Skyrim Mod Combiner

1. What is SMC and what it does

2. What it isn't

3. But why?

4. How does it do it?

5. How were textures selected?

6. Installation guide

7. Requirements & Recommendations

1. WHAT IS SMC AND WHAT IT DOES

Skyrim Mod Combiner (SMC) is a free, fast and light-weight mod combiner for Skyrim created by Drigger, it is designed to be as universal and user-friendly as possible. SMC was initially made as an extended GUI wrapper for a batch-file from the no longer supported Texture Pack Combiner (TPC) by Cestral, but uses its own updated batch-files now for compatibility with newer mods. SMC improves upon where Cestral left off, and its use has been recommend by him.

When you run SMC, it will hand-pick textures & models from all available mods and merge them into a new customized collection, where each and every file has been tested, compared and selected with careful consideration. So what you'll end up with is a stunningly beautiful Skyrim where the majority of the game's textures and low-poly meshes have been replaced.

You no longer have to extract archives or manually place mods in particular folders. However, with this installer, you can simply direct it to the downloaded archives for each mod. It will then extract and combine everything automatically, and can even compress it and place it in your NMM mods folder for you.

2. WHAT IT ISN'T

SMC is not a texture or model pack in itself. There are no textures or meshes supplied with it (except for a few extra files you can find in optional downloads section). Drigger had nothing to do with the making of any files from any mods used, as they are the work of other authors. SMC is merely a tool that combines them automatically for you. You will still have to download any mods you choose, but once you've done that, that's when SMC comes into play. Just remember to endorse every modder's work after you download them (they deserve it)!

3. BUT WHY?

Typically, if you wanted to install more than one texture pack, you would have to install them in a particular order. This was not only confusing, but also extremely inconvenient, and neither would you have any control over the fact that better textures could get overwritten by worse ones. Neither were there any control over different texture combinations. Some textures might look great individually, but when put together would create a totality that just looked unfitting or outright terrible. The only way to work