kirinann Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 Hopefully this is not a re-post, sorry if it is I just searched everywhere and could not find my issue. And I hope I am posting in the right area. Anyways, I was trying to make another CM companion with a custom race, I have done this before and never had any problems. My Construction set for some reason always had the faces of most custom races appear as pitch black in the preview window. The CM companion I was making I really wanted to see her face, so I thought I would re-install my Construction set. When I re-installed it the problem did not go away, so I just made the cm-companion anyways. When I went to find the CM-companion in game it was just a walking set of armor no body or anything. When I re-opened my construction set, the race file was completely gone for that custom race, all the teeth were set to vanilla, the hair was vanilla hair, and the eyes were missing completely. My Construction set will do this to any race I edit, but only if I open them in the preview window, I can add hair just fine. I can't make any new NPC's or any new companions or the race file will be deleted from the construction set once I save it. Also, after I re-installed my construction set no bodies are loading in preview window or cell view window, they are just heads with red eyes, and little slivers for feet. so it is even more messed up after I re-install it. I also thought maybe my Wrye Bash would have cause it, because it takes control of all my mods that I edit with the construction set, so I re-installed that too...but nothing changed. I think I should also mention that maybe a little before this I had problems with my normal maps for vanilla, and some vanilla animation meshes so I did archive invalidation using OBMM for meshes and textures (which I never know what I am doing and that was a bad idea), but I don't think that would be the problem. Also I re-installed my oblivion hoping it would fix it, but it did not change a thing. I hoped I explained this okay, my English grammar is really bad I am learning though XD. I hope someone can help me, thank you for your time reading this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Brasher Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 No need to reinstall the Construction Set, Wrye Bash, Oblivion or anything else. That will not solve anything. It sounds like you have a mod de-isolation problem. Here is the tutorial: Mod De-Isolation Tutorial To speak simply, mods cannot see other mods. Custom races come from other mods. You built a mod and tried to use a custom race in it. If you want to use a custom race in your mod, you need to follow an approach like one of these: (1) Merge your mod with the custom race mod. If you do not have author permission, you cannot share or upload this mod.(2) With the race mod and your mod open in the CS at the same time, with your mod active, copy the race and give it a new form ID so that it exists in your mod AND the race mod. If you do not have author permission, you cannot share or upload this mod.(3) Use Wrye Bash and other tools to created a mastered patch in which one .esp is slaved to another .esp which is a virtual .esm. (Not recommended for new modders. See the tutorial.) This type of file can be shared and uploaded since you did not actually steal any content and gamers are required to download the original race mod if they want to use your mod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirinann Posted May 28, 2011 Author Share Posted May 28, 2011 thank you! I will try that. I was only planning to use the CM companion personally (: . Thank you (: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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