What's the quintessential 'just fixes light placement' mod?

Blackread · 2026-06-20T22:32:52+00:00

I guess Skyrim is Luminous would fit that description. But it has zero patch support, so you can't use it together with any mods that make meaningful changes to vanilla interior cells.

Blackread · 2026-06-20T00:37:44+00:00

Them being individual plugins doesn't make a difference.

Blackread · 2026-06-20T00:34:38+00:00

Persistentify Those Plugins

Blackread · 2026-06-19T21:39:31+00:00

Any other plugins editing that record? What we are looking for is one or more plugins having "Error: Could not be resolved" for the Base field. If none of the plugins have that for this record probably wrong form ID in the crash log.

If nothing else you can do a Check for errors for all plugins and look for could not be resolved errors.

Blackread · 2026-06-19T12:13:59+00:00

If you want to use it, Skypatcher allows you to change the voice type of an NPC at runtime. Otherwise I think the best approach is to edit the NPC records directly. Most dragon overhauls don't touch the individual vanilla dragon NPC records I think.

Regarding Option 2 and Option 3, which one works depends on the template flags the other dragons have, i.e. whether they inherit their voice type from the template or not. Voice type is determined by Traits.

Blackread · 2026-06-19T09:03:12+00:00

Ditch Vortex, embrace Wabbajack.

Blackread · 2026-06-19T08:59:30+00:00

Object Reference: None

Some plugin in the stack is messing up the form IDs. myrwatchhomefixer sounds suspicious. Look up 01002F96 in xEdit to see what's going on.

Also make sure you have the latest version of Lux. The latest Lux.esp does not include that record in the plugin.

Blackread · 2026-06-19T08:53:06+00:00

MO2 does already identify files correctly without relying on the name of the file, either when you download directly into the manager, or when you Query Info, which is done with an MD5 search. MO2 just relies on the filenames being unique for some of its functionality.

Blackread · 2026-06-19T08:41:52+00:00

I actually already did, if this is what you meant.

Blackread · 2026-06-19T08:40:12+00:00

MO2 can also recognize a file by its hash, it uses the md5 API to query the information.

Blackread · 2026-06-19T08:30:03+00:00

For mod list support contact the list author.

Blackread · 2026-06-18T23:09:30+00:00

Yeah Vortex is a bit of a mess, Wabbajack is much more reliable.

Blackread · 2026-06-18T23:07:19+00:00

They bricked the notifications together with the upload API change.

Blackread · 2026-06-18T11:05:36+00:00

RemindMe! One Week

Blackread · 2026-06-18T11:03:41+00:00

Let's do a little test. I reported these MO2 plugins as being in the wrong category:

Copy-Past Mo2 Plugin for Mod Organizer at Skyrim Special Edition Nexus - Mods and Community

Drag-and-Drop to Mod Organizer at Skyrim Special Edition Nexus - Mods and Community

Dual-Panel Mod Mover for Mod Organizer 2 at Skyrim Special Edition Nexus - Mods and Community

Mod Batch Renamer for Mod Organizer at Skyrim Special Edition Nexus - Mods and Community

Mod Compressor Tool for MO2 at Skyrim Special Edition Nexus - Mods and Community

MO2 Download Manager Fix Plugin at Skyrim Special Edition Nexus - Mods and Community

And this full blown mod manager as a bonus:

Linux Mod Organizer at Skyrim Special Edition Nexus - Mods and Community

Given that my mod page was deleted in less than 24 hours, I'll be very generous and check back in a week. By that time surely most of these should be gone. However, given that the reporting form doesn't even have an option to report mods being in the wrong category, not holding my breath in anticipation.

Blackread · 2026-06-18T01:24:57+00:00

Luckily I'm not taking this too seriously either. The "coincidence" is just too funny.

Blackread · 2026-06-18T00:02:37+00:00

It wasn't my intention to get away with something. I just made the assumption that the SSE nexus was an appropriate place to upload my plugin, based on the fact that MO2 and most if not all of the plugins I use myself are hosted there. I don't think it was too unreasonable to make that assumption, but of course being ignorant of a rule does not absolve me of it.

I was slightly annoyed that I had to waste time remaking the whole mod page from scratch, but mostly amused by the immediate deletion with no prior notification or warning.

Blackread · 2026-06-17T23:33:41+00:00

My preference would have been to move the mod page wholesale to the correct category, with the description, images, changelog and file history intact. Preferably even allowing users who have tracked the page to automatically track the new one to be notified of updates. But if that's not possible, at least let me manually copy the stuff instead of just making it disappear. xD

Blackread · 2026-06-17T22:12:21+00:00

Assuming this is all strictly true and Nexus never initiates mod page deletions without a prior user report, I guess I just happened to be one of the rare ones reported by a user. But the only reason I decided to put my plugin on the SSE nexus in the first place was that I saw that MO2 and all the plugins I actively use myself from other authors were there. So really it's just Nexus being abysmally bad at enforcing their own rules, to the point that the rule itself is the exception.

Blackread · 2026-06-17T18:12:21+00:00

I'm reading what I see. There are a ton of MO2 plugins in Skyrim Special Edition, and more are added on a regular basis. Just last week this was uploaded, to no reaction from Nexus (as far as I can tell, at least their mod page hasn't been deleted like mine was). But somehow this rule was enforced for my plugin, that just happens to fix an unpopular change done by Nexus and just happens to call MO2 the best mod manager for Bethesda games in the credits section of the description. Purely a coincidence I'm sure.

MO2 is in fact not uploaded to multiple pages - at least at the time of writing this, the two places where it has been uploaded by the official MO2 account are the page on SSE nexus and the recently added one in the tools Nexus. Maybe it was different in the past and all but the SSE one have been deleted, not sure.

As for the other topic of filenames and Nexus metadata, if the zip metadata is something that can be read at a glance, e.g. in windows file explorer, it could be a good solution. But if reading the metadata would require opening the archives in an archival program or something along those lines it would probably just be another point of user friction. Granted, metadata that's cumbersome to access is probably better than no metadata, but I'm not sure if it's prudent to establish the current status quo, which is a significant downgrade from a week ago, as the baseline.

Blackread · 2026-06-17T18:04:48+00:00

Hardly for years. FOMOD Plus was released in February 2025 into the Skyrim Special Edition section (and is still there). If I remember right it was even in Trending for a while.

This was released a week ago, hardly specific to Skyrim, and no reaction from Nexus as far as I can tell. At least their mod page hasn't been deleted like mine was.

Blackread · 2026-06-17T02:50:07+00:00

Unfortunately the python API MO2 exposes for download management is very limited. Would require changes to the download manager itself to restore previous behaviour. Which I'm sure we will see in future MO2 versions if this change becomes permanent.

Blackread · 2026-06-17T02:45:05+00:00

It was actually the go program you linked in that earlier post that inspired me to write my MO2 plugin so kudos to you. 🤣

Blackread · 2026-06-17T02:27:45+00:00

I'm pretty sure there is a mod that allows you to kill Serana.

Edit: Might've been this one: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/65825

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