Looksmenu presets not working

[gojo satoryu]

All of the presets look very different from the pictures on nexus, even tho I have all required mods installed and have my load order sorted my LOOT

[nick]

same, completely different from what it is supposed to actually be, i did everything i read up on google and forums, even did the sResourceDataDirsFinal=strings/materials etc.. still no change, going to try deleting every mod but the preset's required and work from there. i'm also not sure if the required mods for the preset are even activated in-game, they say so on nmm but no .esp file on load order. If that doesnt work then going to make sure the required mods are activated and make the preset from scratch.

[Ilja]

Most of such mods do not use plugins at all. They are using loose files, which will win all conflicts against files in BA2 archives.

Plugins are needed for resource files, if they are distributed inside BA2. Archive requires plugin to get loaded by the game.

Loos files are one of the reasons why people have moved away from (buggy) NMM. It handles them by order of installation, physically placing them under Data folder subfolders and then physically overwriting them if conflicts appear, according to order you install your files. Vortex and MO2 use different method, where loose files are actually managed by mod manager and resource priorities take effect according to mod folder order in the manager.

Loose files = unpacked from distribution archive as individual files. Game needs to also load each of them individually. Good for character creation files, bad for textures, meshes (etc.), because game needs to load each large file individually. Resource priorities are determined by order of installation (NMM and manual) or order of mod folders in mod managers (Vortex and MO2.)

Archived files = resource files distributed packed inside BA2 files. These require plugin (ESM, ESP or ESL) to load them. Resource priorities are determined by load order, where archives are loaded when respective plugin is loaded.

[nick]

fixed update: check you have the preset in preset folder, check required mods, check to see if mods are activated (if no .esp) by going into data folders and finding a texture that was replaced by the non .esp mod. re-read the required mods and their descriptions/readme.txt. my problem was fixed by removing all mods but the ones required for preset and reading that I downloaded the valkyr body texture instead of the valkr face texture. So you the solution is basically to read.

[nevize]

looks menu sucks ♥♥♥♥ so bad, its honestly the worst mod ever