Definitely put this at the bottom of your load order! I have the JK Skyrim and all the attachments installed. I've only been to Whiterun and become Thane in my current playthrough with this mod. I did not have the mod at the bottom after Bijin etc etc and Lydia was the Bijin regular Lydia a few times reloading, I got it down to the bottom on this playthrough but the Jarl still said it was Lydia but Lydd showed up and is working. I'm actually wondering since I was in Dragonsreach obviously prior to that.. and I found JK's version of "Lydias" room. So I'm curious if the load order should have been fixed prior to loading Dragonsreach for the first time. But I also don't know if the bed setting that JK has will change over to Lydd if I had that fixed prior. It doesn't bother me as long as Lydia is Male now but I was curious if anyone else has had that change for them. I guess I will find out on the other Housecarls when I get Thane of another City, now that I have the correct load order.
Warning: better to install in a game where you haven’t met the housecarls yet or you could have weird things happening like the name doesn’t change, neck seams, or similar.
And yes, if you have other mods that change the same NPCs this one has to be loaded last (as said again in the description).
If Lydia was already generated in your game, sadly the name and some other things won't change and you'll have to do it manually (there are mods that allow you to change an NPC name for example). The Jarl will still say "Lydia" because I didn't change the voice file, it's only a NPC overhaul. For the bed situation I'm not sure what JK does, but the NPC's ID is the same so it should still work even with the male version :)
3 years later and I am back and sadly updating.... everything. Was going through comments and saw it was ME! Thanks for the reply. I think when I wrote this comment I had been Modding for all of 1 week! lol. Quite a learning curve. I understand way better now, and Thankyou for mentioning the NPC ID#. That makes me feel better about other addons that may give Lydia (or anyone else for that matter) Item or uses.
I had a hard time even understanding my previous statement, and I think what I meant was: JK's DragonReach adds a Bedroom for Lydia. (Which would understandably still say Lydia's Bed) What I meant about the Jarl, was that instead of Jarl Balgruuf sitting on the Throne.. his name was Lydia. Lydd seemed to work completely even adding him mid-save. I think the renaming of the Jarl had to do with the fact I had already entered DragonsReach already, but I did add the mod BEFORE Lydia got spawned in by becoming Thane. If Lydia exists prior to becoming Thane, I have never seen her. What I would suggest is installing this on a new playthrough or before you ever enter DragonsReach.
I think thats what I ment by my comment. To tell other modders.
I love Lydd the lad! And his fellow brother house carls! Ray looks great in Hammerfell garb.
Will Lydd say Lydia's awesome lines about being sworn to carry my burdens but in a male voice? Or will he only say the lines available to male house carls in the vanilla game? Either way, thanks for this.
Glad you like them! Since I changed the voice to the male default I think he will say the generic lines of the other male housecarls, not sure if Lydia's line is shared also by males, I didn't want to mess with the vanilla dialogue quest for minimum conflicts :D
I realize I'm not likely to get a reply to this at this point, but I'll ask anyways: Any way to get rid of the beards on the housecarls by editing something? There don't appear to be any mods that do this.
I turned on notifications for comments :D Anyway... I think you can do that with Nifskope, open the facegen .nif, click on the beard mesh and right-click to remove block. BUT I'm not sure if this will actually work or will cause issues when you are in game. You'll have to test yourself :D
I'm sorry if this is a stupid question (I don't know that much about modding) but is there a way to only add Valdimar? I love what has been done with him
I haven't made separate plugins so you'll have to manually delete what you don't need with SSEedit, but if you don't know how, here's another version of the housecarls where the males are packed separately so it won't change the females: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/59699?tab=files
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Warning: better to install in a game where you haven’t met the housecarls yet or you could have weird things happening like the name doesn’t change, neck seams, or similar.
And yes, if you have other mods that change the same NPCs this one has to be loaded last (as said again in the description).
If Lydia was already generated in your game, sadly the name and some other things won't change and you'll have to do it manually (there are mods that allow you to change an NPC name for example).
The Jarl will still say "Lydia" because I didn't change the voice file, it's only a NPC overhaul.
For the bed situation I'm not sure what JK does, but the NPC's ID is the same so it should still work even with the male version :)
wrote this comment I had been Modding for all of 1 week! lol. Quite a
learning curve. I understand way better now, and Thankyou for mentioning
the NPC ID#. That makes me feel better about other addons that may give
Lydia (or anyone else for that matter) Item or uses.
I had a hard time even understanding my previous statement, and I think what I meant was:
JK's DragonReach adds a Bedroom for Lydia. (Which would understandably still say Lydia's Bed)
What I meant about the Jarl, was that instead of Jarl Balgruuf sitting on the Throne.. his name was Lydia.
Lydd seemed to work completely even adding him mid-save.
I think the renaming of the Jarl had to do with the fact I had already entered DragonsReach already, but I did add the mod BEFORE Lydia got spawned in by becoming Thane. If Lydia exists prior to becoming Thane, I have never seen her.
What I would suggest is installing this on a new playthrough or before you ever enter DragonsReach.
I think thats what I ment by my comment. To tell other modders.
and don't forget this gem!
AW Housecarls Visual Overhaul by AllieWadeMods
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/59699?tab=files
Don't let Lydia run in the Jarls place! He doesn't make a good looking Lydia anyway LOL
Thank you Allie!
Will Lydd say Lydia's awesome lines about being sworn to carry my burdens but in a male voice?
Or will he only say the lines available to male house carls in the vanilla game?
Either way, thanks for this.
Since I changed the voice to the male default I think he will say the generic lines of the other male housecarls, not sure if Lydia's line is shared also by males, I didn't want to mess with the vanilla dialogue quest for minimum conflicts :D
Anyway... I think you can do that with Nifskope, open the facegen .nif, click on the beard mesh and right-click to remove block.
BUT I'm not sure if this will actually work or will cause issues when you are in game. You'll have to test yourself :D