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

[Grits]

I’m using Simple Multiple Followers, Horse Commands, and My Home Is Your Home with mixed results. Horse Commands lets me tell the horses where they should return, so there’s a small herd at Lakeview Manor rather than spread out at the various stables. My Home Is Your Home does the same for followers. None of them has removed the steward hiring dialog, but I haven’t actually hired a steward yet so it might not work later.

At first I had no problem with two followers riding along. Then I think someone got on the wrong horse and screwed things up. Every time after that one of the followers would disappear instead of getting on the available horse. I suspect he was teleporting back home to get on a horse that was not following. Fast Traveling is a disaster. The followers’ horses tend to drop out of the sky, sometimes with a follower on board and sometimes not. Horses do not bounce.

I don’t have anything that changes the default outfit. If anyone ever marries a vanilla NPC I’ll probably make them a default outfit for the wedding and home life so that they aren’t in their armor all of the time. I gave my own NPCs clothing as their default outfits so that they wouldn’t look strange hanging around the house in battle gear. Though the Hearthfire houses can be pretty dangerous!

I remembered reading something in the Amazing Follower Tweaks ReadMe about different ways that you could access the followers’ inventory, something about backpacks vs another thing. Here it is:

5) When inventory management is enabled on a follower, and you use the root level dialogue option "Let me take a look at your items", you are actually viewing the followers current outfit. The outfits have lots of scripts monitoring them and if they grow too large, may lead to game instability. So make sure to use the "Open your backpack" dialogue option if you are simply storing items on the follower.

Don’t know if that will help.

This post has been edited by Grits: Dec 13 2013, 02:29 PM