Help Create a .BSA file

[kaiserphoenix]

I have been working with a mod I downloaded called "Three Katana" mod. I had to extract a .Bsa file in order to edit the meshes to the correct size to fit my character's body size. Now that I am done with the meshes, I am now having a hard time re-packing the files into a working .Bsa file that will work correctly in-game. If I just zip the file, my game runs really slow while attempting to use the forges in riften, whiterun, and the sky forges. Can someone please help me make a .Bsa file that will work? The issues I am having are:

 

1. When I repack the files, I enter the game and the weapons are not showing up in my hands. My character swings as if she is using the weapon, but there is nothing in her hands at all. In other words the animation plays, but the weapon is absent.

 

2. I put the files in a zip file so I can activate them via "nexus mod manager" but when i try to use the "Forge" menu in-game, it is extremely slow and stutters so I can't scroll to the categories (iron, Leather, Ebony, Daedric, misc, etc..). I think this is due to the files being unpacked.

 

Can someone please make these files .bsa so that I would only have a .esp, and just a .bsa file that I can rezip and activate in nexus mod manager. Below is the zip file, but they are not in .bsa format, but just unpacked.

 

Mykatanas.7z

[Rayblue]

Have you tried BSAopt?

 

A BSA you made must have the same filename as the .esp. Both files must be in the same data folder.

[kaiserphoenix]

Have you tried BSAopt?

 

A BSA you made must have the same filename as the .esp. Both files must be in the same data folder.

Yeah I tried that, but every time I pack the .bsa, when I rezip that along with the .esp when I load it into nexus mod manager, activate, and go in game the weapon does no show up in my hands. Like I'm swing an imaginary weapon, but the animation is being played as if I am holding it. Plus, once I try to use the forge to craft armors or weapons, it is extremely slow

[geonosis]

created a bsa via CK archive and have the same outcome

[kaiserphoenix]

created a bsa via CK archive and have the same outcome

Ok!! I created a .bsa using the "Archive" tool in skyrim default directory. I renamed all the files "Elemental Katanas" so now I have 

 

1. Elemental Katanas.bsa

2. Elemental Katanas.esp

 

The weapons are now showing up in game, but I am still getting the extremely low frame rate while accessing the forge. I thought it was the files being unpacked, but turns out thats not it for they are now .bsa packed. Anyone know what could be causing this extremely slow frame rate while accessing the forge. Here is my load order:

 

Skyrim.esm

Update.esm

Dawnguard.esm

HearthFires.esm

Dragonborn.esm

ApachiiHair.esm

RaceCompatibility.esm

Omegared99-Compilation.esm

SPIKE.esm

TERAArmors.esm

XFLMain.esm

NewStyleEyes.esm

Unofficial Dawnguard Patch.esp

Unofficial Hearthfire Patch.esp

Unofficial Dragonborn Patch.esp

Improved Combat Sounds v2.2.esp

Craft, Temper, Smelt.esp

Dual Sheath Redux.esp

ExpandedJewelryCrafting.esp

Tytanis.esp

Convenient Horses.esp

RaceMenu.esp

RaceMenuPlugin.esp

SkyUI.esp

hmkLockOn.esp

Ancient Black Dragonscale Armor.esp

ArmorOfIntrigue.esp

ArmoredCircletsQuickFox.esp

ArrowsNoGravity.esp

aassassinscraftables.esp

AtlanteanDragonSlayer.esp

Aurora Blade.esp

Black Mage Armor.esp

Black Overlord Armor Set.esp

BlackSacramentArmor.esp

BlackSacramentDBReplacer.esp

Blades_of_Chaos.esp

Blindfolds_of_Skyrim.esp

BloodWitchArmor.esp

BosmerArmorMATY743.esp

buyable nocturnal clothing.esp

CraftableBloodcrownbyDraco.esp

CrainteVomir.esp

Daedric Lord Armor.esp

DaedricAssassinArmorLight.esp

DaedricAssassinArmorHeavy.esp

DaedricCorset.esp

DaedricMask.esp

DaggerCraft.esp

dbarrows.esp

dbbownogloss.esp

dbdagger.esp

dbsword.esp

DEATH-DEALER.esp

DEATH-DEALER-PKR.esp

Dovahkiin's_Great_Sword.esp

Dragonrend.esp

Dread Huntress Armor.esp

Dread Knight Weapon Set.esp

Drow Armor Set.esp

DualSwords.esp

Earrings Set1.esp

EtherealEdge.esp

Evil MasterMind Armor.esp

fox12 Armor.esp

Frostmourne.esp

Gabriel Belmont's Armor.esp

geralt_ravenarmor_v02b.esp

Ghost Rider.esp

Gizmodian-Obliviweapons.esp

Gizmodian-Witchbane.esp

Hawke Armor.esp

HealerRobes.esp

HentaiNightmareArmor.esp

HentaiVoidArmor.esp

HentaisJamellaArmor.esp

hothtrooper44_ArmorCompilation.esp

Immersive Weapons.esp

KarliahArmor2.esp

KURESE Gloria conversion.esp

LBArmorPack.esp

Lethal Majesty.esp

lilithsdecapitator1_0.esp

lilithsdisemboweler.esp

lilithssickle.esp

listernersarmorset.esp

lordamor.esp

LustmordVampireArmor.esp

maruMask.esp

Masked Helmets.esp

Medusa and Drakul Armors.esp

MHSNW.esp

Moar Kontent.esp

Mods247HelfH16.esp

Nicoroshi Creations.esp

nightshade_armor.esp

NightsWatchArmor.esp

Northborn Fur Hoods.esp

Oblivion Weaponry.esp

Omegared99-WeaponSets.esp

Oriental Weapon&Armor.esp

PBGearRings.esp

R18Pn - Inner Wear Set.esp

R18Pn - Eisen Platte Armor.esp

R18Pn - Ritter Armor - Heavy.esp

R18Pn - Leere  Armor.esp

Reaper's Hunter's Armor.esp

Ritual Armor of Boethiah.esp

RogueArmor.esp

S&D shadow walker.esp

Sabrecat_Gear.esp

Sapphire Rose.esp

Schwertleite Set.esp

Silverlight Armor.esp

Soul River.esp

SpectralWeaponPack.esp

Sword Master Armor.esp

sword_yamato.esp

TERAArmors.esp

TERA Weapons.esp

terafighter.esp

TeraHeavyArmor17.esp

TH3WICK3D1-HawkeMageArmor.esp

TH3WICK3D1-GreyWardenArmor.esp

THBoneHawkRingCraftable.esp

THCraftableVampireArmory.esp

TheViciousHeart.esp

Toad's Tera.esp

Tribunal Maskes by Zairaam.esp

TrissArmorRetextured.esp

TS_GattiBondage1.esp

TS_SlickArmour.esp

Twohanded Dawnbreaker.esp

TyraelArmor_KoRe.esp

Unique Dragon Priest Masks.esp

warchiefarmor.esp

Warmagearmor.esp

Dr_Bandolier.esp

calyps-dragonpriestmasks.esp

Moar Arrows.esp

Ultimate Witcher MOD.esp

Cavalos.esp

faster vanilla horses.esp

HeavyMetal.esp

Shadowmere-Essential.esp

PalominoHorse-Essential.esp

GreyHorse-Essential.esp

Frost-Essential.esp

BrownHorse-Essential.esp

BlackHorse-Essential.esp

BlackAndWhiteHorse-Essential.esp

dD - Enhanced Blood Main.esp

dD-Dragonborn-Dawnguard-EBT Patch.esp

Superjump_2x.esp

SoS - The Dungeons.esp

Better Vampires.esp

UnblockActivateNoWereNoMap.esp

Vampire Predator Vision.esp

StayPretty.esp

WerewolfMastery.esp

WerewolfSecondHowlToggle.esp

Apocalypse - The Spell Package.esp

MidasSkyrim.esp

HitStop.esp

Phenderix's Magic Evolved - Cleaned.esp

SwordDance.esp

DragonFire.esp

Battlemage's Arcanes.esp

ForgottenMagic_Redone.esp

chfshImbuedSword.esp

Enchanting - IDWIW.esp

Enchanting Freedom.esp

zzzEverlastingWeaponEnchant.esp

FormsEdit.esp

IPutASpellOnYou.esp

DeadlyCombat.esp

Dual Wield Parrying_RandomAttacks_Dawnguard.esp

KillAnimationAlways.esp

The Dance of Death - Ultimate Edition.esp

UnlimitedConjuration.esp

Dual Flurry for all.esp

BatTravel.esp

HeartBreaker.esp

N_43 Hair Pack.esp

TeraHairWeightFix.esp

Glowing Eyes.esp

Glowing Vampire Eyes.esp

CustomRaces.esp

LunariRace.esp

XFLDialogue.esp

XFLPlugins.esp

XFLTweaks.esp

UFO - Ultimate Follower Overhaul.esp

My Home Is Your Home.esp

Blaze Of Eventide.esp

AmazingFollowerTweaks.esp

Quick Start - Skip the Opening Sequence.esp

DeadlyMutilation.esp

dD - Realistic Ragdoll Force - Realistic.esp

PC Exclusive Animation Path - RedGuard.esp

PC Exclusive Animation Path - 0 - Main.esp

Glowtastic.esp

Bashed Patch, 0.esp

Dual Sheath Redux Patch.esp

trisscompanion.esp

Ninjato Anei Unique.esp

Maddo Extra Followers.esp

AnyHairAllRaces.esp

Essential Followers V0-7.esp

Lady Elegance.esp

LightningArmor13-2.esp

CastanicHornsNecklace.esp

ly whiteValkyrie.esp

ly shadowwalker.esp

CastanicHornsHelmet.esp

MODSummonHoundsForever.esp

Hair pack -Allhairs-.esp

Sun.esp

DragonSlayerAxe.esp

Nova.esp

ImperialHouse-Beta.esp

LadyRappelzByNausicaa.esp

THCraftableVampireJewelry.esp

Raven Witch Armor.esp

Pouncer.esp

DragonFastTravelRedone.esp

Horses.esp

Lynxx.esp

BLEED.esp

AC-Ishak Pasha Armor.esp

SoSFC.esp

Black Knight.esp

HillHouse.esp

Werewolf_Replacer.esp

Contractor Armor.esp

Mavari Armor.esp

DreamBurrowsRegalHuntsmanArmor.esp

Light Sword.esp

ShieldWard.esp

3swordsonback.esp

PCEA - 0 - DG and DB DLC - All Races.esp

HISSorakageFarmor.esp

Mykatana.esp

Blade and Soul Infernal Armor.esp

[Rayblue]

I think the texture is too large (4k) for your PC to handle, and if you were to redistribute it, not everyone would be able to use your mod; you'll have to scale down the texture size to 1k or 2k. Also, it seems that BSAs take some time to unpack and load into memory as it's being extracted. A similar example is found with MrTroubleMaker's armor/clothing mods, which are hi-res textures packed in BSAs.

[kaiserphoenix]

Yeah I downloaded the mod from the skyrim modtype site. Originally the swords were too large, so I scaled them down to normal katana proportions. I'm still kinda new to modding skyrim, so I don't know how I should lower or remove the scripts. If I were to edit the texture size, which tool should I use for that?

[johnnyboy88]

You actually don't have to re-pack it at all if you have the space. And it's actually recommended to leave them loose. Or to archive them and let your Mod Manger Program unpack/mange them.

 

Keep in mind the resource load order as well

BSAs and You

 

Resource Load Order

• Registered BSAs
• Loose Files
• Plugin BSAs

 

The following is taken from STEP:

 

Archiving the textures

Use 7z, WinZip, WinRar or any compression application to package into a *.7z, *.zip or *.rar archive. The archive package can then be dropped into the Bash Installers directory and installed, if using Wrye Bash. If 7z compression is used to archive textures (or other files for Skyrim) the non-solid option should always be chosen and LZMA2 compression chosen which allows multiple cores to be used. Non-solid compression may slightly increase the size of the archive file, but the benefit is huge when (un)installing upstream packages, which can include re-unpacking from the huge vanilla archive; the result is the extraction goes much faster. In order to use these options in 7zip, when using the 7zip right click context menu select the Open Archive option and the options will be shown in the GUI. Note that if textures are optimized the UHRP files, and many other BSAs as discussed in the BSAs vs. loose files sidebar, also need to be extracted from the BSA and used as archived set of loose files (vs. leaving the UHRP and the other files as BSAs).

 

 

Repackaging Resources into BSAs

To move the optimized textures back into BSA(s), use DDSopt by setting [ignore]' > [Don't process any of the know file types] and pointing the output to YourOutputPath\YourFileName.bsa. This is not recommended for the four vanilla BSAs that contain only textures, as then BSA(s) will need to be registered in Skyrim.ini, and load time is slightly increased (and this option is more complicated). Using the recommended approach for the addon DLC BSAs, the DLC BSAs are not moved from Data directory. Instead the textures are extracted, and the optimized versions of these DLC textures are stored as archive files similar to those of HRDLC. For the addon DLC BSAs, repacking the optimized textures with the other extracted DLC resources into a BSA can cause problems. A number of users have reported CTD errors after doing this. We don't really understand the cause. The default compression level used by DDSopt is higher than that used for the Bethesda files, but even if the DDSopt compression level is changed to the same level as Bethesda uses there are apparently still problems.

[kaiserphoenix]

made 1 appear in game pretty funny

 

 

funny.jpg

 

 

 

for the dds you can use gimp with plugin, ps or any other proggie that can read/save dds files

 

this looks better added them to crafting

 

 

better.jpg

 

 

 

 

i made this bsa without the scripts, you can find the weapons in the craft menu, you have to look your self under what cat iron/steel ect

adjusted the 1 that was showing wrong head up side down

Mykatana.7z

Thank you all for helping me with this issue, Was the sheathe in hand apart of the scripts? That was one of the best features about that mod.

[CGi]

Resource Load Order

• Registered BSAs
• Loose Files
• Plugin BSAs

Not completly true, as the last patch for Skyrim fixed this issue, so loose files win above their counterpart inside BSAs.

[kaiserphoenix]

 

 

Thank you all for helping me with this issue, Was the sheathe in hand apart of the scripts? That was one of the best features about that mod.

 

 

not sure some where quest related, but some of the swords still appears in your hand, just craft all of them and try them out, and you will see

 

Ok I tried them out, most of them were in the default side sheath, but thanks for helping me locate the source of the super slow loading in the forge. Again thank you so much guys for your help, I think I can handle the rest on my own now.