Allannaa Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 (edited) If this isn't the right forum for this question, I apologise in advance, and mods, please definitely move it! I've done several little personal mods for Oblivion in the past and they've all worked right, run right, not crashed Ob, and so on. However, now I'm interested in doing a bigger mod. I want to build a house. (I know. Everyone does that, don't they?) I noticed, looking at my Oblivion > Data >Meshes folder from Windows, that one of the mods I use has its own personal little folder, containing all the NIFs for the stuff he made or changed. I opened the TESCS and selected that mod as active, and loaded it up, and hey neato, in the "World Objects, Static, Architecture" tree is this same folder, containing all the stuff, just like in Windows view of the actual contents of my hard drive. I thought that was an absolutely fabulous idea, getting everything in one spot, thereby making sure I don't poop on an existing NIF or DDS texture, change a ref code, or anything else equally fatal/silly. So, I went to Oblivion > Data > Meshes and made a folder called "AllaHouse". So far so good, shows up just fine... I opened the TESCS and loaded AllaHouse.esp. Again, so far, so good, the little house is there, even has the rug on the floor.... I start looking in the Object Window tree for the "AllaHouse" thing.... Tain't there. I had the obvious wtf? moment, and then popped windows explorer, looked at my file system, and yep, Oblivion > Data > Meshes > AllaHouse I closed TESCS, restarted the computer, and.... So, what is it I'm doing wrong, or not doing? After all, Mr_Siika's little folder for Castle Seaview shows up, and when I set Castle Seaview as the active, the little "mr_siika" subcategory is right there.... And the same with every other mod I use and loaded into TESCS to check. If there was a folder on my computer, in the same Oblivion > Data > Meshes path, then it showed in TESCS when I loaded that person's mod as my active file. The only mod with its own little folder, which does NOT show up in the TESCS is mine! Why? Any ideas? I even went to the TESCS Wiki and typed in "Folder" as a search parameter, and hey, it told me to do iggzackly what I had done -- but -- tain't working. Help. Please. Before I start eating mort flesh and going crazy. (edited for spelling because apparently I can't) Edited July 21, 2011 by Allannaa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGMage2 Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 Are the unique objects from your own unique formids actually pointing to the nifs in your folder? This is what makes the folder branch visible in the CS tree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allannaa Posted July 21, 2011 Author Share Posted July 21, 2011 Are the unique objects from your own unique formids actually pointing to the nifs in your folder? This is what makes the folder branch visible in the CS tree. RGMage2 -- Oh for goodness sake, that was it! I forgot to put the meshes themselves in THAT folder. Thank you so much, problem solved, I can go back to eating random watermelon now, which tastes much better than mort flesh. You have saved the princess! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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