If you're following MO2 best practices, your real Skyrim data folder should be mostly empty - just Skyrim files and maybe an SKSE file or two, andĪ Scripts.zip file, but no Source or Script folders. If you haven't done this yet, the instructions are elsewhere. Have installed the Creation Kit SE from the Bethesda Launcher. We assume you already have Skyrim SE installed, have set it up to use MO2 as a Mod Manager and probably installed SKSE and SkyUI already. The game doesn't care about the source scripts, only theĬompiled scripts, so this doesn't hurt the game at all - but is a real pain for people who want to write mods. The base game fails to compile, and you have no idea why? It's because the Skyrim SE Creation Kit changes the default location of it's script source files,īut all of the mods out there put their sources somewhere else, so Creation Kit can't find them. One of the hidden gotchas you might run into with Skyrim SE Creation Kit is that any script you create which references another mod that's not part of

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