Editing problems - Topics and Conversations

[Wheelhouse]

Maybe this isn't specific to lovers with PK, but a general modding question, but the mods I'm trying to edit are lovers ones, so I figured I'd ask here.

 

I've edited (for my own usage) quite a few mods, but there's one particular aspect (or set of mods) I can't seem to edit at all.

 

Specifically the Lovers Adult Play Plus for SSP, Lovers Voice SSP plus and the text parts of either Lovers Raper or Joburg (or both?). Mostly I was aiming to edit them to clear up some still untranslated bits, and also alter some things that just seem not quite appropriate to whatever activity may be going on.

 

But no matter what I do, or how I do it, my Oblivion won't run if I used either edited versions of any of these .esps or create a new one and load it after all the prior ones.

 

I haven't really had any issues editing scripts (that weren't my own fault) or text/conversations in other mods, and one I was specifically using as an example was the Lovers Hooker mod and it's "patch" for Adult Play Plus for SSP.

 

To be a bit more specific about how I'm going about it - I'm making a copy of the .esp I want to edit (for later use) and then loading the one I want to edit as the active file, along with all the masters. I'll make an edit, save, and then use mod manager to move it to the same spot as before (using the copy as a marker).

 

It doesn't seem to matter how much or how little I change in any of the Topics or Conversations - my Oblivion won't load once I have an edit, and I of course then go back to the working copy.

 

I've also tried loading up the applicable mod and creating a new one to store my edits, and then loading this after the others in the load list - but that also causes failure to load. This is what it appears Gaebrial did with his patch for conversations with his Lovers Hooker mod.

 

I've messed around with changing Topics and Conversations in Gaeb's Hooker mod just to see if I'm able to - and any changes I make there using the above method works just fine - it's just the SSP ones and either Rapers or Joburg (whichever one has the random stuff across the screen during sex).

 

I'm able to make changes to the SCRIPTS in the SSP ones and Rapers and Joburg just fine - but not Topics and Conversations.

 

Is there some other mod I should be loading to do this? As far as I can tell the masters are just Oblivion and Lovers with PK .esms and then for one of the SSPs it requires the other SSP.

[gregathit]

1. Use Egg translator to edit things to where you want them, then save the esp. You should be good to go. I don't recommmend making changes directly into the CS as it can freak out a bit. You can use it as a reference so you can more easily follow the conversation chains. Now if you edit any scripts (the messages in the scripts count as a script edit) then go to step two.

 

2. Next move the edited esp to the oblivion\data folder where it belongs and then fire up the CS+OBSE (NOTE: you will have to have also installed the CS extender OBSE plugin) and you will then need to load the plugin and then hit the pencil (to get the scripts) and hit the recompile all button. Now with just CS+OBSE hitting the recompile all button was something your NEVER, EVER did but the CS extender fixed all of that. Save the plugin after recompiling and then close the CS and open OBMM or Wrye and make sure the plugins are in the correct order and play...

 

More on this here: http://www.loverslab.com/showthread.php?tid=12410

 

I am in process of going thru many of the lovers updates and a few of the old mods to clean out the untranslated bits. You can track what I am doing here: http://www.loverslab.com/showthread.php?tid=12340

 

Cheers,

Greg

[Wheelhouse]

Thanks, greg! Egg worked perfectly. (so far!)

[gregathit]

Thanks' date=' greg! Egg worked perfectly. (so far!)

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Good. Holler if you get stuck and hopefully we can lend some assistance.