How Do I Get Creation Kit Working With Step?

[Zerocloud411]

So I did the whole "turn .bsas into loose files" thing for the STD textures and HRDLC and I reconverted the dlc bsas back into bsas. However now when I try to use the creation kit I get a ton of errors because its looking for proper bsas (i guess?) and can't find them. I can load skyrim.esm but not dawnguard.esm (even though my repacked bsa seems to be working just fine). How can I bypass this and get creation kit to work? Thanks

[Kelmych]

I am able to load Dawnguard.esm with the Creation Kit (of course, there are always popup error windows when starting up the creation kit to which I reply "yes to all" and ignore). In case you haven't done this, using the creation kit with addon DLCs requires adding the associated BSAs in SkyrimEditor.ini. Here is the line I have in mine; note that Skyrim - textures.bsa isn't included since I have this as loose files and I happen to have all three addon DLCs.

 

[Archive]

SArchiveList=Skyrim - Meshes.bsa, Skyrim - Animations.bsa, Skyrim - Voices.bsa, Skyrim - Interface.bsa, Skyrim - Misc.bsa, Skyrim - Sounds.bsa, Skyrim - VoicesExtra.bsa, Skyrim - Shaders.bsa, Update.bsa, Dawnguard.bsa, Hearthfires.bsa, Dragonborn.bsa

[Zerocloud411]

I tried that and I'm still getting an error. "Assert bgslocalizedstring.cpp Line 2860 LOCALIZATION: Error opening or reading strings file."

[Kelmych]

You also need to have the addon DLC BSA names in an additional list in SkyrimEditor.ini . Here is what I have in my version of the additional line(s)

[Archive]

SResourceArchiveList=Skyrim - Meshes.bsa, Skyrim - Animations.bsa, Skyrim - Voices.bsa, Skyrim - Interface.bsa, Skyrim - Misc.bsa, Skyrim - Sounds.bsa, Skyrim - VoicesExtra.bsa

SResourceArchiveList2=Skyrim - Shaders.bsa, Update.bsa, Dawnguard.bsa, Hearthfires.bsa, Dragonborn.bsa

[Zerocloud411]

Thanks. So the previous error went away but now I'm getting "Assert File: C:\_Skyrim\Code\TESV\BSResource\BSResourceArchive.cpp Line 1034 Compressed archive streams can't seek in any direction but forwards." I ignored that and then pressed yes to all to like 6 different errors about missing textures and now it seems to be working fine. Not sure if those errors need further fixing but it seems to get the job done.

[Kelmych]

Creation Kit always has a lot of miscellaneous errors when starting up. I ignore them unless they seem very specific to the mod I'm working with.

[Zerocloud411]

Alright. You guys should probably consider adding this to the wiki since by default I didn't have those lines you showed me. Thanks again, you're really helpful :D.