Art file's / vanilla meshes dont exist?

[jefthereaper]

oke sorry, i looked around on the forum and came up empty handed, same for the ck wiki

 

im green in mods so go easy on me if this is a very stupid mistake

 

 

after using the ck a few times i now wanted to make a new projectile using the mesh and texture of a dwarven centurion core

but the only way i can see to change the look of a projectile is by changing the "art file"

when i ask the ck to open it i get a new menu to the place where i installed my game (i installed it in the recommended location/basic location where it goes if you dont choose a location yourself)

 

but i dont have any other meshes and textures/files then the ones i have via mods i have intalled,

there are no vanilla meshes so how can i change the looks of my projectile if i dont have the mesh?

[GileadMaerlyn]

You need to extract the .bsa files. The meshes are in there.

To do so, you have BSAopt, although I personally prefer the BSA browser included in FOMM, BSAopt being extremely slow on my computer. (you need to create a dull falloutNV.exe file if you wish to install FOMM without having fallout, the BSA browser can then be launched alone without a problem)

Edited July 24, 2012 by Gilead Maerlyn

[jefthereaper]

ow thanks,

 

like i said, rooky mistake, hmm, its strange how i seem to be able to find the hardest things but never solve these easy things :confused:

 

do you also recall how the bsa folders are called? (i have over a 100 mods and basicly its hard to find bsa folders now,

i could de activate/uninstall all my mods but then i would have to save them all in a seperated folder first course i made a lot of changes to most mods to my personal gameplay)

 

thanks for the help :biggrin: making mods itself is easy,

learning how to make them, thats the true hard work :blink:

[GileadMaerlyn]

BSA are not folders, they are archive files. Easy to find, they're in you data folder, are called Skyrim - XXXX.bsa and some are more than 1GB large. Edited July 24, 2012 by Gilead Maerlyn

[jefthereaper]

hmm strange, i will save all my modified files then and delete everything and start a new game course i dont have those files at all,

its strange, weird that this strange stuff has to happen to me again :wallbash:

 

it would however explain why my game has been acting funny, crashing occasionally and refuses to start specific mods

 

thanks for all the help, after i reinstall the files will just pop up i guess (if not then my pc is possessed by virus ghosts, lol)

i hope it will work tough, i need those meshes to make better mods :tongue:

 

thanks again!

[GileadMaerlyn]

You HAVE those files, otherwise, you couldn't play skyrim. At all ;) Edited July 24, 2012 by Gilead Maerlyn

[jefthereaper]

lol yeah found them in the sea of files

 

192 mods XD im way to extreme,

 

thanks i will try out this all, at least now i can make a lot of new projectiles and finaly change a few swords i wanted to make

[jefthereaper]

yup, program is working and now i can save everything in a seperated folder to use for mods, leaving my data folder intact

thanks man :thumbsup:

 

+1 kudo for you :biggrin:

Edited July 24, 2012 by jefthereaper