Help installing Amazing Follower Tweaks

[Norinia]

I ether can't find it in the skyrim mod search, or it's been a nightmare trying to installing it manually through Nexus mods.

Any chance at all someone ether knows how to search it up in the skyrim se mod search, or knows where I'm going wrong installing it manually?

Vortex didn't work I think because it possibly is not installed on the same storage drive as my steam games (I have two, the second one is a Gen 4 SSD that runs faster, but when I was default installing Vortex, I think I just clicked and so it was installed to the first SSD drive.)

Then manual installations, I got it through winRaR, had a thought to check the readme because I've never installed Skyrim SE mods this way before, and it said extracting through WinRaR would corrupt it. (Also I checked with a youtube video, saying to extract Skyrim mods to the Data file, not the mod file)

I did it anyways at first because I did not want to install yet another zip, loaded the game up and it seemed not to appear in game (I did forget to enable it the first time around, not the second)

So I pulled it out, threw it into the recycling, and installed the suggested file opener. Went about a convoluted way to get the file since my computer kept insisting WinRaR open it, got around that, extracted the file (it kept claiming copy. Went over to the skyrim file to check, and it was there so I figured it was the same extract)

Same results as in WinRaR, the game kept acting as it the file wasn't there. Even more, I again had forgotten to enable, so went over, and the file had already been checked. Meaning the game was reading the file the exact same as the first time.

I don't know where the heck I'm going wrong now, so if anyone could help me out here, ether by helping me search the mod ingame, or helping me get this manually installed, I would really appreciate it :)

[jreese46]

It's been quite a while since I've installed it, though I don't use 7zip. I have and use winrar for everything, and it hasn't been an issue for me.

If you've installed it to your data folder, and you have it activated, you go into game and get no AFT readme in your inventory, no tweak commands or tweak make followers powers in your powers menu, right?

[Vlad 254]

You should be able to download and install AFT with Vortex.

Open Vortex and on the left hand side choose Settings
then up top choose the Mods tab.
The first line is Mod Staging folder.

Once you are there stop and watch this video Starting at the 6 minute 30 second mark. Simply follow Gopher's instructions. When you are done you should be able to install as normal.
https://youtu.be/sD9xKao_u30

[Norinia]

Originally posted by jreese46:

It's been quite a while since I've installed it, though I don't use 7zip. I have and use winrar for everything, and it hasn't been an issue for me.

If you've installed it to your data folder, and you have it activated, you go into game and get no AFT readme in your inventory, no tweak commands or tweak make followers powers in your powers menu, right?

Right, I got none of that. Seems just like I didn't get it installed right. Am I missing something there?

[Norinia]

Originally posted by Vlad 254:

You should be able to download and install AFT with Vortex.

Open Vortex and on the left hand side choose Settings
then up top choose the Mods tab.
The first line is Mod Staging folder.

Once you are there stop and watch this video Starting at the 6 minute 30 second mark. Simply follow Gopher's instructions. When you are done you should be able to install as normal.
https://youtu.be/sD9xKao_u30

I know about Vortex, But I have it installed somewhere wrong and I have no clue how to fix it now.

I can't find it in my files to check, and searching for it only starts the program up.

Pretty positive it's in the wrong drive, but I just can't get to it to uninstall it so I can reinstall it into the correct drive.

[Gladius Victorius]

Originally posted by Norinia:

Originally posted by Vlad 254:

You should be able to download and install AFT with Vortex.

Open Vortex and on the left hand side choose Settings
then up top choose the Mods tab.
The first line is Mod Staging folder.

Once you are there stop and watch this video Starting at the 6 minute 30 second mark. Simply follow Gopher's instructions. When you are done you should be able to install as normal.
https://youtu.be/sD9xKao_u30

I know about Vortex, But I have it installed somewhere wrong and I have no clue how to fix it now.

I can't find it in my files to check, and searching for it only starts the program up.

Pretty positive it's in the wrong drive, but I just can't get to it to uninstall it so I can reinstall it into the correct drive.

Go in the Setting option from Vortex there on Mods you will see a line call Mod Staging Folder change that line to a Folder on the same Drive you have install the game you want Mod.After that you can install all Mods you want with Vortex

[Vlad 254]

Originally posted by Norinia:

Originally posted by Vlad 254:

You should be able to download and install AFT with Vortex.

Open Vortex and on the left hand side choose Settings
then up top choose the Mods tab.
The first line is Mod Staging folder.

Once you are there stop and watch this video Starting at the 6 minute 30 second mark. Simply follow Gopher's instructions. When you are done you should be able to install as normal.
https://youtu.be/sD9xKao_u30

I know about Vortex, But I have it installed somewhere wrong and I have no clue how to fix it now.

I can't find it in my files to check, and searching for it only starts the program up.

Pretty positive it's in the wrong drive, but I just can't get to it to uninstall it so I can reinstall it into the correct drive.

The above comment by Gladius Victorius is exactly what I was describing.

I based my comment on your original post where you said;
"Vortex didn't work I think because it possibly is not installed on the same storage drive as my steam games"

You should at least double check and make sure that is properly setup.

[Quevik]

Your best solution is to install vortex to the proper place, if possible. That said, If you have to continue using a manual install for whatever reason, I'm gonna make a suggestion to help narrow down the issues a bit with the manual installation.

Start the game, load a save, open the console commands and type:

Help "AFT Readme"

Make sure those quotes are actually used, it's part of the syntax.

If the console responds with an item and item ID, then AFT IS installed and active as that item is in the ESP. That would mean the mod is "on" but the scripts aren't working for whatever reason. In that case, i would recommend double checking your script file structure.

If you get no Item or id, then the mod is definitely not being read / loaded / enabled by the game.

This will not fix your issue, but it will help you better track down the problem.

[Gladius Victorius]

Originally posted by Quevik:

Your best solution is to install vortex to the proper place, if possible. That said, If you have to continue using a manual install for whatever reason, I'm gonna make a suggestion to help narrow down the issues a bit with the manual installation.

Start the game, load a save, open the console commands and type:

Help "AFT Readme"

Make sure those quotes are actually used, it's part of the syntax.

If the console responds with an item and item ID, then AFT IS installed and active as that item is in the ESP. That would mean the mod is "on" but the scripts aren't working for whatever reason. In that case, i would recommend double checking your script file structure.

If you get no Item or id, then the mod is definitely not being read / loaded / enabled by the game.

This will not fix your issue, but it will help you better track down the problem.

You can avoid install Vortex on the same drive with the Stagin Folder line my Vortex is on C: but all my games are on different drives why i dont have anymore so much space on them.With the staging folder line Vortex will Create a new Folder on the drive you say and stager all mods there.Its a better way as you save a lot of Disc Space most of my Mods have 50 gb and More of content that in most chase is more then the Original game have GB if i Install Download and stager all on the same drive i need for every game a new Disk :)
For Manual install: its easy download the mod extract it and then Copy and Paste exact the same main Folders from inside the Mod to your Game.Most Mods start with Data Folder that you can put direct into your Main Game Folder all Scripts and so on that are inside will be Copy to the right place.
If a Mod dont start with the data Folder open always the data Folder in your Main Game and then Copy all Mod content inside it important here is only that you have open the Folder and real copy inside the data Folder.
The Problem with Manual installing Mods are that if there is an update or Change to the Mod later you will get Problems as you need to find and cancel all old Mod Data and that can become a pain to find.And even if you have a Problem with a Mod is Manual install real the worst way.

[Norinia]

Originally posted by Gladius Victorius:

Originally posted by Norinia:

I know about Vortex, But I have it installed somewhere wrong and I have no clue how to fix it now.

I can't find it in my files to check, and searching for it only starts the program up.

Pretty positive it's in the wrong drive, but I just can't get to it to uninstall it so I can reinstall it into the correct drive.

Go in the Setting option from Vortex there on Mods you will see a line call Mod Staging Folder change that line to a Folder on the same Drive you have install the game you want Mod.After that you can install all Mods you want with Vortex

Okay, I’ve done that, it’s yelled at me that said folder needs to be ‘empty’ (I clicked the data folder where the mods are) but hasn’t wiped the line out so I think it accepted it?

Also, Vortex keeps yelling at me that Skyrim Script Extender 64 is not installed.

Is that required to use vortex mods? Or am I probably good?

Does it matter about needing an empty folder? Do I need to wipe out all of the mods I got from in-game Bethesda.net and only do Nexus mods?

[Norinia]

I think I got it fixed. I don’t think, when I downloaded it the first time, I got every single required file. I only got enough that it would list it in my mod list but did nothing else.

I just downloaded Immersive Amazing Follower Tweaks instead, and it gave me the other required files.

Thank you guys, anyways, for your help. I probably would have just never touched the game again (I really like how convenient AFT is) if I had just tried solving it by myself.