Bugs / Errors Reporting with M4-78EP

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On 12/10/2024 at 1:38 PM, JCarter426 said:

M4-78 is not compatible with the KOTOR Community Portal mod build and M4-78 generally needs to be installed before other mods and requires starting a new game.You will need to reinstall the game and install only TSLRCM, M4-78, and mods which are confirmed to be compatible with them, then start a new game.

 

Well everything is working, I've been to M4-78 without issues. I successfully changed the model on HK-47 and other than the Bastilla hologram, I have not noticed any issues, but thank you for the reply.

 

On 12/11/2024 at 4:13 AM, N-DReW25 said:

I know the exact problem and the cause.

 

So TSLRCM's method of installing is different from most mods wherein the mod itself is contained inside an .exe file and is installed by copying the mod files to their correct locations within the Kotor 2 game folder.

 

M4-78EP's installer is exactly the same way, the exe installs M4-78EP by copying the M4-78EP files to the Kotor 2 game folder. Since this would result in the installer overwriting some of TSLRCM's files, the M4-78EP mod was built off of TSLRCM's files. For example, this meant TSLRCM's appearance.2da file could be safely overwritten as M4-78EP's appearance.2da is just TSLRCM's appearance.2da with the extra M4-78 appearances.

 

Now, it looks like you've installed TSLRCM, installed the Rebuild HK-47 mod, installed DP's Hologram mod, then installed M4-78EP.

 

Installing it like that has destroyed every mod that added new appearances as M4-78EP overwrote the modded appearance.2da with its own appearance.2da. The only way to fix it would be to install TSLRCM, install M4-78EP, then the Kotor Mod Build, or reinstall without M4-78EP.

Thanks, this makes perfect sense. I knew something was getting overwritten but I needed some help identifying what it was.

Since everything is currently working, except this small model glitch, I will make a backup of my current installation, and then re-install TSLRCM overwriting what I have and then the Full Mod Build pack as that should hopefully restore all the correct overwrites without breaking M4-78, I will lyk how it goes.