Devious Devices - Contraptions

[Taki17]

9 minutes ago, Okayge said:

Every time I press PageUp to select an NPC my game crashes

Most likely has to do with the fact that selecting an NPC equips them with physics-enabled prisoner chains, and your HDT-PE install is either missing or screwed up.

 

Is there a reason why you are using the outdated version of DDc though?

[Jiglidjons]

Hello! Installed Devious Devices LE 5.0 5.1 Everything works except Contraptions. I go into the menu, (AddItemMenu - Ultimate Mod Explorer installed) select Contraptions and in its place there is this: 

 

Edited February 12, 2022 by Jiglidjons

[Jiglidjons]

Who knows how to fix it?   ^

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Edited February 12, 2022 by Jiglidjons

[HyperonicX]

1 hour ago, Jiglidjons said:

Who knows how to fix it?   ^

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That's normal. What you see are placeholders for the items themselves.

What you do is drop them, and use a positioning mod to move them wherever you want.

[paparebbe]

10 hours ago, HyperonicX said:

That's normal. What you see are placeholders for the items themselves.

What you do is drop them, and use a positioning mod to move them wherever you want.

Hmm. I was wondering how to position those. What is 'positioning mod'? Could you please elaborate on that?

[El_Duderino]

6 hours ago, paparebbe said:

Hmm. I was wondering how to position those. What is 'positioning mod'? Could you please elaborate on that?

Jaxonz Positioner or Cobb Positioner come to mind.

 

Also, check if you're using the Contraptions that comes bundled with the installer for DD5 and not the one from this thread, which I believe is outdated.

[Jiglidjons]

I don't understand how to make NPCs wear DD and KziitdXXXToolset ? Any thoughts?

[Lorondel]

 I searched as much as possible but I cannot find an answer. I am using DD 5.0.7 SE and ZaZ Animation Pack+ UUNP HDT V.8.0+SEREV3. Everything worked fine on my previous system. I installed on a new high end desktop and everything still works fine except one problem.

 

When I hit PgUp on an npc it refuses and says 'target is invalid or busy'. It does that on every npc I attempt. I assume thats an animation or script issue but I don't honestly know alot about those aspects. The furniture itself works fine. I have Zaz loading after all DD plugins if that matters. My final DD plugin is the SE patchthe 

[Hsy271111]

fft

 

[FlyDut]

Can I use furniture without triggering the option? I want to use it in the scene, using scripts to perform locking

[SkyrimOne]

Hello,

I found this little gem as part of the standard Devious Devices package install.

 

I have been able to test the following:

 - acquire the contraptions via cheat mod to get about everything in my inventory

 - drop the contraption on the floor, which will activate and will take the correct form

- lock myself in -- unfortunately, I cannot see any animations from the camera point of view, meaning, I don't have the option of 3rd person view, I tried with the console cheat "tcf" but still, I cannot see myself as the camera is basically moving with me "attached"

- give a command to an NPC follower with "wait here" and then I activate the contraption - works well. The NPC is locked and will stay there. The issue is how to I release the poor guy/lady later on? I tried to scan the contraption if there is anything I can "press E", but I cannot find anything. The NPC will talk to me, and I can even give "follow me" or "move here", but he/she is locked and will not move. So, it is fun to lock a NPC, but it is basically a life sentence. I can reload the game to an earlier action, and that is fine, but I don't know if that is how the contraptions were suppose to work. Please let me know.

 

Other than that, I think it works great.

 

[MajorWard]

Sometimes when I aim at an NPC and press PgUp I get a message that the NPC is invalid or busy, mostly with Ysolda as she sandboxes around Whiterun, but other NPCs all milling around seem to be commendable just fine…?