Everything I know about bone weighting ( and that’s not much) I have written down in my tutorial. Have you also read through this?

Bone weight tutorial

If you’re familiar with modding, skip this. If this is your first time or you need some tips, continue!

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Mod Manager

You want this. Managing mods by hand is only gonna get super messy.

I’ve only ever used Mod Organizer, and I honestly wouldn’t go with anything else. You can create multiple profiles for different setups; it keeps all your mods in a virtual file system instead of messing with your actual game installation folder; it offers all the control and information I need, in one easy view.

[Download Link for Mod Organizer 2]

[Installation Instructions for Mod Organizer 2]

Load Order

This is the order in which the game loads the various mods you have installed. Position in this order is important, as plugins loaded last overwrite any plugins below them, if they overlap or touch similar things in the game, and some plugins depend on others. LOOT (Load Order Optimization Tool) is usually built into a mod manager (definitely in MO2) but it’s not perfect, and it draws from the load order you manually generate when installing the mods (or rearrange by dragging stuff up or down).

Your tools and game stability is only as good as your load order!

TESV Edit

This one isn’t quite essential, but it’s considered best practice to create a merged patch, and we need this application for it.

Be sure to launch it from your mod manager, so it has access to your load order.

[Download Link]

[Instructions to Launch an Executable from MO2]

[How to Create a Merged Patch]

Alternatively, I’m just now learning about MatorSmash [link] but I will be investigating it in the future, and it may replace TESVEdit here.

Wrye Bash

A bashed patch will be essential. It should be at the very end of your load order. This can merge a lot of your patches and .esps into the bashed patch, saving you space in your load order (since the game engine can only load so many plugins), and also helps with merging the lists of NPCs and items added by all your mods (leveled lists). Additionally, the tweaks to timescale, crime alarm distance, and one or two other parameters are quite useful.

Again, launch this from your mod manager.

[Download Link]

[How to Create a Bashed Patch]

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If all this seems overwhelming, don’t worry! It’s okay to start off with just a few mods, get used to the system. Merged and bashed patches will be created after we’re done installing and ordering all our mods, so come back to the “How to Patch” links later.

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Advanced Links and References

(Mostly for me! Some for later)

[Merging Plugins]

[Merging Plugins with TESVEdit]

[Merge Plugins Tool]

[Patches and Load Order]

Hi,

The chargenmorph lines for the mentioned hairstyles are:

So, I have checked the two styles and their files and both styles show up in my game.

Have you those edit in your chargenfile? Do not copy them from this post or the hairstyles will not show up!

I have used the compiler only a few times and that was when I started to use mods years ago. IIRC it means that files are missing in the override folder.

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You can see the head without a scalp and the hairstyle -> typo in the chargen line or missing files in the override folder.

You can see the hair but the texture has a pistachio colour and the hair is a bit floating -> typo in the mao file.

You can see the hairstyle but it has a transparent looking texture -> typo in the hair texture filename or missing texture file.

Hope this helps!

Happy Modding!