» Sat Jun 18, 2011 9:22 am
About the camera problem, I might have kinda solved it... while possibly breaking something else, but I'm not sure about that, which is why've come here to ask...
But let's start from the beginning. A few hours ago, I was inspired to reinstall Oblivion along with a few terabytes of essential mods, which, it goes without saying, included Deadly Reflex at the top of the list. After I installed its current version, however, the strangest things started happening. First, the 1st person camera decided to disconnect from my character's point of view and stubbornly stay three feet above her head... which wouldn't have bothered me terribly much, since I mostly play in the 3rd person view anyway, but unfortunately it seemed to affect the third person too, making aiming and interacting with the environment pretty much impossible.
Worried, I deactivated the mod and checked again, but strangely, the issue persisted even after starting a new game, which struck me as rather disconcerting. Seeing that it wasn't the esp files' fault after all, I decided to take a look at the skeleton nifs and see if replacing them would do anything to solve the problem, yet even in spite of trying a few different ones (originally Growlf's Universal Skeleton, then Coronerra's and eventually even that 'http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=36684' I found on TESNexus), none of them managed to fix that peculiar issue. Having lost all hope and not really wanting to part with many other mods that required universally compatible skeletons (which the one attached to the mod did not seem to be), I resigned myself to the prospect of having to remove DR 6 and revert to its earlier version... but as I went through the files, throwing them to my bin, one last desperate realisation occured to me - that perhaps it wasn't the skeleton that was guilty, but the 1st person idles utilised by the mod.
I removed all of them and, miraculously... it solved my problem! I no longer have randomly crazy-acting camera, the crosshair is exactly where it's supposed to be and my character's eyes are no longer floating above her head. And I still can bash people, cut them in half, burn them to dust and even see the lovely blood-splatter on the screen as I indulge my unladylike lust for senseless violence. For now, everything seems to be working properly... but I still have these annoying little doubts bothering me - have I, by any chance, done something incredibly stupid and possibly troublesome by removing the first person animations? ^^'