Odd Vilja Armor Bug

[walkingdisaster]

So.. this is an odd one.

Vilja has somehow picked up a strange armor bug. In that I gave her a Dwarven Helmet.. and then took it away, and now she seems to be able to create them. It will flash into view for a moment as if she'd equipped it, then disappear again. I can get it to disappear for awhile by giving her different headgear. But eventually it comes back and starts to happen again.

She was doing the same thing for awhile with her blue and green dress while I wanted her in leather armor, but I seem to have worked past that one. Now if only the helmet would stay away... >.>. But no matter what I try, it won't. She creates a new one when I take one from her. I think I have something like ten in my inventory.

I've tried Disable/Enable in console. I've tried asking her to wear light armor. I've tried asking her to wear no armor. I've tried unequipall in console and then telling her to put her armor on when I had her set to wear light armor.. I've tried going back to previous saves before it started happening. But it keeps happening.

...edit: Now she's doing it with her boots and gloves whether or not we're in combat. Do I have to uninstall her mod and re-install again? That would be a major pain to go through her quest dialogue and get her companionship/disposition rating up again.\
Sub-Edit: Not that I find her dialogue itself to be bothersome.. I just dislike having to re-do things. >.> I realized that might sound a bit insulting.

Second Edit: Now she doesn't think she needs boots and gloves at all. And it's changed to switching between a custom headpiece, the dwarven helmet, and nothing. At least she's not flashing me anymore, that was distracting.

[rollerpig]

You can re-insttall without even doing a clean save.just erase emcomp Vilja through the steam game menu.Ten re-install .tthats it.You wontt lose any progress or disposition or gear or anything(alwayys make a save prior just for safety).

I had a similar problem but it was in v1.2 and I beleive it was because of a mod I was using to "fix" elven gilded armor's armor rating(in order to get set bonuses.She would either wear shoes and no helmet,or helmet but no shoes.I think it has to do with the mod reading an items armor value and type.Vilja won't wear armor and "clothing" at the same time.

As far as her spawning her own clothes,I'm not sure, but I had this happen a few times when Vilja was left alone for a long time (like an ingame week) and she would re-spawn her dresses even though I had changed out her clothing.Might have something to do with her creating her nightgown...that ability may be getting confused by a mod(possibly)...not too sure though.

The creation of multiple peices of armor,welp,I have no idea.Cool way to make money.

[walkingdisaster]

Thank you for the reply, and your attempt to help with the situation. But I'm afraid it came to naught. I did a full uninstall, re install, and started a new game (was getting tired of that character anyway). But now, some hours in, she's started doing it again. Based on your advice, I tried giving her the heaviest pieces of armor I owned. And she still did it. I'm afraid that if I can't find a solution soon I'm going to have to just uninstall her and find a different companion. Which makes me sad, since besides this one issue Vilja is by far the best companion I've found anywhere.

[rollerpig]

are you using any armor mods?

any mods that would effect clothing?

did you try (make sure to take her inventory items that you want to keep-not the items in her storage-)and try the Vilja reset spell.It is under the restoation tree.See if she still does his with her stock set of gear...then try to give her a few new standard Skyim dresses and see what ahppens.

It has to be something interfering with the mods ability to read armor type and class.

I use Terra armors and because Vilja uses her own unique face and hair textures and meshes she can't wear the helmets(or rather they are invisible).I jjust live with it,as I don't like most helmets anyways.

Sorry I can't be of more help.I could tell you to use TES5editt,but I barely know how to use it myself.It will tell you if there are any mod conflicts though.Also BOSS mods for load order is totally idiot freindly and can make a big difference if you're using a lot of mods(I use about 20).

[wotan]

Something odd happened tonight. I was with my crew -- Vilja and Uthgerd -- in the Bannered Mare. I was trying to get her to dance on the tables, but even when I gave her drinks she wouldn't. I always thought this was supposed to happen the first time you went to a tavern and gave her a drink.

Well, I asked her to play some music. Since I haven't done any of her instrument quess yet, though all options were available, I asked her to play the drum. No problem yet. I took a screenshot and went to take another screenie of Sam. Then I returned to normal... and Vilja was now in armour playing the drum, not the green dress she wore for the screenshot. Of course I took a new screenshot that I'm going to use in my fan-fiction. This hasn't been a real problem, and I think it was caused by my using the console to take the screenshots. The weirdest things can happen when you use the console.
If you want to see the screenshot, I could upload it to my gallery at the HoT or you could wait until I'm done with chapter 2 of my fan-fic (Should not be long now)