Devious Devices and Bodyslide

[Vengfulfate]

I'm trying to run devious devices and the items are invisible in-game. Now, I -have- been looking and there is forum post after reddit post ater forum post about running the DD items through bodyslide, but I've run into another curveball that I can't find the answer to on the forums. I don't know where the DD files for bodyslide are. They're not showing up automatically when I run bodyslide, and when I try to find the group by browsing with the group manager tab I can't find any files I can install. I know I'm supposed to run DD assets through bodyslide, but the option within bodyslide is what is not appearing for me. Can anybody tell me what I'm looking for and where? Or if I have to re-download or re-install something?

[donttouchmethere]

give us a load order!

tell us your choice of suffering: Mod Manager type

 

also you need to have installed:

Race Menu

XPMSE

Bodyslide and Outfitstudio => choose the body you want to have: CBBE/UUNP

 

Be sure you installed:

DDassets

DDxpansion

for the right body

 

have the right skin textures installed for your choosen body

 

check this little gem of a gif how to use bodyslide

note that you have to choose the right preset to build the bodyslide against

 

the DDa and DDx slides chould be in the group filter window

 

DD slider groups should look like, unless they didn't got installed right:

[Vengfulfate]

I found a solution with some experimentation. I don't know if it's a bad one or an obvious one to someone experienced in making mods or downloading them without a manager. I ended up seeking out the mod data in my File Explorer {OS (C) > Users > (username) > AppData > Roaming > Vortex > Skyrim > Mods} where the BodySlide and DDa folders existed, and manually moving all relevant data from the DDa folders into the BodySlide folders.

 

{for example, both DDa and BodySlide had CalienteTools > BodySlide > ShapeData folder paths, and I moved the uniqe folders from DDa's ShapeData into BodySlide's ShapeData}

 

After doing this for CalienteTools, Meshes, Scripts, and Textures folders, the Devious Devices data finally showed up in the BodySlide application's 'Groups' and I was able to batch build. I opened Skyrim to check and the devient devices in question now appear on my character.