Dawnguard non-functionalish

[imreallybored]

So, I have Dawnguard "working", and I recently saved Serana. I accompanied her to her home castle thing and when her dad offers me his power and I accept, nothing happens. No animation plays or anything. I've tried looking stuff up already, I have the unofficial patch, and I've used console commands but nothing really "works". Any ideas?

[MrFlyte]

So, I have Dawnguard "working", and I recently saved Serana. I accompanied her to her home castle thing and when her dad offers me his power and I accept, nothing happens. No animation plays or anything. I've tried looking stuff up already, I have the unofficial patch, and I've used console commands but nothing really "works". Any ideas?

 

Ironically I just ran into this problem today. I cannot say for sure what causes it, but I was able to bandaid the problem by deleting the vampirelord folder:

 

skyrim/data/meshes/actors/vampirelord

 

This will reset the vampirelord animations to default to the original BSA - this solved the problem for me, hopefully it does for you, BUT, quick adendum:

 

After I did this, I am not sure if this is at all related, and it would be quite surprising if they actually ARE related, but after I deleted the folder, foxes and bears no longer animated properly, even after running FNIS. So I recommend backing up the folder before completely removing it from your game.

[Shadowhawk827]

I think I'd try using the console commands to set the quest stage ahead 1 step (or back one step) instead.

 

Barring that, I had a similar issue with a quest ages ago and ultimately what I had to do was use the console command to clear the current quest and repeat the one in front of it.