Sarracenia Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 Look at the attatched image and you should understand my problem. The only instructions given to install any mods say "Drag and drop into data/xxxx folder. Well, I kind of have a problem with that. Anyone know what I can do to fix this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thamythic Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 Look at the attatched image and you should understand my problem. The only instructions given to install any mods say "Drag and drop into data/xxxx folder. Well, I kind of have a problem with that. Anyone know what I can do to fix this? yeah same here in the steam version we only have BSA files how do we put mods in there is there a program to unpack them change them and repack them ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiFiSi Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 I don't know either. I put a couple of the mods here in my skyrim data folder but all that shows up in the skyrim launcher's data file selector is the game itself and no mods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anandus Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 Look at the attatched image and you should understand my problem. The only instructions given to install any mods say "Drag and drop into data/xxxx folder. Well, I kind of have a problem with that. Anyone know what I can do to fix this? I don't get the problem? The screenshot you posted is the /data/ folder.So if a mod says 'drop in /data/textures', you drop the files in /data/textures (might need to create the textures folder if you don't have one). Exactly what mod is the problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BareFootScholar Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 I'm having the same problem. Mind you, I was an adept modder in Oblivion. The problem I am having is with the mod that un-uglifies the elven face textures. I would have provided I link but the goddamn website isn't loading :confused: I put the provided textures folder into my data folder, but nothing shows up in the data selector upon launch. It just shows the Master file. I'm wondering if since these mods don't involve any actual Plugin, maybe the BSA's do need to be unpacked first so then the replacement files can take effect. Okay, I just figured out the problem. The mods aren't showing in the Launch Data because they aren't ESP (Plugin) files. They are just replacers. My only last problem is that the BSA unpacker I use is FAILING to unpack the Skyrim BSAs. Can anyone help? :teehee: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MShoap13 Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 There's no need to unpack the .bsa archives unless you plan on modifying something in them. And then you'd want to unpack certain parts of them to a certain location not in your \Data\ directory. Having the resources in the archives drastically reduces load times and if Skyrim is anything like Oblivion/Fallout/NV, having a bloated \Data\ folder compounds the issues with loading resources on the fly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarracenia Posted November 12, 2011 Author Share Posted November 12, 2011 Look at the attatched image and you should understand my problem. The only instructions given to install any mods say "Drag and drop into data/xxxx folder. Well, I kind of have a problem with that. Anyone know what I can do to fix this? I don't get the problem? The screenshot you posted is the /data/ folder.So if a mod says 'drop in /data/textures', you drop the files in /data/textures (might need to create the textures folder if you don't have one). Exactly what mod is the problem? See the post below you.He explains it perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dasso Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 If you put the textures folder into your data folder you don't need to activate it in the launcher as the game automatically knows it should load your custom files instead of those in its BSA files. You don't have to unpack anything from your BSAs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BareFootScholar Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 Oh. :unsure: I guess the mod just isn't working for me then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akindain Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 yes the Normal data file looks like this Interface Strings Video Skyrim.esm Skyrim - Animations.bsa Skyrim - Interface.bsa Skyrim - Meshes.bsa Skyrim - Misc.bsa Skyrim - Shaders.bsa Skyrim - Sounds.bsa Skyrim - Textures.bsa Skyrim - Voices.bsa Skyrim - VoicesExtra.bsa when you add the files from this mod it will look like Interface Strings textures Video Skyrim.esm Skyrim - Animations.bsa Skyrim - Interface.bsa Skyrim - Meshes.bsa Skyrim - Misc.bsa Skyrim - Shaders.bsa Skyrim - Sounds.bsa Skyrim - Textures.bsa Skyrim - Voices.bsa Skyrim - VoicesExtra.bsa When the textures folder is added it takes the new files and replaces the normal ones the game calls fro from the BSA's. The file stucture acts just like it does for modding FO:3 and NV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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