There are two things that you need to be aware of, before we proceed any further. This tutorial series was made for new players in mind, so I will proceed explaining the very basics first, which should be enough for you to understand what is going on under the hood. However, people just starting to mod their games only really need to grasp the understanding of what they are doing, when installing mods in to their games. It is true that more advanced mod authors and players can treat modding to look and feel like a science. There are plenty of horror stories around the Internet – as usual – and most of them are not to believed.
Terms load order and resource priorities may sound weird and maybe even slightly taunting to someone just starting the modding of Bethesda Game Studios Creation Engine games. These are are the factors that determine how your modded game looks and how it behaves. In this article we will take a look at basics of load order and resource priorities.