Mod textures non-existent?

[AlastorBosch]

I started playing FO3 fresh - no tweaks, add-ons or anything. I then installed the 1.1.0.35 patch followed by the Anchorage DLC. After this came a few player-made mods, namely Vance Suit, Dark Colonel Autumn's Coat, Steam Punk Pack, and a couple of the duster mods. I only actually found the clothing and gear for the Vance Suit and Steampunk mods, and they both exhibited the same strange behavior - they had no textures, or their textures mirrored whatever was nearest them. For instance, VSuit was on V's bed to begin with, and it looked like the bed. As I walked around wearing it, it shifted to look like floors or walls that I was close to. This is very strange... All the files were in their appropriate folders, I was using FOMM to turn on any mods that needed it (listed below the FO3 ESM), and made certain to add any and all necessary text to the archive invalidation text file.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Edit - Since making the post, I tried another mod which tweaked weapon sounds/textures/misc qualities - again the proper textures were nonexistent; the weapons appeared as a bleached white shade or changed colors randomly. Normally I would suspect that somewhere, a folder or file name is misspelled, but that's not the case - and...it's only the modded weapons/clothes whose textures are broken. Everything else is fine. *headscratches*

[kennyimpala]

I started playing FO3 fresh - no tweaks, add-ons or anything. I then installed the 1.1.0.35 patch followed by the Anchorage DLC. After this came a few player-made mods, namely Vance Suit, Dark Colonel Autumn's Coat, Steam Punk Pack, and a couple of the duster mods. I only actually found the clothing and gear for the Vance Suit and Steampunk mods, and they both exhibited the same strange behavior - they had no textures, or their textures mirrored whatever was nearest them. For instance, VSuit was on V's bed to begin with, and it looked like the bed. As I walked around wearing it, it shifted to look like floors or walls that I was close to. This is very strange... All the files were in their appropriate folders, I was using FOMM to turn on any mods that needed it (listed below the FO3 ESM), and made certain to add any and all necessary text to the archive invalidation text file.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Edit - Since making the post, I tried another mod which tweaked weapon sounds/textures/misc qualities - again the proper textures were nonexistent; the weapons appeared as a bleached white shade or changed colors randomly. Normally I would suspect that somewhere, a folder or file name is misspelled, but that's not the case - and...it's only the modded weapons/clothes whose textures are broken. Everything else is fine. *headscratches*

download nifskope, take a look at the mesh that is missing the texture, press the plusses until you see bsa shader light map or something like that..... go down look at the texture, right click, texture, choose, look for the texture (refer to the rar path that came with the mod) load it or import it, and voala ur mesh has a skin.

if you dont understand, refer to the general modification section and look at the tutorials, oh and dont forget to save your textured mesh

[AlastorBosch]

I started playing FO3 fresh - no tweaks, add-ons or anything. I then installed the 1.1.0.35 patch followed by the Anchorage DLC. After this came a few player-made mods, namely Vance Suit, Dark Colonel Autumn's Coat, Steam Punk Pack, and a couple of the duster mods. I only actually found the clothing and gear for the Vance Suit and Steampunk mods, and they both exhibited the same strange behavior - they had no textures, or their textures mirrored whatever was nearest them. For instance, VSuit was on V's bed to begin with, and it looked like the bed. As I walked around wearing it, it shifted to look like floors or walls that I was close to. This is very strange... All the files were in their appropriate folders, I was using FOMM to turn on any mods that needed it (listed below the FO3 ESM), and made certain to add any and all necessary text to the archive invalidation text file.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Edit - Since making the post, I tried another mod which tweaked weapon sounds/textures/misc qualities - again the proper textures were nonexistent; the weapons appeared as a bleached white shade or changed colors randomly. Normally I would suspect that somewhere, a folder or file name is misspelled, but that's not the case - and...it's only the modded weapons/clothes whose textures are broken. Everything else is fine. *headscratches*

download nifskope, take a look at the mesh that is missing the texture, press the plusses until you see bsa shader light map or something like that..... go down look at the texture, right click, texture, choose, look for the texture (refer to the rar path that came with the mod) load it or import it, and voala ur mesh has a skin.

if you dont understand, refer to the general modification section and look at the tutorials, oh and dont forget to save your textured mesh

 

Ah...ok... I'm no modder, and really have no interest in becoming one. I'd just like to know why the mods don't work when the game hasn't been edited in any way. Almost makes mods worthless for the game (And my copy of Oblivion had no such issues as these).

 

Edit - I just downloaded Quazzy/Qarn's Archive Invalidation program, and so far, things seem to be working fine.