Textures for specific armour mod glitching

[cchoay]

For references's sake, this is the mod I am having problems with :http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/41176/?

 

I'll list down the steps I have taken to try and solve this, and you guys can help me point out anything that I might have missed.

 

1) When mod is unchecked, vanilla meshes display vanilla textures, so it's definitely the mod at fault

 

2)Nifskope displays the textures properly

 

3)Pathing for the meshes is accurate, as evidenced by checking GECK and that the meshes change ingame

 

4)Archive Invalidation has been set to 1, for both Fallout_Default and Fallout_Pref

[th1nk]

For future reference and if this doesn't help, remember to describe the bug you're getting.

From a quick check of the mod's thread, it's mentioned that something or other is bugged - presumably the one of the three files not listed as "fixed"? Maybe try one of the others (if you don't want the features in them I'd guess you could use the .esp from the first one and the rest of the files from the other, assuming they overwrite that mesh).

Edited May 12, 2014 by th1nk

[cchoay]

Ah my apologies.

 

I tried all 3 mods. All 3 have the same error.

 

Now for the description of the bug:

The colour of the armour seems to shift randomly.

 

For example, when looking at it from the right, it could be green. from the front, it could be white. from the left, it could be red etc etc. The colour of the armour, according to what is displayed in Nifskope, should be black.

 

From a quick look at FNVEdit, it seems like FalloutNV.esm has something called Alternate Textures that is not listed in the esp. Could this be the problem? If so, how do I fix it?

[th1nk]

That's... Not something I've encountered before though I don't think I've had missing textures in FNV happen to me yet without models also being missing so perhaps that's the result for FNV (if you don't have a mod that adds it, giving yourself the papa khan armor and equipping it and seeing if the same thing happens would tell you if that's the case, at least if I remember rightly that is one of the things already in the game missing textures).

Anyway, taking a look at the .nif file in the black-only download, the texture paths in the BSShaderTextureSet blocks for all the clothing aren't relative (i.e. they list the full thing starting from C:\ rather than just starting from 'textures\' - c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\fallout new vegas\data\textures\dlcanch\armor\outcastscribe\outfitf.dds and the same but _n.dds) so at a guess that might be the problem (it would definitely break it if you had FNV installed to a different directory, but the first download listed, which would be a red one, uses the proper relative path for the red robes so that should be completely fine aside from not being the color you're after, unless something else is broken in it (though that would presumably cause a different issue)). If that is the cause of your problem (I haven't played around with not making directories relative or having incorrect directories so I can't say for sure but it's possible if you made the folders it's pointing to and put the texture files in there it *might* work but yeah, not sure), then the way to fix it is to use nifskope and edit that yourself (basically find all the clothing's blocks in there, basically all of the stuff with bsshadertextureset blocks with full paths, and remove everything before the folder textures), or create a textureset using the included textures and set the relevant parts of the item's model to use them in GECK or FNVedit (using the alternate textures blocks), again may need a tutorial.

Hope that makes sense, I'm a bit out of it today.

Edited May 12, 2014 by th1nk

[cchoay]

Yeah that's exactly what I did already. After looking into the esp itself and finding nothing wrong (that I could see anyway), I went into the .nif itself, saw that the textures for the black one were pointing the wrong way, and edited the pointers. Since the textures displayed in NifSkope were exactly what they were supposed to do, I assumed the problem was fixed. Then I went into the game and found that the same problem persisted.

 

The red robes had the same problem as the rest too, which was what made me truly stumped.

 

Something about the mod is causing it go wrong, but I cannot for the live of me figure out what exactly it is >_>

[th1nk]

Hm, well other users did seem to get it working to some degree, so perhaps aside from that it isn't the mod itself and something is up with your setup (perhaps with the pathing also causing issues of it's own potentially). The only thing I can think of, and I'm not sure if that would cause the problem you're having (I haven't dealt with archiveinvalidation for a long, long time now), is if your INI settings weren't activating archive invalidation properly - I assume you'd notice it in other mods too in that case, but it might be worth downloading FOMM (or NMM, I think it also does it consistently) and activating archiveinvalidation in that, and seeing if that helps. I can't really think of anything else, I'm afraid.

Edited May 12, 2014 by th1nk

[cchoay]

Hmm I am using FOMM, with archive invalidation selected as an additional failsafe so that's one solution out...

 

My game isn't stored in a steam folder so that might be a problem there but I see no way to solve that (nor do I have the inclination to reinstall everything for a mod that might not even work XD)

 

Damn, I had wanted to use that mod so badly =\ Somehow, the image of Veronica wearing that while wielding a pole Lightsaber struck a chord within me =P