spiderpigy Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 (edited) I just installed Nousers Kaleen race and i had it all working perfectly, with no glitches. I got curious as to what all the file type extensions were so (being the noob i am :P ) i tried to open up a .DDS file with word.Word asked for me to specify the coding that will make it readable, but i just clicked windows default.I then got bored looking at the mess of weird symbols and decided to start playing again. When i was playing all the hairs for the Kaleen did not appear at all, so i checked that i hadn't accidentaly deleted any files and i noticed that all the .DDS files had Word symbols before them, rather than the blank page symbols before i had used word.I'm a totally noob to all this and i might be wrong, but it seems that opening them up with word made them unreadable. Can anyone please help me find a solution for this problem which i so easily caused! :wallbash: Edited August 11, 2011 by spiderpigy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkInMKUK Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 (edited) <snip - double post> Edited August 11, 2011 by MarkInMKUK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkInMKUK Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 Opening with word may well break files IF you make the mistake of saving them instead of quitting. If so, you need to re-download the mods and reinstall them. As for sorting out the link to Word, your best bet is to download paint.NET (it's a free program), and then right click a .dds file you HAVEN'T opened in Word, select "Open With..." and choose Paint.NET, then CLOSE it don't SAVE it. That will, at least, stop you ruining any more .dds files accidentally. But you probably can't repair the broken ones, they will have probably been chopped short at the first ASCII character 26 in the file (which is used by Word as an "end of file" marker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiderpigy Posted August 11, 2011 Author Share Posted August 11, 2011 (edited) Thanks for replying MarkinMKUK. I changed the default program for DDS to paint.net and reinstalled the mod, but the hair textures still did not work. But for some reason AlexanderW's wings mod works, which uses DDS files. Im not sure why it works for the wing mod and not the Kaleen. Any ideas pretty please? :P Edited August 11, 2011 by spiderpigy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiderpigy Posted August 12, 2011 Author Share Posted August 12, 2011 OK i just tested this morning and i do believe that it was actually the mod just going crazy- the hair textures only worked when the eye textures were changed :confused: Thanks for the help MarkInMKUK! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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