Strange looking skins?

[Gamio]

Ok, Im new to fallout 3 mods, but not fallout 3 (had it on xbox originally), and have come acrossed something strange with any type of weapon mod, ie: Alexscorpions, Tactical weapons mod, etc... The weapon skins look strange, and when in 3rd person view, the skin actually shifts as my movement shifts. I know how to properly install mods and am aware of the "load order" stuff, but am unsure how to fix this prob. Also, I am running Fallout 3 GotY, dont know if that has anyhting to do with it at all. I also run FOMM, and when I check the load order listings, it says that these type pf mods (see above) "dont exist in current load order" or somthing similar to that. Any help is appreciated.

 

-TY

[saintgio3]

It seems like you may have not installed the textures or installed them properly. Try re-installing and be sure to check folder structure when installing new mods.

[pwnedbyscope]

did you invalidate the archive?

[GrandsonOfSam]

The "shifting textures" is indeed because of either missing textures or not using Archive Invalidation. For some reason you need to toggle the Invalidation back on and then off again sometimes for it to remember it's existence... Then there are also mods that plainly said forgot to add the textures in the packages, or require another mod as a base.

 

The mentioning you have GOTY version is always good to know, as people can then be sure you have the newest FO3 version which is currently 1.7 :) Some mods require 1.7 to work.

 

You said something about mods not appearing in load order? Do you have FOSE installed? FOSE is short for Fallout Script Extender, and most of the mods use it to get effects that are not possible without it.

 

Some mods don't have an .esm or .esp file with them, if they only change meshes, textures or sounds, so they won't appear on the mod list.