Missing desks/cabinets with OOO?

[Ainulindale]

I had oblivion, OOO and several other mods installed with now problems, then my laptop got pinched, so i've started again on a new shinier one, the problem is I've reinstalled a lot of the old mods, and OOO, and i've got some things turned invisible / missing completely.

 

E.G. the cabinets in red diamond jewellery are gone (the blue doors ones), leaving the loot inside floating in mid air (no option to pick the locks, you can freely pick up the necklaces). The desk in your room in the merchants inn is gone also, leaving all the clutter floating on it and no option to open the desk (so it's gone completely rather than turned invisible?). Unselecting OOO fixes it, so i'm fairly sure its some issue with that rather than another mod.

I also have installed the KotN expansions, ImpeREAL city, HG body, Bank of Cyrodil.

I'm a complete novice with Oblivion mods so i'm unsure if its a compatability issue between factors, since it all went fine on my previous PC with the same stuff installed.

 

Cheers in advance

[Smooth613]

Missing Textures

Scroll down to the Pink or Missing Textures Section.

 

You likely need Archive Invalidation.

[Ainulindale]

I ran that archive invalidation thing by the instructions given, it resulted in a purple map of cyrodiil replacing most of the ground textures, and a ton of yellow poly triangles floating everywhere...

 

i've uninstalled/reinstalled oblivion, and only downloaded OOO 1.3. Ran that, the desks etc were there but a couple characters were missing some armour. I then installed OOO 1.33 update, and the desks etc are once again missing. I tried the archive thingy again, it made no difference.

Have I perhaps missed an update to be installed before OOO 1.33? Its the same files I used on my previous computer which worked with no issues

 

thanks

[Smooth613]

I ran that archive invalidation thing by the instructions given, it resulted in a purple map of cyrodiil replacing most of the ground textures, and a ton of yellow poly triangles floating everywhere...

Purple ground is due to corrupt shaders. The second issue you describe is missing resources, meshes specifically in this case. or an improperly installed mod.

 

When you run Archive Invalidation it tells Oblivion to recognize loose files you've added by mods and use them. Well if you didn't properly add all of the resources needed by a mod then you get missing textures or meshes, as you mentioned you did. The yellow exclamation mark is the ERROR.nif that Oblivion uses to indicate the proper Mesh is not present in the Data files that a Mod needs to function correctly.

 

i've uninstalled/reinstalled oblivion, and only downloaded OOO 1.3. Ran that, the desks etc were there but a couple characters were missing some armour. I then installed OOO 1.33 update, and the desks etc are once again missing. I tried the archive thingy again, it made no difference.

Have I perhaps missed an update to be installed before OOO 1.33? Its the same files I used on my previous computer which worked with no issues

 

thanks

Well if you have reinstalled and are back to square one you have the same problem. You are missing resources for OOO. You would need to first properly and fully install all the necessary OOO resources then run Archive Invalidation as indicated previously. I don't use OOO but I'm sure you can find plenty of information about OOO here on TESNexus and multiple other forums, such as the BethSoft Forums. Many of the mod developers post there and have their RELz (Release) and WIPz (Work In Progress) threads on that forum.