I broke my custom race.

[Switzer2007]

Hello, I recently tried to add some hairstyles to a custom race plugin that I had made, which to this point was working just fine. However, due to some misunderstandings and outright dumb ideas on my part, I've managed to completely break it!

 

The original mod was a duplicated version of the Hispanic race with a couple tweaks. When I went in to add some hairstyles, I ran into a problem that the GECK cant adress new references from other plugin files. My solution was to try and merge the .esp with the hair files into my race file, and re-add the references to my race's possible hairstyles. I did this by the "deep copy override" option in FNVedit, which is when it broke. Now, when I load up my game (any save files, not just the latest) my camera is on the floor, and when I enter third-person my character doesn't exist. Usign TCL I can move up and down (?), I can interact with NPCs and doors, but my Pip-Boy is invisible (I'm assuming because it need the hand model to view).

 

I'm honestly at a loss of how to recover from this. I've made a new .esp with everything done properly, but using the 'showRaceMenu' command causes an immediate CTD, same for the barber menu. So far I've tried removing all additional references in the custom race .esp, and creating merged patches out the whazoo. I even tried to fix the formIDs by hand. If I can just get that race menu to work, I can switch to the new race and delete all this crap. Unfortunately, I'm a moron and didn't bother to back up the original file before I screwed with it.

 

I'm currently running a crapton of mods, ranging from environmental/weather ones to clothing, quests, etc. I'm also running the latest ENBseries, along with a bunch of NVSE scripts, mostly for performance. My game's stability has been pretty rock-solid after installing some performance and anti-crash mods a couple weeks back. Oh, I'm also using the NVSE/ENB compatible 4GB launcher.

 

I'm quite familiar with a good chunk of the architecture of modding GameByro stuff, know how to use FNVedit (but not Wryebash, can't get that s*** to start. Silly python). Any and all help is appreciated.

[JimboUK]

I would do things the old fashioned way, bin that esp, forget FNVEdit and everything else, create the race and add the hairs one by one manually in the GECK, testing every now and again to check that the thing is still working. At the moment it sounds like the game is trying to reference something that doesn't exist when you showracemenu, a crash is the usual result when that happens.