NateV8 Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 So before I start explaining the problem, I spent all day trying to fix this and I have followed several step by step installations to a T and still I'm stuck. Downloaded bodyslide, downloaded CBBE. Pretty simple. I want to make the women chestier. This should be easy with the CBBE vanilla textures replacers!...... It is not. I have tried installing bodyslide as instructed by installing it through vortex and then adding it to tools from the data folder.. which didn't work, in the end I had to extract to the folder manually and add it to vortex which is fine. I know how to select a mod group of clothing, select preset sliders, save, and batch it. Now I've done both batch types. Tried regular all and go and the targeted folder dump batch all. The targeted folder type I then turn into a .rar install it on vortex like a mod and load after any conflicts. I have uninstalled and reinstalled to no avail, the women stay as the stock CBBE curvy preset, the sliders do nothing. So I decided to try another mod to replace the CBBE vanilla textures that is also bodyslide compatible. I found mini dresses and spice gear. installed the mods, load after all CBBE conflicts. go to body slide do the same old song and dance. Nothing. and in fact the armors stayed as the CBBE vanilla replacements. The only clothing I saw changed in an npc was breasts and mini dress clothing replacer was the priestess'. Oh and all the guards and any other girl was still wearing the CBBE replacers, not the new ones....... HELP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grestorn Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 Extracting manually was a mistake. It's not gonna work like this. You don't need to add BodySlide as a tool to Vortex, that's just a convenience option to be able to start it easier. If you add the BodySlide mod and activate it, the executable in its usual place under Data and you can start them from there. Putting the files there manually is not a good idea, since Vortex will not be able to manage them any longer that way. BodySlide changes the meshes of CBBE and other custom armor. Vortex will recognize those changes if you installed CBBE (and all other custom armor affected) properly through Vortex. After you've done your changes with BodySlide and click "Deploy mods", a huge dialog should appear asking you what to do with those changes. You have to select "Save" and click "Confirum". That way, your changes become a part of the CBBE mod itself and they will be properly handled, including load order etc. Do you let Vortex handle CBBE itself? Are there conflicts between CBBE and other mods (i.e. is the a red or green flash icon in CBBE's row in Vortex)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NateV8 Posted November 5, 2018 Author Share Posted November 5, 2018 Extracting manually was a mistake. It's not gonna work like this. You don't need to add BodySlide as a tool to Vortex, that's just a convenience option to be able to start it easier. If you add the BodySlide mod and activate it, the executable in its usual place under Data and you can start them from there. Putting the files there manually is not a good idea, since Vortex will not be able to manage them any longer that way. BodySlide changes the meshes of CBBE and other custom armor. Vortex will recognize those changes if you installed CBBE (and all other custom armor affected) properly through Vortex. After you've done your changes with BodySlide and click "Deploy mods", a huge dialog should appear asking you what to do with those changes. You have to select "Save" and click "Confirum". That way, your changes become a part of the CBBE mod itself and they will be properly handled, including load order etc. Do you let Vortex handle CBBE itself? Are there conflicts between CBBE and other mods (i.e. is the a red or green flash icon in CBBE's row in Vortex)? Wait so any changes in bodyslide I make while not installed through vortex OR any changes I make while bodylide is enabled will be nullified as vortex preserves the state the game it was last in? So why didn't it work when I batched the changes into another folder, zipped them and then installed them on vortex like a mod and overwrote all conflicts? Secondly, what about the other armor replacers I downloaded (spice gear/ mini dresses) and them not replacing CBBE vanilla armors? This one is concerning as I followed the instructions and everything is enabled ( or disabled when needs be). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grestorn Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 No, not exactly. Vortex just cannot track changes made in files it doesn't manage. But it doesn't touch them either, UNLESS you overwrite them with a mod. Example: - Female iron armor mesh is usually in the game's .bsa archive (no lose file).- As it's a vanilla outfit, it's also part of CBBE as a lose file. As soon as you activate that mod in Vortex, Vortex will link that file into the proper Data subdirectory.- If you run BodySlide and/or Outfit Studio in the proper directory, they will overwrite this mesh according to your changes.- Once you "Deploy Mods" in Vortex (either manually or indirectly as the result of some other action), Vortex scans all files it manages and checks if they have been modified. If so, the aforementioned dialog pops up and gives you the option to make this change permanent or to revert it. Other armor mods are fine, as long as they are managed by Vortex, too. The same applies to them, it doesn't matter whether an armor mesh was provided by CBBE or any other mod. That's about it. Files that you CREATE (as opposed to change) with BodySlide or any other tool, that were not part of a mod in the first place, will be ignored (and left untouched) by Vortex, but will also not be managed by Vortex. It's usually not a good idea to have ANY file in Data which is neither part of the standard game installation nor managed by Vortex. Because such a file would linger can can cause issues even though all mods are disabled. That's why it's not a good idea to copy files into Data manually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NateV8 Posted November 5, 2018 Author Share Posted November 5, 2018 Alright I understand. I will try this again even though I swear I did it that way first. The fact that in the beginning bodyslide worked on the naked body but not the clothes is the confusing part. I will uninstall CBBE + body slide, spice gear and mini dresses. I will install CBBE+bodyslide. I will enable them in the mods tab but not the plugins/deploy them (or do you mean enable them in the mods tab but when it says deplying up in the top right corner I "dismiss" deployment?). I will then make the modifications in bodyslide as I have been doing, batch all at the end and then deploy CBBE and let it load after any conflicts (over write). Does that sound right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NateV8 Posted November 5, 2018 Author Share Posted November 5, 2018 Alright so I can't see the mod if is installed but NOT enabled because I have no options in body slide until CBBE is enabled. Where is this deploy mods? I'm confused as to what I'm deploying after I make the changes in bodyslide to the vanilla CBBE outfits since CBBE is enabled already. EDIT: WOW, I never noticed the deploy mods button before haha. I will let you know how this goes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grestorn Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 So you can start bodyslide now? DId you install and enable CBBE? How does your "Mods" tab in Vortex looking like? Just make a screenshot and show it here. Are you starting BodySlide from within the data subdirectory? Not on some other place, then it wont find anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NateV8 Posted November 5, 2018 Author Share Posted November 5, 2018 Yes I can start bodyslide, I installed and enabled CBBE and I know it works because without CBBE there are no sliders or presets in bodyslide. I start it from the data directory and it finds everything. I tried from the mod directory and it finds nothing So I reinstalled CBBE, batched the changes in bodyslide to the CBBE textures and deployed. installed mini dresses and spice gear, DID NOT address the conflicts with CBBE. Made the changes in bodyslide to minidresses and spice gear and batched them. deployed the mods as you said and then had spice gear and mini dresses load after CBBE. No change. still curvy preset CBBE outfits/meshes. This is my problem. I'm so pissed because all posts and threads about problems with bodyslide are easy fixes and something is going on with vortex to prevent these "easy" fixes. I'm pissed at vortex because I have spent 2 days on this for nothing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AugustaCalidia Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 This is just a long shot, but have you clicked on the "Settings" tab in the BodySlide UI to determine what data files are being accessed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NateV8 Posted November 6, 2018 Author Share Posted November 6, 2018 Are you talking about game data path for bodyslide? The path was the skyrim installation path. I'm assuming you were getting at try the vortex mods folder? I tried selecting the vortex mod folders and bodyslide found nothing. This was when using the bodyslde.exe found in the vortex mods folder. When I use the bodyslide.exe found in the skyrim installation folder (I'm assuming the 2 seperate copies are done by hardlink deployment?) and then changed the data to the vortex mod folder it found the clothing mods (Cbbe, IA, splice, mini...etc) So I guess I should now try batching everything using bodyslide with the data files being accessed from the vortex mod folder?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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