Help me with fixing lydia

[NanakoMagojiro]

Hi everyone. I want to do one thing. Just one tiny thing.

 

I want to make lydia use the female animations, rather than the male set that she uses. That's all, nothing else.

 

There are plenty of mods that do this already, but i can't find a single one of them that doesn't also change her appearance, or give her new gear, or most irritatingly of all, give her a new hair that requires another mod to function.

 

i just want to do this one thing :(

 

So i open skyrim.esm, I find the object which i believe is lydia:

Editor ID: HousecarlWhiterun

Form ID: 000A2C8E

Name: Lydia

 

 

Please let me know if this is somehow the wrong object.

I edit that object, go to the traits tab, and uncheck "Opposite gender anims"

 

Then i save it as a new plugin, put it last in my load order, enable it, and go find lydia. unfortunately, her animations haven't changed at all :(

 

I've tried resurrecting her, i've tried disabling and reenabling her, i've tried releasing her from service and re-recruiting her, i've tried moving between cells. She won't stop walking like a man D:

 

what do i do now ?

 

Please see the attached file that i made. perhaps someone could check that i've made the change correctly

Edited December 22, 2012 by NanakoMagojiro

[Rendarg]

Sry dont have Skyrim currently installed, but i looked into your file with an esp tool, you really edited Lydia, dont know why its not working for you

 

Maybe this will work:

 

Try this tool http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/4554

Its a very easy to use NPC Editor, i used that to change most of my followers before i needed to do more complex stuff with the Skyrim SDK

 

Go find Lydia in the list

 

Go to Appereance

 

Go to General

 

Change the Stance field to female

 

Save the whole thing

 

put it in your data folder and in your modlist

 

 

[Papageno]

When I try to use that tool it complains that I'm not using a legal filename (that I'm not using only ascii characters) but I am.

 

I've read that no matter what you do, once you've met Lydia in your game, you can't change her animations and make them stick. It's somehow baked into your savegame. Bummer.

Edited January 11, 2013 by Papageno