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- Manually
- With the "EasyNPC" utility
My preference is manually, but it's entirely up to you. EasyNPC is great, but unfortunately it's really hard for me to help people Troubleshoot with EasyNPC and stuff does go wrong.
Here's a guide for the manual way, if you choose to do that.
Step 1)
Download NITHI and Bijin's mod manually. Extract them anywhere you like, (eg. Desktop) you can move them to another place later if you want. Copy the .esp files from both of them into your Skyrim Data folder (you can use the Overwrite folder if you are using MO2). For NITHI, the female esp is under "01 Main/women".
Note that I recommend doing Step 2 to Step 4 one NPC at a time.
Step 2)
Go into xEdit and load up only NITHI and Bijin. You don't need to load in all of your mods. First go to NITHI and expand the list. Open the tab "non-player actors" and find the first NPC in the list that you don't want to keep. Right click the name, and press "remove". It will give you scary warnings, but just say "Yes I'm sure" - don't worry, if you follow the guide, the worst-case-scenario is that you have to copy the original plugin to your data folder and try again.
Step 3) Now go back to the NITHI mod folder that you extracted, and go to meshes/actors/character/facegendata/facegeom/skyrim.esm/000xxxx.dds. Select the files for NPC's that you don't want, and delete it.
Do the same for the folder in NITHI: textures/actors/character/facegendata/facetint/skyrim.esm/000xxxx.dds
Step 4) Repeat same as above for all NPCs in both mods (NITHI and Bijin). When you are finished, save the Plugins and close xEdit.
Step 5) Find the Plugins in your Data (or Overwrite). You will put them where you first took them from - the mod folders you extracted earlier. It needs to be in the same place. Let it replace the old Plugins with your edited version. Let me stress again, do not rename the plugins. It will break stuff.
Step 6) Now you can zip the mods and install them. The FOMOD installers should still work as usual, it just won't install the NPC's you removed.
And now you have a custom version of each mod that works without any conflicts :) I suggest backing them up somewhere so that you never have to do all of that again. Merging them is totally option, I prefer to keep them separate.
Pinning this post - I hope this helps you or someone else :)
will there be a patch for Serious Civil War Consequences for Jarl Balgruuf
issue: Hrongar has still a vanilla face and vanilla hair makes him bald :D
ty, love your modsss
Great mod nevertheless, 11/10!
-Are there any mods or patches loading after NITHI Whiterun?
-If using MO2, is there anything in the overwrite folder that could affect it?
-If using vortex, is there anything in the data folder that could affect it (or shouldn't be there)?
- I restarted my modlist a few days ago. AE, newest steam version ( I don't think it should matter for these particular NPCs, they are the same across all versions iirc)
- The only other mods I have installed are gameplay bug fixes, SKSE and a handful of utility plugins (I haven't touched anything about NPCs aside from script fixes for some behaviours like eating).
- I loaded NITHI Whiterun, then Beef Unending afterwards. Balgruuf is loading in as intended:
https://i.ibb.co/BzB9CSx/Screen-Shot0.png
(His beard is a bit dark in the vanilla lighting, I need to fix that for sure, but thats easy peasy)
The other NPC mods shouldn't be doing it either, standalones generally don't touch anything (didn't test but browsed the files, nothing in there looks like a problem)
A patch for something else random could do it, if its in any way related to Balgruuf and loads after my mod, or an SKSE script that distributes a fix or appearances. Getting LOOT and/or xEdit might help identify what is happening.
Nightmarezone is one of the most genuinely sweetest, kind and helpful authors on Nexus. She may not always be available, but she is super helpful when she is.
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It can happen for a range of reasons, but most commonly is that there is an NPC-related esp which is partially overwriting the changes made by your NPC replacers esps. Anything that edits NPC records in general can do this - not just appearance mods.
For example, say I want to change Lydia's stats or behaviors, but with a specific NPC replacer for her appearance. In order to have both the stats and the appearance, I would need to create a simple patch which gives her the stats AND matches the appearance details in the .nif file for Lydia.
I'd recommend using something like xEdit to check for conflicts and go from there.
There are many fantastic SMP hairs out there, and i realy hope it becomes a standart for NPC overhauls to use SMP hairs, because Faster HDT SMP works so great, is high polish, and there is absolutly no reason to not use it in 2024. I mean come on, we use Parallax Occlusion, Complex Parallax, high Poly heads and objects, SMP clothes and lots of other amazing next level top notch mods, but our NPCs have no SMP hairs, thats a little bit shamefull ^^
When im standing with Lydia on the top of the world, taking a look in to the distance and the hairs are blowing in the wind, is truly a great thing ;)