You can only use LE mods for LE, SE for SE (unless you port them).The best way to learn about modding is to become part of the community, to read all that you can, and to just start doing.Read through a modlist guide or three (Lexy, Phoenix, and Skyrim Enhanced are my suggestions) even if you don’t plan on following them.
Join the skyrimmods subreddit – specifically check out all the resources and lists they have.My suggestions are read everything you can find (but remember that things constantly evolve and people make mistakes): There are SO many resources out there, and while some are outdated and some are actually spreading misinformation, the issue for many new modders is that they don’t even know where to start.You can do none of that and try to figure it out yourself (good luck and may Talos be with you).You can try and create your own modlist by using resources, such as those provided here and by other guides and videos.You can follow a Modlist Guide where you do the work that someone else explains to you step-by-step.
You have a few options for how to proceed:.Are you someone that likes to dig in and problem solve?.How much time and energy are you willing to put into learning and DOING (and fixing)?.The scope of your modding experience is up to you:.Textures, meshes, models, and other “visuals”.Mods contain some or all of the following (for more information on these, check out the Glossary page):.
But seriously, I know that there will be some people that won’t read most of this, so don’t forget the HELP page exists. If you don’t, I’m not going to yell at you, but you are disappointing Uncle Sheo and he might not share any cheese with you. I know you want to play a modded Skyrim game, and you want to do (couldn’t resist) it now, but I implore you to take some time to read through this page and the resources linked below. So, here is what to do, what not to do, suggestions on other ways to do, tools to learn how to do, ways to fix when you forgot to do, and much more. This is no more evident than when I decided to start modding, and is in no way the fault of the mod authors that they couldn’t foresee the sheer number of ways that I, and others, could find to mess up installing/using their wonderful creations (or, just as likely, they didn’t care, and honestly why should they? They put all this time and effort into creating something amazing, so we can and should put the time and effort into learning how to use it). Trust me when I say that the scope, creativity, and genius of my foolish thoughts and actions should not be underestimated.