I’ve now been working on my next modlist for nearly four months. screaming internally
First, I wanted to try new combat mods. Several million confusing animation set choices later, I think I have something working. I then got the wild idea of trying one of those methods of distributing random bodies to all NPCs in the game, so I downloaded about a hundred bodyslides for HIMBO and CBBE and got that working. Which tree mod? Which grass mod? I’ve changed my mind at least twice.
Then I figured out how to enable physics for things like hair and cloaks. Ooooh, neat! Except no, heavy fur cloaks should not swirl around like they’re made of gauze what even is this do I have to turn it off again no wait, I am too busy downloading HDT-SMP patches for every armor set I’m using. Oh, these armor sets don’t have OWL patches? I’ll make some for myself. Learning how leveled lists work sure was interesting.
I tried to shake up the load order with different city and town overhauls than usual. Today I ripped them all out for JK’s Skyrim because my test runs made me unhappy. Well, I kept some of Expanded Towns and Cities, which I liked a lot for its voiced NPCs. This meant I had to rebuild the EasyNPC face merge again. And all my merged patches. And all my lods.
Is there a yak shaving mod? I think I need it.
Send halp.
I’ve had to give up on EasyNPC. I try and try and try and I either get non-specific crashes, or, once I get it to finally compress into one mod, I’ll end up with random face colorization issues, missing eye textures, or other weirdo glitches.
I love the idea of EasyNPC so much but I’ve had to set it aside and accept that I don’t have the energy to master the arcane knowledge necessary to combine NPC overhauls. I wish they’d at least change the mod name to AdvancedNPC.
Do you run the checker on your modlist afterward? It’ll help you diagnose things like that. Also, before you build you really should review its notes about potential problems and fix them. It tries its best to help you build a great merge.