guide AAF for beginners: Step by step (Outdated)

[Hippeus]

41 minutes ago, Kythana said:

@Hippeus

My loadorder for 'Weather and Lighting' looks like this:

 

'Darker Nights' would be below 'Vivid Weathers'.

Thanks!

[Aylis]

The new update for FO4 will break F4SE. Hope you made a backup of your exe...

[Ray2393]

On 12/6/2018 at 12:39 AM, Kythana said:

The new update for FO4 will break F4SE. Hope you made a backup of your exe...

There is a youtube video that shows how to backup to the previous incarnation... helpful as we wait for updates! 

 

Just discovered Vinfamy's Diverse Bodies mod, wondered if it was compatible? 

[Mecha_Face]

On 12/2/2018 at 7:17 PM, Kythana said:

@Mecha_Face

1. I guess you use MO2. Try a right click on the folder below the first 'Data'.

2. Thats something you have to test yourself. The mod seems to have a few issues with the quests so i put it on my 'later-list'.

3. The recommendations should be put before the list.

 

In general: Everything in the list should be put as low as possible (see 'Load Order' in post #1). There are only very few mods which should be installed after them. 

Thanks. You've been a great help and it seems everything is working properly, now.

[Kingkiller105]

my AAF button wont start, when i press the "home"key nothing pops up, i followed your guide but i dont know what i did wrong :C

[VonHelton]

15 minutes ago, Kingkiller105 said:

my AAF button wont start, when i press the "home"key nothing pops up, i followed your guide but i dont know what i did wrong :C

I always manual install........

 

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[Kingkiller105]

1 hour ago, VonHelton said:

I always manual install........

 

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Ill try that, and keep you posted, do you got a guide or somthing i can follow thats easyer and to the point on how one manual installs,

[VonHelton]

3 hours ago, Kingkiller105 said:

Ill try that, and keep you posted, do you got a guide or somthing i can follow thats easyer and to the point on how one manual installs,

If you open a zip file and you see a "DATA" folder, drag it to your FALLOUT 4 folder.

 

If you see Materials, Meshes, Scripts, Tools, Sounds or Textures folders, drag them to your DATA folder.

 

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[docsteel]

The search function isn't turning up anything for me, so here goes:

 

I followed the OP pretty much to the letter (omitting a few optional mods and not including any world graphics improvements), but at the character creator the game crashes as soon as I hit "C" to take off the clothes to start working on the body.

 

I began with a completely fresh install of FO4 and a completely new save.  I'm not sure if this is a load order problem or something else.  I just have no idea where to begin on debugging it. Any hints on where I can start looking?

 

PS. I also noticed that there was a recent Steam update for FO4, could it be a compatibility issue with FO4 and F4SE?

[VonHelton]

1 minute ago, docsteel said:

The search function isn't turning up anything for me, so here goes:

 

I followed the OP pretty much to the letter (omitting a few optional mods and not including any world graphics improvements), but at the character creator the game crashes as soon as I hit "C" to take off the clothes to start working on the body.

 

I began with a completely fresh install of FO4 and a completely new save.  I'm not sure if this is a load order problem or something else.  I just have no idea where to begin on debugging it. Any hints on where I can start looking?

 

PS. I also noticed that there was a recent Steam update for FO4, could it be a compatibility issue with FO4 and F4SE?

Did you install any mods BEFORE coming out of the vault & talking to Codsworth?

 

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[docsteel]

50 minutes ago, VonHelton said:

Did you install any mods BEFORE coming out of the vault & talking to Codsworth?

 

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Hmm, I didn't see anything in the OP about having to wait until after talking to Codsworth before installing the beauty mods, but I admit I could have missed that.  But then how do you get the option to change how your character looks?

 

EDIT:  Reposting this in the Tech support thread for this.  Didn't see it at the start.  Oops.

[Aylis]

@docsteel

The new update 'broke' F4SE. Also any mod requiring F4SE will need an update as well. If you have a backup of the exe use the old one instead of the new file. 

 

The problem in your case will be 'Looks Menu'...

[docsteel]

5 hours ago, Kythana said:

@docsteel

The new update 'broke' F4SE. Also any mod requiring F4SE will need an update as well. If you have a backup of the exe use the old one instead of the new file. 

 

The problem in your case will be 'Looks Menu'...

Ah, I don't, sadly.

Fortunately I was able to just skip changing my body in the character creation screen and play the game normally past that point. Unfortunately I'm still getting the error message that I'm missing Z Architect.esm and have no idea which addon that's from so I can install it.  It wouldn't be so bad except AAF scrawls text all over the left side of the screen alerting me of this and I have no idea how to dismiss it.

[Jordick]

5 hours ago, Kythana said:

@docsteel

The new update 'broke' F4SE. Also any mod requiring F4SE will need an update as well. If you have a backup of the exe use the old one instead of the new file. 

 

The problem in your case will be 'Looks Menu'...

One of the reasons why its wise to disable the Fallout 4's automatic updates and only run the game through the F4SE.

 

This is what I dislike about the Creation Club, because each time something new gets added to it the F4SE breaks and it needs to be updated. This also means that some of the mods that require F4SE also requires an update. This process usually takes days if not weeks, so disabling the FO4's automatic updates was a no brainer for me.

[docsteel]

13 minutes ago, Jordick said:

One of the reasons why its wise to disable the Fallout 4's automatic updates and only run the game through the F4SE.

 

This is what I dislike about the Creation Club, because each time something new gets added to it the F4SE breaks and it needs to be updated. This also means that some of the mods that require F4SE also requires an update. This process usually takes days if not weeks, so disabling the FO4's automatic updates was a no brainer for me.

Funnily enough, I had autoupdates disabled, but when I downloaded the latest version of F4SE to start the process of modding FO4 it told me my game version was out of date and needed to be updated.

[Aylis]

1 hour ago, docsteel said:

I'm missing Z Architect.esm and have no idea which addon that's from so I can install it.

Thats been answered in the other thread (and below #38 in the first post). 

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I'll also add Auto-Backup to the recommended mods as this problem with updates happens too often. 

[domp]

Hi there first of all thanks for the detailed guide you are awesome! Secondly i managed to get everything play nicely , but  theres no animation stages is it on my end or is fallout4 cant get  staged animations yet? 

[Aylis]

@domp

Depends on the animation pack. Some are converted others made compatible. So its a 50/50 if staged animations work or not.

[Aylis]

As there are some people (got several PM reagrding that) having a problem with the install/loadorder i'll add a few pics how it looks on my system:

 

PC

 

NPC

 

AAF

[Kingkiller105]

I still cant get my AAF button to work when i press the "home" key nothing pops up still, im unsure what the problem is or what mod could be causing this problem if anyone knows what i can do here's my load order atm. if anyone knows if a cetain mod i have messes up AAF let me know

AAF is at the top of the list, just under the creation club content btw.
 

[Hippeus]

@Kythana have you ever had any issue with getting ViS-G and AAF to work together? For whatever reason these two mods seem to cause issues. In particular, it causes the sorting mod to crash after leveling up. Or it prevents sometimes the AAF menu from loading.

[Aylis]

@Kingkiller105

1. Your loadorder is all over the place. There's a reason why i don't use something like LOOT and group mods (as seen in post #1). It makes Troubleshooting so much easier and also sorts itself when it comes to your loadorder.

 

2. Thats as much help in that regard i'm able to give. You got stuff in there i havn't ever seen before so i can't say anything about them.

 

 

@Hippeus

VIS-G and AAF don't have a problem together. Most of the time its the combination of mods you use for the UI that cause all kind of random bugs and crashes (and can drive you nuts). I'll give you a pic of my combination for the UI. Hope it helps a bit.

 

Maybe i should start a thread like 'Fallout 4 - for Beginners' where i list all my mods and its loadorder. Around 50% of them are already in this thread… ?

[Kingkiller105]

48 minutes ago, Kythana said:

@Kingkiller105

1. Your loadorder is all over the place. There's a reason why i don't use something like LOOT and group mods (as seen in post #1). It makes Troubleshooting so much easier and also sorts itself when it comes to your loadorder.

 

2. Thats as much help in that regard i'm able to give. You got stuff in there i havn't ever seen before so i can't say anything about them.

 

 

@Hippeus

VIS-G and AAF don't have a problem together. Most of the time its the combination of mods you use for the UI that cause all kind of random bugs and crashes (and can drive you nuts). I'll give you a pic of my combination for the UI. Hope it helps a bit.

 

Maybe i should start a thread like 'Fallout 4 - for Beginners' where i list all my mods and its loadorder. Around 50% of them are already in this thread… ?

i dont use loot anymore, herd it was trash, but sorry you cant help me out, im sure its somthing stupid cucking me, Do you use a older version of AAF? or do you keep it updated, do you know if any files are missing from the older versions of aaf?

 

[Hedin666]

@Kythana

If this is not a secret, which mod manager do you use? It looks like Mod Organizer, but I have almost all the mods without versions.

[Aylis]

@Hedin666

I use Mod Organizer 2.