read about the workaround.

Sounds wonderful. I'm really amazed at the passionate work that some of you folks put into this, both in creating the mods and in helping make it available to the rest of us :-)

Same here. I'm working through STEP for the first time, and just happened to notice this conflict (and ultimately, the solution) while looking over the mod's Nexus page. Would probably be a good idea to add a note about it in the STEP guide.

Thanks for describing the easier method on the issue of hotfix install/merge. Of course I would end up making it too complicated ;-)

Whew. I learned a lot while trying to figure out this install. I noticed that on the Nexus discussion for this mod there is a note (three posts down from the top) indicating yet another fix — apparently in the Book of Silence Dragonborn files, textures/actors/dlc02/ash needs to be renamed from "ash" to "ashman." I haven't seen this mentioned in STEP, but it seems to me that it is relevant? Also wanted to list some probably-obvious things that I had to figure out from a newbie perspective: (1) How to add the manually downloaded hotfixes into Mod Organizer. If any other clueless folks have the same question, ultimately the way that I did it was to right-click on the appropriate mod in MO (for example, "Book of Silence Dragonborn DLC" for the bonemold hotfix), select "Open in Explorer," and then trace the directory structure to place the manually downloaded hotfix files into the correct place. (The Staff of Magnus hotfix, as noted in an earlier post above, doesn't actually require a download, only a rearranging of the file structure in the Book of Silence Unique Items mod. But it's helpful to have the download to see how it's supposed to look.) (2) In the STEP instructions, when talking about moving the Skyforge Weapons ESP into "optional ESPs," the mod that you need to right-click on is the Book of Silence Weapons mod. The instructions just say to change the "Book of Silence" in general, but it's divided up into separate mods, so you have to find the right one. Of course, the weapons mod is the obvious choice, but it left me confused for a second. (3) If you're using Complete Crafting Overhaul, there's an extra LOOT meta instruction, for the load order of Book of Silence Content Addon ESP in relation to the Complete Crafting Overhaul ESP. This is mentioned in the STEP Complete Crafting Overhaul page but not on the Book of Silence page. I guess this probably doesn't matter, but if you're working slowly down through STEP like I am then it could be easy to overlook / forget / lose track of that earlier instruction by the time you get to Book of Silence and can actually implement it. Hope I got all that right!

Hi. I also have the same question that others have mentioned about using this mod as a substitute for Better Males. I'm relatively new at this, way down on the learning curve! Just working my way through the current STEP setup. My concern about Better Males is partly because of the performance issues that are discussed in the STEP forum for that mod (and I'm apprehensive about tackling DDSopt at this point in my learning), and then perhaps even more importantly I just find the appearance of Better Males very unappealing (and can't figure out how to compare different Better Males appearance options or to customize those during the Mod Organizer install). In any case, this SkySight mod looks *much much* better to me! If anyone has any thoughts about whether using this mod instead of Better Males would work OK in STEP (or any problems it might cause) then I'd be really grateful. If it matters, I'm also thinking about trying the new STEP female body replacer (which seems super-awesome) and then probably just getting rid of the Xenius Character Enhancement (or only using the Xenius scars mod). Thanks in advance.