Question about Skyrim Landscape and Water Fixes install choice

[alphaniner]

Does anyone know why it was decided to install SLaWF as an ESM, which results in it loading before Landscape Fixes for Grass Mods?

 

The author of SLawF suggests only installing it as an ESM if you are using "mods that drastically alter the landscape... [such as] mods like People of Skyrim, Great Forest of Whiterun, Enhanced Landscape". Further, "Skyrim Landscape and Water Fixes also conflicts with Landscape Fixes for Grass Mods and for this reason it should be placed below it in order to benefit from all the fixes it contains" (source).

Edited July 6, 2020 by alphaniner

[TechAngel85]

Does anyone know why it was decided to install SLaWF as an ESM, which results in it loading before Landscape Fixes for Grass Mods?

 

The author of SLawF suggests only installing it as an ESM if you are using "mods that drastically alter the landscape... [such as] mods like People of Skyrim, Great Forest of Whiterun, Enhanced Landscape". Further, "Skyrim Landscape and Water Fixes also conflicts with Landscape Fixes for Grass Mods and for this reason it should be placed below it in order to benefit from all the fixes it contains" (source).

That's just the author talking and putting his mod first, imo. If you load SLaWF after Landscape Fixes for Grass Mods, then you'll lose some of Landscape Fixes for Grass Mods changes without a proper patch. Though I can look deeper into this sometime.