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As always Hana, you are a goddess. Thank you!

Hope someone knows what's happening here, because I'm at a loss. I'm trying to mod daedric armor, but the daedric glow is giving me fits. It seems to be something in the import/export process but I have no idea what. To clear out as many variables as possible, I import the vanilla daedric armor into 3dsMax. Then without making any changes whatsoever I export it again. The "glow" then looks like this

I'm not totally sure I understand what's happening, but this popped out at me: renamed them to this vagonbrie_whintwoodlogverticalthin01.nif and Vagonbriei_rifrmsmpartitionbeamkeep01.nif Those are not the same nif names

Dunno if my savior, Hana, is still around or if there's someone else that can feed me a clue here. I've become more adept with creating armors, or at least modifying them. But I've run into something I'm stumped by. As seen in the attached images, what I have seems to be a weight painting issue. Like, it seems the vertices in the wrists (and one in the chest) have attached themselves to some bone they ought not to have. In theory, an easy fix. But I've gone through the bones, one by one. The wrist vertices are only attached to the forearm bones. So... I don't know why the vertices are trying to travel towards the spine and pelvis. I tried removing the skeleton and re-weighting everything, with no change. Is there something else that causes this effect? EDIT: Nevermind, I figured out a way to bypass whatever insanity was taking place. By using the PrisonRags Nif, I was able to use a body that was already modified instead of modifying a body myself. Whew!

Um.... Like, you just want to make like a Dwarven Battleaxe supersized? Can you explain a little of what you've tried to do and where you got stuck?

Thanks for the reply, LotM. It took me a little bit to get back to being able to do more testing. Something you said made me think I should try just having a whole quest and alias all for this purpose. Start the quest, which fills the alias and the actor goes to use the Kneel Marker. And nothing. Oh Skyrim how you task me...

Yes and no. I mean that. Yes, you should be able to preview the sounds in CK -- that would be the easiest method. You could also unpack the Sound BSA and sort through them, but the file names likely don't relate to the description so... CK would be your best bet, if you can get it working. Under the Audio tab you should find one of the headings (not sure which, just click on an entry in each) that will offer a preview. Then just find the ones you want to test out. As for the no, that's the effectshaders and that sort of thing, you're SOL. A lot of those things simply don't operate without the Skyrim game engine. Maybe someone invented a program to preview them, but I have never heard of such a thing

Another one of those questions I'm trying to use the BoundCaptiveMarker, the thing used in the Abandoned Shack during the first DB quest. I've used it in the past and had some issues, but I overcame those. Now it is out and out refusing to work. I create the package and use the SitTarget (just as the packages are set up for the captives in the Abandoned Shack) and point the package to my BoundCaptiveMarker. The Actor will NOT use the marker. At all. I've gone around and around with extensive testing and here is what I have come up with: I know the Actor CAN use it. They will randomly use it in a Sandbox. I know the SitTarget works because testing it on a custom NPC results in the Actor kneeling. I know that the Actor has no animation they are trying to run elsewise (which is what I found can cause the BCM to barf). I know the package runs, because when I replace the BCM with TableLeanMarker, the actor executes the package without an issue. I know it is NOT the BoundCaptive Keyword in the marker, because I created a duplicate and removed that keyword and still the actor refused to use the marker. I cannot find a single common thread with my successes and failures and it's making me a little crazy. Why can they use the marker while sandboxing but not as part of a package? Why was I able to get a custom NPC to follow the package, but vanilla NPCs refuse? Hoping someone has run into this before and can give me a clue, because I have none.

I'm happy I was of help. It was fun, actually, to figure out the puzzle with you. Modding for me is like a giant jigsaw puzzle, trying to find all the right pieces and where they go. It can be very rewarding. I give Bethesda a lot of crap, but I really am thankful they made the game so customizable. If you need any more help, just let me know. I don't have all the answers, but I've got enough battle scars to show I've been through the fire with Creation Kit

Hey thanks for the tip on the shared dialogue. Huh. Goes to show I don't know everything! Why yes. Create your Dialogue Topic for "Time to Get Up" This time, make the condition (the ONLY condition) GetIsAliasRef SleepAlias == 1 This way, the dialogue comes up only for the follower executing the package Now, in your script, add a Function like: Function WakeUp(Actor Follower) SleepAlias.Clear() Follower.EvaluatePackage() EndFunction Now, in your "Time to get up" dialogue, you add this line (just like you did with the Go to sleep dialogue) (GetOwningQuest() as FollowerSleepScript).WakeUp(AkSpeaker) Easy peasy.

This is a consequence of the way we pushed her into the faction. We could modify the script so it doesn't add her until later in her quest, but the basic issue wouldn't go away. She would still have the dialogue even when not a follower. You do like to play with the parts of Creation Kit that are a pain in the neck, huh? I've never been able to figure out how to do what you want done. It's again one of those things that should be easy but isn't. Sorry, you're on your own there

There are a few possibilities Your quest mod doesn't have the ticky box "RUN ONCE" checked, does it? Making this change to your script mid game could be problematic. If you know how, I'd recommend using the save cleaning tool to force Skyrim to reacquire the script for your mod I know I had you change it. Not sure if you changed it back. Make sure your Dialogue option for "Go to sleep" is set with the Condition "GET IN FACTION" "CURRENT FOLLOWER FACTION" == 1 And finally, it's possible this is just Skyrim being Skyrim. I've had a lot of "artifacts" come up in modding. Like, the dialogue for a character won't come up, you leave the cell, come back, and the dialogue is fine. Skyrim is an old, crotchety, cantankerous game and it tends to be a pain for no reason, but it's what we got.

Interesting. I've tried using the condition GetPlayerFollowerCount and it yielded no results. We're probably going a bit far afield here and overcomplicating things. MOST follower mods will have followers added in the normal way. Serana is the exception, not the rule. So instead of chasing our tails on this, just add this to your script Actor Property Serana Auto Faction Property CurrentFollowerFaction Auto Event OnInit() Serana.AddtoFaction(CurrentFollowerFaction) EndEvent() Be sure to fill the two properties What this will do is stick Serana into the faction, whether she likes it or not I looked at the Mrissi mod. I don't know what the problem is, but she is in the usual Potential Folllower and Current Follower factions. So the mod should work on her

To my knowledge, PlayerTeammate is non-functional, not usable. Like I said, covering these extra followers isn't impossible, it's just how "clean" you wanted it to be. One quick and dirty option would be to use the condition "GetRelationshipRank" and have it > 0 This should cover all followers, since all followers should be friends with you in order to become followers. Hopefully, that much at least is consistent. The downside of this, it takes away the "Follower" condition. That is, you could then use it to tell anyone your character is friends with to go to sleep. So, good example. Because very easy, very not clean. Complexity can go all the way up to a script that checks for these follower mods on GameLoad and auto adds them to the faction of your choosing. That's more advanced scripting, but I can show it to you. Very clean, not very easy, and it also means only those follower mods you specifically include would then be covered.