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

[NearlyNormal]

I tried to run the armor swapper Java thing after installing this and I got the attached image error message.

 

Any idea what I need to do to fix this?  Because I don't have Hearthfire.

[Kinky]

Is this mod final product or is it still going to be updated? If not final what are planed updates?  Will there be SkyTeens race?

[Spyder Arachnid]

That.... is odd. That file right there is for Dragonborn, it shouldn't have Hearthfire as a requirement. I'm not sure why it says that the Dragonborn version needs Hearthfire, as I don't remember setting Hearthfire as a Master for it at all.

 

Though I may of made the mistake while editing it and accidently forgot to remove Hearthfire when I made it. You're the first to report this issue, though that could just mean everyone else has Hearthfire so they haven't noticed it.

 

 

It only edits one child, so it's not too big of an issue as it is just for that one child in the Skaal village. But that does kind of suck, I didn't see that before. You can delete it for now until I get around to fixing it. Which no idea when I'll get around to it, as I've been busy of late.

[Spyder Arachnid]

Is this mod final product or is it still going to be updated? If not final what are planed updates?  Will there be SkyTeens race?

 

I can't speak for what En_Hawk has planned, but I can tell you what I know so far.

 

 

Basically, yes it is in a finished state kind of. There is updates planned, but En_Hawk has been pretty busy and hasn't had the time to really flesh all that out at the moment. On the front page though, you can see what kind of future updates he has planned for SkyKids.

 

Mainly, make the mod modular mostly. Like adding separate addons and such for random children npcs scattered about, updating the default presets, and things like that. I'm not sure on new races though. He also plans on making a standalone child replacer as well, which won't require the whole race to use, so you can use just the child replacer, without the whole playable race. I think there was mention as well of making other race children (Dunmer, Argonian, Khajiit, etc) adoptable too. So those who play those races can have matching children, instead of all the default vanilla humans.

 

As for my child replacer I made using this mod, I'd like to update it as well. Most of it was something I tossed together real quick, and while it looks decent, I'd like to improve it more. But like En_Hawk, I've been busy as well so no idea when I'll get around to that either.

 

There is also plans for a fix to Hearthfire children clothes to make them compatible with SkyKids as well.

 

 

Anything else, I'd rather En_Hawk fill you in there. But that's just info I know about from the main page and the stuff I've read in this thread. It will probably be awhile though till any of this stuff changes, so the version that is up now is pretty much going to be the latest version for awhile. So it's completely safe to check it out now if that is what you're wondering, without fear of it changing soon.

[en_hawk]

I tried to run the armor swapper Java thing after installing this and I got the attached image error message.

 

Any idea what I need to do to fix this?  Because I don't have Hearthfire.

 

That.... is odd. That file right there is for Dragonborn, it shouldn't have Hearthfire as a requirement. I'm not sure why it says that the Dragonborn version needs Hearthfire, as I don't remember setting Hearthfire as a Master for it at all.

 

Though I may of made the mistake while editing it and accidently forgot to remove Hearthfire when I made it. You're the first to report this issue, though that could just mean everyone else has Hearthfire so they haven't noticed it.

 

 

It only edits one child, so it's not too big of an issue as it is just for that one child in the Skaal village. But that does kind of suck, I didn't see that before. You can delete it for now until I get around to fixing it. Which no idea when I'll get around to it, as I've been busy of late.

He's not actually using your NPC replacer, spyder(as yours are all setup properly). I just checked my files out, and I do indeed have an extraneous master for hearthfire on the dragonborn npc replacer plugin; I guess I forgot to hit the 'clean masters' button after I finished making the plugin. I've hotfixed it and attached a working esp to this post, but an update to the main package/thread with this fixed file included will have to wait until I have the time for it. This should get you up and running in the meantime.

SK Vanilla Child Replacer DB.esp

[Spyder Arachnid]

Ah my mistake. I misread it. For some reason I thought that was one of mine lol.

 

That's what I get for staying up all night without sleep.

[NearlyNormal]

 

I tried to run the armor swapper Java thing after installing this and I got the attached image error message.

 

Any idea what I need to do to fix this?  Because I don't have Hearthfire.

 

That.... is odd. That file right there is for Dragonborn, it shouldn't have Hearthfire as a requirement. I'm not sure why it says that the Dragonborn version needs Hearthfire, as I don't remember setting Hearthfire as a Master for it at all.

 

Though I may of made the mistake while editing it and accidently forgot to remove Hearthfire when I made it. You're the first to report this issue, though that could just mean everyone else has Hearthfire so they haven't noticed it.

 

 

It only edits one child, so it's not too big of an issue as it is just for that one child in the Skaal village. But that does kind of suck, I didn't see that before. You can delete it for now until I get around to fixing it. Which no idea when I'll get around to it, as I've been busy of late.

He's not actually using your NPC replacer, spyder(as yours are all setup properly). I just checked my files out, and I do indeed have an extraneous master for hearthfire on the dragonborn npc replacer plugin; I guess I forgot to hit the 'clean masters' button after I finished making the plugin. I've hotfixed it and attached a working esp to this post, but an update to the main package/thread with this fixed file included will have to wait until I have the time for it. This should get you up and running in the meantime.

 

 

Well, thanks for the quick response.  Your replacement .esp worked.  I appreciate the help.

 

[MidbossVyers]

Has anyone using the classic boy body encountered this problem?  If not, have you seen something similar to this before?

Is the armor swapper just for torso armor, or can it work for boots and shoes, as well?

[Spyder Arachnid]

Here's a cosmetic compatibility patch for SG Hair Pack 268 Edition. Really like these hairs, but was sad to see they didn't work on Skykids. So I followed your guide and made a patch for them. Though to others, LL is not allowed to provide a link for SG Hair Pack 268 Edition sadly, but feel free to google search it. It's not hard to find.

 

Works just fine in my game (basic Skyrim install with SkyKids and SG Hairs), so should work fine with any other game.

 

 

 

On a side note, been messing around with RaceMenu again, trying to make Skykids. But for some reason, none of the sliders work at all. Only the basic vanilla ones do. Don't know if this is an issue with RaceMenu and custom races, or if there is something else I need for these sliders to work. Tried with the RaceMenu Plugin and without, and it didn't make a difference.

 

As well, it seems the male body is not very texture friendly. I've been tweaking the textures over and over, yet they always appear wrong on the male body mesh. No matter what I do, there is always gaps and glitches everywhere. Down the inside of the arms, the side of the body, legs, and then the feet are all messed up. I don't know if it is a mesh issue, or a texture issue, or what. But even with the basic textures that come with Skykids (before I edited them), they did this as well.

 

Just wanted to give you a heads up.

SK SGHairPackAIO.esp

[ChipyChops]

Thanks for the esp Spyder. I find that a few of the racemenu sliders don't work, maybe its because they're not ece.

[CHURCH1941]

I got the main mod to work, and the characters are changed and everything, but the armor patcher doesn`t seem to work. It says, "There was an exception thrown during program execution: 'java.io.FileNotFoundException:..\..\SK Child Armor Swapper.est(Access is denied)' Please contact author". The fixes i`ve looked up and tried already, including new installs, and moving the Skyrim folder to somewhere less secure than C;// didn`t work. I ran it as administrator and everything. Any ideas? Sorry if this has been asked before, but i didn`t really want to sift through a thousand comments.

[en_hawk]

I got the main mod to work, and the characters are changed and everything, but the armor patcher doesn`t seem to work. It says, "There was an exception thrown during program execution: 'java.io.FileNotFoundException:..\..\SK Child Armor Swapper.est(Access is denied)' Please contact author". The fixes i`ve looked up and tried already, including new installs, and moving the Skyrim folder to somewhere less secure than C;// didn`t work. I ran it as administrator and everything. Any ideas? Sorry if this has been asked before, but i didn`t really want to sift through a thousand comments.

Is user account control(UAC) on?

[Griede]

ok so i keep running in to an error.

the armor swap did not install automatically, so i tried to instal it manually as per your instructions by running the jar file. the patcher starts just fine, however it keeps giving an error stating that the SkyKids.esm needs to be installed and active in order to continue.

the esm is installed, its in the folder, and it is active int he wyrebash load list, and all of the mods ar e in the proper order.

i tryed restarting wyrebash, and the patcher, i tried deleting the SkyKids.esm and then reinstalling the entire skykids file through NMM nothing. and i know the game is recognizing it cause i already had it up and running, just didnt know about the armor swapper. the only issue i had then was getting them to equip armor i gave them, as the first set of armor i gave the followers would equip while i had their inventory open, but as soon as i close their inventory they took it off again...

anyways, hopefully someone knows how to fix this? cause i dont know how to fix a problem that doesnt exsist lol...

and yes, the armor swaper patch isnt present cause it wont populate..

 

 

Skyrim.esm
CRC: C665FD56

Update.esm
CRC: E5B67BDA
UDR: 3, ITM not scanned (via Wrye Bash)

Dawnguard.esm
CRC: BD72CCF3
UDR: 139, ITM not scanned (via Wrye Bash)

HearthFires.esm
CRC: AF82CE6A
UDR: 16, ITM not scanned (via Wrye Bash)

Dragonborn.esm
CRC: A9F83BFF
UDR: 9, ITM not scanned (via Wrye Bash)

ApachiiHair.esm
CRC: 783F7167

ApachiiHairFemales.esm
CRC: 49FFE3B5

OblivionHairPackAIO.esm
CRC: BC9E18D8

RaceCompatibility.esm
CRC: D0528810

AP Skyrim.esm
CRC: 49C82390

Skykids.esm
CRC: 90F2879C

MFVM.esm
CRC: BA4FF3AB

RCOTS-RACES.esm
CRC: D015BEB1

SK Drow Child Race.esm
CRC: 866213A6

SK Monli Race.esm
CRC: 92D59001

SK TheEyesOfBeauty.esm
Version: 8
CRC: A4DD6EA2

OrientalRace.esp
CRC: D9E80FF5

RaceMenu.esp
CRC: 2765B7D0

RaceMenuPlugin.esp
CRC: 8A8A009F

SK Drow Taldyn.esp
CRC: 889ACA5C

SK Lolydia.esp
CRC: 4F21ED9C

monli preset1.esp
CRC: 8F7B1D05

monli preset2.esp
CRC: 49C6F0FF

monli preset3.esp
CRC: E5F6A75F

SK Vanilla Child Replacer.esp
CRC: CDB27005

SK Vanilla Child Replacer HF.esp
CRC: 467C0053

SK Vanilla Child Replacer DB.esp
CRC: B6836AA6

SK ApachiiHair.esp
CRC: E1069233

SK ApachiiHairFemales.esp
CRC: E95D801A

SK OblivionHairPackAIO.esp
CRC: 8DAA30BF

HighResTexturePack01.esp
CRC: D596F02A

HighResTexturePack02.esp
CRC: D596F02A

HighResTexturePack03.esp
CRC: D596F02A

perk bug fixes.esp
CRC: 47AD6ED2

MFVM_Hearthfire_Patch.esp
CRC: F1C1A957

MFVM_ChildrenFight_Patch.esp
CRC: E03331F1

 

[Griede]

 

 

Awesome.  Now I'm going to feel like a dick for not catching this other one before, but mentioning it now.  Eyes of Beauty folder is also misnamed I think.

 

EyesOfBeauty.jpg

Ok I fixed that, and then went through and double checked everything to make sure it matches, shouldn't be anymore issues with the installer script. The file has been updated, either redownload it or run the manual install procedure on the affected modules.

 

 

Awesome, sorry about reenacting this skit for you:

 

 

O's and P's.

 

 

[Griede]

lol.. sorry, not even related.. watched video at like midnight.. almost died laughing...

[en_hawk]

ok so i keep running in to an error.

the armor swap did not install automatically, so i tried to instal it manually as per your instructions by running the jar file. the patcher starts just fine, however it keeps giving an error stating that the SkyKids.esm needs to be installed and active in order to continue.

the esm is installed, its in the folder, and it is active int he wyrebash load list, and all of the mods ar e in the proper order.

i tryed restarting wyrebash, and the patcher, i tried deleting the SkyKids.esm and then reinstalling the entire skykids file through NMM nothing. and i know the game is recognizing it cause i already had it up and running, just didnt know about the armor swapper. the only issue i had then was getting them to equip armor i gave them, as the first set of armor i gave the followers would equip while i had their inventory open, but as soon as i close their inventory they took it off again...

anyways, hopefully someone knows how to fix this? cause i dont know how to fix a problem that doesnt exsist lol...

and yes, the armor swaper patch isnt present cause it wont populate..

 

 

 

Skyrim.esm

CRC: C665FD56

 

Update.esm

CRC: E5B67BDA

UDR: 3, ITM not scanned (via Wrye Bash)

 

Dawnguard.esm

CRC: BD72CCF3

UDR: 139, ITM not scanned (via Wrye Bash)

 

HearthFires.esm

CRC: AF82CE6A

UDR: 16, ITM not scanned (via Wrye Bash)

 

Dragonborn.esm

CRC: A9F83BFF

UDR: 9, ITM not scanned (via Wrye Bash)

 

ApachiiHair.esm

CRC: 783F7167

 

ApachiiHairFemales.esm

CRC: 49FFE3B5

 

OblivionHairPackAIO.esm

CRC: BC9E18D8

 

RaceCompatibility.esm

CRC: D0528810

 

AP Skyrim.esm

CRC: 49C82390

 

Skykids.esm

CRC: 90F2879C

 

MFVM.esm

CRC: BA4FF3AB

 

RCOTS-RACES.esm

CRC: D015BEB1

 

SK Drow Child Race.esm

CRC: 866213A6

 

SK Monli Race.esm

CRC: 92D59001

 

SK TheEyesOfBeauty.esm

Version: 8

CRC: A4DD6EA2

 

OrientalRace.esp

CRC: D9E80FF5

 

RaceMenu.esp

CRC: 2765B7D0

 

RaceMenuPlugin.esp

CRC: 8A8A009F

 

SK Drow Taldyn.esp

CRC: 889ACA5C

 

SK Lolydia.esp

CRC: 4F21ED9C

 

monli preset1.esp

CRC: 8F7B1D05

 

monli preset2.esp

CRC: 49C6F0FF

 

monli preset3.esp

CRC: E5F6A75F

 

SK Vanilla Child Replacer.esp

CRC: CDB27005

 

SK Vanilla Child Replacer HF.esp

CRC: 467C0053

 

SK Vanilla Child Replacer DB.esp

CRC: B6836AA6

 

SK ApachiiHair.esp

CRC: E1069233

 

SK ApachiiHairFemales.esp

CRC: E95D801A

 

SK OblivionHairPackAIO.esp

CRC: 8DAA30BF

 

HighResTexturePack01.esp

CRC: D596F02A

 

HighResTexturePack02.esp

CRC: D596F02A

 

HighResTexturePack03.esp

CRC: D596F02A

 

perk bug fixes.esp

CRC: 47AD6ED2

 

MFVM_Hearthfire_Patch.esp

CRC: F1C1A957

 

MFVM_ChildrenFight_Patch.esp

CRC: E03331F1

 

 

 

Just to clarify, you are NOT using MO, correct?

[Griede]

negatory ghostrider, im useing wyrebash and boss.

 

also, i want to add that when i click any mod that has skykids.esm as a master, it SHOWS the esm as installed and active in the masters list to the right. it also shows ALL of the plugins for the skykids mod, including the skykids.esm as normal, no yellow or red or any other errors.

 

though i did just notice something odd. skykids will not stay above the SK drow and monli plugins, as soon as i start the jar file to run the patch it reorders them, i would post screenshots but this thing keeps erroring when it trys to load anyfiles. isnt there supposed to be a way to LOCK the load order so it wont change?

[IleikOreos]

Could some one give me some help on how/where i install this with nmm/mo?

[Spyder Arachnid]

Could some one give me some help on how/where i install this with nmm/mo?

 

Go to the download section, click the button that says Mirror, and it will take you to Mega to download it. Download it, save it somewhere, then open up NMM. Go to your mods section, add a mod, and select the zip file you just downloaded. Then when it finishes adding it, activate it and follow the directions and pick and choose what you want.

 

Tada, all done.

 

 

Same as installing any other NMM mod. No special things you need to do. Install it normally like any other mod via NMM.

[en_hawk]

negatory ghostrider, im useing wyrebash and boss.

 

also, i want to add that when i click any mod that has skykids.esm as a master, it SHOWS the esm as installed and active in the masters list to the right. it also shows ALL of the plugins for the skykids mod, including the skykids.esm as normal, no yellow or red or any other errors.

 

though i did just notice something odd. skykids will not stay above the SK drow and monli plugins, as soon as i start the jar file to run the patch it reorders them, i would post screenshots but this thing keeps erroring when it trys to load anyfiles. isnt there supposed to be a way to LOCK the load order so it wont change?

You are using BOSS, correct? Sounds to me like you failed to install the [mandatory] userlist entries. The default masterlist configuration causes just that exact problem(as I guess the BOSS dev team didn't bother to test it or look at the masters on the plugins before sticking it in the masterlist backwards and screwing everyone over...).

 

Could some one give me some help on how/where i install this with nmm/mo?

 

Could some one give me some help on how/where i install this with nmm/mo?

 

Go to the download section, click the button that says Mirror, and it will take you to Mega to download it. Download it, save it somewhere, then open up NMM. Go to your mods section, add a mod, and select the zip file you just downloaded. Then when it finishes adding it, activate it and follow the directions and pick and choose what you want.

 

Tada, all done.

 

 

Same as installing any other NMM mod. No special things you need to do. Install it normally like any other mod via NMM.

 

Or, you know... read the manual?

[CHURCH1941]

 

I got the main mod to work, and the characters are changed and everything, but the armor patcher doesn`t seem to work. It says, "There was an exception thrown during program execution: 'java.io.FileNotFoundException:..\..\SK Child Armor Swapper.est(Access is denied)' Please contact author". The fixes i`ve looked up and tried already, including new installs, and moving the Skyrim folder to somewhere less secure than C;// didn`t work. I ran it as administrator and everything. Any ideas? Sorry if this has been asked before, but i didn`t really want to sift through a thousand comments.

Is user account control(UAC) on?

 

 

To be honest, I have no idea how to turn that on. I asked some of my friends if they have any idea (not saying it`s a mod that makes kids look more attractive of course) and all they said was this is a lostboy.exe thing and called me a retard...

[Griede]

 

 

I got the main mod to work, and the characters are changed and everything, but the armor patcher doesn`t seem to work. It says, "There was an exception thrown during program execution: 'java.io.FileNotFoundException:..\..\SK Child Armor Swapper.est(Access is denied)' Please contact author". The fixes i`ve looked up and tried already, including new installs, and moving the Skyrim folder to somewhere less secure than C;// didn`t work. I ran it as administrator and everything. Any ideas? Sorry if this has been asked before, but i didn`t really want to sift through a thousand comments.

Is user account control(UAC) on?

 

 

To be honest, I have no idea how to turn that on. I asked some of my friends if they have any idea (not saying it`s a mod that makes kids look more attractive of course) and all they said was this is a lostboy.exe thing and called me a retard...

 

 

UAC is user account control, they asked if you have it on because its known to cause various issues when adding, deleting, or just altering files in certain locations. it ussually has a popup when you run most if not all programs on your computer asking you to  confirm that you told it to start.

 

[Griede]

 

negatory ghostrider, im useing wyrebash and boss.

 

also, i want to add that when i click any mod that has skykids.esm as a master, it SHOWS the esm as installed and active in the masters list to the right. it also shows ALL of the plugins for the skykids mod, including the skykids.esm as normal, no yellow or red or any other errors.

 

though i did just notice something odd. skykids will not stay above the SK drow and monli plugins, as soon as i start the jar file to run the patch it reorders them, i would post screenshots but this thing keeps erroring when it trys to load anyfiles. isnt there supposed to be a way to LOCK the load order so it wont change?

You are using BOSS, correct? Sounds to me like you failed to install the [mandatory] userlist entries. The default masterlist configuration causes just that exact problem(as I guess the BOSS dev team didn't bother to test it or look at the masters on the plugins before sticking it in the masterlist backwards and screwing everyone over...).

ok, so i understand what your talkin about because i have the same issue with oblivion, but how do i do that? i am useing boss but is there a list somewhere i need to load?

 

as an update, i can run the armor swap patch without the sk drow or sk monli race esms active. which i suppose is to be expected if the list is messed up.

 

i did manage to download a boss userllist manager from nexus, ill try that and see if i can get it fixed.

[Kinky]

Here's a cosmetic compatibility patch for SG Hair Pack 268 Edition. Really like these hairs, but was sad to see they didn't work on Skykids. So I followed your guide and made a patch for them. Though to others, LL is not allowed to provide a link for SG Hair Pack 268 Edition sadly, but feel free to google search it. It's not hard to find.

 

Works just fine in my game (basic Skyrim install with SkyKids and SG Hairs), so should work fine with any other game.

 

 

 

On a side note, been messing around with RaceMenu again, trying to make Skykids. But for some reason, none of the sliders work at all. Only the basic vanilla ones do. Don't know if this is an issue with RaceMenu and custom races, or if there is something else I need for these sliders to work. Tried with the RaceMenu Plugin and without, and it didn't make a difference.

...

 

There is now also new hair pack (KS Hairdos) on nexus http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/58221/?

It would be nice to include that one as well.  Also if you are playing with faces then why not include more face presets to this mod? It seems like there are only 2 face presets for any race...

 

 

[CHURCH1941]

 

 

 

I got the main mod to work, and the characters are changed and everything, but the armor patcher doesn`t seem to work. It says, "There was an exception thrown during program execution: 'java.io.FileNotFoundException:..\..\SK Child Armor Swapper.est(Access is denied)' Please contact author". The fixes i`ve looked up and tried already, including new installs, and moving the Skyrim folder to somewhere less secure than C;// didn`t work. I ran it as administrator and everything. Any ideas? Sorry if this has been asked before, but i didn`t really want to sift through a thousand comments.

Is user account control(UAC) on?

 

 

To be honest, I have no idea how to turn that on. I asked some of my friends if they have any idea (not saying it`s a mod that makes kids look more attractive of course) and all they said was this is a lostboy.exe thing and called me a retard...

 

 

UAC is user account control, they asked if you have it on because its known to cause various issues when adding, deleting, or just altering files in certain locations. it ussually has a popup when you run most if not all programs on your computer asking you to  confirm that you told it to start.

 

 

 

I do know what it is, it just doesn`t give me a popup when I run the thing, and I don`t know how to either make the popup appear, or confirm what the popup would do manually.