The Road Ahead - an Unofficial STEP Addon (Restructuring)

[D1Z4STR]

Welcome to... 'The Road Ahead' - an unofficial STEP Addon 

9/1 - I am working on a small unofficial addon to STEP Skyrim AE 2.3 in this forum space. If you are interested, please keep a lookout for what is to come. Full instructions/details will be posted. This addon will be updated in in interesting chapters/sections (more to come on this).

Almost all of the mods are optional to install and are not required to be used unless they have any assigned utility mod. The choice is (mostly) yours! No LOD regeneration required!

9/2 - I plan to start writing the addon guide in pieces by the end of this coming week and have it completed that weekend or latest the following. Version 1 will be the beginning; I will see how it goes and either complete it or continue with small updates each week or so.

9/3 - I have decided against hosting on Nexus. Nexus mods is down half the time and difficult with their mostly broken bccode formatting. STEP Modifications is way cleaner, functional, and it works properly.

9/4 - The process of creating an official game guide page hosted on STEP Modifications is going to be shortly in the works.

9/5 - Construction of the addon page hosted on stepmodifications is underway, this forum page will remain.

9/6 - I understand how to do everything I need to do for the guide page, and I am going to spend parts of my day working through it. I initially wanted it done by tomorrow but that is not going to happen. Hoping for this month timeframe for beta release.

9/7 - 9/11 - I have been working every day for around an hour on the guide in case anyone was interested in an update.

9/16 - Guide is 99% complete and only further tweaking will come as needed. It is up to you to let me know of any issues.

9/21 - Guide is complete!

9/22 - The Road Ahead beta 1.0 is released

9/26 - Making the decision to restructure and change the scope of the Addon guide

10/5 - I will not have the guide updated due to heavy testing, etc. I do not see the guide being released this year. It will most likely be sometime next year.

[z929669]

Consider using our guide framework. It may simplify things for you and also give you a peek into how we use the wiki so support official and unofficial guides. When you add mod topics to the forums and wiki, it helps us out, too

[D1Z4STR]

Making lots of headway, hopefully will have the guide addon page mostly or complete by this weekend 

 

[D1Z4STR]

Beta release - 9/22

[Mercury71]

Hey D! See that you released separators for your list. How does that work on a current Step install? Will they end up after Step separators or replase them?

[D1Z4STR]

I need to fix where they go in the guide complete. To answer your question, they go after your last separator you have for STEP either that be the group 21-ENB, or a Output separator, or the LOD separator which is in the STEP reference image. I will put a newer picture in the guide.

[d2eRX52]

 since i'm already running game and don't want to start again, i'll probably not install it all, but anyway just to look, where i can find it?
i didn't find in unofficial guides for skyrimse/ae on step here, so where is it?

[z929669]

9 hours ago, d2eRX52 said:

 since i'm already running game and don't want to start again, i'll probably not install it all, but anyway just to look, where i can find it?
i didn't find in unofficial guides for skyrimse/ae on step here, so where is it?

The link will appear on the SkyrimSE Home page on the wiki when it's released.

[d2eRX52]

oh yeah i got it, it's just the patches and separators on nexus currently

[D1Z4STR]

Guide is published if anyone is interested. Link is in original post 'The Road Ahead' and also at Step Skyrim Special Edition Home

[D1Z4STR]

Working on adding continued content slowly into 1.0. I do not intend to have more than 250 mods in the addon. If another Staff member has a moment to take a peek at the guide and tell me if there are any mods that stand out that require a tag change. I feel a few in Immersion could be possibly moved. Thanks.

[D1Z4STR]

I have decided I want to restructure the guide and get a better plan together of its contents. I want to keep it under 150 mods, with cut content, lore friendly V+ additions and some gameplay depth, while removing all the small random texture and other miniscule mods and STEP tagged mods for 'testing' (I see no reason to add them to my addon). We all know everyone is going to add their own mods to a list, most users do this.

More on this to come. I recommend not using the guide for the time being and thank you for understanding.