Problem it iten mod's

[luska233]

I dont know why, but all armor/weapon mod that i put in the fallout, are having a problem.

The texture of the itens don't are the one that need to be. O.o

Well, for example, the EWE enchanced energy weapons (http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=10640).

Look how they need to be:

http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/images/8340-4-1249739448.jpg

And how he be here:

http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/4238/bugnofallout.png

Please, could someone help me? ó.ò

Thanks!

And sorry for the bad inglish D:

[youreviltwinSA]

How very strange! Have you had any success with other mods that have new models/textures?

 

If you have been unable to succesfully use any new models or textures, perhaps you need to do Archive Invalidation? Fallout Mod Manager includes a button "Archive Invalidation" you press it once and hey presto Fallout 3 is now able to use custom models and textures. (Pressing the button AGAIN disables it, causing horriblness when using custom stuff.)

 

Another thing would be to make sure you don't have a backup models/textures file in your Fallout 3 folder. Move any backup folder somewhere else. I spent ages trying to squash what I thougth were bugs in EWE, and it turned out that the problems I was seeing were caused by having a backup meshes folder sitting in my Fallout 3 folder. (The normal folder location is Fallout 3/Data/Meshes but it seems that the game will also read the files if they are in location Fallout 3/Meshes.)

 

Another cause of problems can be if you have Windows Vista and you have installed Fallout 3 to default location and you have UAC active. (User account control.) This is a vista security feature designed to protect important files from being modified by viruses and stuff, and it pops up lots of extra warnings and asks you loads of extra “Are you sure?” messages whenver you do anything. It protects anything in Program Files… and nine out of ten games have their default location as being in Program Files, Fallout 3 included. Thus Vista’s UAC will think that mods for Fallout 3 are viruses trying to tamper with it and stop them from working!

 

I have Vista and I have my Fallout 3 installed in Program Files but I never encountered the problem as I have always had UAC disabled anyway. I like being able to do stuff on my computer without Windows asking “are you sure?” every five seconds.

 

So yeah, if you have Vista, look up how to disable User Account Control. Make sure that you have done Archive Invalidation, either with FOMM's Archive Invalidation button or by using another mod tool like "Archive Invalidation Invalidated". And make sure you don't have a backup textures/meshes folder sitting in your Fallout 3 folder.

 

Let me know how you get on!