creatures SexLab Aroused Creatures SE (2026-06-12)

[Ascian]

14 hours ago, Sailing Rebel said:

By default Aroused Creature will look for aggressive animations for non-consensual engagements but SexLab does not normally identify these and many animators forget to tag the animation they add via SLAL. Aroused Creatures will auto-tag some animations that come with SexLab (which are the one's you are likely seeing) but you can also select other aggressive animations in the Aggressive Toggles page of the Aroused Creatures MCM to increase the variety.

 

Alternatively you can disable Restrict Consensual Animations in the PC/NPC Settings which will allow other animations to play during forced engagements. Some of these will not make sense in a non-consensual context.

I have a wide variety of animation packs installed. The thing is, only two animations from Anubs creature pack are being played. 

I did play around with the animation settings before, but it didn't seem to make a dfiferent. 

 

I will try the other suggestion when i play later today and will update this post if it helped not. Thank you!

 

Edit: Didn't change anything. 

[Skymud]

 

Hi. I have been able to get other actors to partisipate through SLAC and I have been a to get the Bull netch to animate though other mods (Matchmaker etc), And the "Humps you lustfully" Dialog box will come up but no animations start. and the animation do not show up in the list for  "Toggle aggressive" could there be an animation limit in your mod that stops all the animations that you can have in Sexlab from being recognized?

[Sailing Rebel]

10 hours ago, Ascian said:

I have a wide variety of animation packs installed. The thing is, only two animations from Anubs creature pack are being played. 

I did play around with the animation settings before, but it didn't seem to make a dfiferent. 

 

I will try the other suggestion when i play later today and will update this post if it helped not. Thank you!

 

Edit: Didn't change anything. 

I'll need to see a papyrus log for a session in which this issue is encountered. Enable papyrus logging and enable the Debug option in Aroused Creatures MCM -> General Settings. Try to engage the creature then post the log here.

 

1 hour ago, Skymud said:

 

Hi. I have been able to get other actors to partisipate through SLAC and I have been a to get the Bull netch to animate though other mods (Matchmaker etc), And the "Humps you lustfully" Dialog box will come up but no animations start. and the animation do not show up in the list for  "Toggle aggressive" could there be an animation limit in your mod that stops all the animations that you can have in Sexlab from being recognized?

 

Looks like vanilla Netch are missing the ActorTypeCreature keyword. Other mods are likely working as they don't care if the actor is a creature or not where AC needs to be very specific and will skip non-creatures. I'll take a look at alternative means of identifying them.

[Ascian]

On 6/10/2019 at 11:46 PM, Sailing Rebel said:

I'll need to see a papyrus log for a session in which this issue is encountered. Enable papyrus logging and enable the Debug option in Aroused Creatures MCM -> General Settings. Try to engage the creature then post the log here.

I dont get it. I followed the guide to enable papyrus logging, but no logs will show up. Booted the game up multiple times but nothing. 

[Sailing Rebel]

8 hours ago, Ascian said:

I dont get it. I followed the guide to enable papyrus logging, but no logs will show up. Booted the game up multiple times but nothing. 

If you are using MO2 try making the changes to the ini via the Tools option (top left, jigsaw pieces).

[Ascian]

2 hours ago, Sailing Rebel said:

If you are using MO2 try making the changes to the ini via the Tools option (top left, jigsaw pieces).

Okay great. I did change the .ini in the modorganizer, but i forgot to also adjust the custom.ini. 

 

Now i have the logs folder, but after enabling debugging on this mod, the folder remains empty. 

 

 

Edit: Nvm got it. 

I don't know if the sexlab log is of any use for you, but there is the papyrus one which became quite big despite only running for like a minute

SexLabDebug.0.log Papyrus.0.log

[Sailing Rebel]

1 hour ago, Ascian said:

Okay great. I did change the .ini in the modorganizer, but i forgot to also adjust the custom.ini. 

 

Now i have the logs folder, but after enabling debugging on this mod, the folder remains empty. 

 

Edit: Nvm got it. 

I don't know if the sexlab log is of any use for you, but there is the papyrus one which became quite big despite only running for like a minute

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[06/15/2019 - 08:05:17PM] SEXLAB - GetByRaceTags(ActorCount=2, RaceRef=[Race <DLC1HuskyBareRace (02018B36)>], Tags=FC,, TagsSuppressed=Oral, RequireAll=TRUE)
[06/15/2019 - 08:05:17PM] SEXLAB - AnimCache: MISS -- 2:FC,:Oral:TRUE:Dogs
[06/15/2019 - 08:05:18PM] [slac] GetCreatureAnimationsByRaceTags returned 2 non-specific animations for Dog, Nia and 0 others
[06/15/2019 - 08:05:18PM] [slac] Anim: Anubs  Dog Cunalingus
[06/15/2019 - 08:05:18PM] [slac] Anim: Anubs  Dog Anal

Okay, SexLab and Aroused Creatures really are only finding two animations when using tags. As you can see from the log here the only required tag is "FC" which is an automatic tag used by SexLab to group Female + Creature (male) animations, and rejecting tag "Oral" which is applied by Aroused Creatures during PC invite. "Non-specific" means that Aroused Creatures tried to find either explicitly Aggressive or Non-aggressive animations, came up empty, and tried to find any animations at all to fill the gap. We can see that SexLab generated a new cache during the operation which suggests this is not a caching issue.

 

The only thing I can suggest at this point is to reset the animation registry in SexLab MCM -> Rebuild & Clean. You may need to re-register SLAL animations afterwards.

 

The other thing I can see in the log is a bunch of errors from a mod referred to as PAF. Not sure what that is but if it's not working correctly you might consider removing it. This is not likely to affect the issue in hand, though.

[Ascian]

17 hours ago, Sailing Rebel said:

Okay, SexLab and Aroused Creatures really are only finding two animations when using tags. As you can see from the log here the only required tag is "FC" which is an automatic tag used by SexLab to group Female + Creature (male) animations, and rejecting tag "Oral" which is applied by Aroused Creatures during PC invite. "Non-specific" means that Aroused Creatures tried to find either explicitly Aggressive or Non-aggressive animations, came up empty, and tried to find any animations at all to fill the gap. We can see that SexLab generated a new cache during the operation which suggests this is not a caching issue.

 

The only thing I can suggest at this point is to reset the animation registry in SexLab MCM -> Rebuild & Clean. You may need to re-register SLAL animations afterwards.

 

The other thing I can see in the log is a bunch of errors from a mod referred to as PAF. Not sure what that is but if it's not working correctly you might consider removing it. This is not likely to affect the issue in hand, though.

 

This fixed it. Hit reregister on sexlab and SLAL and now i have lots of animations available. 

Weird that it doesnt detect all of them from the start

[Sailing Rebel]

13 minutes ago, Ascian said:

This fixed it. Hit reregister on sexlab and SLAL and now i have lots of animations available. 

Weird that it doesnt detect all of them from the start

Glad you got it sorted.

 

Unfortunately these issues crop up often enough that we need those Rebuild & Clean options from time to time.

[TheMrWick]

Never really bothered noticing during my playthrough until now, but creatures simply dont seem to be chasing after npcs with their arousal requirement met, I have pursuit enabled, so this is strange.

[Sailing Rebel]

32 minutes ago, Mr. Wick said:

Never really bothered noticing during my playthrough until now, but creatures simply dont seem to be chasing after npcs with their arousal requirement met, I have pursuit enabled, so this is strange.

There are a lot of options in Aroused Creatures that could be preventing engagement.

 

Enable papyrus logging for the game and the Debug option in Aroused Creatures MCM then post a log here and we'll be able to see what's happening.

[TheMrWick]

13 minutes ago, Sailing Rebel said:

There are a lot of options in Aroused Creatures that could be preventing engagement.

 

Enable papyrus logging for the game and the Debug option in Aroused Creatures MCM then post a log here and we'll be able to see what's happening.

Here we are. Papyrus.0.log

 

Spoiler

Probably the most notable bit

 

[Sailing Rebel]

50 minutes ago, Mr. Wick said:

Here we are. Papyrus.0.log

Looks like SexLab was not finding any NPCs near Meeko. Make sure that NPC Engagements are enabled in PC/NPC Settings (I assume PC Engagements are turned off here).

 

Try increasing the Engage Radius under General Settings.

[TheMrWick]

2 hours ago, Sailing Rebel said:

Looks like SexLab was not finding any NPCs near Meeko. Make sure that NPC Engagements are enabled in PC/NPC Settings (I assume PC Engagements are turned off here).

 

Try increasing the Engage Radius under General Settings.

Yep, Pc engage is off and NPC engage was on during that. which is why im confused. 

[Sailing Rebel]

19 hours ago, Mr. Wick said:

Yep, Pc engage is off and NPC engage was on during that. which is why im confused. 

Try pushing the engage radius all the way up and take meeko to a city cell with lots of females like Whiterun.

 

Edit: And check the NPC gender settings to make sure it's not excluding the intended targets.

[TheMrWick]

@Sailing Rebel I seemed to sort it out with some testing around, thank you anyways.

[yettete]

Can't get anything to happen. Says there are no animations yet all of them are installed

[Sailing Rebel]

13 hours ago, yettete said:

Can't get anything to happen. Says there are no animations yet all of them are installed

Make sure that FNIS Creature Pack is installed. Run Generate FNIS for Users and deal with any warnings or errors (they are all important).

 

Check that Allow Creatures is enabled in the SexLab MCM -> Animation Settings. If you are trying to start animations with female creatures enable Match Creature Gender in the same SexLab MCM tab.

[kotamaku]

I seem to have be having an issue that is causing creatures trying to engage to make the game crash.

[Guest]

Started a new save and now I can't get anything to work. Tried just about everything I can think of. Creature animations are enabled, the log isn't showing them as hostile. I have no idea. Any thoughts?

Papyrus.0.log

[Sailing Rebel]

10 hours ago, kotamaku said:

I seem to have be having an issue that is causing creatures trying to engage to make the game crash.

Run Generate FNIS for Users with the HKX Compatibility patch enabled and deal with any warnings or errors (they are all important!). Make sure that you have an appropriate skeleton mod installed (XPMSSE). Ensure that all of your mods are for Special Edition.

 

1 hour ago, eidtelnvil said:

Started a new save and now I can't get anything to work. Tried just about everything I can think of. Creature animations are enabled, the log isn't showing them as hostile. I have no idea. Any thoughts.

Engagements with the player are failing on distance so try increasing the Engage Radius under Aroused Creatures MCM > General Settings.

[kotamaku]

1 hour ago, Sailing Rebel said:

Run Generate FNIS for Users with the HKX Compatibility patch enabled and deal with any warnings or errors (they are all important!). Make sure that you have an appropriate skeleton mod installed (XPMSSE). Ensure that all of your mods are for Special Edition.

 

FNIS has all animations installed, hkc comp was patched and no errors or warnings of any kind. I have found it might be creatureframework causing the issues in logs

Edit: I have found the issue, turns out my creature animation fnis download was corrupted.

 

[Guest]

7 hours ago, Sailing Rebel said:

Engagements with the player are failing on distance so try increasing the Engage Radius under Aroused Creatures MCM > General Settings.

Doesn't seem to be distance related. I can crank up to as high as it can go and stand right next to them without an engagement.

[Sailing Rebel]

9 hours ago, kotamaku said:

Edit: I have found the issue, turns out my creature animation fnis download was corrupted.

Glad you got it sorted.

2 hours ago, eidtelnvil said:

Doesn't seem to be distance related. I can crank up to as high as it can go and stand right next to them without an engagement.

Looking at it again the distance failure is for the automated scans rather than the direct invitation. There is only one situation in which invite would fail with no error code (in the current version) and that's if SexLab is not fully installed via the MCM or the wrong version is installed (anything other than SexLab SE Beta).

 

Edit: Oh, and if both PC and NPC engagements are disabled in PC?NPC Settings, this will result in silent failure in some circumstances.

[Guest]

I was able to resolve, though I don't know what I did. I noticed that my arousal state was stuck at 49 permanently. Reinstalling Sexlab and SexLab Arousal didn't seem to work, so it must have been some other setting. The weird thing was that when I did resolve it I wasn't aware of fixing it because the wolf I was standing next to did not engage. Went a bit down a road and found one that did. Went back to the first one and it engaged.

 

I believe the problem must have had to do with me needing more sleep and alcohol. Thanks for the help and for the fantastic mod.