Make all members of a faction wear a new outfit?

[Aziara]

Hello all,

I want to use a new outfit for all members of a faction (specifically the dibella priestesses. I always thought it was silly that priestesses of the goddess of beauty hide their bodies in gunnysacks, lol)

How do I do something like this?? I tried just replacing their outfits manually in the CK, but that doesn't touch any mod added priestesses, such as Interesting NPCs adding one.

I have Anna's NPCs currently, and she's got them wearing Nocturnal robes, and it also effects the Interesting NPC. It looks like a script driving it (I think??). If I have my mod in game with the manually added outfit, Anna's NPCs changes overwrite it, and it doesn't show up.

I don't know much about scripts, I've never gotten one to work properly before, even if I copy/paste it in, it won't compile.

Is there any way to do with without a script? If not, what's a good starting place for learning Papyrus?

[Kapteyn]

If you've got a script controlling what somebody's wearing, you either need to modify that script or make sure the NPC is getting better stuff than what the script gives them. If it's not a script then you have two choices, depending on the faction and whatever else might be dealing with individual NPCs and levelled lists. You can either modify each and every NPC, so you define their default outfit as a single thing, or if you're lucky they might all be using a single list already and you can just change its contents to whatever you want.

[Aziara]

So I stopped using Anna's NPCs, but I can't get my mod changes to show. Even though I individually changed the outfits of each priestess, they are all wearing the monk robes. They shouldn't even have the monk robes in their inventory!

I found this: https://www.creationkit.com/index.php?title=SetOutfit_-_Actor

Will SetOutfit script work for a faction rather than an individual NPC? Also, how do I apply it?

[Aziara]

Starting a new game, my mod works correctly. I've come to the conclusion that any save file that has had Anna's NPCs active at any time (whether it is currently active or not, and whether I've cleaned scripts after deleting or not), that my mod cannot work.

Any suggestions??