Alright, so here's my issue.


Originally, when I first re-installed Fallout 3 on my computer, there wasn't any problem at all. In fact, it was going rather smoothly (despite literally having the MINIMUM system specs, at the moment. Smoothly, of course, not describing gameplay) up until some time earlier this week.

Now, somewhere in that time-span... I installed FOOK2 and Mart's Mutant Mod. It took some serious finagling to get it to work... though I eventually did. After that, it was another round of fighting in order to get the game to stop crashing. Eventually, I decided that it was just too much strain on the miserable amount of memory this computer has, and uninstalled both.

Now... for some strange reason... it seems all of my female characters have body-texture issues.

They never did before. Not even with MMM and FOOK2 running.


The issue I'm having, though, is the problem exists no matter WHAT body models/textures I use! I even went so far as to completely DELETE my character meshes and texture folders... and reinstall all the mods which I had collected what added things to them.

So far... I've managed to get it so that ONLY the raiders have screwed up textures.

It seriously looks like their skin is on sideways or something.


But I'onno. I can't figure it out. If anyone knows how to fix this, though, I'd be quite appreciative.

It sounds like you probably don't have many mods installed. Deleting major mods like that, I'd be inclined to uninstall all mods and delete the meshes and textures directories completely. Make sure any left over esp files in your data directory are deleted and then reinstall any mods you want to use. Deleting major mods like that, it's likely that it deleted meshes or textures that were install by other mods.

Hope that helps.
Doug

Right then.


After meticulous study... and eventually giving up on study, outright, and simply deleting EVERY single mod I had installed: meshes, textures, and the whole lot... it seems that I've both managed to resolve my issue with female GHOULS... and then re-complicate the whole thing by finding that raider females are STILL showing up with their skin on sideways, and the 'ghosts' of underwear meshes showing up... making it look as if this poor, unfortunate wasteland warrior-ess has gone and gotten her entire midsection replaced with some sort of terminal, abyssal void.

Unpleasant to see... most likely, even more unpleasant to endure.


The dilemma here is in locating the problem, rather than the solution. If I could FIGURE OUT what the problem is... I could probably find an adequate solution to it. If it were JUST Dimon's body replacer for females... hell... I have ten others that, in desperation to fix the issue, I downloaded and tried as well.

Obviously, that is not the problem. Or maybe it is... and I simply haven't the faculties to understand -why- it is the problem.

While it is entirely possible, in all my thick-headed wonder, that I managed to entirely miss out on the lesson where properly installing body-replacer mods was the keynote... I have actually managed to achieve the feat before. Successfully.

This leaves me in quite the quandary. Or pickle. I'm not really sure what a quandary is... but I should like to think being in a 'pickle' ought to be far more appetizing. And edible.

Hopefully, some person, infinitely smarter than I, will waltz into my little thread here with the solution I've been dying for.

I've tried all the basics. Uninstalling and reinstalling my body mods.
Archive Invalidation Invalidated.
Blowing away my entire Meshes and Texture folders... all of my mods... and starting from scratch.

Nothing seems to be resolving the problem!

It's a shame... I know raiders are supposed to be UGLY... but certainly they at least deserve to have their SKIN on in the right direction.

... never you mind about the status of the ghouls. They're just lucky to have any skin at all.

Hi,
Just thought of a problem I've had before. Are you using any kind of high resolution skin textures? I've had problems before with having high res textures and having the texture quality in the Fallout 3 launcher set to medium. In that case, setting the texture quality to high fixed it.

Doug

I had considered this myself, because indeed... I have done just precisely that.


The problem is... my computer is quite a pathetic heap of scrap metal... and is entirely incapable of running Fallout 3 at its highest game settings. That being the problem causing me to use high-quality textures on a medium setting. The other problem is that, despite running the game on medium, the remainder of my high-quality body textures seem to work just fine.

It's now entirely limited to female raider and tribal characters.

That being said... my next step is going to be attempting to run it on high-settings... just to check.

If anyone has any other solutions, however, that they think might help... feel free to pop 'em on up here and let me at it.

At this point, I might be willing to shave my head and join a cult if someone noted that it had the effect of righting this wrongly-looking skin.

-_-;'

Hi,
You don't need to set everything to high. Just the texture quality in the advanced section in the launcher. If that doesn't work I'm not sure what the problem could be. I don't have the patience for stuff like this. A few times I've had problems that I can't track down, I usually just wipe everything and start off from a fresh install again.

So... confirmed that the texture settings changed absolutely nothing about the texture issue involving these bodies.


Furthermore, neither does entirely obliterating my entire mod list... which went from rather sizable... to nil... without any sort of improvement whatsoever. At least, in so far as I can tell. Perhaps I'm not getting it. I don't know.

All I know is that the raiders, and tribals, both look like some kind of crazy-weird jig-saw puzzle of skin-colored-fabric exploded across their bodies in all the WRONG directions. It would be, in fact, quite remarkable... were it not for the glaringly obvious fact that every OTHER race works just fine. No hiccups whatsoever.

It's just tribals... and raiders...

I'm pretty sure there's something to that. I -did- have the same problem with ghouls. Interestingly enough, a high-rez texture FIXED that problem.

More questions than answers, now...

You need to install textures for the raiders and tribals. Normal body replacers don't touch those folders. Raiders are located in textures\characters\raiderfemale and Tribals are in textures\characters\tribalfemale. With MMM, the raiders are in textures\MMMF3\characters\raiderfemale.

So, before I have this thread closed... I want to send out my very sincere thanks to anyone who helped me out with this problem.


It was, quite simply, the fact that I didn't actually HAVE any raider or tribal textures installed. Yes, I'm an idiot. Fortunately, I have had sufficient years in life to come to terms with this realization... so it takes quite a bit of the sting off.

That being said, I have resolved the issue. And therefore a topic seeking resolution no longer seems needed.

Once more, thanks. Your assistance in helping a doddering old fool... has not gone unappreciated.