Mixing Paid Creations and Mods

[Malfious7]

Hello all, this is my first post here. I'm moderately new to modding and have been finding this guide helpful. I've used a combination of what I've learned here and at Dragonborns Journey. (Using this as a base but using DJ for Community Shaders and mods to use with it over ENB). However I can't find any good guides or resources anywhere for using Creations (namely the paid ones) with Nexus mods on Mod Organiser 2. Dragonborns Journey advises against using any Creations, even the free ones that come with Anniversary Edition and shows how to block them, this site has guides as if the AE content is downloaded but not anything extra. 

Is there a way of using both together? I've heard there is a way to use Bethesda Creations on MO2 but I've not seen anything in the form of an easy to follow guide. As there are a few gems in Creations, such as the bards college, I was wondering if there are any guides here or planned or even just a friendly bit of guidance I could have.

Thanks in advance.

[z929669]

8 hours ago, Malfious7 said:

Hello all, this is my first post here. I'm moderately new to modding and have been finding this guide helpful. I've used a combination of what I've learned here and at Dragonborns Journey. (Using this as a base but using DJ for Community Shaders and mods to use with it over ENB). However I can't find any good guides or resources anywhere for using Creations (namely the paid ones) with Nexus mods on Mod Organiser 2. Dragonborns Journey advises against using any Creations, even the free ones that come with Anniversary Edition and shows how to block them, this site has guides as if the AE content is downloaded but not anything extra. 

Is there a way of using both together? I've heard there is a way to use Bethesda Creations on MO2 but I've not seen anything in the form of an easy to follow guide. As there are a few gems in Creations, such as the bards college, I was wondering if there are any guides here or planned or even just a friendly bit of guidance I could have.

Thanks in advance.

Paid mods from Steam Creations are just like any other mods. I'm just not sure how they are managed by Steam/Bethesda. If they must be downloaded via Steam into the \Data directory like the vanilla content, then they are effectively like the vanilla files and "unmanaged". If they can be downloaded as archives, then just install them into MO2 using the "create empty mod" option from the left pane toolbar. This would be ideal, as then they are MO managed like any other mod.

I don't think there's any reason to use them though, because their analogs are available from Nexus, TES Alliance, AFK Mods, and other free mod sources. Maybe not the same exact mods (but in some cases they probably are), but likely similar and better ones with more to choose from. I have no idea how well the Steam paid mods are maintained, because I don't have any reason to explore them. Free mod sources have way more mods collectively, and I'd bet they are maintained as well or better than the paid ones from Steam.

I just found this thread on Steam, and Liquid Inc's response is the way I'd go, but I would not recommend using paid mods, since it just creates extra work and potential mod-management problems by the sound of it.