Need Assistance with Bodyslide and CBBE. Any Help Appreciated.

[SwimmerMan01]

Hello Nexus,

I am having a very serious issue and I do not know what is causing it. I have been scouring the internet for about 8 hours across two days looking for answers, but the only ones that I found were either not relevant to my case, or did not work.

 

A little backstory on my issue: I am fairly new to Skyrim modding, I started in August of 2015, and everything worked great, with over 60 mods installed. I had to completely wipe my machine, (Long Story, and I chose not to back it up.) so I am starting over from scratch. I have been able to install SKSE, Sky UI, and a few smaller mods, but my main issue comes with Bodyslide and CBBE.

 

I use NMM on a bootcamped 4gb ram Macbook Air 2014 on Windows 8.1

*I have been able to confirm that it is not technical limitations or me being bootcamped is the issue here.

 

Problem: When I load into the game none of the npc's are using the CBBE bodies. To make sure it was not just hidden under some clothes, I compleatly looted the first female enemy you fight, In Helgen Keep, and they are in the vanilla under garments.
I researched this issue more and it said that I had to check a box in bodyslide to allow the mod to function. So when I try to open up bodyslide.exe it gives me this error

 

Failed to find game path registry key or GameDataPath in the config

and then in the next popup window

Failed to load BodyslideFrame.xrc file!

 

*My path to bodyslide.exe is /Games/Steam/steamapps/common/Skyrim/Data/CalienteTools/Bodyslide

(Games is my External Hard Drive)

 

A suggested fix for this is to run the official launcher of skyrim once, so I did, and to no avail.

So, If anyone could help, that would be great.

 

I can post more info if it is needed.

 

Screen Shots (There is full frontal nudity for the CBBE popup, which is why I put it in a spoiler.)

 

 

 

 

This is the popup menu for CBBE I get

 

 

 

TLDR: I can not load the Bodyslide.exe to use CBBE. Any help is greatly wanted

 

EDIT: I just tested a mod, Macromancy 3, that requires skse to run, and it is not running properly. However, SkyUI runs fine. Maybe there is an issue with SKSE.

Edited April 5, 2016 by SwimmerMan01

[Vic88]

First and foremost, I have no experience with iOS/Bootcamp whatsoever, so if the problems does come from that, I can't help. I will answer as if this problem had happened on a Windows PC.

 

You don't actually have to do anything with Bodyslide for CBBE to function. CBBE just adds new models and textures that override the vanilla ones, and just like any vanilla asset replacer, it only requires its files to be placed in the appropiate paths inside the game's Data folder. The game should use the loose files instead of the vanilla ones inside the compressed BSA files. That's it.

 

If you have installed the main CBBE mod (and seems like you have done it through NMM or MO, judging by the installer window), and there wasn't any error, the mod should be working. If the game fails to load CBBE files and instead loads the vanilla models and textures, then either a) CBBE files are NOT in the Data folder, or b) the files are there, but the game doesn't recognize them.

 

As for a), Mod Organizer (and I think NMM does it too) keeps mods in separate folders and "moves" them to the game folder just before the game loads (I'm not sure how it works, but no files are actually moved). Are you sure the mod is activated in your mod manager? Maybe it is not active and thus not loaded to the game folder. If it is indeed active, then you can try doing a manual install to the game directory so you know for sure the files are where they should.

 

For b), maybe it's an "Archive Invalidation" issue. It was common in Oblivion and Fallout titles, where you had to do some things in order to get the game to "invalidate" vanilla files and use modded files instead, but I've never had that happen with Skyrim (or even heard of it), so I can't help you with that.

 

About Bodyslide, I think you are mistaken about what it is for. Bodyslide is a tool that allows you to customize the base CBBE body to your liking and save that modified body overwriting the base CBBE files. The "new" body then is loaded just like the original CBBE body would. Same goes for armors. As for the GamePath issue, that has happened to me sometimes (but not the xrc file error, though). You have to go to CalienteTools\BodySlide, open "Config.xml", remove the"<!-- " at the beginning and end of the "<GameDataPath></GameDataPath>" fragment, and copy your path to the game's Data folder inside (in my case it would be like this:)

 

<GameDataPath>D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim\Data\</GameDataPath>

 

Hope this is of help.

Edited April 5, 2016 by Vic88

[SwimmerMan01]

Thank you for the help, where would I install the files to manually?

And thank you for the Bodyslide clarification, I did not realize that.

[Vic88]

Thank you for the help, where would I install the files to manually?

And thank you for the Bodyslide clarification, I did not realize that.

 

The CBBE mod file is a compressed file with several folders inside (because it's prepared for install with a mod manager). You have to extract the content of some the folders to the game's Data folder (it should be in the same place as the game's main executable) using 7zip or a similar program. You should copy the contents of "00 Required (Slim)" and othe folder "00 Default" inside "08 Face Pack" to the Data folder, so inside of Data you have "meshes" and "textures" folders. Then run the game and check if the vanilla body and textures have been replaced with the CBBE one.

[SwimmerMan01]

 

Thank you for the help, where would I install the files to manually?

And thank you for the Bodyslide clarification, I did not realize that.

 

The CBBE mod file is a compressed file with several folders inside (because it's prepared for install with a mod manager). You have to extract the content of some the folders to the game's Data folder (it should be in the same place as the game's main executable) using 7zip or a similar program. You should copy the contents of "00 Required (Slim)" and othe folder "00 Default" inside "08 Face Pack" to the Data folder, so inside of Data you have "meshes" and "textures" folders. Then run the game and check if the vanilla body and textures have been replaced with the CBBE one.

 

Thank you so much, the manual install seemed to do it.