How do you give modded weapons to NPC's?

[QWWW23]

Hello.

 

I've been having trouble with giving weapons from mods to NPC's.

 

Everytime I do, the weapon is either invisible, or it's not there at all in-game.

 

I have tried multiple things, such as messing with the load orders and adding the weapon to a leveled list and adding that to the NPC, but no luck.

 

Curiously enough, if I make the weapon mod itself the active file in the Creation Kit, everything works just fine.

 

Essentially, what I'm asking is, how do you get a weapon from one .esp, to work with an NPC from another .esp?

 

Thanks!

[bill8872]

The only reason weapons are invisible is they are missing textures, and/or meshes.

Make sure the weapon you're using installed correctly.

[TrickyVein]

Object templates in the weapon record determine which mods are spawned with the weapon. The keywords which are associated with an object template get added to leveled lists which determines what spawns where and in whose hands.

 

If you're using multiple plugins which add weapons to the game, you'll have to look in xEdit and make sure that the weapons you want to spawn come from the plugin which is loaded last, or from a merged patch.

Edited September 13, 2016 by TrickyVein