SexLab SE - Sex Animation Framework v1.66b - 01/18/2024

[Dude McBroseph]

On 5/15/2025 at 1:36 AM, UsernameTaken666 said:

Make sure you’ve installed all of the requirements as they should all show OK on the Prerequisite check in first screenshot.

You need to install all of those first. Make sure you’re using the correct version of mods for your game version. I use Vortex as well so, in my experience, that’s not the issue. 

I have the same problem with everything installed on a fresh install of Skyrim. I've went through the install instructions multiple times with no success.

[Seeker999]

@nodisplay1123, @Dude McBroseph, here's a screenshot of what the sexlab menu looks like on a new game for me. 

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Obviously this reflects my game version, not yours, but you get the idea. If you do not see OK, then you might have the wrong mod version  or the plugin is not enabled. Check those. I did create a blog post about getting started in Skyrim, see my signature, which might help if you have further problems.

Edited May 17, 2025 by Seeker999
extra spoiler for no reason removed

[Just Don't]

8 hours ago, Dude McBroseph said:

I have the same problem with everything installed on a fresh install of Skyrim. I've went through the install instructions multiple times with no success.

Try installing the right version of Address Library. If your Racemenu version is correct, you're on the latest version of the game (1.6.1170) and yet you're trying to use Address Library for 1.5.X.

[Dude McBroseph]

17 hours ago, Seeker999 said:

@nodisplay1123, @Dude McBroseph, here's a screenshot of what the sexlab menu looks like on a new game for me. 

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Obviously this reflects my game version, not yours, but you get the idea. If you do not see OK, then you might have the wrong mod version  or the plugin is not enabled. Check those. I did create a blog post about getting started in Skyrim, see my signature, which might help if you have further problems.

This helped so much. Thanks for the help!

[AndrewFox]

I have this extremely aggravating bug with my sexlab setup.

For some reason, animations will play; but my character just stands up and clips into the other character as the other character is actually doing their part of the animation.

Edited May 19, 2025 by AndrewFox

[MadMansGun]

2 hours ago, AndrewFox said:

For some reason, animations will play; but my character just stands up and clips into the other character as the other character is actually doing their part of the animation.

turn on the hkx check in fnis and run it, if there's a problem it will point it out.

[AndrewFox]

1 hour ago, MadMansGun said:

turn on the hkx check in fnis and run it, if there's a problem it will point it out.

I did that early on and the only issue was a single SLAL pack.  I deleted the pack from MO2 then regenerated without HKX check after since I removed the pack.

 

And it was still an issue so then I made the post here.

[nodisplay1123]

On 5/17/2025 at 8:37 AM, Seeker999 said:

@nodisplay1123, @Dude McBroseph, here's a screenshot of what the sexlab menu looks like on a new game for me. 

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Obviously this reflects my game version, not yours, but you get the idea. If you do not see OK, then you might have the wrong mod version  or the plugin is not enabled. Check those. I did create a blog post about getting started in Skyrim, see my signature, which might help if you have further problems.

thanks for your advice, although i had gotten it to work. the issue was i installed the wrong sexlab (name was the same except for the b at the end)

[lolmaster123]

has the source code for `SexLabUtil.dll` for SexLab Framework SE been published?, I've searched around but I haven't found it.

[Seeker999]

8 hours ago, AndrewFox said:

I did that early on and the only issue was a single SLAL pack.  I deleted the pack from MO2 then regenerated without HKX check after since I removed the pack.

You always have to check the HKX box when running FNIS for SE. Otherwise it's processing for use in Skyrim LE aka Oldrim.

[AndrewFox]

2 hours ago, Seeker999 said:

You always have to check the HKX box when running FNIS for SE. Otherwise it's processing for use in Skyrim LE aka Oldrim.

IDK about that.  Select the option or not, my character still stands in one spot frozen while the other character is doing the animation.

Edited May 19, 2025 by AndrewFox

[MadMansGun]

2 hours ago, Seeker999 said:

You always have to check the HKX box when running FNIS for SE. Otherwise it's processing for use in Skyrim LE aka Oldrim.

no, that's incorrect, SE FNIS only makes SE behavior files.

[Just Don't]

2 hours ago, Seeker999 said:

You always have to check the HKX box when running FNIS for SE. Otherwise it's processing for use in Skyrim LE aka Oldrim.

No such thing. All it does is check individual animation files and prints a warning if there's any incompatible ones.

 

So it helps in spotting incompatible mods, but it doesn't change how FNIS processes anything for LE or SE.

 

[AndrewFox]

I just want to know how to fix the mod so that when I start a sex scene with a werewolf, i can have my charater join in instead of me standing in one spot while the werewolf does the scene.

[AndrewFox]

Just found out that two werewolves will do their animations when in a sex animation together.  Humanoid characters don't get affected at all in the scenes.

[Just Don't]

2 hours ago, AndrewFox said:

I just want to know how to fix the mod so that when I start a sex scene with a werewolf, i can have my charater join in instead of me standing in one spot while the werewolf does the scene.

Mentioning the issue happens with creatures would have been really useful. The blanket approach is check for FNIS warnings, delete all generated files and rerun it til there are no warnings or error messages. If human-human animations work fine (no idea since this wasn't mentioned) I'd start looking at MNC and accompanying mods, there are some troubleshot steps in the MNC description. In other cases there's some other mod editing behavior files (i.e. a combat mod, usually requiring Nemesis.. but I assume you're only using FNIS so no clue if this can apply to you).

Edited May 19, 2025 by Just Don't

[AndrewFox]

3 hours ago, Just Don't said:

Mentioning the issue happens with creatures would have been really useful. The blanket approach is check for FNIS warnings, delete all generated files and rerun it til there are no warnings or error messages. If human-human animations work fine (no idea since this wasn't mentioned) I'd start looking at MNC and accompanying mods, there are some troubleshot steps in the MNC description. In other cases there's some other mod editing behavior files (i.e. a combat mod, usually requiring Nemesis.. but I assume you're only using FNIS so no clue if this can apply to you).

Ok, Human x Human, standing idly

Human x Creature, Only Creature does the animation
Creature x Creature, works as it is supposed to

FNIS shows no warnings or errors, It says animations were generated.
I have SLAL installed, I have all animations selected and registered.
when I try to start an animation, sexlab says the animations are running.
The Console does not show any sort of sexlab errors.
Sexlab errors do not pop up on screen.

P.S.
Also, I did in fact mention before that animations worked with creatures but not humanoids

Edited May 19, 2025 by AndrewFox

[Ashal]

24 minutes ago, AndrewFox said:

Ok, Human x Human, standing idly

Human x Creature, Only Creature does the animation
Creature x Creature, works as it is supposed to

FNIS shows no warnings or errors, It says animations were generated.
I have SLAL installed, I have all animations selected and registered.
when I try to start an animation, sexlab says the animations are running.
The Console does not show any sort of sexlab errors.
Sexlab errors do not pop up on screen.

 

 

If characters idle, the problem is always 100% with your installation or usage of FNIS. Whatever you're doing wrong is preventing the final FNIS output for character behaviors from making it to your game. This can mean you have either installed FNIS wrong for your mod manager, are running it from the wrong location, or have another mod/tool/file overwriting the final behavior file that FNIS is generating.

 

If your install and usage of FNIS is 100% correct, then look at what mod is providing the final hkx files in /data/meshes/actors/character/behaviors, if it's anything other than FNIS you've fucked up it's output somewhere. If it's MO2 Overwrite folder, then just delete everything in the overwrite's behavior folder and re-run fnis. If you're using Vortex instead of MO2, then you've fucked up and made it harder for yourself to find the source of the issue and are on your own, probably involves looking through the file conflict rules and seeing if something is taking priority that shouldn't.

[AndrewFox]

Once again, there are no errors in FNIS, FNIS says that the generation was completed, and things like creatures and werewolves are fine, it is only human characters that dont work.  Files for human characters were generated by FNIS.  

I know for a fact that I generated and installed the animations correctly, else no animations would play and/or everything will be stuck in an A-pose.
I have the output enabled, it is full of hkx behavior files in "meshes" in the proper subfolders.  The folder I put the generated animations in is not being overwritten by anything.

FNIS is not in a sensitive location like Desktop, it is on an alternate ssd that the game is installed on. 

FNIS says this "10752 animations for 43 mods successfully included (character)." which is correct.
I have also followed the Step guide by the letter.

[Ashal]

8 hours ago, AndrewFox said:

I know for a fact that I generated and installed the animations correctly

 

And I know for a fact that they aren't installed correctly, because if they were, the characters wouldn't be idling. They idle because they were given an animation event to play that doesn't exist in their behavior file. It doesn't exist in their behavior file because it is installed incorrectly or overwritten by another source. This isn't a bug or an issue with SexLab or even FNIS; it is an issue with how your files are installed. Period.

 

If there is no error during the FNIS generation and you clearly see during generation that it's reading the SexLab files for characters (you see the line "Reading SexLab V1.64 ... " during/after generation), then the final behavior files generated by FNIS aren't making it to where they should be for the game to see them. The game is NOT reading the right generated character files at runtime; this is a fact, and if you want to fix the issue, you need to investigate it from that point of view.

 

But what do I know? I only made the mod myself, and as a result, understand how it functions inside and out better than literally anybody.

 

If you're using Vortex, delete everything in your meshes/actors/character/behaviors/ folder that DOES NOT start with "FNIS_", do the same for meshes/actors/character/characters/defaultmale.hkx and meshes/actors/character/characters female/defaultfemale.hkx , then run GenerateFNISforUsers again. Check the folders again to make sure the files that were deleted have all been re-generated, specifically at least 0_master.hkx.

 

If using Mod Organizer, then navigate to those same folders/files from the right side's data tab and make sure those files have their Date Modified updated after running FNIS and that the mod listed as the source of the file are either FNIS, Overwrite, or the custom output folder you set for running FNIS from MO2.

 

 

[Seeker999]

@MadMansGun and @Just Don't, thanks for correcting my understanding of FNIS. It's been so long since I set up FNIS for SE and I've always checked the box - somewhere some instruction said to always do that. Which still makes sense so you can find some errors before playing the game. Doesn't it just suck to be 20 hours in and then s***, something's messed up. lol

[ploop1]

On 10/21/2024 at 3:55 AM, SergeantSplooge said:

I've recently just finished remaking my Skyrim modlist and everything was working fine until suddenly Sexlab stopped working right. But when I say it, "doesn't work right," now I don't mean it doesn't work at all, the animations still play and still get picked up by Fertility mode and all, but for some reason whenever a scene starts now not only are the actors misaligned but they'll be doing two completely separate animations, often a yard apart from each other. Now I've had issues with Sexlab in the past before on other long passed modlists where scenes just wouldn't start at all, and usually if reinstalling sexlab or reinstalling Skyrim itself didn't fix the problem I'd just say screw it and switch to Flower Girls, but this time the issue is so bad it even persists with Flower Girls! That's right, whatever has borked Sexlab for me has borked Flower Girls too so now all of my attempts at sex scenes look weird and dopey. I've never seen anything like this before and all of my other animation mods and the like seem to be working just fine, does anyone have any idea what could be the cause of this? My load order below:

 

 

 

 

I think I'm getting the same issue described here. I started with the Ro modlist, and then I modified it further to add SOS, SL, and a few other addons. So far everything works fine... except the animations are completely misaligned. Like in some phases, the actors are facing completely different directions a foot apart from each other, and quite often it looks like they're performing different animations at the same time. The animations still play, nobody is standing still, they are just severely misaligned. I reduced the mods down to just SOS and SL (and regenerated the animations with Pandora) and I still had the problem. I'm only using human animations, no creature stuff.

This modlist uses Pandora for the animation loading. I'm using the new 2.7.0-beta version of it, updated from the modlist's, and v.1.66 of SL framework. Pandora's configured correctly as far as I'm aware, everything is catching and it is finding SL and the FNIS animations, and generating a FNIS.esp. But no matter what I try, they're just so misaligned that I can't even manually adjust the actors together. Many other people are reporting that Pandora and SL work together just fine, but I can't figure out what could be causing such major alignment issues on my setup.

I'm tempted to just install FNIS or Nemesis alongside Pandora just to handle SL and see if it works but wondering if anyone has experienced this before or might have an idea what to look at.

 

EDIT: I've also tried using P+ and its converter as well but no dice, the animations stay very broken. I just can't figure out why Pandora is having so much trouble making SL animations.

Here's the output of the Pandora run, in case someone more experienced spots something:

 

Pandora Mod 1 : Animation Teleport Bug Fix - v.1.0.0
Pandora Mod 2 : BashBehaviorsOverhaul - v.1.0.0
Pandora Mod 3 : Dual Wielding Unlocker - v.1.0.0
Pandora Mod 4 : EVE Ghostly Instruments Fix - v.1.0.0
Pandora Mod 5 : Extra Drawing Animations - v.1.0.0
Pandora Mod 6 : GP Offset Movement Animation - v.1.0.0
Pandora Mod 7 : Grain Mill Animation Fix - v.1.0.0
Pandora Mod 8 : Horse Pose Improvements (PANDORA ONLY) - v.1.0.0
Pandora Mod 9 : Horse Riding Improvements - v.1.0.0
Pandora Mod 10 : Precision - v.1.0.0
Pandora Mod 11 : Precision Creatures - v.1.0.0
Pandora Mod 12 : Skyrim's Paraglider - v.1.0.0
Pandora Mod 13 : Some Creature Behavior Bug Fixes - v.1.0.0
Pandora Mod 14 : Staff Blocking - v.1.0.0
Pandora Mod 15 : True Directional Movement - 360 Horse Archery - v.1.0.0
Pandora Mod 16 : True Directional Movement - Headtracking - v.1.0.0
Pandora Mod 17 : True Directional Movement - Procedural Leaning - v.1.0.0
Pandora Mod 18 : Unarmed Behaviors Expanded - v.1.0.0
Pandora Mod 19 : Unarmed Scaling Unlocked - v.1.0.0
Pandora Mod 20 : XPMSE Patch For Pandora - v.1.0.0
Pandora Mod 21 : Pandora Base - v.1.0.0

FNIS Mod 1 : FNIS_SexLabCreature_hmdaedra_List
FNIS Mod 2 : FNIS_SexLabCreature_wolf_List
FNIS Mod 3 : FNIS_SexLabCreature_dragon_List
FNIS Mod 4 : FNIS_SexLabCreature_frostbitespider_List
FNIS Mod 5 : FNIS_SexLabCreature_sabrecat_List
FNIS Mod 6 : FNIS_SexLabCreature_bear_List
FNIS Mod 7 : FNIS_SexLabCreature_riekling_List
FNIS Mod 8 : FNIS_SexLabCreature_horse_List
FNIS Mod 9 : FNIS_SexLabCreature_chaurus_List
FNIS Mod 10 : FNIS_SexLabCreature_falmer_List
FNIS Mod 11 : FNIS_SexLabCreature_troll_List
FNIS Mod 12 : FNIS_SexLabCreature_werewolfbeast_List
FNIS Mod 13 : FNIS_ZaZAnimsSLSB_falmer_List
FNIS Mod 14 : FNIS_SexLabCreature_vampirebrute_List
FNIS Mod 15 : FNIS_SexLabCreature_giant_List
FNIS Mod 16 : FNIS_SexLabCreature_vampirelord_List
FNIS Mod 17 : FNIS_SexLabCreature_draugr_List
FNIS Mod 18 : FNIS_SexLabAP_List
FNIS Mod 19 : FNIS_SexLabCreature_List
FNIS Mod 20 : FNIS_ZaZAnimsSLSB_List
FNIS Mod 21 : FNIS_Defeat_List
FNIS Mod 22 : FNIS_SexLab_List
FNIS Mod 23 : FNIS_AnubsHuman_List
FNIS Mod 24 : FNIS_ZaZAnimationPack_List

4 animations added to bearproject.
13 animations added to dogproject.
13 animations added to wolfproject.
3992 animations added to defaultfemale.
4012 animations added to defaultmale.
21 animations added to firstperson.
8 animations added to chaurusproject.
12 animations added to vampirebruteproject.
4 animations added to hmdaedra.
8 animations added to rieklingproject.
8 animations added to dragonproject.
32 animations added to draugrproject.
32 animations added to draugrskeletonproject.
36 animations added to falmerproject.
16 animations added to frostbitespiderproject.
11 animations added to giantproject.
15 animations added to horseproject.
4 animations added to sabrecatproject.
18 animations added to trollproject.
12 animations added to vampirelord.
19 animations added to werewolfbeastproject.

8290 total animations added.

EDIT 2: I ended up running Nemesis on only the FNIS animations by running the engine without selecting anything (and after disabling anything incompatible with it, there were a few Pandora specific mods) and generating new animations. Then I placed Nemesis' output after the Pandora one to overwrite Pandora's FNIS ones, and the animations all work properly now. It really seems to be an issue with Pandora as of the 2.7.0-beta still.

Edited May 21, 2025 by ploop1
solution found

[unknownmyriad]

Sexlab MCM refuses to load. Just got a blank menu like this.

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Tried finding a solution from others who may have had the same problem, but just like them, I doubt I'll get an answer.

[Just Don't]

6 hours ago, unknownmyriad said:

Sexlab MCM refuses to load. Just got a blank menu like this.

Most common cause for this is another mod editing SL files failing to load because it needs another mod to initialize before or something. In particular this can happen if you're using DD NG + SL Utility Plus, there are other known mods causing this issue. The fix is either a loadorder change or, specifically if the issue is SL Utility plus, you can disable its plugin in your loadorder, start a new save, install SL, save and exit the game, then re-enable the SL utility plus plugin and confirm all settings are correct in the different MCMs you have. If it's not the mods I mentioned you'll have to do some trial and error work to spot the culprit by disabling some mods and testing in a new game.

Edited May 25, 2025 by Just Don't

[rocknrolla1521]

Can you guys help me to fix FNIS with Pandora?

A week ago i installed a new Skyrim and a bunch of SexLab mods. I used Pandora for combat animations, then disabled it and enabled SexLab mods, and then run FNIS. Then i left enabled Pandora, Pandora output and Fnis output. Pandora for normal mods, fnis for mods from this site. And it worked for a while, i played for a bit. And yesterday i installed BFCO and a bunch of mods that go with it. And now i get T-pose. I turned off all new mods, but still can't make it work. If i use just Pandora it runs without errors, but in game i have T-pose. If i run Pandora for combat mods and FNIS for SexLab mods, FNIS mods don't work. Base SexLab works with Pandora, but if if enable Billyy's animations i get t-pose. With Billyy's animations Pandora shows 20 000 animations registered, so i assume that the issue is quantity of animations. And i don't understand now why FNIS worked before. What am i missing here? Maybe there is a guide how to make Pandora and fnis work together? Or maybe there is a patch for Pandora to make it work with more animations?  

 

Edit: Found a problem, i had an LE mod in load order. Everything runs on Pandora, FNIS doesn't needed.

Edited May 25, 2025 by rocknrolla1521