MaximusXD

Hello all. So I have been working on this armor project for a while now and I was hoping to start merging certain sections of the mesh and bake their textures onto one map to reduce clutter. In this case I tried to bake a diffuse map with no lighting but I ended up with a "blank" wwhite texture map. Both my shading and baking tab are set up based on how Grant Abbitt did in his tutorials. I can't make sense of it and I'd appreciate any inputs.

It's a glitch in game. I believe it's caused by the scripts. Although I suspect you fps will affect it as well. I have experienced this "problem" before and it didn't really seem to impact my game quite much. Usually everything goes back to normal after a few seconds, or you could try pressing the sheath button several times. It worked for me.

If I am not mistaken the "Aetherium Ore" you mentioned is from this mod: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/23530//? To smelt them into ingots, you are supposed to use Aetherium forge before completing the quest. There seems to be some incompatibility issues so sometimes when the quest is complete, you lose the smelting options. I personally have experienced quiet a bit of issues with the mod so eventually I decided to remove it from my archive. If you so desperately need the ingot then I suggest you acquire them via console.