Squatters in my house. Construction Set issue.

Brad Schoonmaker on 29/11/2004 at 02:58

I've never had this problem before and tried searching the forum for something related, but it's so odd maybe I didn't phrase it right.

I put an NPC into a room of my project and later decided to delete it. I saved the plugin and opened up Morrowind to try it out. The guard was still there so I closed the game and put another guard in the same place I deleted the last one from. Well, that changed nothing of course, but this time it at least showed up in game and in the editor. I thought maybe this would clear the bug, but repeating the first step did nothing to keep the bastard out. :erg:

Another weird part of this is when I went to play Morrowind to test, the warning box regarding plugins and savegames wasn't always displayed. Since I did in fact change it around each time and hit save, this made me think that the editor wasn't really saving everything. The paranoia faded though. On the last attempt, I changed the guard's placement and that of a plant to show that the save in the editor took. The plant was moved, but the NPC wasn't.

I did close the editor to see if it was wonking the game somehow and even restarted Windows, but nothing fixed it. Any help is appreciated.

Striker on 29/11/2004 at 03:11

Did you save your game with the plug-in loaded? That is usually the cause of this. Try removing the plug-in from the list loaded, load your save game (ignore the errors) and save it again.

You should then be able to re-select the plug-in and move things around without problems.

Brad Schoonmaker on 29/11/2004 at 05:29

Thanks. That did it. I keep forgeting that fix. D'oh.
Hey doc, my arm hurts when I do this, too. :o