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    Stupid Question: How Does One Create/Add Custom Head Parts?

    in Skyrim LE

    Posted · Edited by acidzebra

    I see, nuska.

     

    But since I can't possibly afford Autodesk 3ds Max and I'm even less likely to understand how to use it, I'll just forget about my idea, for now at least. If I had a friend skilled in this area, I'd ask them, but I do not, so... *shrug*

     

    Because I assume asking of such somebody who barely knows me is way too rude, and I doubt I'd be able to repay their kindness. Sigh... don't know what was I expecting by coming here.

     

    Thanks for trying to help though, I appreciate it!

    http://students.autodesk.com/

     

    I'm not suggesting you should lie about being a student. I'm just pointing out the student license is free.

     

    As for learning how to... well there is the internet. It's full of tutorials. With that and determination, people have learned just about anything about anything. The only people who can't are those who sit around and say "Well, I can't".

    How do I create a custom World Map for my Custom Worldspace

    in Skyrim LE

    Posted · Edited by acidzebra

    Not really sure what happened there. Make sure the sealevel and landlevel (in the preview just after you've extracted surface/feature maps) are in line with your actual worldspace data. And I think that if you choose odd values in the CK or even alter them (like you decide to change the sealevel later) this may impact LOD generation. I generally recommend to stick with either the values for Tamriel in the CK or the values oscape picks by default (sea at 0, land at -2048). I also think the dimensions matter - odd choices in cells and such may mess up the ability of oscape to generate LOD. There's a lot of info about it on the net - go through some of those tutorials you've found.

     

    For now, since you just want the world map, just delete everything except the "32" level of LODs.

     

    (oh, and the raw data you found can go, it's just used to generate the actual meshes/textures for LOD)

    Player Headtracking

    in Mod Ideas

    Posted · Edited by acidzebra

    Headtracking _would_ be interesting. There is such a mod in skyrim. It's pretty complex though, uses the papyrus scripting language. I wonder how feasible it would be to implement in FO.

    Game crashes in certain areas

    in Skyrim LE

    Posted · Edited by acidzebra

    We've gone over this. You cannot remove complex scripted mods from any Skyrim in-progress game without a good possibility of serious repercussions, i.e. a broken savegame, unless you revert to a save made before you installed the mod. This is not specific to footprints, it's just the way Skyrim is because of how payrus works.

     

    The mod author is actually most accommodating by providing a mechanism for disabling the mod if needed.

    Game crashes in certain areas

    in Skyrim LE

    Posted

    To hell with it. Started a new game. Lesson learned. Always read author's readme and never ever use Footprints mod again.

     

    I just wanted to add that there is nothing wrong with the footprints mod, I run it myself. Just... read the READMEs ;)

    How do I create a custom World Map for my Custom Worldspace

    in Skyrim LE

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    I had that "no data" blah once, but I don't recall what did it. Corrupted worldspace or something else, I don't recall.

    I also sometimes have problems running the x64 version even though I'm on a 64bit box. Try the 32bit version if you're on x64.

     

    Anyway, these are the start-up steps for me:

     

    1 Start Oscape, under Game, select Skyrim. This will give you a list of all the masters and plugins. Make sure your mod is ticked (you could try unticking all unneeded once)

    2. Press the Fill button, and in the drop down list next to the button select your worldspace.

    3. Check the feature-map and surface-map boxes (IMPORTANT)

    4. Under Outputs, press Browse and select the output folder, can be any folder. You MUST rename the raw file to the same name as the worldspace name under #2. Press Extract and wait.

    How do I create a custom World Map for my Custom Worldspace

    in Skyrim LE

    Posted · Edited by acidzebra

    I was just coming back here to say do NOT use the CK to generate terrain LOD, and if you try, do NOT save your file afterwards because there is a good chance things will be hopelessly corrupted.

     

    Use Oscape - it's an LOD tool available from the nexus.

     

    Here are some sane oscape settings

    http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/854371-generating-static-lod-textures/?p=6857409

    the thread has some other interesting info. It will also tell you where to grab the tga textures needed.

     

    CK will work for object/tree LOD, see

    http://www.gameskyrim.com/new-worldspaces-object-lod-and-region-generation-t257186.html

     

    So generate terrain LOD with Oscape, install, then generate object LOD using the CK (and trees, if needed)

    What started the trend of kitbashing?

    in Skyrim LE

    Posted · Edited by acidzebra

    An ever-expanding audience of modders with varying skill levels (and those skill levels also change over time, of course), and the evolution and usability of available toolsets.

     

    Morrowind

    2,724 Files

    993 Authors

    3.02m Downloads

     

    Oblivion

    28,077 Files

    7,152 Authors

    127.04m Downloads

     

    Skyrim

    29,315 Files

    11,163 Authors

    221.98m Downloads

    Game crashes in certain areas

    in Skyrim LE

    Posted · Edited by acidzebra

    SKSE's clearinvalidregistrations does the following, and the following only:

    - add console command ClearInvalidRegistrations to remove invalid OnUpdate() registrations

     

    Now, there are several ways to register for updates in Papyrus to get your mod scripts to receive the OnUpdate events.

    http://www.creationkit.com/RegisterForUpdate_-_Form

    http://www.creationkit.com/RegisterForSingleUpdate_-_Form

     

    By now it's common knowledge among mod authors (and there is a huge warning on the CK page) that unless a very specific situation demands it (and offhand I can't think of any) RegisterForSingleUpdate should be used instead of RegisterForUpdate. So most recent mods, and especially the more well-known ones by established authors, will use RegisterForSingleUpdate repeatedly instead of RegisterForUpdate.

     

    For those mods, the SKSE addition will do absolutely nothing as far as I know. That still doesn't mean you can just pull those mods and expect everything to work out fine.

     

    I know it's galling, but you may be better off starting a new game with lessons learned (you cannot just remove scripted and complex mods with impunity like you could in early TES games) than struggling with a broken savegame. The CTDs you have/had are just the most visible problem, who knows what lurks beneath the surface?

     

    General advice: Before you install a complex mod, make a save. Try the mod. REVERT to the earlier save if you decide to remove it. Otherwise, consider yourself to be stuck with the mod for the duration of this playthrough. Since I learned this lesson, my skyrim has been extremely stable.

    Any AI better schedule mods out there?

    in Skyrim LE

    Posted · Edited by acidzebra

    I haven't looked into it too deeply but I thought most shopkeeps do generally close shop at 20:00, start warning you to leave after that, lock the door, sandbox or do other wander around stuff, and sleep.

     

    I made one Markarth bookstore, that guy has a decent schedule. It's really easy to set up.

     

    Traveling to other towns and complex interactions, I'm not entirely sure but I think this would require a quest, which in turn would force the game to keep the NPC in memory indefinitely, which in turn would strain the game engine. Which for one NPC is okay, but if you pile them on AND add other mods...

    Papyrus log help - possible CTD cause found?

    in Skyrim LE

    Posted · Edited by acidzebra

    Papyrus logs are only seldom useful in finding out what is going wrong with your game, and the last line in a log is usually not the same as reason for crash.

    However, your last entries before CTD are

    [04/17/2013 - 09:12:29PM] VM is freezing...
    [04/17/2013 - 09:12:29PM] VM is frozen
    [04/17/2013 - 09:12:30PM] Saving game...

    Note the VM messages are just a game pause so no cause for worry. I would inspect the savegame mechanism as that appears to be be final entry (if this is a log from a CTDd game). How big are your saves? Did you install any mods doing stuff with/to saves? (autosave mods, whatever). You could also try turning off the autosave in settings.

     

    If there is nothing odd with that, it was something else entirely.

    continuous ctd every 5 min...

    in Skyrim LE

    Posted · Edited by acidzebra

    Try a spoiler tag next time. And you cannot remove complex scripted mods (like all blood mods) without consequences - unpredictable ones. You'll have to revert to an earlier save from before it was installed. If you've been adding and removing mods like this for this entire playthrough, well, that will have a lot to do with why your game is unstable.

    Idle Chatter not working

    in Mod Troubleshooting

    Posted

    Yeah - sorry, my bad. I was answering skyrim forum questions and this popped up in the recent questions bar and since it's such a common skyrim question, I thought it was another one.

     

    I kinda hate that it mixes all recent questions from all the nexus sites.

    Idle Chatter not working

    in Mod Troubleshooting

    Posted · Edited by acidzebra

    This 10-part howto taught me all I needed to know about npc dialogue, including idle chatter.

    http://deck16.net/post/22645519500/making-a-unique-voiced-follower-in-skyrim-part-1

     

    Note that even if you did everything correctly, if your quest containing the chatter is start game enabled you should test by loading up skyrim, go to wherever your npc is (or anywhere in the worldspace/cells) then do a quicksave and quickload, then talk to them/wait for them to idle chatter. For whatever reason NPCs don't seem to want to talk otherwise, it's kinda buggy.

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