dds textures unfindable

[khakuya]

So I've edited one of the few extra magic effect slots that was left blank by Bethesda and made a set of bound armor and bound weapons. But I cannot find any textures for the spell effect icons anywhere!

 

So when I use these spells in my game, their spell effect icons just show up as these garish purple boxes.

 

Does anyone know where I can either download the dds files for spell effect icons or maybe if there's something I am not doing right to get them to pop out of the construction set?

 

I've had this issue when modding Skyrim before too, maybe dds files just aren't in the texture folder. And despite a spell or armour or whatever having a dds file assigned, if I click the change file button to look for a new file, then click cancel, the assigned dds file directory also disappears.

[DrakeTheDragon]

Almost every Vanilla game asset, apart from a very few select exceptions, is stored inside and used from the game's BSA files instead. A pure Vanilla installation without any mods most often does not even have a "meshes" or "textures" folder inside "data".

 

There's several tools available for you to look into and extract files from the game's BSAs, like for example the BSA Browser inside the Oblivion Mod Manager (OBMM), a stand-alone command line tool called BSA Commander, and I think there's even something inside the Nexus Mod Manager (NMM)'s Tools or Utilities for this.