Missing Mesh and Textures for Males

[rodeowearden]

Okay. Fallout 3. I am getting the red exclamation marks. I can never remember if this means missing mesh or missing texture. It seems to only be appearing on raiders and homeless (guys sitting outside megaton and the raft asking for water.) I am using Breezes male mod (or trying to anyways). I am using a variety of mods that might affect this, including FWE and MMM. I did get the compatibility patches and I even gave myself a crash course in FO3edit so I could teach myself how to build a merged patch.

 

I have tried every fix I can think of, from manually adjusting the meshes and textures without the aid of a mod manager, to download multiple managers to reinstall the mod. (I typically prefer NMM, but downloaded FOMM because it seems to have better compatibility with FOMODS).

 

I could really use a hand here. One or two of these missing meshes/textures I can ignore, but its too common here to ignore. Every raider is messed up.

 

Can anyone help me with this?

 

---edit--- I forgot to mention, this missing mesh or texture seems to be directly related to the male skins. I know that seems assumed in the original post but I wanted to clarify ---edit---

Edited April 22, 2012 by rodeowearden

[aruless]

Ur missing the textures here, my suggestion, check if u have instaled any mod that change raider aspect and remove the mod.

[M48A5]

Open FOMM, go to tools, if there is a check mark next to archiveinvalidation invalidated!, uncheck it and close FOMM. Open Fomm, go to tools, place a check mark next to archiveinvalidation invalidated!. Close FOMM.

Open FOMM and launch the game. You did not mention whether or not you had FOSE. If you don't, get it.

[rodeowearden]

Hi, thanks for the responses. Just to clarify, I have used Archive Invalidation using NMM, FOMM, AND the ArchiveInvalidated program tool. Nothing seems to be fixing that issue. I do also use FOSE.

 

I have tried removing all raider textures from my textures folder on the hope that the game would default back to the textures packed in the BSA but no luck there. I know that FWE and MMM both use custom raider textures, as well as Breeze's fomod, but I can't seem to find a way to make them all work together. Or maybe the problem is not related to these, maybe there is something else, I am not sure.

 

What are the textures inside the characters/raider folder supposed to look like, filename wise? Maybe that is my issue?

[BlackRampage]

Troubleshooting 101:

 

Missing meshes = red exclamation mark.

 

Missing textures = chameleon-like effect on affected surfaces.

 

Can you tell Archive Invalidation won't fix it?

 

Now that we solved that misunderstanding, how did you install Breezes mod? Via the package manager? Did you install the 2 patches that come with it too?

 

If you did, look up the following directory: Fallout3 \ data \ meshes \ characters \ _male \

 

In it, you're supposed to have a file called "upperbody.nif"

Edited April 22, 2012 by BlackRampage

[rodeowearden]

Unfortunately, I am still unable to resolve this issue. BlackRampage, I am glad you informed me that the mark means missing mesh and not missing texture, that gave me a good place to start. However, I am still unable to fix this issue. I have upperbody.nif in the right folder, the problem is just not resolved.

 

Since I am now unable to play FO3 due to a strange issue where the game is constantly freezing, I've decided to move on to New Vegas for a while to alleviate some frustration. Perhaps I will come back to this another time and try to resolve it.

[Spaughtyena]

Ok, I've found a fix for this, considering I was having the same issue. I uninstalled all my mods and looked back on some of Gophers vids on how he installed FWE and MMM. After going through those, I found that the issue still wasn't resolved. So I downloaded Robert Male bodies, and replaced the upperbody.nif - afterwards I ran the game and it functioned correctly, no errors~

 

http://fallout3.nexusmods.com/mods/3671/ <-- Roberts male - seemed to fix it.