[WIP] Skykids - Child races & other technical goodies - No more armor patcher! New CotS R2 Race!(6/22/15)

[arr0w]

Exactly which patch pack then, do I need to install, specifically for the male?? female is fine so far. I cant seem to figure out which one it is just by looking at the contents of them :/ sorry to be so much trouble

[en_hawk]

There isn't one presently, I haven't posted it yet.

[arr0w]

Oh okay lol i was really confused. I was in the middle of figuring out why i was CTDing constantly when i asked that, I thought you'd already uploaded it

[en_hawk]

Small update here until I get around to updating the OP. It appears that the BOSS masterlist has been updated to include 'SK Monli Race.esm' and 'SK Drow Child Race.esm' but not 'Skykids.esm'. Coupled with my userlist configuration specified in the OP, this will cause missing master errors on those two esm's.

 

You need to remove the following from your userlist:

OP updated, use those instead

Replace it with:

OP updated, use those instead

This is only temporary until 'Skykids.esm' finds its way into the masterlist.

 

I've also got an updated armor patcher that fixes the null pointer exception on line 209 due to broken armor plugins, it is attached. I tested it out on the animetica plugin someone posted and it stopped the errors, let me know if this fixes it for you guys.

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Edited December 8, 2013 by en_hawk

[Riddles]

Okay, I updated my userlist and used the patcher you provided and it appears to have worked. BOSS now has the SK race esms ticked as active and when I ran the patcher it went without a hitch. Even though my character can wear worn iron armor they don't seem to be able to wear certain modded armours such as the Valkyrie, Deathbell Princess and a few prisoner tunics. The one thing these all have in common is that they are x117. I think the problem may be these armours aren't being configured to the skykids race properly.

[en_hawk]

As I said above and in the OP, user created armor plugins need to be recognized and sorted by BOSS in order to be handled by the armor patcher. If they aren't recognized by BOSS they get stuck down at the end of the load order, below the armor patcher plugin, and it is unable to master them when generating the patch. Add user rules to sort them into one of the armor groups provided by the BOSS masterlist.

[JerWA]

And once you've got them sorting properly (it's important to note that you MUST create BOSS rules for them, sorting them by hand will be undone by the patcher!) if you still find some not working right please post the armor and armor mod/pack it's from.

[JerWA]

Just FYI the main ESM has made it into the official BOSS list as of the most recent update.

[en_hawk]

Just FYI the main ESM has made it into the official BOSS list as of the most recent update.

They screwed up, it got added below the addon races so we're still in the exact same boat as we were before.

[JerWA]

Yeah I noticed. <sigh> Wrye threw a tardy masters alert so I had to go put it back as an override heh.

[en_hawk]

At least its a little better this way, you can get away with just doing this now:

OP updated, use those instead

Edited December 8, 2013 by en_hawk

[Koko.Hekmatyar]

I was wonder if you had considered looking into making an installer like XP32's? That way you could have one file that needs downloaded with all the options available to choose from.

[en_hawk]

I was wonder if you had considered looking into making an installer like XP32's? That way you could have one file that needs downloaded with all the options available to choose from.

I'm assuming you mean for NMM? I'm not a huge fan of that myself(Wrye user since oblivion), but I guess its a decent idea. I suppose I can look into it.

[Koko.Hekmatyar]

I think those installers work on Mod Organizer as well don't they? Never used MO so I'm not 100% sure.

[en_hawk]

hi it seems like the sk monli race is incompitable with the normal Little Monli race...everytime i want to choose the normal monli in race menu i get ctd....

 

best regards sheloveme

 

Hey, I'm still waiting on a responce back for this problem... can't use the normal drow from this mod with the skykids drow installed.

To both of you, try replacing the SK addons in question with the attached versions and see if that fixes it.

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Edited December 8, 2013 by en_hawk

[en_hawk]

The Savior's Hide crashes the game on my Drow character. Any suggestions?

I've identified and fixed the problem, replacement meshes are attached here until I put out a hotfix for these issues.

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Edited December 8, 2013 by en_hawk

[Rez Delnava]

As far as installers go, if you set up your mod to install using Wrye's installer format, its actually fairly simple to port the wizard.txt file into the FOMOD's configuration xml, and the two can exist side-by side without conflict.  The hardest part of it all, is setting up the all those folders.

 

Alternately, you could just make the wrye installer and leave it at that; both MO and NMM have partial support for the wizard.txt configuration, but the users wouldn't have the super helpful info.xml where you can put trouble-shooting FAQs and version data.

 

Personally, I don't see the appeal of any installer. I manually install and priority sort, only use wrye to merge the leveled lists, and I've disabled BOSS when SUM Proc'ing. Hardmode4Lyfe (Not really that hard once you learn the structure of mods, I just manually merge conflicting mods with TES5Edit)

 

But I digress. 

I really love the armor swapper, it makes converting existing armors so easy without tedious ARMA packaging. I can't wait for the next release to see what you have in store.  I'd offer to help, but it looks like you've already done all the armor conversion for base/expack armors, and I'm generally useless when it comes to .tri files required for morphs.  If there is anything you think a third-rate mesh converter like myself can do, let me know.

[Riddles]

Everything appears to be working now, thanks.

[Rowyin]

 

hi it seems like the sk monli race is incompitable with the normal Little Monli race...everytime i want to choose the normal monli in race menu i get ctd....

 

best regards sheloveme

 

Hey, I'm still waiting on a responce back for this problem... can't use the normal drow from this mod with the skykids drow installed.

To both of you, try replacing the SK addons in question with the attached versions and see if that fixes it.

 

 

Working for me too, thanks a bunch!

 

[mak59]

I can't get skykids working. It crashes my game after the start up screen.

Can anyone help? Some mods seem to work while others give this problem.

[en_hawk]

I can't get skykids working. It crashes my game after the start up screen.

Can anyone help? Some mods seem to work while others give this problem.

Very likely a missing master, post your load order.

[metablaze]

Hello. I am enjoying this mod so far, but I have been grappling with an issue with the drow child's hair. It won't change, and it seems to go to huge numbers in character edit. I tried even turning off every mod I had except that one, but nothing seems to work.

[en_hawk]

Hello. I am enjoying this mod so far, but I have been grappling with an issue with the drow child's hair. It won't change, and it seems to go to huge numbers in character edit. I tried even turning off every mod I had except that one, but nothing seems to work.

Does the hair slider work correctly on the other races/genders? Make sure you have the specific version of Racial Compatibility that is specified in the installation instructions, and install its scripts again to make sure that nothing else has overwritten them.

[metablaze]

 

Hello. I am enjoying this mod so far, but I have been grappling with an issue with the drow child's hair. It won't change, and it seems to go to huge numbers in character edit. I tried even turning off every mod I had except that one, but nothing seems to work.

Does the hair slider work correctly on the other races/genders? Make sure you have the specific version of Racial Compatibility that is specified in the installation instructions, and install its scripts again to make sure that nothing else has overwritten them.

 

 

Alright. I did it as you asked. The hair had been working with everyone, but redoing Racial Compatibility and reinstalling the scripts worked. Thank you very much for the help.

[mak59]

 

I can't get skykids working. It crashes my game after the start up screen.

Can anyone help? Some mods seem to work while others give this problem.

Very likely a missing master, post your load order.

 

 

I guess by load order you mean the plugin text file, right?

here :

 

Update.esm

Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp

SexLab.esm

ClimatesOfTamriel.esm

SPIKE.esm

Skykids.esm

SK TheEyesOfBeauty.esm

SK Monli Race.esm

SK Drow Child Race.esm

dD - Realistic Ragdoll Force - Realistic.esp

SexLab Romance.esp

SexLab Submit.esp

FNISspells.esp

WetandCold.esp

Run For Your Lives.esp

ClimatesOfTamriel-Interiors-Warm.esp

ClimatesOfTamriel-Nights-Level-2.esp

dD - Enhanced Blood Main.esp

DeadlyMutilation.esp

Footprints.esp

Headtracking.esp

Guard Dialogue Overhaul.esp

WATER.esp

Chesko_WearableLantern.esp

Cloaks.esp

SK ApachiiHairFemales.esp