Bodyslide completely empty despite everything being seemingly correct. (Linux)

[the goober3047]

I installed BodySlide and CBBE, I already launched bodyslide and built outfits before on the same install so this is really bizarre. 

 

I'm on Mod Organizer and running BodySlide through it, The way I got Mod organizer to work on Linux is by running the installer via steam with the same proton number thing as Skyrim with a launch option I found online in a fallout 4 tutorial I can no longer find and then adding the Mod Organizer exe to steam as well, with the same launch option and compatibility tool as Skyrim. Everything works fine, except for BodySlide which shows up empty now. After running perfectly before.

 

Everything is pointed to the right folders and all the relevant files for this are showing up in the data window in Mod Organizer, I changed nothing about it, it just suddenly stopped showing anything. I even fully reinstalled both CBBE and BodySlide and it's still showing up empty. 

 

I had even built a custom body and put it in game. Again, it already worked, but suddenly stopped after not changing anything.

[traison]

Process Monitor by Sysinternals (Microsoft) is apparently available natively for Linux now. That would show you why it's not working, assuming it works like it does on Windows. Another thing I'd try is to run the Explorer++ app that comes with MO2 and use it to inspect the BodySlide folders. Call it a sanity check.

 

Otherwise usually when there's no outfits in BS, it's because:

1. BS itself is configured wrong. Check its settings.
2. The working directory for BS is set wrong.

[the goober3047]

5 minutes ago, traison said:

Process Monitor by Sysinternals (Microsoft) is apparently available natively for Linux now. That would show you why it's not working, assuming it works like it does on Windows. Another thing I'd try is to run the Explorer++ app that comes with MO2 and use it to inspect the BodySlide folders. Call it a sanity check.

 

Otherwise usually when there's no outfits in BS, it's because:

1. BS itself is configured wrong. Check its settings.
2. The working directory for BS is set wrong.

I did inspect the bodyslide folders and everything seems to be there, 

 

I'm also only able to use the explorer++ app when going through mo2. 

 

this is what my settings tab looks like. I tried to point it to a ton of different folders, but none of them made anything show up. 

 

I'm also getting my mods from nexus, in case that's relevant.

[traison]

2 minutes ago, the goober3047 said:

I'm also only able to use the explorer++ app when going through mo2.

 

You should know by now that because of the usvfs in mo2, there never was any other option than to run it through mo2. If you're running BS outside of mo2 then that's why it's not showing anything.

 

3 minutes ago, the goober3047 said:

I did inspect the bodyslide folders and everything seems to be there,

 

While not being aware of the usvfs? That makes me wonder what your Skyrim data directory looks like. There should be nothing there but the vanilla Skyrim files when using MO2. If there's mod files in there, something is wrong.

 

4 minutes ago, the goober3047 said:

I'm also getting my mods from nexus, in case that's relevant.

 

No.

[the goober3047]

1 hour ago, traison said:

 

You should know by now that because of the usvfs in mo2, there never was any other option than to run it through mo2. If you're running BS outside of mo2 then that's why it's not showing anything.

 

 

While not being aware of the usvfs? That makes me wonder what your Skyrim data directory looks like. There should be nothing there but the vanilla Skyrim files when using MO2. If there's mod files in there, something is wrong.

 

 

No.

I'm running BS in mo2.

 

and I don't mean that the files are in my skyrim data folder, I mean they're in the data menu in MO2, like my screenshot.

[the goober3047]

and also I don't know what the usvfs is. 

[traison]

20 minutes ago, the goober3047 said:

I don't know what the usvfs is.

 

UserSpace Virtual FileSystem. It's the thing that makes files appear in the Data directory that actually aren't there.

[Grey Cloud]

What about the Output Folder path under the Advanced drop down?

[traison]

13 hours ago, Grey Cloud said:

What about the Output Folder path under the Advanced drop down?

 

That only changes where new files created by a tool are placed. I would advice against using this for anything.

 

Edit: Oh I see, there's another Output Folder in BS's settings. Mine's empty, not set to anything.

Edited March 29 by traison

[the goober3047]

just for fun ig I tried my fallout 4 install of bodyslide again and that works perfectly fine. the skyrim one is installed exactly the same way, just for skyrim instead.

[eiitch]

what about the output folder set under advanced? where does it go and does it have files there?  

[the goober3047]

On 4/1/2026 at 10:35 PM, eiitch said:

what about the output folder set under advanced? where does it go and does it have files there?  

I don't think that matters at all considering I don't even get to change any sliders or build anything. 

 

I also messed around a bit more and found that in the data section in the bodyslide settings the "CBBE - Main.ba2" is not there in my skyrim bodyslide install, while it is in my fallout 4 bodyslide install. everything is enabled in MO2 so I have literally no idea why it's not there.

 

(screenshot is my fo4 bodyslide install, the marked file is missing in the sse one)

 

I think I identified what's screwing me up, so now I need help making sure that bodyslide actually sees cbbe and mb even find out why this happened in the first place.

 

also tried running it with different proton versions but nothing changed.

[traison]

23 minutes ago, the goober3047 said:

found that in the data section in the bodyslide settings the "CBBE - Main.ba2" is not there in my skyrim bodyslide install, while it is in my fallout 4 bodyslide install.

 

There is no such file shipped with CBBE or BS.

 

What's the result from ProcMon? Where is BS looking for its files and folders, such as the ones listed below:

./BodySlide.xml

./SliderSets/

[the goober3047]

1 hour ago, traison said:

 

There is no such file shipped with CBBE or BS.

 

What's the result from ProcMon? Where is BS looking for its files and folders, such as the ones listed below:

./BodySlide.xml

./SliderSets/

I have tried a process monitor I found on flatpack called jdprocessfilewatcher and it doesn't show anything when I attempt to attach a running process to it and I can't run bodyslide directly through it cuz bodyslide doesn't count as an application. I also found what seems to be a port of the windows one to linux, but it's incompatible with bazzite, which is what I'm using.

 

I may just have to do a full reinstall of everything and I'll be honest I really really really don't wanna do that cuz I already did that once and it was hell. (later had the same problem in fallout 4 and managed to fix it in a different way... so it was pointless too...)