Help!!!

[Shazam]

Hello all,
I have a big problem with my mod.
I decided to rename a character and a template. I had a character named voltimax and one named voltimax1. One was a mesh with the voltimax costume skin and the other was a mesh with his civies. I decided to make a character named gary, so I copied the voltimax charater and template, then changed the names of them to gary. I copied them rather than recreated them because they use the same mesh and skin.

I then went into ffedit and deleted the charater I was using for a mission and replaced it with the new character gary. After that I opened the script and changed all voltimax references to gary. Now when I came to run the mission, the game crashed on me straight away. I narrowed the problem down to the cutscene, however I hadn't made any mistakes in it. The game appears to object to running a cutscene with references made to the new character. If I change the script to refer to say alchemiss and use her template, the mod runs perfectly as it does with any built in character including the custom ones I made last year when I started this. If I make any new character on any mesh, the mod crashes everytime.
Modders, have you ever experienced this? I'm at my wits end with this now, please help!

[catwhowalksbyhimself]

It would help if you could post the actual error message.  That would likely narrow down the problem considerable, if it wasn't a dead giveaway.

[Lunarman]

I've had this and for me it's to do with heads. The only solution is to use a different mesh. If you've got a head nif then try removing that and running it, if it still breaks then it is the character mesh itself that's causing the problem and you'll have to find a new one. Sorry

[Shazam]

Thanks for the replies. Actually Prem sorted it out for me very late last night. You're right Lunar it is to do with heads.....the fact that I hadn't set one up for the new character. Without it FF doesn't like it when the character tries to talk. I am sooo rusty right now, lol. Normally Cat I would put up an error message, but there wasn't one, the game crashes so quickly that script log doesn't get a chance to record anything.

[catwhowalksbyhimself]

Well, Prem found it so it doesn't matter.