Need help creating follower

[RebeccaRyer2009]

I am trying to create either a temptress follower or an Ashen race follower, I have looked up a million tutorials online and spent pretty much ALL day today trying to make it work!

First problem is I can not get any hair to show up when creating a Ashen follower, not normal Skyrim hairs or Apachii Hairs. All it says under drop down is DEFAULT. I have all the right Data files activated

Also when I just forget about the hair and make her and then add her to the game in the Drunken Huntsmen in Whiterun , the game crashed when I tried to load the Drunken Huntsman space.

Any help would be very much appreciated, I am new to modding but I thought I would be able to do it.

I even just tried settling for changing one of the already loaded Temptress followers looks and when I check the esp and load game the look doesn't change at all.

I am completely stuck

[tg08096]

Can you screenshot your load order and what race mod(s) are you using?

[David Brasher]

If you are creating a new mod with a follower in it, keep in mind that one .esp cannot normally see what is inside another .esp. So if your follower is in one .esp, the hair is in another, and the race is in another, you are going to end up with a follower with no hair and no race and your game is liable to crash.

 

If you are going to use resources from other mods, you will have to follow special procedures. If the resources are in .esm files, what you are trying to do will work, because the .esm will automatically get connected and become a master. But if you want to use content from an .esp, then you are going to have to use Wrye Bash to esmify the .esp at the proper time while you are modding, and then .espify it again before play-testing. Thereafter, you must esmify again every time that you edit the mod. You must espify again every time you play. If you fail to do these things and you save your mod at the wrong time, you will lose your connection to the master and will lose all your content from the master and your mod will be junk fit only to be deleted. Save your game at the wrong time, and it will be junk, fit only to be deleted.

 

So because of the extra work and danger, in some cases it is better to merge portions of the mods so that all the resources the follower needs are in the same mod as the follower.

 

Races can only accommodate the particular hairs from their list. If your hair is not on the list, you will need to edit the race.

 

Crashes are often a result of missing meshes, textures, and .kf files from custom content you add.

[RebeccaRyer2009]

Thank you David Bahser that helped a ton!! I am going to spend today tweaking and trying very hard to get things to work lol

I will reply back if I have any problems, but hopefully I wont