How to make your NPV work with the AMM Nibbles Replacer
This guide is part of the guide for creating an NPV - V as custom NPC. It will teach you how to make your NPV compatible with xBaebsae's awesome Nibbles to NPCs 2.0 mod, letting you use your NPV in the game's photo mode.
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You can find the original instructions in the mod description under Creating an NPC+/NPV Replacer inside the spoiler tags. If you stick to this guide, you won't need them.
If you experience floating clothes, try switching appearances. Often, that resolves the issue. If not, you can check Appearances: change the looks for how to copy the correct components.
Create a copy of your .app file. It doesn't matter much where you put it - simply hold down ctrl and drag it anywhere in your project browser.
Open your copied file.
Do not do this with your NPV .app file, as it will be destroyed.
From the Appearances menu, select Convert to Photo Mode .app
In the dialogue, select which file you want to use:
Check the box under "Convert appearance names".
When you click "Finish", Wolvenkit will move your file and convert the appearance names.
You need a Wolvenkit version released after Nov 29 2024 for this. If yours is older (e.g. stable 8.15), you need to download a Nightly.
Wolvenkit now has a dialogue that will do all the hard work for you. Open your photo mode .app file, and let's get specific.
To keep the values currently in your .app file, simply leave the fields blank.
From the appearances dropdown, pick Select Facial Animation
You will now see a dialogue. Keep reading for which values you need to select.
From the Animation set dropdown, select one of the first two entries (the ones starting with Photo Mode)
From the Animation Entries dropdown, pick a set of animations to load.
Photo mode expressions won't work if you pick the NPC entry, and vice versa!
Optional: You can use the Expression Set dropdown (and the text filter) to select any NPC expressions. They might or might not work - fuck around and find out!
To be on the safe side, pick Player Woman or Player Man for photo mode.
That's it! You're done! Only read on here if you care for the theory. Otherwise, go to #step-4-pack-and-test.
The photo mode replacer assumes that your appearances will be named like this:
For the sake of clarity, the NPV appearances are not named this way. Open the photo mode .app that you copied in the previous step, and change the names of your appearances.
Before entering photo mode, select the correct replacer in AMM:
Open the AMM overlay
Switch to Settings -> Photomode Nibbles Replacer
Select the correct replacer corresponding to your file
The paths that you need to replace are in the mod description under Adding your Pose Packs to Nibbles Replacer inside the spoiler tags. For your convenience, there's a duplicate in the expandable box below. If that's not working, please check the mod description!
To add more compatibility to a pose pack, you only have to edit the mod's .xl file, which you can do with a text editor. An entry looks like this:
There might be one or multiple entries for each supported .ent file. Find out which entry or entries belong together, then duplicate them and replace the paths with the one to your NPV replacer's .ent file.
Make sure that you keep the indent at the beginning (the number of spaces) exactly the same as it is for the other entries, or the file will break. If that happens, you'll see an entry in the .
To make sure that your file is okay, run it through yamllint.
Force a refresh - select a different pose.
If that isn't working, refresh the appearance:
Open the AMM overlay
Switch to the Tools tab
Click the Target Replacer button
In the scan tab or the target tools, assign a different appearance. You can switch back right away.
Repeat #step-3-picking-animations. Make sure to pick the correct options in the first and the last dropdown.
You made a mistake when editing your yaml file. Go back and read the yellow box.
After you have changed the appearance names and saved the file, you can your Wolvenkit project.
the latest version compatible with your game
>= 3.5
an NPV as per the tutorial
Wolvenkit
newer than December 03 2024 (8.16 or Nightly)
