Big read exclamation mark thingy

[Danidude1]

Many of the mods that i have downloaded(especially armor and weapon mods) dont work properly.

F. eks when i am holding a gun, its just red square with a white exclamation mark in the middel.

Is it i that have extracted the files wrong or is it a bad download?

[chucksteel]

Ether you haven't installed the mods properly and, archive invalidated or, you may be running to many mods. If you exceed the mod limit you'll start to see the missing mesh markers.

[Danidude1]

What is the mod limit?

[chucksteel]

It all depends on your rig, it's different for everyone but, I hear it is around 130-150 mods as a standard.

[Danidude1]

i only got 41.....

[chucksteel]

make sure you've installed the mods properly, if they come with meshes, textures they need to be extracted to your data folder too. Also, toggle Archive Invalidation with FOMM or NMM.

[Danidude1]

i always extract the files using winrar. but sometimes of all the meshes and textures and the esp/esm file in another file. then i have to manually copy them and paste in the datafolder(wich means i also have to rename the folders of meshes and textures since several other has that name. am i doing it right then?

[chucksteel]

Thats your problem,

 

Do what your doing but, don't change the folder names, the files need to be in there correct paths. For example Meshes need to be place in the "Fallout New Vegas\data\meshes\ What ever folder" textures need to be placed int the "Fallout New Vegas\data\textures\ What ever folder".

 

Just merge the folders, many modders set up specific file paths so they don't overwrite other mod work but, read the read-me's and, you may want to look at the file if the mod you want is similar to anther mod you use.

 

You have to always maintiain the file structure that comes with the mod or, you'll have the missing mesh issue because the game can't find what it needs because it doesn't know that you renamed the folder.

 

hope this helps

 

chuck

[Danidude1]

ok thx, but theproblem with that is this:

F.eks i open a rar file. inside is a folder called data(inside this one is the esp/esm and meshes and textures) when i extraxt to NV data folder, only the first date folder will be there, and i cant mark the mod in FOMM or launcher datafiles.. any help on this?

[Quetzlsacatanango]

That's because when you extract \data to \data, you get \data\data.

Plugins only show up in the launcher if they're in \data, and you're putting all yours in \data\data.

Move *everything* out of \data\data and into \data. When it asks to overwrite, say yes.