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Posted
1 hour ago, Allen Harris said:

Hey all,

Sooo...I made it to the end of Blending In, and I'm waiting in Laura's shop. She's got the marker, but it always lists her as busy. I've tried saving and reloading; I've tried loading from a save toward the end of Blending In (when I was still in chains but was about to be freed); I've tried doing both of those things after closing and reopening Skyrim. I've tried picking a fight with Laura and her henchwoman. I've tried waiting up to 3 or 4 minutes.

Nothing - always the same.

Any ideas what's going on?

(Also...where do I find the Papyrus logs? I've looked in the Data folder, but I can only find "PapyrusUtilDev.log" - and it seems to only have load messages).

 

Otherwise - so far, great mod. There seem to be a couple of issues when I'm waiting in the cage the last time and I have to keep saving and loading - but otherwise, a brilliantly performed mod.

Papyrus logs can be found in:

 

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Posted
2 hours ago, Allen Harris said:

Yes. I have the voice addon most installed, but subtitles are also on

 

Have you tried console commands like recycleactor or resetai, or disable/enable?

Posted (edited)
3 hours ago, Tetras66 said:

 

Have you tried console commands like recycleactor or resetai, or disable/enable?

Not familiar with those, but I'll take a look; thanks!

 

Edit: Sadly, that didn't work. But commands with click referenced objects don't always work right in Skyrim VR. Not sure why.

Edited by Allen Harris
Posted
On 12/15/2022 at 4:25 AM, Allen Harris said:

Hey all,

Sooo...I made it to the end of Blending In, and I'm waiting in Laura's shop. She's got the marker, but it always lists her as busy. I've tried saving and reloading; I've tried loading from a save toward the end of Blending In (when I was still in chains but was about to be freed); I've tried doing both of those things after closing and reopening Skyrim. I've tried picking a fight with Laura and her henchwoman. I've tried waiting up to 3 or 4 minutes.

Nothing - always the same.

Any ideas what's going on?

(Also...where do I find the Papyrus logs? I've looked in the Data folder, but I can only find "PapyrusUtilDev.log" - and it seems to only have load messages).

 

Otherwise - so far, great mod. There seem to be a couple of issues when I'm waiting in the cage the last time and I have to keep saving and loading - but otherwise, a brilliantly performed mod.

What version of Skyrim are you running? SE or LE?

Does it work without the voice addon?

Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, Laura said:

What version of Skyrim are you running? SE or LE?

Does it work without the voice addon?

VR release (which is SE). I've never tried the quests without the voice addon.

I've done a clean install of the game and mods, and started from a clean save. Fewer mods as well.

I'll retry the Laura quests this weekend and report back. The clean install has resulted in a lot less "funny behavior " in the game so far, so it's possible it could have been a mod conflict 

Edited by Allen Harris
Posted
On 12/16/2022 at 9:44 AM, Laura said:

What version of Skyrim are you running? SE or LE?

Does it work without the voice addon?

Alright I got past it. Basically, I shot Laura with destruction magic once (not much, just to ... "tease" her a bit lol). They went aggro, and I ran away. When I came back, they weren't aggro anymore, and the dialog continued.

I think dialog is the issue - I saw a few places where dialog wasn't triggering, and I had to do things like quick save and reload to get them to trigger.

It probably would work better with Fuz Roh D'oh - but there's no VR compile of that which I know of, and the flat version doesn't work in VR.

Anyway - summed up, I got it working. Thanks for the mod - it's really great work, and I'm enjoying the hell out of it.

Posted
51 minutes ago, Allen Harris said:

Alright I got past it. Basically, I shot Laura with destruction magic once (not much, just to ... "tease" her a bit lol). They went aggro, and I ran away. When I came back, they weren't aggro anymore, and the dialog continued.

I think dialog is the issue - I saw a few places where dialog wasn't triggering, and I had to do things like quick save and reload to get them to trigger.

It probably would work better with Fuz Roh D'oh - but there's no VR compile of that which I know of, and the flat version doesn't work in VR.

Anyway - summed up, I got it working. Thanks for the mod - it's really great work, and I'm enjoying the hell out of it.

 

Umm, Fuz is a requirement for this mod, and a known reason for it glitching.  You should have said you weren't using all the requirements.

 

For future reference, the mod author develops for LE.  She does not work in SE at all.  There are a few of us who then convert the mod to SE and test/troubleshoot that.  SE fixes are then backported to LE, and, if they work, they are incorporated into the LE build.  Which is then converted back to SE and tested again.

 

What this means:  LE is the official build.  The author will make fixes to things that cause SE bugs If and only if that does not break the LE build.  And VR is not even on her radar.

 

We'll still try to help with VR, but if mod requirements such as Fuz are not available on VR then there is not much we can do.

 

Posted
23 minutes ago, aurreth said:

 

Umm, Fuz is a requirement for this mod, and a known reason for it glitching.  You should have said you weren't using all the requirements.

 

For future reference, the mod author develops for LE.  She does not work in SE at all.  There are a few of us who then convert the mod to SE and test/troubleshoot that.  SE fixes are then backported to LE, and, if they work, they are incorporated into the LE build.  Which is then converted back to SE and tested again.

 

What this means:  LE is the official build.  The author will make fixes to things that cause SE bugs If and only if that does not break the LE build.  And VR is not even on her radar.

 

We'll still try to help with VR, but if mod requirements such as Fuz are not available on VR then there is not much we can do.

 

I actually didn't think about that -> Fuz was installed in my previous loadout, but it never loaded correctly. So when I reinstalled everything yesterday, I didn't include it. That's my bad for not checking specs, but I had a lot of mods I had to run to get everything running and this one just slipped my mind.

*To be fair though* - I never even knew Fuz Roh Doh wasn't loading correctly until I switched to VMM. Skyrim doesn't tell you, and I'm not as well versed in mod debugging as most of you.

Posted
50 minutes ago, Allen Harris said:

I actually didn't think about that -> Fuz was installed in my previous loadout, but it never loaded correctly. So when I reinstalled everything yesterday, I didn't include it. That's my bad for not checking specs, but I had a lot of mods I had to run to get everything running and this one just slipped my mind.

*To be fair though* - I never even knew Fuz Roh Doh wasn't loading correctly until I switched to VMM. Skyrim doesn't tell you, and I'm not as well versed in mod debugging as most of you.

 

It's a bit awkward with Fuz even on the regular SE/AE builds, because you have to use a specific version for your Skyrim and they're not labelled, but if you check the change log in the mod's description it tells you which version of Fuz pairs with which version of Skyrim.

 

I don't think lacking Fuz would break your quests, if voice files have been recorded, so I would assume that (if Fuz is the problem) when you're having issues, the voice pack didn't include those lines (or the dialogue was changed since the voice pack was released).

Posted
23 minutes ago, Tetras66 said:

 

It's a bit awkward with Fuz even on the regular SE/AE builds, because you have to use a specific version for your Skyrim and they're not labelled, but if you check the change log in the mod's description it tells you which version of Fuz pairs with which version of Skyrim.

 

I don't think lacking Fuz would break your quests, if voice files have been recorded, so I would assume that (if Fuz is the problem) when you're having issues, the voice pack didn't include those lines (or the dialogue was changed since the voice pack was released).

It didn't break the quests - it just "hiccupped" and made me have to save and reload once in a while (during dialog events).

I'm actually surprised - ever since I got the voice files addon (and I assume also since Laura's updates), except for a few hiccups like that, everything works swimmingly.

Does anyone know if it's a cliffhanger after Sloane shows up in Laura's shop? I don't get a new quest after that.

Posted (edited)
12 minutes ago, Allen Harris said:

It didn't break the quests - it just "hiccupped" and made me have to save and reload once in a while (during dialog events).

I'm actually surprised - ever since I got the voice files addon (and I assume also since Laura's updates), except for a few hiccups like that, everything works swimmingly.

Does anyone know if it's a cliffhanger after Sloane shows up in Laura's shop? I don't get a new quest after that.

 

No, it's not a cliffhanger.  The current cliffhanger occurs after the quest "Origin".  What version of LBS are you using?  For SE you should be using the 3.32 Alpha Test version from page 207.

 

Edited by aurreth
Posted
2 hours ago, aurreth said:

 

No, it's not a cliffhanger.  The current cliffhanger occurs after the quest "Origin".  What version of LBS are you using?  For SE you should be using the 3.32 Alpha Test version from page 207.

 

Thanks, I didn't know about that. It's so darned difficult to find that sort of thing if you're not like reading every page of the topic lol

 

SOOOO...good news and bad news. Good news is I found a Fuz Roh D'oh VR port on Reddit

 

(I don't particularly like downloading from untrusted sources, but it was the only port I could find)

And it did fix the dialog problem.

 

Bad News: When I'm Sloane's slave and I'm supposed to be somebody's "entertainment"...I freeze in place, act like I'm walking, and don't go anywhere. Nothing fixes it that I can figure.

 

BTW, in case it needs to be said - thanks to all the users on here who've been helpful to me. This may have ended (for now) in a bug, but the trip to get here has been a lot of fun. I couldn't have figured any of it out without help lol

Posted (edited)
31 minutes ago, Allen Harris said:

Bad News: When I'm Sloane's slave and I'm supposed to be somebody's "entertainment"...I freeze in place, act like I'm walking, and don't go anywhere. Nothing fixes it that I can figure.

 

That's the Doran bug, he's usually lying paralyzed on the floor outside the bedroom.  Only fix is to use the console to disable/enable him.

 

I came up with a theoretical fix for that, but it didn't make it into 3.32 Alpha Test.  Laura is implementing it in the next version.

 

(If you want to do it yourself, the fix is to create a second Doran, Doran2, place him in the mod holding cell, then change the main quest script in the right places and all the scenes in Sloane's house to use Doran2 instead of Doran.  I couldn't figure out how to edit the scenes.)

 

Edited by aurreth
Posted
11 minutes ago, aurreth said:

 

That's the Doran bug, he's usually lying paralyzed on the floor outside the bedroom.  Only fix is to use the console to disable/enable him.

 

I came up with a theoretical fix for that, but it didn't make it into 3.32 Alpha Test.  Laura is implementing it in the next version.

 

(If you want to do it yourself, the fix is to create a second Doran, Doran2, place him in the mod holding cell, then change the main quest script in the right places and all the scenes in Sloane's house to use Doran2 instead of Doran.  I couldn't figure out how to edit the scenes.)

 

What's the command for that? Is it "enable" and "disable"? I found the editor id for Doran in SSEEdit, but I'm not sure how to cycle him.

(Sorry, like I said, though I've played Skyrim a ton - literally over a thousand hours - I'm still pretty green on modding and console commands)

Posted
6 minutes ago, Allen Harris said:

What's the command for that? Is it "enable" and "disable"? I found the editor id for Doran in SSEEdit, but I'm not sure how to cycle him.

(Sorry, like I said, though I've played Skyrim a ton - literally over a thousand hours - I'm still pretty green on modding and console commands)

 

If you have access to the console, use tfc to activate free cam, "fly" out of the bedroom and find Doran.  Open the console again and click on him, then disable (he disappears) and enable (he reappears), then tfc again to deactivate free cam.

 

1.  Open Console

2.  tfc

3.  Close Console

4.  Locate Doran

5.  Open Console

6.  Click on Doran

7.  disable

8.  enable

9.  tfc

10.  Close Console

 

Posted (edited)

Decided to try and make things look pretty and installed a few of JK's city mods.  JK's Whiterun Outskirts adds buildings and activity around Whiterun, making it feel more like, you know, a city, but it also kinda runs over Laura's shop.  Not a building or anything, but a fence/wall cuts through the building, and a couple cows get crammed in Laura's back yard.  Very rude!

 

So, for those interested, a small patch, wherein I rustled the cattle, swiped the goats, tore down the wall, and burned the cow shed.  Ok, ok, I deleted out all the stuff that overlapped the shop building, removed livestock, and shifted some markers around as necessary.

 

This is for SE/AE.  It's an ESPFE, which apparently is the new term for an ESL flagged ESP?  Whatever, it's flagged light, and I ran it through the cleaner.

 

Laura's Bondage Shop - JK's Whiterun Outskirts Patch.7z

Edited by aurreth
Posted
On 12/17/2022 at 8:23 PM, aurreth said:

 

If you have access to the console, use tfc to activate free cam, "fly" out of the bedroom and find Doran.  Open the console again and click on him, then disable (he disappears) and enable (he reappears), then tfc again to deactivate free cam.

 

1.  Open Console

2.  tfc

3.  Close Console

4.  Locate Doran

5.  Open Console

6.  Click on Doran

7.  disable

8.  enable

9.  tfc

10.  Close Console

 

Unfortunately, tfc crashes the game ?

Posted
2 hours ago, Allen Harris said:

Unfortunately, tfc crashes the game ?

If the free cam is crashing your game, you have much bigger issues than this mod with your setup.

Posted
5 minutes ago, Tetras66 said:

 

Try prid with the NPCs ref (use help Doran first), tfc doesn't work in VR.

Thanks but he actually made it to me; he wasn't "stuck downstairs". And so I was able to click him, disable him, then enable him, and still nothing happened.

?

Posted
9 hours ago, Allen Harris said:

Thanks but he actually made it to me; he wasn't "stuck downstairs". And so I was able to click him, disable him, then enable him, and still nothing happened.

?

 

That could be a Fuz error, there is some dialogue at that point.  Or the voice addon being out of whack with the current version.

Posted (edited)
On 12/19/2022 at 1:57 PM, aurreth said:

Decided to try and make things look pretty and installed a few of JK's city mods.  JK's Whiterun Outskirts adds buildings and activity around Whiterun, making it feel more like, you know, a city, but it also kinda runs over Laura's shop.  Not a building or anything, but a fence/wall cuts through the building, and a couple cows get crammed in Laura's back yard.  Very rude!

 

So, for those interested, a small patch, wherein I rustled the cattle, swiped the goats, tore down the wall, and burned the cow shed.  Ok, ok, I deleted out all the stuff that overlapped the shop building, removed livestock, and shifted some markers around as necessary.

 

I also had a weird idea to move the shop into the city, replacing Breezehome with it.  On account of I never use Breezehome ?

 

Edited by aurreth
Posted
9 hours ago, aurreth said:

 

That could be a Fuz error, there is some dialogue at that point.  Or the voice addon being out of whack with the current version.

turned out i did have the voice addon still installed; but despite removing it and starting from a slightly earlier save, same thing happened ?

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