Missing texture black vs missing texture lavender

[TheRomans]

Some objects with missing textures are black, and some are light lavender color. Does this difference in color mean anything or tell me anything about the missing texture?

[DrakeTheDragon]

Purple meshes means missing textures ("xyz.dds"), pitch black or invisible meshes means missing normalmap ("xyz_n.dds").

It depends on different other things whether it will be pitch black or completely invisible.

 

Sometimes, although the main texture file itself is missing, the missing normalmap will superrule and display a pitch black or invisible instead of a purple mesh.

Additionally, a missing texture/normalmap can also kill the rigging (purple/pitch black meshes stretching into infinity until the missing texture issue got fixed).

Edited September 29, 2012 by DrakeTheDragon

[Nephenee13]

Missing skin textures sometimes show as black, for reasons I was never clear on, they just do.

[TheRomans]

Thanks for the info. I wanted it in order that I could be more specific in playtest reports.

 

So as I read it, the black may mean either a missing normal map or missing both the normal map and texture with the missing normal map taking precedence for some reason.