Mod Problems

[linkrulesx10]

Heya my gf has started modding her oblivion and has ran into some problems and is taking it rather personally :(

 

Any way she now has a bunch of wtf i'm a missing mesh symbols around the place

The sky is purple instead of blue. Also when she looks down the screen turns red.

 

She has installed the following:

Unofficial Oblivion patch OMOD

Exnem and HGEC body

OBSE

Rens Beuty pack

A bunch of races such as tabaxi, cute elf, chocolate elf, demon race

a bunch of random outfits

 

She installed most of them using oblivion mod manager and just creating them as OMOD's. Not something I wouldn't recommend but I cant see the harm in it.

 

Is there anything I can do to help her?

[bben46]

First you need to find which mod or mods are causing the problems - I hope you have OBMM installed becaues that makes it easier. Just disable the mods until the problems go away. then examinre the mod that caused it to see why it didn't install properly.

 

This is probably the most common problem in mods. It is caused when the game cannot find the mesh called for by a mod. It uses the yellow block with an exclamation point as a placeholder to keep from crashing. (or the WTF! star)

 

All except the simplest mods have new textures and usually Meshes. If you look at the zipped files (expand them to see what is there before installing) you will usually see several types of files. The filename.esp is the actual mod, it goes into the Oblivion\Data folder.

 

A filname.txt or Readme.txt file - this is the read me file that you should read to see if there are any special instructions for this file, such as it may need another mod to work or need OBSE, or need the Shivering Isles expansion, or Need the latest patch.

 

Textures folder. this contains the texture files (.dds) for the mod. this should be copied to the Oblivion\data\textures folder

Meshes folder. This contains the meshes for the mod, it should be copied to the Oblivion\data\meshes folder

Sounds folder. This contains any new sounds needed by the mod. it should be copied into the Oblivion\data\sounds folder

 

.bsa files these are compressed files that may contain all of the different files. Any .bsa file should be copied without change into the Oblivion\data folder

 

There may be other files or folders included, but those are the most common.

 

If you look in the Oblivion/data folder and see a bunch of .dds files, .nif files, .mp3 files they are in the wrong place. You need to MOVE them to the proper folders.

.dds to the textures folder

.nif to the meshes folder

.mp3 to the sounds folder

.wav to the sounds folder

 

In a mod with meshes and textures, they are usually in their own folder - look in the zipped file, extract the meshes folder to the Oblivion\data\meshes folder and the textures folder to the Oblivion\data\textures folder. Do the same with any other folder in the zipped file. Usually only the esp file and if present .bsa files go into the \Data folder

 

One of the most common things I have seen is a folder inside of the data folder with the name of the mod. It may have the texture and mesh files you need. Example Oblivion\Data\mod_xyz.

Then inside the \mod_xyz You may find \Mod_xyz\textures and mod_xyz\meshes folder

 

These folders Meshes and textures inside of the \data\mod_xyz folder need to be moved into the \data\textures and \data\meshes folders.

The easiest way to do this is to right click and hold the folder you want to move, then drag it into the \data folder.

You will probably get a message that you will overwrite files. Actually it will not overwrite, but append to the original folder.

[linkrulesx10]

thanks for the help, she is really dreading trying each mod individually when I get to her place I might have to do that.

 

Thanks for that, I was a bit unsure as I have never had a mesh problem myself I have had oter bugs but not mesh.

[linkrulesx10]

It is a poorly installed Havest and natural environments.

 

Problem solved XD