Bodyslide issues after importing to Vortex from NMM

[TwilightDB]

I finally took the dive to change over to Vortex, allowing it to import all my mods from NMM. Everything seems to have ported over without too much trouble until I went to return to my Fallout 4 game and noticed that I had the base vanilla character shape; so I exited and went to use bodyslide to reinstall the shape and bodyslide was completely blank even when the mods were there. Uninstalled and reinstalled bodyslide and no change.

 

Uninstalled all my mods and reinstalled them, no change; then started to panic and tried to use the old bodyslide data to overwrite the files in the vortex folder, got the shapes/slides but completely devoid of textures.

 

Deleted both Caliente and bodyslide from Vortex leaving the folders in the vortex folder, ported the original bodyslide data from the game folder and put that in the vortex folder before installing both Caliente and Bodyslide on Vortex; ran bodyslide and everything showed up! Feeling encouraged, i went in game and found myself back to the vanilla shape. I've tried as many ways as i could think of to fix it outside of a complete wipe and reinstallation of Fallout 4, Vortex and all the mods I use.

 

I am at my wit's end now after fiddling with it, installing and reinstalling several times.

 

Any help would be appreciated that might explain what I might doing wrong, outside of that, I believe I have to do a complete wipe and fresh reinstall of Fallout 4 with every mod with no idea if that would work either.

 

If a fresh reinstall will behave better, I guess it'll have to be done :ohdear: I'm just hoping to avoid the loss of what I've completed in game to this date :sad:

 

 

....... Now I'm dreading about going back to oldrim, it has more mods than my Fallout 4

Edited December 24, 2018 by TwilightDB

[TwilightDB]

Okay, a update to say I finally fixed my bodyslide in Vortex. The bodyslide files using vortex didn't import properly into it; so i spent a bit of time manually transfering all the missing files into the empty folders and ran bodyslide once more. My Fallout 4 game is fixed!!!

[Elviserator]

@TwilightDB I have a similar issue. Can you please give more details on what folders you moved files from & to?

[MarkusTay]

Just for future reference, NEVER do it that way. I did a lot of research before i switched (same as you, only about a week ago), and the BEST way is to reinstall EVERYTHING as if you were installing for the first time. I even reinstalled steam, just to make sure i got rid of all my problems (which it seems I did). When you do it that way you have to also make sure you get all those sneaky ini files hiding on the Windows drive (usually 'C'). I missed one folder that had some Steam data in it, and five mods that I used to use from Bethesda.net showed up, without me ever installing them.

 

Plus, if some of the mods are broken (which I suspect they were), then why would I want to copy that broken crap into my fresh install? It did take me more than an entire day to replicate my mod list (I think its improved now - I 'cut a lot of fat'), but I feel it was worth it. There is simply way too much stuff being shoved all over the place by the game, Steam, the ModOrganizer, Bodyslide, F4SE, etc, etc., for a simple 'C&P' method to work (even if Vortex acts like it will... because obviously, it didn't).