accidentally deleted something

[ArdenRayer]

I must have accidentally deleted the meshes or something for the feet of people, because everyone around me without shoes, have purple feet, whats the best way of handling this? its very annoying. On that note, all of the windows at anvil castle are red, whats the deal?

[dezdimona]

any time you get purple anything means a texture is missing. Have you installed mods lately? Did it happen after mods were installed? and what were you deleteing?

[maYuYang]

you could disable all mods and the NPC's feet should be normal again(unless you deleted the Oblivion Textures.bsa that is...).

If you want to track it, disable mod by mod, each time starting into the game to see if NPCs were walking through purple color. Once you found it, you could just redownload it and install it again(still abit weird though that only their feet are affected)

Another way-around is to pretend that all bare-feeted NPCs are just Grape-stamping to create wine^^

[ArdenRayer]

well I am new to the mods thing, and i was manually installing several files into the textures and meshes folders. I will disable all mods temporarily to see if that helps, but I in fact, might have deleted the .bsa file, and if that is indeed the case, where might I go about obtaining that .bsa again? would a reinstall of oblivion do the trick? or would I wipe out my mods?

[bben46]

If you are going to reinstall. Yes it will replace the .bsa files.

 

Bben46 Complete Reinstall Procedure for Oblivion

 

This is usually a last resort and your game is already trashed. I cannot be responsible for any damage you manage to do to your game when trying this. You are free to use this procedure and post it as you see fit.

 

When you uninstall Oblivion it doesn't really uninstall everything. Then when you start adding mods before you have started the game, some things may not get initialized properly. Here is my recommended procedure for uninstalling and reinstalling.

 

The game uninstaller does not remove your mods, save games or Oblivion.ini or the entries that the original installation of Oblivion placed in your Windows registry. It also does not remove helper programs such as OBSE, OBMM, Wrye Bash, The construction set or any other programs you have installed in the \Oblivion folder or the save game folder. I recommend that you go ahead and delete them, then re download and install the latest version of them again later. After you have verified that the game works.

 

I would appreciate any feedback on this as it is something I expect to post often and I hate to give bogus or useless information.

 

Uninstalling Oblivion

 

DO NOT DELETE THE GAME FOLDERS YET! This is very important.If you delete them,it causes problems later.

 

My instructions assume you are using Windows XP and have installed Oblivion into the default location. If you are using Vista or Linux, the file locations may be different, however, the procedure will be the same.

 

For a full reinstall, first you can try to preserve your mods and save games. I recommend that you save them in a new folder with a new name. Create the new folder in C:\Backup_Oblivion - or any other name you will remember, just as long as it is not in the programs folder.

 

Then copy the data folder where your mods are to the new folder - do not erase them, copy them. And in the new folder, rename the \data folder to \olddata. Then copy and rename the folder that has your saved games and Oblivion.ini, C:\documents and settings\your user name\my documents\My Games\oblivion to something like \My games\Old Oblivion - this saves your saved games and the oblivion.ini file.

 

 

Then, using the original CD, NOT the Launcher on your Hard drive. Select uninstall.

 

After it completes the uninstall, reboot your computer - this is important as it allows Windows to remove some references to the original Oblivion.

 

This would be the time to erase all of the helper programs you have in the \Oblivion folder. Such as OBMM, OBSE and some others. The simplest way is to delete the folder completely. The new install will re create the folder for you along with a fresh oblivion.ini and when you start the game and make a save, a new save folder and new \data folder.

 

Now you can delete the game folders if you want to do a complete fresh reinstall. Your original saved games & mods are backed up if you want to try to resurrect them later.

 

To remove the registry entries that were left behind. If all else fails, this usually works to resurrect your game.

 

I do not recommend manually editing the registry unless you know what you are doing. A mistake here could make your entire computer unusable.

 

There are several good programs for removing left behind entries. The one I use is ccleaner. Be sure to reboot before using it, and again after. It is free and available here:

 

http://majorgeeks.com/download4191.html

 

This would also be a good time to do a file clean up. Run the built in Windows 'Disk Cleanup' routine. If you uses the ccleaner, most of this has already been done, but it won't hurt to do it anyway.

 

Now that everything is cleaned up, do a full defrag on your hard drive to leave a large uncluttered area to reinstall to. This prevents your game from installing in a fragmented way, with parts scattered all over the drive. It also will speed up the install a little. It takes a while, but may speed up you game as well as the rest of your computer.

 

 

 

Now to Reinstall.

 

Again using the original CD, install Oblivion.

 

NOTE: If you are using Vista, DO NOT install to the default directory. Instead make a new directory I recommend C:\Games. Install Oblivion there to avoid the hassle with Vista UAC blocking mods.

 

Before adding any mods, patches, helper programs, Shivering Isles or anything else, start the game and make a save. This initializes some stuff that needs to be initialized.

 

If you are using the Game of the Year version of Oblivion you should not need any patches, skip the patching part.

 

Now, If you DO NOT use Shivering Isles, patch the game using ONLY the latest Oblivion patch. All of the stuff from the earlier patches is included.

 

Be sure you use the proper language patch. If you use the wrong one it may work, but with a strange mixture of languages. (Germanglish?) Or it may crash.

 

NOTE: there are two English Patches UK & US and they are different. (Some people actually think we speak the same language) Use the one that matches your original disk.

 

If you use Shivering Isles, Install it now. DO NOT install the Oblivion patch. Install Shivering Isles, then ONLY the latest Shivering Isles patch. All of the updates for Oblivion are included. There is only one Shivering Isles patch for both US & UK English (Maybe sometimes we do speak the same language.)

 

Now, again start the game, make sure it looks right, move around a little to test it, and make a save. Test to be sure everything is working right (No purple objects or yellow blocks)

 

Before adding any mods, back up both your \data folder and the save game folder. Copy them, don't move or rename them, to a different folder - such as \Bethesda\Clean Oblivion\data and \Bethesda\clean Oblivion\saves. Note that this is a different folder than the one used for your old data and saves.

 

Note, Your Oblivion.ini file is in the same folder, but separate from, the save game folder.

 

Now, if you want to try to run with your old mods, first rename the original folders. The \data folder to \newdata and the \oldata back to \data. this restores all of your mods. You should now have 2 data folders \data, and \newdata in your \oblivion folder

 

To restore your original saves and ini file, rename the new My Games\Oblivion to something like \New Oblivion. and the \Old oblivion to \oblivion - this restores all of your saved games and your original Oblivion.ini file.

 

DO NOT erase the files you renamed. These are your backup files in case the original mods do not work or give you the same problem.

 

If you have the same problem, it is most likely caused by a mod. However, you now have a clean install to fall back on. You can You can COPY (NOT move or rename) the backup files back to what they were and be back to your clean install without having to reinstall again.

 

Sounds like lots of work, but you will have a clean install and a back up clean install when you are finished.

[ArdenRayer]

holy moly, that is quite a bit of work there bben46. I went ahead and copy and pasted that into word, just in case this thread gets deleted, however i have one more question then. besides the entire re install, would simply finding and replacing that specific .bsa file perhaps help? or would the trouble of finding out which one it is, let alone getting a new one be even more difficult then the reinstall?

 

oh yeah, and im running on a vista.

[maYuYang]

the problem is that once you deleted a bsa, there's no legal way to get it back except for a clean re-installation. I'm not exactly sure now, but I think that there should be: OblivionMeshes.bsa, OblivionTextures1.bsa, OblivionTextures2.bsa, OblivionSound.bsa and OblivionMusic.bsa. You can of course search for it, but I do not recommend to search for it in the internet since that would be illegal. Might be that you just moved it into another local folder by accident, but I actually doubt it. I already mentioned this, but since only the feet of your NPCs are purple and nothing else, it's more likely that one specific texture is missing...

[bben46]

Back up your data folder when you have a good one again. a good time is right after you reinstall, Before adding any mods and you know the game works properly. Copy the folder into another folder such as C:\Oblivion Backup\Clean Install. Then you will have all of the vanilla .bsa files, and the Oblivion.esm that can be copied back into your working data folder.

 

That can save having to reinstall again

 

Before you go through the reinstall, here is what you should have in a clean install data folder. If the bsa is there, it's likely being overwritten by a mod.

 

Music (folder)

Shaders (folder)

Video (folder)

Credits (text)

Obilivion- Meshes.bsa

Oblivion - Misc.bsa

Oblivion - Sounds.bsa

Oblivion - Textures - Compressed.bsa

Oblivion - Voices1.bsa

Oblivion - voices2.bsa

Oblivion.esm

[SavageArtistry]

Before going through a reinstall I have a quick question. Does the purple feet only happen to one gender? It's possible if you are using mods you've simply deleted the feet textures. Since you said that everyone's foot texture is gone, I'd hazard a guess that you have a mod activated which swaps out feet textures for the Imperial (male or female) and have deleted the foot texture accidentally. If that's the case you could just reinstall that one mod or look for a replacement foot texture and put it in Data\textures\characters\imperial\m (or f).

[ArdenRayer]

Ok, I saved all the responses to this thread, I think I have enough for this problem to be solved, now I have a completely unrelated question, and dont feel like making a new thread. I downloaded the chingari demon race, and am using the ff fantasy figures mod. however when i load up the character, there seems to be a problem with the right leg as there are abs, and genitalia on the right leg. only the texture, so its 2-d. should I just go ahead and change my character to a nord or something, redownload the mod and give it another go? that seems like it would be right but im new so best to ask the community.