navmesh Any advice on how to navmesh exterior areas?

[vmroche]

     I am working on a player house mod and when I NavMesh the exterior area, I get a CTD on returning to the player house. I mean, I can travel the first time just fine, but if I travel out and then back, it just CTDs on reload. I did the NavMesh using the NavMesh Loaded Cells option. I placed a NavMesh seed wherever it required me to and the NavMeshing procedure ran just fine. I did finalize every NavMEshed cell. I'm testing the mod as an .esp, I don't know it converting it to .esm will make any difference regarding this issue.

     Let me state that this is the seconf player home mod that I make, and I had the same issue with the firsat one. I had to release that one with out navmeshing the whole exterior area. I could only NavMesh one cell and gave me no problem, but obviously, the NPCs cannot perfom their assigned tasks. I'm having the same issue with this new mod, but this one has a lot more NPC duties in the exterior area, so if I leave it with out NavMesh, NPCs will have no duties and they will just stand there....

     Please, if someone knows how to NavMesh the exterior area, I would really appreciate some help. I'm pretty sure I must be doing something wrong.... or Bethesda CK is bugged.....

Thanks for your help

[vmroche]

--- SOLUTION ---

Hi, everyone!

     @jenwin77 contacted me because he/she was having this same issue. After exchanging some messages, he/she found the solution and shared it with me, so I'm sharing it with you all, for those who may come across this same problem.

     This problem is caused using the .esp version. Once you convert your file to the .esm, your game will not crash. We both converted our files to Full Master, to avoid compacting the IDs, so we have not tested this solution converting to Medium and Small Master files. I really don't think it will matter, but since we haven't tried it, I cannot assure you it will work with Medium and Small Master files.