Mayu's Animation Overhaul (MAO) 1.1 Crashing on Load

[kedro38]

Having an issue with this mod crashing when loading a game from Oblivion’s start up menu and I was hoping someone would be willing to help or give some advice. From my understanding this mod creates a new file structure for NPC and then use this as the reference for their NPC animations.

After the crash I went into TES4Edit to look at the MAO .esp file and notice almost all the Non-Playable Characters were erroring and the reference was to Mayu’s Project[M]\Animation Overhaul\Vanilla\....nif. I assumed this is the file structure used for the NPC and that it would exist and act similar to the Meshes/Characters/_Male file structure but when I looked for MAO file structure in the Oblivion\Data I could not find it anywhere.

These are the steps I took to load this Mod:

1. From Nexus I downloaded the file with NMM using the “Download with Manager” command

2. From NMM went into Mods Tab and Activated the Selected Mod “Mayu’s Animation Overhaul”

3. Ran BOSS V2.1.1 and saw the “Highly recommended to use the MAO patcher”

4. Open Wrye Bash 3.0.3 (Standalone)

a. Verified MAO was one of the last files in the load order

b. Removed my TES4Edit Merge Batch

c. Ran Rebuilt Bashed Patch method

d. Navigated to Tweak Actors and checked the Mayu’s Animation Overhaul Skeleton

e. Built Patch

5. Opened TES4Edit 3.0.28 and recreated my Merge Patch

6. Activated my Merge Patch in Wrye Bash

I uninstalled MAO and verified that the game works with these Active Mod Files:

• 00 oblivion.esm

• 01 Natural Interiors.esm [Version 0.9]

• 02 All Natural Base.esm [Version 1.34]

• 03 Unofficial Oblivion Patch.esp [Version 3.4.3]

• 04 UOPS Additional Changes.esp

• 05 Oblivion Citadel Door Fix.esp

• 06 DLCShiveringIsles.esp

• 07 Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch.esp [Version 1.5.2]

• ++ USIPS Additional Changes.esp

• 08 All Natural.esp [Version 1.34]

• 09 All Natural - SI.esp [Version 1.34]

• 0A Immersive Interiors.esp [Version 0.8.1]

• 0B Immersive Interiors - Landscape Addon.esp

• 0C Natural Interiors - Cities.esp [Version 0.9]

• 0D All Natural - Real Lights.esp [Version 1.34]

• 0E Weapon Expansion Pack for Oblivion Nthusiasts.esp [Version 1.03]

• 0F Knights.esp

• 10 Knights - Unofficial Patch.esp [Version 1.1.3]

• • • All Natural - Indoor Weather Filter For Mods.esp [Version 1.34]

• 11 Bashed Patch, 0.esp

• 12 TES4Edit Merge Patch.esp

[kedro38]

I really need some help with this. Since I have posted this I have:

 

· Unintalled all my modes then installed MAO… crashed on load/new

· Followed the Revert to Vanilla steps then installed MAO… Crashed on load/new

· Followed the Oblivion Reinstall steps then installed MAO… Crashed on load/new

· For a couple reasons (but this being one) I completely cleaned/wiped all my hard drives and reinstalled everything then installed MAO… Crashed on load/new

 

I’ve read, searched, and read more forums posts than I want but I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong… I have not used special animations or any animations besides various skeletons I have tried… I have placed this in various locations in my load order but nothing helps… this is not running in my programs folder...

 

I moved on to applied a bunch of different textures and various things to really improve performance but whenever this one mod is added…. Crash on load/new. Plus, not being able to use this mod is making me want it more.

[kedro38]

The crash was caused because I kept installing this mod with Nexus Mod Manager or Wrye Bash but not TES Mod Manager/Oblivion Mod Manager... because of this the file directory was never and caused the crash.