NPCs without equipment

[Sturmregen]

By now I've seen three kinds of NPCs which seem to have no equipment in their inventory. These are NCR Troopers, Jackal Gang Members/Leaders and Legion Recruits (at least those in Nipton). But only random NPCs are affected. Specific ones like Ranger Ghost and Vulpes Inculta have their regular armor and weapons. The affected NPCs run around in underwear and don't have weapons either, what renders them quite harmless, but is also immersion-breaking.

The strange thing is that it's not like their armors meshes or textures were missing, because the NCR and Legion corpses in several Nipton buildings actually did have armor equipped. So I think some mod messed up the NPCs.

I would like to avoid reinstalling everything because I already had problems getting it to work without crashing every few seconds and now the only issues I see apart from those NPC inventories are single darkened or black textures occasionally which get fixed after restarting the game.

So, if someone has any idea which mod could have messed it up (maybe due to incorrect installation of NMM, it couldn't install the MCM and WeaponModMenu either until I manually added the archive) or something like that I would be grateful.

 

My mod load order is:

 

FalloutNV.esm

DeadMoney.esm

HonestHearts.esm

OldWorldBlues.esm

LonesomeRoad.esm

GunRunnersArsenal.esm

ClassicPack.esm

MercenaryPack.esm

TribalPack.esm

CaravanPack.esm

FOOK - New Vegas.esm

FOOK - New Vegas DLCs.esm

Project Nevada - Core.esm

Project Nevada - Equipment.esm

MikotoBeauty.esm

Project Nevada - Cyberware.esp (I suppose it should be an .esm, it only works if loaded here.)

Leveled List Organizer.esm

WMR.esm

CASE.esm

Craft Master.esm

Craft Pack.esm

The Mod Configuration Menu.esp

Mission Mojave - Ultimate Edition.esp

MMUE - Deutsch.esp

Weathered10mmFixes.esp

FOOK - New Vegas.esp

FOOK - New Vegas DLCs.esp

Project Nevada - Dead Money.esp

Project Nevada - Honest Hearts.esp

Project Nevada - Old World Blues.esp

Project Nevada - Lonesome Road.esp

Project Nevada - Gun Runner's Arsenal.esp

CASE-Rebalance.esp

CASE-Patch HH.esp

CASE-Patch GRA.esp

You take a sip from your trusty Vault 13 canteen.esp

christinecos.esp

MMUE-CP-PNCore.esp

MMUE-CP-PNEquipment.esp

MMUE-CP-PNOWB.esp

WeaponModsExpanded.esp

WMX-FOOKNV CP.esp

Project Nevada - WMX.esp

WMX-ModernWeapons.esp

WMX-DeadMoney.esp

WMX-HonestHearts.esp

WMX-OldWorldBlues.esp

WMX-LonesomeRoad.esp

WMX-GunRunnersArsenal.esp

WMX-ArenovalisTextures.esp

WMX-FOOKNV-DLCs CP.esp

WMX-PreOrderPackClassic.esp

WMX-PreOrderPackCaravan.esp

WMX-PreOrderPackMercenary.esp

WMX-PreOrderPackTribal.esp

EVE FNV.esp

EVE FNV-[GRA Patch for EVE 1.3].esp

The Weapons Mod Menu.esp

Project Nevada - EVE.esp

MMUE-CP-EVE.esp

WMX-EVE.esp

Nevada Skies.esp

MikotoBeauty.esp

GRA WRP Compatibility Patch.esp

WMX-MW-GRA.esp

WMR_DeadMoney_S.esp

WMR_GunRunnersArsenal_S.esp

WMR_HonestHearts_S.esp

WMR_LonesomeRoad_S.esp

WMR_OldWorldBlues_S.esp

WMR_Vanilla_S.esp

WMR_WMX_GunRunnersArsenal_S.esp

WMR_WMX_HonestHearts_S.esp

WMR_WMX_LonesomeRoad_S.esp

WMR_WMX_OldWorldBlues_S.esp

WMR_WMX_Vanilla_S.esp

[---A lot of Craft Pack .esps---]

Leveled List Organizer.esp

LLO-Partial Patch-FOOK.esp

LLO-Partial Patch-Craft Pack.esp

LLO-Partial Patch-Craft Master.esp

LLO-Partial Patch-CASE.esp

LLO-Compatibility Patch-Honest Hearts.esp

LLO-Compatibility Patch-Dead Money.esp

 

Also, I have NMCs_Texture_Pack_For_New_Vegas installed. I have the German FNV Ultimate Edition with an uncut .exe file

[Cynthetic]

german ultimate don't need the uncut.exe. is already uncut

 

 

and for your npc equipment problem ..make an simple merged patch with fnvedit.. that should be fix this.

 

if you don´t have ArenovalisTextures installed delete the WMX-ArenovalisTextures.esp or switch off them in modmanager.

 

You take a sip from your trusty Vault 13 canteen.esp is not needed with PN

 

note; pn comes with an old mcm version included. u need to reinstall mcm after pn.

 

so far as i know.

 

you can also run modfusion to find the problem.

Edited July 31, 2012 by CYNTHETIC

[Sturmregen]

Thanks for the answer and the notification about the unneccessary plugins. I already installed MCM properly and it works now.

How do I create the merged patch? Shall I just mark all files on the left and select Create Merged Patch in the menu? Because FNVEdit gives me two warnings about records being overridden in FalloutNV.esm by the new patch.esp

Or should I just mark the .esp files without the .esms? Sry for my inexperience

[Cynthetic]

simple rightclick in the left list and create a merged patch u dont need mark any plugins, gives it a filename like "merged patch" and click OK. this merged patch fix the euqipmentlist from the npc also ammolist and similar things.

 

enable the new esp in the modmanager.

 

edit;

here is a training manual about fnvedit

 

http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/mods/38413

Edited July 31, 2012 by CYNTHETIC

[Sturmregen]

Thanks, but I'm afraid it doesn't seem to work. I did what you said, loaded my save and checked both Mojave Outpost and Primm. The NCR Troops still don't have anything... Any other ideas?

 

Also, I clicked 'Check for Errors' on my patch and it printed this:

 

[00:00] Checking for Errors in [68] Merged Patch.esp

[00:00] CNAM - Class -> Found a NULL reference, expected: CLAS

[00:00] Above errors were found in :VEFR02LegionThug03HM "Legionary Assassin" [NPC_:00163410]

[00:00] CNAM - Class -> Found a NULL reference, expected: CLAS

[00:00] Above errors were found in :VEFR02LegionThug02CM "Legionary Assassin" [NPC_:0016340F]

[00:00] CNAM - Class -> Found a NULL reference, expected: CLAS

[00:00] Above errors were found in :VEFR02LegionThugL01HM "Legionary Assassin" [NPC_:0016340E]

[00:00] CNAM - Class -> Found a NULL reference, expected: CLAS

[00:00] Above errors were found in :VEFR02LegionThugLeaderCM "Legionary Assassin" [NPC_:0016340D]

[00:00] CNAM - Class -> Found a NULL reference, expected: CLAS

[00:00] Above errors were found in :VHDDeadCenturion "Legion Centurion" [NPC_:0015861E]

[00:00] CNAM - Class -> Found a NULL reference, expected: CLAS

[00:00] EAMT - Unarmed Attack Animation -> <Unknown: 0>

[00:00] RNAM - Race -> Found a NULL reference, expected: RACE

[00:00] VTCK - Voice -> Found a NULL reference, expected: VTYP

[00:00] Above errors were found in :VMS21BigSal "Big Sal" [NPC_:0010C6F4]

[00:00] CNAM - Class -> Found a NULL reference, expected: CLAS

[00:00] EAMT - Unarmed Attack Animation -> <Unknown: 0>

[00:00] RNAM - Race -> Found a NULL reference, expected: RACE

[00:00] VTCK - Voice -> Found a NULL reference, expected: VTYP

[00:00] Above errors were found in :VMS21Nero "Nero" [NPC_:0010C6F3]

[00:00] Above errors were found in :GRUP Top "NPC_"

[00:00] Above errors were found in :[68] Merged Patch.esp

[Cynthetic]

already spawned npc are not affectet by the new patch i think... u need to look at fresh spawned npc.

 

looks like that there are missing files from one or more plugins or there is a wrong patch. i think this errors comes from fook..but not sure

 

or wrong installed mods. u can check this entries in fnvedit that are reported in the merged patch and fix this manual. here u can also see what mod plugin has this error

 

 

maybe this tool can help to but i didnt use that.

http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/mods/46859

Edited July 31, 2012 by CYNTHETIC

[Sturmregen]

I tested with an old savefile from the beginning and cheated myself to Primm, but either the NPCs there already spawned when I first started the game or the patch really doesn't work. Is there any way to make them respawn? Otherwise I will play for a while and look for Jackals. If the patch really doesn't work I seem to be forced to reinstall every non-Fomod archive manually and rearrange the load order until it works again. Hopefully that won't kill my savefile... Thanks again for your help

[Sturmregen]

Ok, I found some naked Viper guys punching my ED-E and a group of NCR battling the Legion with bare hands. So... Is there any recommended order to install the mods? Especially the big ones like FOOK, Project Nevada and Mission Mojave

[Cyberlazy]

Please use modfusion to install my mods. (LLO, Craft pack, CASE).

LLO can not be manualy installed. that is why your NPC's have no equipment, you did not follow the one step install instructions.

[Sturmregen]

Crap, I already deleted everything and am now downloading to make a clean installation... So I messed up myself. Thanks. Well, since you're a modder... could you give me some advice to properly install those mods I want to use? Like install order, what to replace and what to keep since they surely will get into conflict and such things... At least I know how to install your mods properly now. Could you help me with the rest? And is your LLO compatible with FOOK, PN and MMUE?