Holy shit - that really sucked (rant)

[Joe_Oni]

1. decided to update some mods and load in a few new ones, more alt settlements, harder survival, few others that caught my eye.....

 

2. Got greedy and ran straight into the esp limited...spent some time converting mods to esl...

 

3. managed to delete a mod edit for the glowing mutant and forgot how I fixed it.  a pm with FilthyWeaboo solved it ?

 

4. started testing various game functions and since I use aaf mainly for defeat results, my  animation load came to have errors I didn't notice right away.... in this case the dog becoming static.

 

5.  I rearranged the aaf files and fixed the alignment but ended up the black screen error....more time rearranging and... 100 percent load...no animatons played...

 

6. broke down a literally copied file order from the read the fucking manual guide screenshot as close as I could...

 

7.  turns out a couple of animation updated  and conflicted a couple of patch files..(the patch didn't state which animation it had altered, had to manually check each one..

 

8. the best thing was when I updated bodyslide and nuked my body preset ?.  I probable have a copy somewhere but by this time a said fuck it and started a new one . let the endless minor tweaking begins...

 

9. At least I didn't nuke my face preset. It's not the best but I'm fond of it (hmmm, better go back it up now).

 

10. so that's how I wasted most of a day and a half. new game with harsher mechanics and less items and caps, working(?) animations, new locations and new body which makes me want edit it every time I see it.  Level 2 so I think I'll check out vault 144(?)

 

 

sorting out animation errors in FO sucks, but nuking my body preset and realizing it  about 10 minutes after I clear the cache... that really sucked..........rant over

 

 

 

 

 

 

[slight_of_mind]

If you have a save file with the body preset in it, you can extract it back into a xml preset using a looks menu preset.

[Sgt. Marge]

1 hour ago, Joe_Oni said:

10. so that's how I wasted most of a day and a half. new game with harsher mechanics and less items and caps, working(?) animations, new locations and new body which makes me want edit it every time I see it.  Level 2 so I think I'll check out vault 144(?)

 

 

Just bear in mind that mod still has the disclaimer:

That is, don't start the game with this installed.  If you want to try it, copy your save somewhere else for safe keeping.  Then install the mod.  Play through it.  Then remove the mod, delete those saves, and go back to the one you set aside for safe keeping.  (or just start over without the mod installed, either way.

[Joe_Oni]

5 hours ago, slight_of_mind said:

If you have a save file with the body preset in it, you can extract it back into a xml preset using a looks menu preset.

 

turns out I found a copy of bodyslide on another drive with my presets.

 

Its better to be lucky than smart...

[Joe_Oni]

9 hours ago, Marg597 said:

 

Just bear in mind that mod still has the disclaimer:

That is, don't start the game with this installed.  If you want to try it, copy your save somewhere else for safe keeping.  Then install the mod.  Play through it.  Then remove the mod, delete those saves, and go back to the one you set aside for safe keeping.  (or just start over without the mod installed, either way.

 

 

Thanks, I was so fixated on solving my load order I forgot about that.  Well, restarting a level 2 character isn't a big deal. Need to run and get a radiation suit and maybe adjust some of the thrist and food rates.

 

I walked out of vault 111 with 2 crippled arms so I'm thinking I'm going to see a lot of AAF animations...  

 

 

[Joe_Oni]

10 hours ago, slight_of_mind said:

If you have a save file with the body preset in it, you can extract it back into a xml preset using a looks menu preset.

 

 

?   I didn't see how and the only mod that claimed to so that has been deleted..

[steelpanther24]

I had to laugh, not in schadenfreude, but just that i modding I am at that level where I will spend a day in FOEdit making changes, tinkering, going back  making more changes, etc.   A whole weekend will pass and I will ask myself.....was it worth it.     

 

This past weekend I have edited my Racquel Darrian movies (for Video of the Wasteland) and STILL haven't gotten it to work right (f-ed up the nifskope so.....oh well.)    Now, RL will take me away for most of the day and tomorrow is a all day working day for me (0500-about 2130) so...yea... is it time well spent?  I don't know.