Double Windows on Winterhold College - Immersive College of Winterhold - DynDOLOD

[fattyzhouse]

Hello. I'll start this ramble with a BIG THANK YOU for all your work here and your willingness to answer most (if not all) of the questions we throw your way! I try to respond to everyone that leaves a question on the few mods that I've ported to SE as well. You walk amongst mere mortals, modkin ! I've been tinkering with DynDOLOD since it's release and there's no going back once you've seen the results in game. Major kudos for all of your efforts here, you holy cow you !

 

So, I was testing out a mod I'm working\porting on and I found myself traveling to the College of Winterhold. Once I arrived in Winterhold and made it to the bridge, I noticed a strange oddity right away. The exterior windows had a double of themselves. The windows that are supposed to be there are, just as they should be. The extra windows are just slightly set out in front of the proper ones. I'll drop a couple of pics below.

 

I'm pretty sure I have this narrowed down to something between ICOW and DynDOLOD. I've went about as far as I can with the knowledge I have about all of this, so I figured I'd drop a few lines here and see if you had any ideas of where to go looking next.

 

 

Here's what I've been trying to fix this oddity.. 

 

 - Disabled the DynDOLOD esp file and went in game to check it out.

 

Result - No double windows.

 

 - Removed Enlightened College of Winterhold. (It adds in some Winterhold banners right below most of the exterior windows. At this point I still had ICOW installed.) Re-ran DynDOLOD. Started a new game and ran back to Winterhold to check it out.

 

Result - Same double window oddity. 

 

 - Removed Immersive College of Winterhold. Re-ran DynDOLOD. Started a new game and ran back to Winterhold to check.

 

Result - No double windows.

 

 - Ran DynDOLOD without ICOW installed, then installed ICOW after I ran DynDOLOD.

 

Result - No double windows

 

 

Here's a few extra things I've tried looking for a clue..

 

 - I extracted the ICOW bsa just to see if there were any Winterhold exterior nif files being added in but I didn't see anything except for a few interior nifs.

 

 - I went digging around in xedit. ICOW and ECOW are the only two mods that I had installed that alter the exterior of the Winterhold College. The only thing that stood out to me in xedit that might have a hand in this (I'm reaching here) is in the Worldspace section of ICOW named CWISanctuaryWorld. There I found a 'WinterholdExtTower01.nif' being added in under the 'Temporary' section. Not sure if this nugget of info is relevant, but I figured it worth the mention. 

 

I guess that's about it. This isn't like, super critical in my world, so no worries or hurries in responding. I looked though the forum here and I didn't see anything like this being reported so I figured I'd reach out for some advice as to what to try next. I'll keep digging on my own, of course. If I find any more clues or if I remember something else, I'll come back and ramble some more.

 

Thanks again for being awesome, Sheson.

 

Cheers !

 

 

 EDIT - This is all from Skyrim Special Edition

 

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Edited October 2, 2018 by fattyzhouse

[Wolfgrim]

That had a strange side effect. The window emittence of the college (maybe other window types as well, did not check them all) froze. When traveling there at night and waiting until daytime it stayed glowing. When cell load was during the day it stayed dark when waiting until night hours. A solution which causes other issues is not a solution.

 

I use Papyrus Util.
 

Medium 2.81:

242367=,1,1,1,,829162,Skyrim.esm,-1,-1,1,1,WinterholdExtTower01:10,,829162,Skyrim.esm

 

High 2.81:

268367=,1,1,1,,829162,Skyrim.esm,-1,-1,1,1,WinterholdExtTower01:10,,829162,Skyrim.esm

 

Medium 2.82:
292855=,1,1,1,,829162,Skyrim.esm,-1,-1,1,1,WinterholdExtTower01:10,,829162,Skyrim.esm 

Edited May 25, 2020 by Wolfgrim

[sheson]

The glow changes based on daytime and weather are not controlled by DynDOLOD. They happen because the glow LOD window is added as a reference and has a XEMI record linked.

 

None of your problems make any sense right now.

 

Make a new profile with no mods other than SKSE, PapyrusUtil, Unofficial Patch, SkyUI. Generate LOD for Tamriel. See what happens then.

Edited May 25, 2020 by sheson

[Wolfgrim]

None of your problems make any sense right now.

You could make that the title of my biography.

 

Anyway.

 

I did that and it works with this almost-vanilla-setup.

I also tried to regenerate LOD and deactivate DynDOLOD, go inside the Hall of Elements, save, main menu, load, and go out again.

The window glow change at certain daytimes and weathers is only bugged for some reason wen deactivating and going outside immediately.

When making a save and reloading before going outside it works as it should.

The double window blinking did not return after reloading as well.

 

I guess it is solved now?

Thank you for your dedicated help.

Edited May 26, 2020 by Wolfgrim