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I love Skyrim and am new to modding so I need help. I have some mods that I do like and want all to work together well without much in the way of freezing the game or causing CTD. I love Realistic Ragdolls, SOS, CBBE, and HDT Physics. It is just that Ragdolls seems to have an issue with the differing skeletons. I do use XPMS XP32 skeleton, but with my conclusion in my research I need a custom skeleton replacer. I have come across Custom Skeleton Replacers by Skulltyrant and am wondering which of his/her replacers I should use. I currently do not use any weapon placement mods. Although I may consider using a dual sheathe mod in the future. Can someone direct me to which replacement mod(s) I may wish to use for all of the mods I like? Also, a guide for load order will be greatly appreciated. Thank you to any and all who post me a solution.

I recently decided to add a new creature to Fallout 3, a humanoid that needs to be able to use/fire a gun. Proportionally it made perfect sense to use the human skeleton (meshes/characters/_male/skeleton.nif) and so I did. I rigged my creature in Blender 2.49b, imported the skeleton, and exported the mesh with the correct settings. Then I set the creature up in the GECK editor: gave it a custom bodygroup, a weapons list to use, choose the correct skeleton in ModelList and selected its mesh. So far so good. Upon loading Fallout 3 the creature moves around, immediately draws its gun and fires on me. Perfect, I think to myself. Upon killing the creature I notice something - once it falls down dead, it ceases to have any ragdoll physics. It does have physics at the time of death - it falls over, flies back, etc just fine - but once it comes to standstill, the ragdolls stop. I can still loot my creature, and even continue to attack it, but doing so - especially if I dismember it - crashes the game to desktop. I panic and load the mesh in Blender, triple check my weightpainting/etc, re-export it, and get the same thing - dismembering the creature post-death 100% crashes FO3 to desktop. I'm convinced nothing is wrong with the mesh at the 'Blender' level, so I think of another way to test it. The creature uses the human skeleton and has the same kind of rigging, so I decide to test the creature as an equippable armor. I make it into an armor and give it to an Enclave soldier in the GECK editor, and drop him in the game near Vault 101. I load Fallout and head to V101 and there he is, wearing my creature as armor. I attack and kill him, and notice I can drag his body around just fine after death. I shoot the body tons, dismembering it over and over, and there are no crashes. Just to be sure I retested this 10 or 11 times. 0 crashes dismembering the creature mesh - when its worn as an armor. Sorry for all that text. I figure the more specific I am, the better the chance someone might know what issue I'm running into. My question is this: why would a mesh that works perfectly as an armor - ragdoll physics, dismemberment, etc - cease to have ragdoll physics upon dying, and crash the game when dismembered as a creature? Is there a way to give a custom creature proper ragdolls or otherwise prevent this from happening?

Just started plaing fallout 4 VR, and the dead body ragdolls seem to be totally broken-- when they are killed by a limb explosion, they completely freeze in place and their main frozen body is uninteractable (but their exploded limbs can still be interacted with), and why you kill them without a limb explosion, their ragdoll stretches and flies all over the place. I have tried uninstalling all my mods, but it doesn't help at all. Any idea what's happening here and how to solve it? I'll post screenshots if I can, but it's a little difficult in VR. edit: It is specifically humans, nothing else asiak