Baldur's Valley Mod Help!

[ren_lau]

Hi!
I installed the Baldur's Valley mod (along with the astarion heart events) and it was working great until I realized the hearts mod wasn't working right!
I tried to uninstall and reinstall the mod to see if that would help and instead Elliot is no longer looking like astarion! I super don't think i touched anything but i mustve!
Ive tried uninstalling and reinstalling a few times but elliot is always astarion and t keeps alternating between his house being modded and being normal elliot's house!
I actually uninstalled vortex and reinstalled all my mods on mod manager (my one friend who is pretty good at this stuff recommended it but couldnt figure out what was happening to my game past that) and it didnt work either.
My friend was wondering if maybe it just isn't updated right yet but I swear I played it with no (visible) problems the other day!
I just wanna romance the pretty vampire in both my fav games :(

Anything helps!!

 

[Dyanosis]

Please provide your SMAPI Log. There may be other issues/conflicts that we'd be able to see that aren't apparently by your cropped picture.

Also, just reading the text from the image, it's very apparent what the problem is - ... the FromFile file 'assets\ElliottAstarionHouseTiles.png' doesn't exist tells you all you need to know. You're clearly missing a file.

I know some people think this stuff is magic, but it's really not. The errors tell you exactly what's wrong. There's a file called ElliottAstarionHouseTiles.png that the game wants to load in a folder called assets inside the mod (CP) Astarion Heart Events and Expanded Dialogue that apparently doesn't exist.

 

[ren_lau]

Please provide your SMAPI Log. There may be other issues/conflicts that we'd be able to see that aren't apparently by your cropped picture.

Also, just reading the text from the image, it's very apparent what the problem is - ... the FromFile file 'assets\ElliottAstarionHouseTiles.png' doesn't exist tells you all you need to know. You're clearly missing a file.

I know some people think this stuff is magic, but it's really not. The errors tell you exactly what's wrong. There's a file called ElliottAstarionHouseTiles.png that the game wants to load in a folder called assets inside the mod (CP) Astarion Heart Events and Expanded Dialogue that apparently doesn't exist.

I thought so too!
My friend brought that up once but the issue we ran into was that sometimes the asset folder was there and sometimes it wasn't and we didnt know why it was different!
What I might try is downloading a previous version and comparing/trying to add the old assets folder back.
I'll try redownloading and looking for the file and report back if it still is acting up !!

Thank you!!

 

[Dyanosis]

I thought so too!
My friend brought that up once but the issue we ran into was that sometimes the asset folder was there and sometimes it wasn't and we didnt know why it was different!
What I might try is downloading a previous version and comparing/trying to add the old assets folder back.
I'll try redownloading and looking for the file and report back if it still is acting up !!

Thank you!!

There should never be a time when the folder is just completely gone. The only thing the mod should be doing is optionally loading those files for the game to use. If you find that the assets folder is gone, one of 2 things has happened:

1. The mod author forgot it in an update
2. The mod author implemented those files elsewhere and forgot to update it in the content file.

 

[ren_lau]

Please provide your SMAPI Log. There may be other issues/conflicts that we'd be able to see that aren't apparently by your cropped picture.

Also, just reading the text from the image, it's very apparent what the problem is - ... the FromFile file 'assets\ElliottAstarionHouseTiles.png' doesn't exist tells you all you need to know. You're clearly missing a file.

I know some people think this stuff is magic, but it's really not. The errors tell you exactly what's wrong. There's a file called ElliottAstarionHouseTiles.png that the game wants to load in a folder called assets inside the mod (CP) Astarion Heart Events and Expanded Dialogue that apparently doesn't exist.

Ok I just took a look and the file that it says is missing is super there
I also checked to see if the file that I know isnt being loaded right is missing but it isnt, so now im more confused mann
WHILE I WAS WRITING THIS I HAD AN IDEA SO THIS IS ME DOING THAT
ok so what I did was uninstall everything even the mod manager and have another go!
What im doing rn is downloading th astarion mods and a cheats mod to teleport to his house and it worked!
He looks like hes suppsoed to AND has his unique dialogue!
what ima do now is download a few of the mods i want at a time and periodically check to see what effects the previous!
ill keep this updated if someting happens but i think this is my best bet rn!
i super need to learn more about mods so i can help myself in the future but this seems like great idea rn!
(my running theory is that my mod that gives the characters seasonal outfits is messing with it but that doesnt explain the house sometimes being normal before so i dunno!)

 

[Dyanosis]

Ok I just took a look and the file that it says is missing is super there
I also checked to see if the file that I know isnt being loaded right is missing but it isnt, so now im more confused mann
WHILE I WAS WRITING THIS I HAD AN IDEA SO THIS IS ME DOING THAT
ok so what I did was uninstall everything even the mod manager and have another go!
What im doing rn is downloading th astarion mods and a cheats mod to teleport to his house and it worked!
He looks like hes suppsoed to AND has his unique dialogue!
what ima do now is download a few of the mods i want at a time and periodically check to see what effects the previous!
ill keep this updated if someting happens but i think this is my best bet rn!
i super need to learn more about mods so i can help myself in the future but this seems like great idea rn!
(my running theory is that my mod that gives the characters seasonal outfits is messing with it but that doesnt explain the house sometimes being normal before so i dunno!)

That is the issue with using mods - sometimes one mod affects another by setting, or unsetting, a certain value.

For example - my friends and I use Romanceable Rasmodius (aka the Wizard is romanceable) and we use a Spirit update that makes him look different. We also use Seasonal Cuter Characters. If we don't disable the Wizard sprite updates in Seasonal Cuter Characters, then the Wizard portrait update that we have doesn't take effect.

I'll take a look at the mod you're using and see if I can figure out a more permanent solution to your issue.

 

[Dyanosis]

So I see the problem (and, as usual, the log says all we need to know).

If you're using [CP]Astarion Heart Events and Expanded Dialogue, there is this entry on lines 262-266 of the content.json:

{
    "Action": "EditImage",
    "Target": "Maps/ElliottHouseTiles",
    "FromFile": "assets/ElliottAstarionHouseTiles.png"
}

The problem is - that mod doesn't have an assets folder. Nor is that file available. So, and this is me hypothesizing here based on what I know about modding with CP, I'm thinking that the game is trying to update that map file based on something that doesn't exist, hence why his house is sometimes normal. However, if you have the mod Baldur's Valley - BG3 Replacement Mod, which [CP]Astarion Heart Events and Expanded Dialogue lists as a requirement, then there might be a chance that the game tries to replace Elliott's house twice, with the first one failing (from [CP]Astarion Heart Events and Expanded Dialogue) and the second one succeeding, from Baldur's Valley - BG3 Replacement Mod. There are 2 unfortunate discoveries because of this:

1. [CP]Astarion Heart Events and Expanded Dialogue requires Baldur's Valley - BG3 Replacement Mod but doesn't list it as a dependency and so there's a chance that it'll screw things up sometimes.
2. Someone copy and pasted for [CP]Astarion Heart Events and Expanded Dialogue and never removed the lines that affect assets that don't, and shouldn't, exist.

The best thing to do would be to report this to the mod author of [CP]Astarion Heart Events and Expanded Dialogue because that's a pretty serious error in the JSON (which is clearly affecting your ability to enjoy this part of the game/mod).

 

[Dyanosis]

If you want to fix this yourself, go into the content.json file for [CP]Astarion Heart Events and Expanded Dialogue and remove all of the entries that reference "FromFile": "assets/...".

I've gone ahead and edited the file for you, if you want to use that. Download Astarion_fix.txt (which I've attached), copy all the text and paste it into the content.json file inside the [CP]Astarion Heart Events and Expanded Dialogue folder. If you need help, reply to this and let me know! Hope this helps. This should fix the issue if you're using both mods that I referenced in my previous message.