Note: This assumes that you have installed TES5Edit 3.1.0 or above and have set TES5Edit.exe and ModOrganizer.exe to run as administrator.
Here is an article explaining how to set TES5Edit/ModOrganizer to always run as admin.
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Installation and First Time Running:
1. Install like you would a normal mod through Download With Nexus.
2. Activate The Mod "NPCVisualTransfer"
3. Goto the data tab and expand the NPCVisualTransfer folder
4. Right Click RunNPCVisualTransfer.bat and goto Add as Executable
*Note: Do not select Open/Exectute as that will not work.
5. Select this executable from the executable dropdown menu and hit run.
6. Press OK when the mod selection window pops up
7. Follow The Instructions on the script. Will ask you to create a new file that will act as the patch. I name mine VNPC_Patch.esp
8. SUPER IMPORTANT: When you quit. It will ask you to save your plugins. If it asks to save multiple plugins, deselect every plugin but your patch.
9. Back Inside of Mod Organizer, hit the refresh button.
10. At the bottom of your modfolders there will be a new folder called VNPC_Data, activate that folder.
(If it is not there, try restarting mod organizer)
11. Activate your new patch.
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Subsequent Runnings:
You can add more NPCs to your patch at any time, just follow the directions below.
1. Before running the script, deselect VNPC_Data and make sure the esp file you created is below all other NPC mods (I just stick mine at the end and then use loot to resort it again when I am finished).
2. Repeat Steps 5-11.
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To Revert All NPCs and Start Again:
1. Delete VNPC_Data mod folder
2. Delete Your VNPC_Patch.esp file.
To Uninstall Completely:
1. Delete VNPC_Data mod folder
2. Delete NPCVisualTransfer mod folder
3. Delete npcvt_Config.ini (Either in the overwrite folder or inside the NPCVisualTransfer folder if you moved it there).
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I am able to add it as an Executable file but then Windows asks what program to run it with. It is asking for a program that can run program type .tes5pas.
The only program that I found that was able to run that was SSEedit, which I was able to associate with the file. However when I launch the executable now it just loads SSEedit with only the files that are in Skyrim's Base folder, and not the NPC Transfer tool itself.
Any information on how to clarify would be most appreciated.
Thanks!
[01:37] Exception in unit NPCVisualTransfer line 1196: Overflow while converting variant of type (Cardinal) into type (Integer)
[01:37] Error during Applying script "NPCVisualTransfer": Overflow while converting variant of type (Cardinal) into type (Integer)
Any suggestions? Thanks for your time! ?
SOLVED I
EDIT I: Will leave this here just in case anyone runs into the same problem i had. Previously i installed "NPCVisualTransfer" using MO2, so, the NPCVisualTransfer folder was inside MO2's mods folder. Uninstalling completly and installing "NPCVisualTransfer" in Skyrim's data folder instead solved the problem for me, then i changed the route for the executable in MO2 to the new route inside Skyrim's data folder and now everything works as intended.
EDIT II: After solving the previous issue i ran into another one when trying to add more than 1 npc to the mod, i got an error: "Overflow while converting variant of type (Cardinal) into Type (Integer)". And again the same error as before, but some of the changes would work in-game, while no new files are added to the VNPC_Data folder
More Info: i'm trying to apply a character of the mod "The Ordinary Women", and both TesVEdit and MO2 are running as administrator. I found out that if instead of leaving all the .esp selected when using the patch i only select the ones this error doesn't appears, but will lead to greyface in some npcs
When the error happens the files are copied to the VNPC_Data folder and applied to the game, but the selected npc would often have greyface and even some unselected npcs would have greyface too with the faces/hair not being correctly applied
I use Mod Organizer, still learning about modding. I'm a little bit higher than a novice.
I've used NPC Transfer tool before and made it work properly.
The second time I intsalled it, I think I opened it with Notepad, and now I can get it to open. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it 4 times now.
Any suggestions? Thanks for your time! ?
At step 6; i only see the originals .esp not a single mod.
Any body can help me with that ?
Tk
And I tried to ignore that and go tot he next step and go to the dta and try to find the NPCvisual ting and make it an executable but its not there....Ive tried bloody everything, it just keeps saying no valaid game data.