Problems Extracting Weapons Mod Kit

[Vollentine09]

Everytime I try to extract the Weapon Mod Kit files to the Data directory I get a Diagnostic window from 7 Zip saying

 

Can not open output file, then lists all the file for the mod.

 

Im nowhere near a computer genius and I have no Idea what this means. But I do no it wont let me extract the mod files I need to use it, If anyone could help me I would much appreciate it.

 

I have already installed FOSE and I have the latest update of Fallout 3.

 

 

Please Help me

 

 

Thanks

[mechine]

sounds like a 7zip WinRAr problem

 

 

Drop the 7zip an get WinRar

 

or don't I mean it should really matter

 

 

 

Not to worry though, WMK is messy

it conflicts with tons of other mods

besides having messy meshes

to which doesn't really add that much

 

Pretty much it only applies to the vanilla weapons

You can put all the optics an scopes, attachments, supressors, ect in the whole world on those

weapons an they still suck

 

You just can't polish a turd.

 

If you really wana get that kind of thing just get nifscope an learn to use it

use the paintnet, or photoshop with a DDS converter to retexture

Then the GECK an make new versions that are not messy of the vanilla weapons

 

 

Or you could just edit the vanilla weapons in GECK

 

 

WMK needs a Searious update from the one I looked at last month

 

 

If you really want this kind of thing look into the CRAFT mod an the stuff that uses CRAFT

then it doesn't mess with loot lists as much an won't conflict, also updated an maybe

not as messy as WMK

 

 

Or hey don't listen to me use it anyway an crash then you can ask why

 

 

I used it for a while an it was cool, just the part where you loot the items to mod vanilla weapons.

 

That being said, a few months later I learned to make custom weapons somewhat the same thing

 

As WMK is based off, only without the chance to loot stuff to mod weapons ingame, even still

 

the versions of the custom weapons I made were 2054 times better than the WMK guns.

[Vollentine09]

okay Ill listen to you since Im new to the whole mod crap. but I ran into another issue, I downloaded WinRAR but that is doing pretty much the same thing, I tried putting another mod on to change the weather an its saying

 

! C:\Users\Slick\Downloads\Fallout 3 Mods\fellout1014.rar: Cannot create textures\sky\wastelandcloudhorizon02.dds

! The system cannot find the path specified.

! C:\Users\Slick\Downloads\Fallout 3 Mods\fellout1014.rar: Cannot create folder textures\sky

! Access is denied.

! C:\Users\Slick\Downloads\Fallout 3 Mods\fellout1014.rar: Cannot create Fellout-Full.esp

! Access is denied.

 

 

 

 

 

 

crap like that. Any Idea how I can get it to work?

[mechine]

Could be a read only problem.

 

 

Like somehow the folder you're trying to move to is set to read only.

 

 

I've used Fellout so it's probably not the mod that is set to read only.

 

 

Maybe your bethesda folder or data folder is.

 

You could just right click the bethesda folder, then propertys

see if the read only is marked then unmark it with a click

which it should prompt to apply to either this folder or all folders

below this one, which I would say yes apply to all

which would take a few seconds

 

You could also check the data folders propertys to look for a read only tag

 

 

But we know it's not a problem with winZip as winRar did the same thing

in a rare case though it could be messed up settings on how windows

treats Rar archives, which I guess you would just look in the settings

for either winzip or winrar. I don't think I had to mess with them

but it was a long long time ago.

 

 

 

New to modz, You should search for the Ultimate Load Order mod

it's kind of outdated, but still good as it teaches you a lot of tricks

to installing stuff really clean, which is what you want to avoid crashes.

Ultimate Load Order has a bunch of stuff you probably don't want in it though

So later on when you get tired of it, just reinstall, and follow the same

rules to apply what you learned to get what you really want.

 

 

You can pretty much plan on turning all of the auto saves off

in the game options. Autosaves are not full saves, an also can cause

coruption as well as crashes.

 

 

You should take some time to research the different patch set ups we use

half the work of avoiding crashes is making clean installs of things

the other half is having a good patch set up.

 

For the most part the players at Nexus use

 

1.0.15 plus the fake patch mod

1.4 plus the fake patch mod

1.5 plus FO3edit's master update

1.6 plus FO3edit's master update

 

 

 

Plan on the first few times you install or start using mods to screw it up an make it crash.

It doesn't take long to learn more though. This last time I installed I also created a

restore point with windows tools. Right after I installed the game, but before I put

any patches or mods on. Also you may want to keep the downloaded Zip/rar files

rather than delete them, as you might have to install them again, an don't wana download again.

 

 

It's a lot of work, and also kind of hard, but worth it in the end result.