I customized the pipboy texture and placed it in the right folders, but in-game it doesn't show up. Can anybody tell me why?

The folders I placed the textures in in are :


Textures\pipboy3000\pipboyarm01.dds
Textures\pipboy3000\pipboyarm01_n.dds
Textures\pipboy3000\pc\pipboyarm01.dds
Textures\pipboy3000\pc\pipboyarm01_n.dds
Textures\pipboy3000\pc\english\pipboyarm01.dds
Textures\pipboy3000\pc\english\pipboyarm01_n.dds



I have Archive Invalidation Invalidated! And I only redone textures and installed them in the proper folders I didn't do anything in the GECK. Should I?

I still can't get it to work, any ideas anyone???

A good friend and I worked on it for a few days and I finally got it to work. What was wrong was a very STRANGE error. He advised me to install the Red Camo texture because he KNEW it worked. I took his advice and it worked. So, I was curious to see what happened exactly. Since the Red Camo has the textures for all the gaming consoles I tried deleteing them 1 by 1. When I delete them all but xbox it still works. When I delete Xbox it doesn't work no matter if I have ALL the rest of the consoles folders. I think they put something together wrong in my GOTY version and even though its on PC it points to Xbox for some reason (but olny with the Pipboy as far as I know; I have custom textures & meshes of all kinds that work perfectly). To test this I tried switching my textures with the Red Camo's and see what happened and it WORKED!

What are the odds of THAT? Have you EVER heard of anything like that? I think this should be put on a sticky post somewhere or something in case it happens to others.

Did you look at the texture link in the mesh itself ?
Myne, (not GOTY) links to :
textures\pipboy3000\xbox\english\PipBoyArm01.dds
NPC pipboy links to :
textures\pipboy3000\PipBoyArm01.dds

So, the reason is that simple. Sorry, I didn't see your message before.

I hadn't looked at it so I figured it out the hard way. So your's links to xbox also? Is yours also on the PC?

Yes, on PC and not the GOTY edition. The texture for the player's pipboy is the xbox\english one and the NPC pipboy is the normal one in the parent directory.
very strange, there are lots of files, they are all exactly the same, and there are unused localized versions in each folder. Smells like some unfinished business.

Yeah, thats exactly the way mine is! That is really weird! It's obviously not limited to either the regular version or GOTY. I agree, some unifinished business for sure!