Furry NPC Patcher
This patcher makes a patch for NPCs that reflects your entire load order:
- NPCs added by mods will be furrified
- Vanilla NCPs altered by other mods will have their changes carried forward. So, for example, if you're running with an AI Overhaul mod it makes changes to the NPCs; then YA changes them again, and you lose all the AI changes. This patch consolidates the appearance changes from YA with the other changes from earlier in your load order.
- Any changes to races are merged with YA's changes, so mods like Imperious will work.
Tools required
- xEdit. This is straightforward. Just make sure you can run it from within MO, if you use MO. the STEP project has good instructions on the setup.
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Creation Kit or Face Discoloration Fix.
- Face Discoloration Fix makes it unnecessary to create facegen files at the cost of some runtime overhead. You may get lags or glitches if there are a lot of NPCs about.
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Creation Kit facegen creates heads for every NPC in your load order so the game doesn't have to do it at runtime.
- You can use the Steam version but be warned facegen is very slow. It can easily take a day to run all the vanilla NPCs. (You won't be doing all vanilla NPCs, but mods like the Populated mods introduce a lot of NPCs.)
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I recommend you downgrade the Steam version and install CK Fixes. That's super-fast but does crash occasionally.
- To downgrade use Creation Kit Downgrade Patcher
- Then install SSE Creation Kit Fixes
- If not using SSE Creation Kit Fixes, you'll need to tweak the CK ini file--get the ini file from here as a simple starter kit.
- Even if you run facegen, adding Face Discoloration Fix will clean up any NPCs that got missed.
How To Use
- Put the BD_Furry_Patch_Builder.pas script in your xEdit "Edit Scripts" folder.
- Load xEdit with the entire load order you want to patch enabled up through YiffyAgeConsolidated.esp. (To make a patch for a specific mod, just load that mod and YA.)
- Run the patcher. (In xEdit's left pane, right click, and choose Apply Script -> BD_Furry_Patch_Builder). Generally, you'll want to put the patch in a new file, but you can put the armor and NPC fixes in the same file.
- Let the patcher run.
- Exit and save
- Enable the new plugin
- IF USING MO, collect face gen files. See the note below.
- Start Creation Kit
- Select your patch file and load it. (Folder icon at left of toolbar, or File -> Data.)
- Choose Actors -> Actor
- Select all NPCs overridden in the patch file (marked with *). Or sort by form ID (expand the hidden second column) and select everything after the DLCs down to the end. Or just select everything, it won't hurt.
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CTRL-F4 to create facegen files.
- If not using CK Fixes, this is slow. Wait.
- If using CK fixes, it may crash along the way. Note at the bottom of the screen the name of the last NPC processed. Start the CK up again, scroll down the Actor list to that NPC and select everything from that NPC forward. CTRL-F4 again. You may need to do this 3-4 times before you get through all the NPCs. It's frustrating but still faster than doing it without CK Fixes.
- Exit. Don't save.
- IF USING MO, move your plugin and "meshes" and "textures" folders from "Overwrite" to a new mod.
MO Specifics
Only if you are running with MO and with furry and non-furry profiles:
- By default, new files are created in your Overwrite directory, but when files are modified they stay wherever they are. CK sometimes creates the facegen files as new files, sometimes if they exist already modifies the existing file. So your new furry facegen heads might get saved in the mod they came from. This isn't a problem if you always run furry, but if you have multiple profiles, some furry, some not, your mods are mucked up.
- So, before running CK, collect all the facegen files in your load order and copy them to your overwrite folder, maintaining the folder structure. Find them in the MO "Data" tab. Navigate to meshes\actors\character\facegendata\facegeom for the nif files and Textures\Actors\Character\FaceGenData\FaceTint for the DDS files. This way CK will find and update the files in the Overwrite folder, not the original mod folder.
Edited by Bad Dog
Added Face Discoloration Fix option
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