Trouble Adding Support for Third Party Mods

[Athelos]

I have my mod:

 

http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=43316

 

Which I want to add support for this mod:

 

http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=39651

 

and so on and so forth with other compatible mods...

 

The problem that I am having? I load FalloutNV.esm, Mod A and Mod B, pop the items from Mod B into Mod A and save a seperate ESP as Mod C (Mod C being the mod that adds the items to Mod A from Mod B)

 

Mod A: GSWeaponsCache.esp

Mod B: WeaponModsExpanded.esp

Mod C: GSWeaponsCache-WMX.esp

 

And so I launch the game, FOMM comes up before game launch and lists FalloutNV.esm as GSWeaponsCache-WMX.esp only dependency... Hmm... Okay. I launch the game, go to said cell, inspect element that includes new features and whoa and behold, nothing is there, nothing at all. So I load up FNVEdit and add GSWeaponsCache.esp and WeaponModsExpanded.esp as masters, save the file, launch the game and still there's nothing there.

 

Whenever I have made mods that require FalloutNV.esm ONLY, those mods have worked, but including any other ESP file does not work, they simply WILL NOT list as a dependency for the file... What am I doing wrong? I believe I have the most recent FNV GECK (1.4.0.518) so I'm sure that's not an issue.

 

Any suggestions?

Edited September 10, 2011 by Athelos

[rickerhk]

Before editing mod C with the Geck, you must set the esm flag in both mod A and mod B, otherwise the Geck will remove them as masters of Mod C when you save Mod C.

[Athelos]

ESM Flag? I hope you don't mean converting WeaponModsExpanded.esp to an ESM because that would require that the player has an ESM instead of an ESP and I have seen many various mods that require ESP's. Some of my Oblivion mods that I have made could include ESP's, so I don't know what changed between Oblivion, Fallout 3 and FNV.

 

I found this:

 

 

In order to load more that one ESM, you need to change this setting in the GECKCustom.ini file:

 

bAllowMultipleMasterLoads=1

 

This file is located in your Documents/games/Fallout3 (same place where your 'saves' folder is located)

 

But I can't find that file or reference anywhere in any of FNV's INI files.

 

EDIT: Messed around with the GECK a bit, closed it and the file was auto-generated. Not sure why it hadn't auto-generated before.

Edited September 10, 2011 by Athelos

[Athelos]

Changed the value in GeckCustom.ini and still no proper masters... :-(

 

EDIT: Masters now show but still not seeing changes in cell. Going to run save without the files, save, then reload with changed ESP's.

 

EDIT(2): Nope. Reloading the new ESP did not enable the new features.

Edited September 10, 2011 by Athelos

[Athelos]

Sorry to bump this but I would like to know if anyone else has experienced this problem and how to solve it, I have gotten the masters to show on the newly created ESP but the new content is still not available in game. Can post screenies if needed.

[Quetzlsacatanango]

You can't just use items from one esp in another esp. It doesn't work that way.

Make mod A and mod B masters, load them both in geck and create mod C. You don't have to change the extension to esm, it doesn't matter.

Then you can unmasterize A and B if you want with no ill effects. You will just have to remasterize before you make further changes to mod C.

Edited September 10, 2011 by Quetzlsacatanango

[Athelos]

Okay, so setting them as masters in FNVEdit? I'm very quite lost...

[Quetzlsacatanango]

Fnvedit, fomm, fnv plugin util, any will work.

[Athelos]

If this is what you mean (look at the masters at bottom):

http://i54.tinypic.com/14ncpxv.png

 

Then I did that a long time ago, and the items are still not showing up.

[blove]

Open the plugin to be a master to your plugin in FNVEdit, then open that File Header, then right-click in the Record Flags space of that record, then choose Edit, then check ESM, then select OK, and save. Now GECK will be able to that plugin as a master to your plugin. Be sure to change it back afterwards because even though the file extension is ESP it will load with the ESM and bork your load order.