Explanation how to alter a Mod for personal preferences

[Mortadella]

Hy,

 

I need some help to alter three Mods for my own likes, but i have no clue how and not the time to read into hundreads of hours into the thematic.

I already asked months ago the Mod makers for it, but i don't know if they will come back to Nexus in foreseeable future, so i try to get help here.

 

It's about the mod:

 

Teddybear Backpack, Loot Detector - Scrapper Corpse Highlighting and Power Armor Station Overencumbered Damage Fix.

 

 

Teddybear Backpack:
http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/10882/?

Loot Detector - Scrapper Corpse Highlighting:
http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/4380/?

Power Armor Staion Overencumbered Damage Fix:
http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/16988/?

 

 

What i need:

 

Teddybear Backpack. As long as there is no normal backpack like a eastpack (i don't know why there are just those overhuge megaloaded military backpacks), i thought, ok hollow out that bear.

But it's actually no backpack, it does not add carry weight to the player. How can i alter this .esp to do so? Like +50 carry weight or +7 weight/strength.

 

Loot Detector. Highlighting unlooted dead bodies is a rly nice thing, but yellow and green is too common in the world (weed), red is used by eye googles and the other colors.. meh..

how do i alter this color into light gray?

 

Power Armor Station Overencumbered DamageFix. At first it worked rly well, but as soon as i got the X-01 or used Worsins Colored PowerArmors upgraded to X-01, I got damaged and broken legs from the PowerArmor Station again. This should be fixed by Bethesda.. But as long as they don't do, how can i increase the mods +150 carry weight to 5000? I tried it, but had no success.

 

Pls give me a step by step instruction or maybe someone can alter this in 5 minutes and load it up?

 

 

Help is very appreciated!

Edited January 5, 2017 by Mortadella

[Mortadella]

Noone?

[chucksteel]

I haven't looked at or used any of the mods your talking about but,

 

Teddy Bear Backpack - You need to give it an Enchantment that adds the carry weigh you want,

 

Loot Detector - Absolutely no clue how it works or what it edits.

 

Power Armor Station - I also don't know what it does but, it sounds like you have a load order issue here have you tried to have it load after the other mods that you think breaks it?

[spacefiddle]

The Overencumberance Fix issue is weird, as all does is give you a zero-weight crafted item that, when worn, increases your carry weight by 150. I have no idea how something else could break that; it's possible that the mods or parts you're using at the station just have weirdly high weight values.

 

Before you go anywhere, you're going to have to completely let go of this idea that you "don't have time to read." You are not pushing a magic button that will change things into what you're thinking of. This will not take five minutes. You can either learn how this stuff works, gradually, as you go along, starting with simple things that won't take too long; or you can save yourself the frustration and move on. Because just like there's no "eat anything you want and lose weight" diet, there is no "learn new things without learning" process.

 

If you choose to go on, awesome! Learning is good for the brain.

 

The simplest thing to do is MAKE A COPY OF YOUR SAVE FILE AND STASH IT SOMEWHERE OUTSIDE THE GAME DIRECTORY.

Srsly that's first. If you don't do this, no one can help you later if things go wrong.

 

Get FO4Edit:

 

http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/2737

 

and read how to set it up.

 

If you don't already have it, get one of the mods you want to change. Let's start with the Overencumbered Fix because that should be relatively simple.

Open the .esp file for that mod in FO4Edit.

 

You're going to see a WHOLE lot of things that won't make ANY sense to you. You don't need to understand it all... or even most of it. We want to identify, and change, one thing: how the crafted goggles let you carry more stuff.

 

You know it's a crafted item, you know they're goggles, and you know the effect is +150 carrying capacity. This is a small mod. It's not going to have much in it. Therefore, the simplest thing to do is: look through these strange records until you find a value of 150. Keep in mind what we're looking for:

 

- Something that says it affects the player

- Something that says it affects carrying capacity, or weight

- Something with a value of 150

 

Stay focused on the simple things we're interested in, and you don't need to understand it all at once, because we're not changing anything else.

You're going to have to figure it out at this point. There is no one who can tell you what you're looking for if they haven't seen it. They would be looking for this record just like you are.

 

You made a copy of your save file, right?

 

Find the thing that looks like it's what adds 150 carry weight. Change it to something ridiculous, like 5000 as suggested above. Save the .esp. Go into your game and craft a new pair of the goggles. See if wearing them does, in fact, give you a carrying capacity of 5000.

 

If yes, congrats! You've successfully customized a mod.

If no, welcome to the club! Half of learning this stuff is breaking s***... even when you've been doing it a while.

[Mortadella]

 

 

Find the thing that looks like it's what adds 150 carry weight. Change it to something ridiculous, like 5000 as suggested above. Save the .esp. Go into your game and craft a new pair of the goggles. See if wearing them does, in fact, give you a carrying capacity of 5000.

 

If yes, congrats! You've successfully customized a mod.

If no, welcome to the club! Half of learning this stuff is breaking s***... even when you've been doing it a while.

 

 

Hey thanks for reply.

 

I alrdy did that, was the first thing i did. I'm not dumb^^

But just changing this value from 150 to 9999 didn't alter anything in the game.

 

There where 2 times the number 150, one in like the upper middle of all lines and one in the buttom line. Couldn't even alter the upper line, it was gray, so i altered the 150.00000 value of the last line to 9999.00000. But as said, it didn't changed anything.

Edited January 18, 2017 by Mortadella