Anska And Salma Replacers

[MoonSpot]

Been having issues with trying to replace the visuals for these two thus far.

Replacing Salma

• results in a CTD upon character being loaded
• No Records for the character are changed in xEdit beyond tint layers (dds & nif are naturally changed)

No idea why it crashes to desktop, do recall having used a replacer for Salma appearance in LE. Did however have to use either 'enable' on her spawned RefID, or make a duplicate with player.placeat me with Salma BaseID. Not the most graceful method, but changing her appearance back then didn't cause CTD, now it does.

 

What I did attempt to do with Salma was use Tonillia's appearance from the 'Ordinary Women' mod (as that character is ultimately replaced with Bijin). So, I renamed both the DDS & NIF to 0006CD5A.dds & 0006CD5A.nif; And in xEdit opened Ordinary Women, right-clicked on the appropriate record in non-playable character DIR, select 'Change FormID', type 0006CD5A <return>

 

Don't know what the beef is there, but SSE no likey.

 

Anska; similar process, still doesn't work, but at least it doesn't CTD. Again using orphaned overlapped dds, nifs & tesV record to redirect them to another NPC.

Anska does not adopt the files if the following template record is preserved, and will appear in her vanilla state:

TPLT - Template -> LvlBanditWizardNordF [NPC_:0001B1E0]

When changing that record, Anska will be invisable, and may or may not have audible voice depending on whether or not you add the nordFemale voice to her record or not (out of skyrim.esm that record is null). Seems the template handles waaay too much to be of actual practical use.

 

 

Any ninjas more familiar with the dark shadowy corners of tes software engineers minds know what I'm doing wrong?

Or am I missing something?... Did I not light enough candles around the flamming offering bowl of kittens hopes and dreams?

Edited April 18, 2020 by MoonSpot