After literally a DAY of headaches.....Edited Curie!

[srsparky32]

Worked out how to edit Curie without her affinity resetting. I put myself through misery and frustration so that you dont have to. After failing with Creation Kit, FO4Edit, Face Ripper, and the NPC replacing method.....I finally did it.

 

 

**disclaimer**

i am not responsible for anything that happens to your game. the instructions have been outlined in a way that has been confirmed to be safe...anything bad that happens is user error and not my fault.

 

 

So an explanation on HOW to do it and what will happen. (this guide assumes you understand basic fallout 4 modding)

 

1a. Make a save before you do this, in case things go wrong.

1b.Get Curie and set her as your follower. This way if you have to recycleactor, she will come back to you.

 

2. Open up the console and type in help curie 4, and then take note of the FIRST NPC form ID and do a player.placeatme command. (she has to have farmer clothes on)

3. with fake farmer curie in the game, and in good light, freeze the game with tfc 1

4. click fake curie, do showlooksmenu XXX (xxx being where the form id goes after you click on fake curie ) then make your desired changes.

5. exit fake curie showlooksmenu

6. go to real curie and do showlooksmenu on her, change the hair and then exit. If she dissolves and goes invisible do not panic. Read on for more info on this.

 

Ok so when curie dissolved and went invisible, i did a recycleactor on her and she came back to me with the facial changes etc. but the affinity had been reset. Soooo, I then tried to do affinity grinding by killing dogmeat and then stimpacking him. But for some reason, the affinity wasnt working properly and kept going into huge negative values. So, i decided to reload back to the save before i edited Curie, and just do the process over again.

 

This is where i discovered something new. When i finished editing the fake curie and went back to the real curie to apply the changes, this time she did not fade out into invsible...she stayed visible and her affinity stayed the same!!

 

so as of now i suggest doing the steps above, then reloading the save you did before editing, and redoing the steps, so that you can keep the affinity as well as have a face that you like better.

 

 

The link below is a picture of my Curie in game.

 

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/447357391104937540/27CCD0C68FCDC6930EAFE1F0F33811C157635AEB/

Edited May 5, 2016 by srsparky32

[superj04]

I haven't had any trouble editing Curie through console, however, after altering her hair style, any headgear she equips has terrible clipping and I have yet to find a solution other than to simply have her go without a hat or helmet. Any idea what might be causing this?

I've tried editing her hairstyle in the creation kit to no avail.

[bobofudd]

I've recently changed the look of a few of my npcs for Singing Settlers using the slm command. I ran into issues like not being able to change the hair or facial features and some features not working at all. I basically just stuck with applying makeup. Then afterwards, the same npc would be invisible or stop singing. They also lost collision although I think reloading the game fixed that. It's nice to be able to do that but it really isn't all that reliable. A lot of things can go wrong.