Trouble modding weapon

[Foxtrot972]

Im new to modding with oblivion. I used TES4 Construction Editor to mod a bow and i put it in a my house but when I stated the game it was not in my house i have tried placing the bow in several different places but the bow is never there. This is the tutorial that i used:

 

I did exactly what he did please tell me if there is something else i am supposed to be doing.

I start up the game go to data files and select it but it isnt in the game.

When i save it only gives me the .esp file and it doesnt give me any texture folders for my mod or any mesh folders for my mod.

 

I also got a mod off of here and it has the textures and all that but that isnt working. IS there another way to activate the mods other than the data file.

 

I am on Windows 7 if that changes anything.

[Vagrant0]

I am on Windows 7 if that changes anything.

When you installed the game, did you install it to the default directory? The UAC for Vista and W7 interferes with the game being able to find files. To fix, either reinstall to somewhere else, like C:\Games\Oblivion, or make sure you are running as an Administrator with UAC turned off (not recommended).

[Foxtrot972]

I am on Windows 7 if that changes anything.

When you installed the game, did you install it to the default directory? The UAC for Vista and W7 interferes with the game being able to find files. To fix, either reinstall to somewhere else, like C:\Games\Oblivion, or make sure you are running as an Administrator with UAC turned off (not recommended).

wait you dont recomend uac off or windows doesnt???

[Vagrant0]

I am on Windows 7 if that changes anything.

When you installed the game, did you install it to the default directory? The UAC for Vista and W7 interferes with the game being able to find files. To fix, either reinstall to somewhere else, like C:\Games\Oblivion, or make sure you are running as an Administrator with UAC turned off (not recommended).

wait you dont recomend uac off or windows doesnt???

I don't recommend turning off UAC since it has its uses for people who do not know how to properly secure and maintain their computers, and can prevent some problems before they start. It's only in cases like this that it becomes a hassle. Reinstalling to another location is usually the better solution in this case.

[Foxtrot972]

I am on Windows 7 if that changes anything.

When you installed the game, did you install it to the default directory? The UAC for Vista and W7 interferes with the game being able to find files. To fix, either reinstall to somewhere else, like C:\Games\Oblivion, or make sure you are running as an Administrator with UAC turned off (not recommended).

wait you dont recomend uac off or windows doesnt???

I don't recommend turning off UAC since it has its uses for people who do not know how to properly secure and maintain their computers, and can prevent some problems before they start. It's only in cases like this that it becomes a hassle. Reinstalling to another location is usually the better solution in this case.

[Vagrant0]

Yes... Yes you are.

 

First off... you might want to stop using uTorrent when you make videos. While I can only hope for your sake that you are sticking to the few legal torrents out there, should you ever be brought to court for piracy or bootlegging, even without you actually doing any of that, such a video would probably end up as Exhibit A. Piracy, in any form is also a rather big no-no around here. If you're using a pirated version of the game, it might also help explain some of the problems you are having as pirated versions are often sabotaged by the ones who upload it to discourage leaching by those outside their little group and people in the know.

 

Second, when you go to change the item, you are changing the vanilla form, giving it a new item name, and changing its stats, meaning that ALL daedric bows will be using your stats. You need to change the ID part of the weapon to create a new form.

 

Third, when you go to add the weapon to the world, you make a similar mistake to the second one, in that you take a vanilla container which probably has several hundred instances, and add your bow to it. This means that ALL containers in the world with that same base will have your bow as part of their inventory.

 

Fourth, assuming that you have a savegame on Gnoll Mountain, or have been there previously within that game, even with all those issues present (which would, in their own broken way still make the weapon in that container), you would still not be able to get the item from that container within that game since the instance of that container within that save game was already spawned using the old base.

 

 

As for the messages when you close out. These are normal and are one of the few error messages which can be ignored when using the CS. You can normally avoid seeing these by making sure that the cell in both the cell listing and the render window has finished loading its objects. As you are essentially editing items in a cell while having another cell in the render window, the loader in this case may be having some issues. However, it should not affect your mod.

 

You should probably stop what you're doing, and take a few moments to actually learn a bit about using and navigating around the CS before trying to make anything. Being able to move and place objects in the render window is rather important and should be learned by everyone before anything else, regardless of what they want to do.

http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/Category:A_beginner%27s_guide

Edited July 27, 2010 by Vagrant0

[Foxtrot972]

Yes... Yes you are.

 

First off... you might want to stop using uTorrent when you make videos. While I can only hope for your sake that you are sticking to the few legal torrents out there, should you ever be brought to court for piracy or bootlegging, even without you actually doing any of that, such a video would probably end up as Exhibit A. Piracy, in any form is also a rather big no-no around here. If you're using a pirated version of the game, it might also help explain some of the problems you are having as pirated versions are often sabotaged by the ones who upload it to discourage leaching by those outside their little group and people in the know.

 

Second, when you go to change the item, you are changing the vanilla form, giving it a new item name, and changing its stats, meaning that ALL daedric bows will be using your stats. You need to change the ID part of the weapon to create a new form.

 

Third, when you go to add the weapon to the world, you make a similar mistake to the second one, in that you take a vanilla container which probably has several hundred instances, and add your bow to it. This means that ALL containers in the world with that same base will have your bow as part of their inventory.

 

Fourth, assuming that you have a savegame on Gnoll Mountain, or have been there previously within that game, even with all those issues present (which would, in their own broken way still make the weapon in that container), you would still not be able to get the item from that container within that game since the instance of that container within that save game was already spawned using the old base.

 

 

As for the messages when you close out. These are normal and are one of the few error messages which can be ignored when using the CS. You can normally avoid seeing these by making sure that the cell in both the cell listing and the render window has finished loading its objects. As you are essentially editing items in a cell while having another cell in the render window, the loader in this case may be having some issues. However, it should not affect your mod.

 

You should probably stop what you're doing, and take a few moments to actually learn a bit about using and navigating around the CS before trying to make anything. Being able to move and place objects in the render window is rather important and should be learned by everyone before anything else, regardless of what they want to do.

http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/Category:A_beginner%27s_guide