What Are Your Foundation Mods?, Ones that are always in the rotation Options

[SubRosa]

I have a ton of mods, many of which add new weapons, races, armor, etc... But I don't keep them all active all the time. Typically I will only turn on the mods I want to use for a particular character, and turn off the other clothing, weapon, etc... mods that they are not using. The reason is that there is a hard limit on how many mods you can have active - 252 or so. Also the more mods you have active will eventually start to slow you game down, especially script-intensive mods or massive 2k and 4k texture packs. It all depends on how powerful your computer is to begin with of course. 150 mods might not make a beefy comp blink, but could bring one that is slow to begin with to its knees.

But even that said, I have some mods that are always active, no matter what character. These are what I mean by Foundations. They are the rock on which everything else is built. Some of them are:


General Graphics

No Tint and Desaturation (wow, there are colors again!)

No Stretching (textures)

No Blood (No Blood Splatter On Your Hud option)

No Bloom


Landscape Detail

Shrine of Azura LOD Fix

A Clear World Map

A Quality World Map - With Roads

Enhanced Distant Terrain

Enhanced Night Sky

High Quality LODs

Pure Waters (makes the water semi-transparent from above, so you can actually see the shallow parts you can walk through without swimming)

Distant Detail Hearthfire Edition

Footprints

SkyFalls and SkyMills - Animated Distant Waterfalls and WindMills


Quests

Thieves Guild Requirements - No Auto Quest Start Brynjolf

Dawnguard Delayed Start


Armor & Weapons

Auto Unequip Ammo

UltraHD - Stormcloak and City Guards

Open Faced Helmets

Runed Draugr Greatswords

Well Placed Weapons and Quivers


Gameplay

Ash Pile Expiration

Open and Lock Spells

Lockpick Pro

Player Headtracking

Puppeteer Master (pose mod)

You Are Not The Dragonborn

Improved Skill Books


Creatures

Real Foxes


User Interface

SkyUI

Immersive Hud


Other Stuff

Female Mannequins

Neutral Hjerim

Guards Equipment Comment Tweak

Long Lost Smelters of Skyrim


Then of course I have my whole array of body and face mods Listed Here


So what do other people have that is always in the rotation? It is nice to share, because that is how we learn about mods we never knew existed.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Nov 21 2016, 03:27 AM

[ghastley]

I'm trying out Amazing Follower Tweaks, so that my steward and wife don't wear armour around the house. However, it appears to remove the steward dialogue options, so I can't buy another cow or horse for the place. It's also a bit flaky about remembering what the outfits are - you get a standard, city, and home set for each follower, which they change into when they move to a different cell. Most of the time it works, and they change clothes when they enter or leave Windstad Manor, but after a time away, returning home may find Jenassa in her armour indoors, or Brelyna naked, because her home outfit got merged into her standard one, and now she has "nothing to wear".

I'll let you know later how the follower horse options works out. Galen rides Shadowmere, and after I test Aranea with a regular horse, I may buy her a bear to replace it.

Edit: Followers on horses with AFT seems a bit of a bust.

When he gets off of Shadowmere, his follower immediately dismounts also, even if she's well behind, and hasn't caught up. That leaves her a long way from the horse after the incident that made him dismount is over, and usually the second horse has started walking back to the stable. If he rides back to find it with her following on foot, she remounts, but this results in a lot of backward travel to reunite the follower and horse.

Fast travel results in Galen, Shadowmere and follower arriving without a second horse. The horse may or may not have returned to its stable of purchase, and if has, it can be retrieved without buying it again. This is consistent with buying the horse and then riding another, without a riding follower.

If I find out how to fix Brelyna's loss of steward dialog, I may be able to get a home-based horse for the follower, and presumably it will return to the stable at Windstad Manor. That would only fix fast travel back to base, but it's something.

I was hoping to find something in this mod that would help with the Bear Riders, but it looks like I'm in virgin territory there.

This post has been edited by ghastley: Dec 12 2013, 07:56 PM