Mod install help please: I need some direct help, guides aren't helpful if something different happens as I have no understanding of modding or the experience to know what to do or why.

[Blunder Bro]

Trying to mod this game with Vortex and starting with CBBE, but the guides I have watched skip over a lot of stuff as if you are expected to already have a degree in quantum mod engineering and are fully versed in elvish mod language.

I get stuck if I don't see the same issues as they show. I follow the install guide, get unsolved file conflicts but can't fix it as it doesn't match what they get and I don't know what to do. A Dunmer preset I want uses an improved version of CBBE that requires CBBE that recommends having an additional plugin or whatever to work better, and they all conflict with each other. Despite the instructions saying I need them all. And there is no notes telling a layman modder what to do with this. Do I overwrite them? Replace them? Setup a load order? How to I figure out what order? Do I just ignore these conflicts? I don't know.

Mods say they don't have any dependencies but then say they are missing them after I install, and then I get more conflicts. The list of mods required for a mod doesn't seem to end, with this Dunmer preset requiring a mod that requires a mod that requires a mod that requires a mod that requires a mod that requires a mod that requires a mod. And by the end of the never ending install I have even more conflicts that I don't understand or know which to choose, or to do mod orders in.

I gave up trying to mod Oblivion as from what I was told by others you have to kinda already know how to mod and have the right mindset to make sense of everything, as there are even less straight-forward instructions there.

I could really use some help. I don't don't understand the modding lingo or anything. IDK if could do a screenshare or something, but any help with be appreciated. I got the baseline CBBE working, but I can't fix the neck skin line issue or add anything within or outside CBBE as I don't know what to do with load orders or conflicts.

2 main mods I want. I tried to make sure all required mods in this spiders web have been included, but am sorry if I missed any, there are a lot of mods linked to the Dunmer race preset alone and it's hard to stay on-top of it all:

no.1 CBBE- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/198?tab=description

no.2 Beauty Dunmer (Dark Elf) high poly preset - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/55559?tab=description


Requirements for CBBE (both of which cause redeudency issues and I don't know which to select):

- Main file CBBE v1.6.2 https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/198?tab=files
- Optional recommended Normal maps v.1.4

Requirements for Beauty Dunmer (Dark Elf) high poly preset (haven't tried yet, but I expect the 3BBB improved version of CBBE will cause more redeudency issues that I don't know which to select):
Many of these aren't directly required for the Dunmer presettt, but are requirements for requirements for the requirements of the Dunmer preset.
- Main file Dunmer V3 https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/55559?tab=files
- This one has 3 main files, that will probably all cause redundancy issues https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/6817?tab=files
- ShowRaceMenu Precache Killer is a requirement of another requirement that had no link and I could not find on Nexus
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/24791?tab=description
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/21543
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/23174
- 2 seperately named ENB mods that are needed for something else, but they both have the same link for some reason http://enbdev.com
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/43158
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/22574
- http://enbseries.enbdev.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1499
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/19080?tab=description
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/30174
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/21224
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/3038?tab=files
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/30379
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/30872
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/1988
- https://vectorplexus.com/files/file/283-high-poly-head/
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/20078
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/1699
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/29114?tab=description
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/29023
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/201
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/20024?tab=files
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/35575
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/35785
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/59589?tab=description
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/48705?tab=description
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/13630
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/50424?tab=description
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/19020?tab=files
- https://skse.silverlock.org
- https://www.loverslab.com/files/file/9467-wet-function-redux-se/
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/13048
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/32444
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/12604
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/57131?tab=description
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/31126
- https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/37384?tab=description
- https://www.loverslab.com/files/file/6920-render-tattoos-v1/

[Danke]

Do not install it in Program Files or any similar folder.

[Danke]

Install it in a path like this:

C:\Mod Organizer 2

[Blunder Bro]

Danke～ です！ の投稿を引用：

From here:

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/6194

HazakTheMad の投稿を引用：

Demonic Cookie の投稿を引用：

From nexus site, or another site?

Here it is on Nexus,
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/6194

Ninja'd!

Danke beat you first! Haha!

[Danke]

Yeah. I'm quick.

[Blunder Bro]

Danke～ です！ の投稿を引用：

Install it in a path like this:

C:\Mod Organizer 2

Don't worry, it suggested exact path as default.

Select any specific components to install, or just do recommended?

[Danke]

Recommended Install, yes.

[Blunder Bro]

Danke～ です！ の投稿を引用：

Recommended Install, yes.

Okay done, and now it wants to create a new instance?

[Danke]

Yes.

You can use MO2 for Skyrim SE, Fallout 4, and their VR counterparts from that single installation you made. And Valheim, apparently.

For now make a Global Instance and choose Skyrim Special Edition.

[Danke]

However, it's a bit of a pain to have it in AppData.

[Danke]

Make the path for the instance like this:

C:\Modding\Skyrim Special Edition

[Danke]

If it says the folder doesn't exist, create it.

[Danke]

And don't tick Show Advanced Options.

[Blunder Bro]

Danke～ です！ の投稿を引用：

Yes.

You can use MO2 for Skyrim SE, Fallout 4, and their VR counterparts from that single installation you made.

For now make a Global Instance and choose Skyrim Special Edition.

Danke～ です！ の投稿を引用：

However, it's a bit of a pain to have it in AppData.

Ah, well the global instance is to AppData. I am not sure how to change that other than selecting portable, which goes to C/Modding/MO2 instead.

Umm, give me a few minutes. There is something in house I forgot to do that I really need to do quick.

[Danke]

It's ok.

After you select the name for the instance, it'll say "Select a folder where the data should be stored". You can copy and paste this path:

C:\Modding\Skyrim Special Edition

Where it says "Location".

Or click on the button with 3 points, and navigate to that folder, making it manually.

[Danke]

You can of course use a Portable Instance instead.

But you only get 1 of those, and the mods will be placed in the same folder MO2 is installed.

There's no problem with that, though.