User:Paul666root/SRLE LOTD Reqtified/Beautification AddOn
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Prerequisites
Create a new Mod Organizer profile first. On how to do this revisit this page -> Prerequisites Page in the section "Create The SRLE LOTD Reqtified Profile". Name the new profile as you want, for example "SRLE Reqtified & Beautified".
Make sure you load this new profile to work on.
Reoganizing the mod list
Next we need to disable the mods in the list below and send them to the bottom of your load order.
It is important to only disable for now and not remove. It is also important that you actually send the mods to the bottom of your load order so that you can later easily tell which mods to actually remove without having to go through the list below again.
To send the mods to the bottom of my load order I enter 700 as the priority number for each mod as I disable it. The number 700 is a totally arbitrary number larger than the total number of mods currently installed.
Disable the following mods:
aMidianBorn - Content Addon aMidianBorn Book of Silence (All 5 mods) Animated Clutter CL's Ebony Weapon Replacer LECM - Embers HD LECM - Pilgrims Delight LECM - Real Roads for Skyrim LECM - Static Mesh Improvement Mod Noble Skyrim Noble Skyrim - SMIM Patch The Ruffled Feather The Ruffled Feather - Enhanced Distant Terrain
Install SMC
[Skyrim Mod Combiner]
Mod Notes: The description of this entire page should be read as it explains in great detail how to properly use the application, what the various colors mean, etc.
Configure SMC ini file:
settings.ini
BSAoptUnpack = 1 ForceEnableDLC = 1 EditorMode = 1
Also I suggest changing the temp folder to use another drive than C:
TempDir = [New Path] Example: D:\SMC Texture Pack\temp
TIPS for choosing texture size
Determine whether you want to use SMC Lite or the full SMC installation SMC Lite should be useable on a 2GB video card if you limit yourself appropriately on texture sizing.
With the setup below (not using SMC Lite) I'm currently hitting around 5.7GB vram consumed at the most vram hungry places in the game. Having said that I've also chosen many HQ options and several UQ options in SMC.
You should be able to be comfortable on a 4GB card with the full SMC as long as you stick primarily to MQ and splash HQ when it matters to you. Rule of thumb... things that are massive such as Mountains, Giants, Mammoths you should go 4K if possible. Interiors (especially caves) and monsters that generally only appear inside of interior's you can typically go 4K as well.
When choosing 4K always take the 4K/2K option if possible.. You save a lot of VRAM on the Normal but still get the most visible quality out of the Diffuse.
Landscape, armors and npcs are good candidates for 2K textures.
Small clutter and brickabrack can generally be kept around 512 to 1k
Downloading the mods on the list
Begin gathering all required mods. A list of mods NOT to download has been given below.
Some mods are no longer available on the Nexus but are EASILY found via an appropriately named google search... Some of these mods are crucial to the look and feel we're going for. Try to find them. There's a whole subreddit devoted to preserving... lost/removed/disabled mods for instance.
MODs excluded from download:
AOF HD Tree LODs Ash Rocks - Solstheim ash improements Ashes Of The Red Mountain (Solstheim) Beards Better males - Beautiful nudes and faces - New hairstyles Blacksmithforge water fix Bloody Facials REBLODED Book Covers Skyrim Brows Burn Freeze Shock Effects Dead Body Collision Fix Deadly Spell Impacts ENB Water on Horse Trough with optional Blacksmith Forge Enhanced Blood Textures Female Facial Animation Footprints Grimoa's Plantigrade Feet For Beast Races Northfire's Photoreal Mountains Realistic Boat Bobbing Realistic Primitive Horse Breeds - 2k Realistic Water Two Realistic Water Two - stream fix RS Children Overhaul Rune Magic HD Skyfalls and SkyMills - Animated Distant Waterfalls and WindMills Skyrim Flora Overhaul Skysight - Smelter Ultra HD 4K and 2K Textures Smooth Male Body - textures for Better Males - SOS Schlongs of Skyrim The 418th Step The Elder Scrolls V Rewritten - Arvak Treasure Maps of Skyrim TreesHD Skyrim Variation Unique Flowers And Plants Verdant - A Skyrim Grass Plugin WATER - Water and Terrain Enhancement Redux Watercolor for ENB and Realistic Water Two White Phial Replacer Wonders of Weather