Hey folks,

i know theres a hundred of these every day almost but i need some noob help.

i'm not a newbie to installing mods, far from it, but i'm having some trouble installing Westly's Master Head Pack X

I've installed it before and last time it replaced all the existing npc's heads with the new revamped ones

however this time upon installing it hasnt changed anyones head except my own.

can some please tell me what i did wrong?


and FYI

i installed as such.

Morrowind.esm
Tribunal.esm
Tribunal patch
Bloodmoon.esm
Bloodmoon patch

Morrowind Code Patch

Then the other mods in order of what they are on the load order (wow i speaks some good english thar i did!)

better bodies.esp
new argonian bodies - clean.esp
new khajiit bodies - clean.esp
better clothes_v1.1_nac.esp
IceNioLivRobeReplacerALL.esp
Morrowind Code Patch Showcase.esp
Westly's Master Headpack X.esp


further more i've tried wiggling the load order to try and get it to work but it hasnt changed anything so i'm stuck


if anyone can shine a light down my cave of noobyness please do, i'll be very thankful

-KK-

OH and before anyone suggests it, i DID try first searching to see if anyone else has had this problem but after at least a good hour searching on google and such, i didnt find anything relevant... so i thought it was about time to ask here where all the clever people hang out

doesn't that mod only add new heads to use? for your character and no one else?

As far as I know, Westly's master head pack only adds heads for player characters, it doesn't replace any npcs.So it isn't a problem with your load order or anything, the mod is supposed to behave like that. Maybe you are confusing it with westly's new head replacers or other NPC replacer.
Hope that helped.

Here's the links for Westly's head replacers , both for player and NPC.s..

Breton/High elves
http://www.4shared.com/file/148166262/ae9c9fd3/Westlys_Pluginless_Replacer_Bretons_High_Elves.html

Nord/Orcs
http://www.4shared.com/file/158402803/1e137ecf/Westlys_Pluginless_Replacer_No.html

Redguards/Woodelves
http://www.4shared.com/file/X7y71BY3/Westlys_Pluginless_Replacer_Re.html

The imperial pack shouldn't be far down the road.

- Trance

ahh then maybe thats it, hmm,...

ive tried so many different head replacers in the past i must be confusing them, i just dont remember it being loads of different mods.

ah well thanks ppl

i guess i'll live with the default npc heads for now, as i really like the new khajiit and argonian heads in the master head pack and there doesnt seem to be one for that as a replacer yet.

-KK-

you don't need to. you can run both at the same time. one alters the stock and the other adds heads. you don't need to use only one. and the "loads of different mods" are just the parts of westlys head replacer. they all run without esp

Of course, if you really wanted to use Master Headpack X as a replacer, there are ways to do that too. Either by making copies of the heads you like to rename with the IDs of the stock heads, or making an esp to reassign the heads with IDs from Westly's pack. It's a bit of work, but more tedious than hard.

you could use his so far released ones and just pick out the khajiit and argonian heads. that's less work

Good point, though you'd need something for Imperials and Dunmer too, wouldn't you?

that's right i just focused on those two he mentioned. westly offers already remade faces of the vanilla ones in his master head pack iirc. well, not in that breathtaking quality of the new ones. you could just rename and copy/paste these until the last pieces are published

I recommend you first install VVardenfell Visages I (google it, or search PES), since that is a pluginless replacer, no .esps. After that, install the Westly's packs which so far have been released, links are in this thread. That way, you don't have to see those ugly vanilla faces anymore. VVI is a bit old, but far better than vanilla, and many faces are still fine. And since it's pluginless, you won't have problems with it later if you decide to use .esp based replacer, or Westly's pack once he completes it.

And by the way, remove "Morrowind Code patch Showcase.esp", that is not something you want in your game if you start playing, it simply shows off stuff that the Code Patch does. It has not been updated in ages.

And I recommend MPP, Morrowind Patch Project, if it's not already in your list, try searching for version 1.6.5 somewhere.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Tes3Mod:UMP

thanks for the advice folks, am putting a plan into action nao!