Old Farts' Coffee House

[Avrie]

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If you're new to Skyrim, or just having problems, and not sure where to begin ... Just ask. All are welcome, If you can grow pubic hair you're already an old fart to someone.

This is just a place to hang, chat, ask questions, and get abused by forum regulars. Feel free to drop by ... We might not have all the answers, but we probably already know the people that do, and we will be happy to help.

Bashing, spamming, self promoting, advertising, and trolling will simply provide us with target practice and make you look really lame. Please leave politics and religion at the door as well.

Personal attacks against forum guests based on country, race, ethnicity, and lifestyle preferences will not be tollerated in any way ... Period, and we will be enforcing the moderators rules around here ... Period

Keep it clean (mostly) While the game is listed as mature, a lot of the people aren't
Keep it civil (always) arguing a little is fine, just keep it friendly

Move over young ones ... Gramps moved back in.

[Black Album]

Atm ... I have no barrel in my game ...
I'm playing Horizon New Dawn and I'm being chased all over the place by Robotic dinosaurs.
And there's not a single barrel to be found anywhere !!!

What were the Devs thinking ????
No barrels ... how is anybody supposed to play the game ... what do they expect me to do?
Fight the things all on my own ??

[gnewna]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Avrie:

High Poly True to Vanilla NPC Overhaul
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/74226
"A lore-friendly NPC Overhaul based on High Poly Head, Vanilla Hair Remake and Beards of Power."

"True to Vanilla" - uses EFM so the female Elves in particular look radically different to vanilla. Why can't someone just make a high poly, better assets replacer for everyone without EFM? Doesn't even have to be HPH tbh, just better meshes for the eyes, better quality tintmasks for better facetints, etc. I wish they would at least state clearly and immediately that they've used EFM so I don't waste my time getting excited about a possible option that turns out to be extremely not for me

https://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/mods/1704/images/74226/74226-1673131921-930964719.png

versus

https://images.uesp.net/a/a8/SR-npc-Brelyna_Maryon_04.jpg

https://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/mods/1704/images/74226/74226-1673048300-78219003.png

versus

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/elderscrolls/images/7/7a/Aela_the_Huntress.png/revision/latest?cb=20121013012428

(I dislike EFM less for humans and even use it sometimes for them, but I cannot stand what it does to female elves, I'll post a comparison of Nerussa with and without it in the Discord...)

[alexander_dougherty]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από smr1957:

The world has always been dark - most people just don't see it because they walk with eyes closed, lost in self lit imaginations of what can be.

Well nature has always been dark, and always will be....
People on the other hand fluctuate between selfish and generous, which makes the world either darker or brighter as a result....

[sdack]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από smr1957:

Or, "the barrel's too dark."

When one is not bright, then anything will seem dark.

[mpd1958]

I'm so bright, my mother calls me Son!

[sdack]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από mpd1958:

I'm so bright, my mother calls me Son!

There is bright, and then there is too bright.

[mpd1958]

I'm sooooo cool, the sun shines on me 24 hrs a day.

[Vlad 254]

So I reworded the Cyclic error section of the Vortex guide. I first wrote it when I was beyond tired. Honestly I'm still not 100% satisfied with it because as Avrie said cyclic errors are hard to visualize and describing how to actually manipulate the "triangle" would unfortunately lend itself more towards video than text. Which is why I never attempted to include a section on cyclic errors.

But every now and then I do get asked and I really have no simple answer. Hopefully this will help some users avoid them to begin with. In the mean time making a video regarding cyclic errors is on my to do list, a very long to do list i might add.

Update: the last person that asked me (yesterday) just reported they fixed the error. I told them to enjoy their game, that they earned it

[Avrie]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Vlad 254:

snip

What about linking Gopher's Vortex Conflict resolution video. It did a pretty good job. I think it touched on finding and hiding individual files as well. It's been a while since I've seen the series. He's updated it recently I believe. You could tie your description to a time stamp in the vid? At least until we get you a vid. Maybe Charles can record it for you?

I've got to get ready for pub night... didn't want to post and run but... pub night

[Vlad 254]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Avrie:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Vlad 254:

snip

What about linking Gopher's Vortex Conflict resolution video. It did a pretty good job. I think it touched on finding and hiding individual files as well. It's been a while since I've seen the series. He's updated it recently I believe. You could tie your description to a time stamp in the vid? At least until we get you a vid. Maybe Charles can record it for you?

I've got to get ready for pub night... didn't want to post and run but... pub night

Great idea. Thanks

[pgames-food]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Avrie:

At least until we get you a vid. Maybe Charles can record it for you?

cfs does some really good videos, especially with explaining how to set up and use / add mods for sure.

(though you might want to ask him to lower the blues and banjo music in the background first)

[Corinze]

Error: Load order FileID [17] can not be mapped to file FileID for file "Occlusion.esp"

For you DynDoLod experts, do know of a guide to get past this last hurdle? I followed the manual and can create Occlusion.esp with DynDoLoad by unchecking everything except Occlusion Data and Plugin. But Vortex list is as an unusable plugin. I try the process again to generate the lod data and get an error that Occlusion.esp is present? I disable it and I get the same error listed at top

GamerPoets newest video does not help, following his guide I get this error. Steam search showed Ilja had an issue with this .esp a little bit back. The dyndolod help section is confusing but I'm pretty sure I followed everything correctly.
They do say the occlusion.esp can be created with xlodgen? Is this an older version because the first part with TexGen does not seem to have an option.

Anyone know of a guide to handle this error? I thought I was happy by resolving errors with over 600 mods with xEdit only to stumped with last part for 3 days now. I thought blackShadow had or Mer*(forget full name sorry) had a guide here on Steam, but I can not seem to find it for some reason.

[bLaCkShAd0w]

Mephitic's guide:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2789657603

Help section for DynDoLOD:

https://dyndolod.info/Help

I haven't had that error myself, but I found this topic:

https://stepmodifications.org/forum/topic/14250-skyrim-tvdt-occlusion-culling-data/page/4/

May be something wrong with that plugin, which you will have to track down before it will continue.

I had to edit Rayek's End SSE for example as it had a null form that DynDoLOD didn't like (from the interior cell as well lol), and other than a memory error from trying to generate all 4 seasons at the same time I have had no troubles.

Also you definitly want to generate the occlusion in DynDoLOD (the new way) and not with xLODGen.

Its not much, but it's all I've got for you on that, hope it helps.

[HazakTheMad]

Mephetic has a DynDOLOD guide.
Ninja’d by shadow.

[Corinze]

Thanks Hazak. Steam search finally got me to Meph's guide on page 16! I knew you guys talked about recently.

bShadow, I did not read everything yet, but one post mentioned allowing Dyno with virus program. With all the reading I've been doing, it did not even dawn on me to try simple things.
I was thinking a routing or destination placement issue, I'll cry if it works tomorrow when I try again, after allowing with windows defender. I'll read through the rest tomorrow at work, it's late for me.
Thanks fellas 👌