Some Mods Missing textures/are purple SOLVED

[WarPigs]

Some mods, like Weaponsmith Extended work like a charm: No missing meshes or textures/??? marks/no purple textures. All the guns come out perfect with their mods.

But for some reason, other mods such as:
Craftable ammo workbench and see through scopes textures are invisible, while
Zephyr Power Armour mod, and Custom Combat Armors mod are purple textures.

This is what I did:
1) reinstalled latest f4se installed
2) reinstalled all Official DLC's installed
3) Updated to latest version of Fallout 4
4a) added the following line in Fallout4Custom.ini (And In Fallout4INI just incase):

[Archive]
bInvalidateOlderFiles=1
sResourceDataDirsFinal=

4b) added the following line in Fallout4Prefs.ini:

[Launcher]:
bEnableFileSelection=1

5) verified integrity of cache (Multiple times)
6) Deleted all ini files, and redid step 4.
7) re-downloaded latest version of all mods Manually, then put them into the NMM.

*Solved* Read #9 and #10

[Flippy]

A 5 yo could manually install mods and not have any trouble with missing textures or any of the other problems you guys using mod managers have. THINK ABOUT IT.

I am not kidding a 5 YO could do it. Its drag and drop for crying out loud and you guys are pushing mod managers, its a freaking comedy.

[WarPigs]

I've suspected it's something to do with the NMM offline and it does not seem to install meshes or textures properly. I'm going to test this course of action:

1) Open Archive2.exe from the Creation kit tools section
2) Select open, open the problem mod Archive,
3) Extract from the esm., esp files: meshes/sounds/textures/scripts/etc into a folder by themselves.
4) Turn the folder into an Archive, separate from the esp.'s and esm.'s then manually add it to NMM.

I'll let you guys know if it works or not. in 1-3 days.

[SuperSledgeNY]

There's no sure fire way to fix this because it's obviously a mod conflict. You're gonna have to do some good, old-fashioned troubleshooting to find what mod(s) aren't playing nice with each other. Some suggestions:

1. Visit the authors' mod pages and make sure you haven't missed anything like an UPDATE or PATCH, for example

2. While you're there, check out the comments and the bug reports and see if anyone else has the same issue

3. Use LOOT to optimize your load order. It can be that simple.

4. UNINSTALL your mods 1 or 2 at a time to see if the problem goes away. Notice I said uninstall. A simple disable doesn't work all the time.

5. OR IF YOU'VE REINSTALLED THE GAME, start with a vanilla game and then install your mods 1 or 2 at a time until the trouble comes back. Now you'll know what mod is doing it.

Good luck.

[WarPigs]

Originally posted by Flippy:

A 5 yo could manually install mods and not have any trouble with missing textures or any of the other problems you guys using mod managers have. THINK ABOUT IT.

I am not kidding a 5 YO could do it. Its drag and drop for crying out loud and you guys are pushing mod managers, its a freaking comedy.

I get your point, but you don't have to be a douche about it. Just say it like you would in real life.

[SuperSledgeNY]

Originally posted by WarPigs:

I've suspected it's something to do with the NMM offline and it does not seem to install meshes or textures properly. I'm going to test this course of action:

1) Open Archive2.exe from the Creation kit tools section
2) Select open, open the problem mod Archive,
3) Extract from the esm., esp files: meshes/sounds/textures/scripts/etc into a folder by themselves.
4) Turn the folder into an Archive, separate from the esp.'s and esm.'s then manually add it to NMM.

I'll let you guys know if it works or not. in 1-3 days.

I think you're overthinking this. Try the simple sh$t first.

[WarPigs]

Originally posted by Have Gun Will Travel:

There's no sure fire way to fix this because it's obviously a mod conflict. You're gonna have to do some good, old-fashioned troubleshooting to find what mod(s) aren't playing nice with each other. Some suggestions:

1. Visit the authors' mod pages and make sure you haven't missed anything like an UPDATE or PATCH, for example

2. While you're there, check out the comments and the bug reports and see if anyone else has the same issue

3. Use LOOT to optimize your load order. It can be that simple.

4. UNINSTALL your mods 1 or 2 at a time to see if the problem goes away. Notice I said uninstall. A simple disable doesn't work all the time.

5. OR IF YOU'VE REINSTALLED THE GAME, start with a vanilla game and then install your mods 1 or 2 at a time until the trouble comes back. Now you'll know what mod is doing it.

Good luck.

Thanks,

So far, I have been using Loot but it doesn't change my load order: ever. and there are no errors., I completely deleted ALL my mods, not just disabled them, and re-downloaded them from Nexus manually.

[ronr42]

There's one other simple thing you can try that works quite often with New Vegas when a mods textures are purple. Does not work much for FO4, but it's worth a try. Go to the tools tab in NMM and reset Archive Invalidation then close NMM plus the game and re-open them.

[DoublePlusUngood]

Originally posted by Flippy:

A 5 yo could manually install mods and not have any trouble with missing textures or any of the other problems you guys using mod managers have. THINK ABOUT IT.

I am not kidding a 5 YO could do it. Its drag and drop for crying out loud and you guys are pushing mod managers, its a freaking comedy.

Oh shut up capt'n smart. Using NMM is a GUI, ya know something we've been using since the Amiga? Atari ST? Mac classic? FFS don't sound like such a smug douche. Yes, it's easy to drag and drop but NMM saves at least two steps per mod when downloading, in my case that's almost 50 mods. Also have fun locating all your files when you want to uninstall a mod to troubleshoot as this post points out! With NMM it's a simple case of easy categories you can set yourself if you want, click uninstall and done, while your genious self is busy hunting through a folder not sure the cryptic name of said mod. Also many mod authors BEG you to use the mod manager for install.

Long story short, shut the **** up dork.

[Gnomageddon]

Found a mod that DOES cause this issue! Was able to reproduce it 100% of the time. While installing the "Scrap Everything" mod through Nexus Mod Manager, if "Disappearing Objects-Terrain" is activated, it may turn several objects purple (missing textures) and turn some objects, (like the Vault 111 elevator) completely invisible.

[WarPigs]

Originally posted by Gnomageddon:

Found a mod that DOES cause this issue! Was able to reproduce it 100% of the time. While installing the "Scrap Everything" mod through Nexus Mod Manager, if "Disappearing Objects-Terrain" is activated, it may turn several objects purple (missing textures) and turn some objects, (like the Vault 111 elevator) completely invisible.

You're right. It was a while ago but I would like to add to your answer.
- Follow newest updated procedures to completely remove Scrap Everything from the game.

* If that doesn't work then:
- Uninstall the game.
- Complete a Data Integrity Verify in the Steam menu.
+ Since I wanted a clean unmodded game, This is what I did.

* If this does not fix the issue it is most likely an update/mod conflict. It's also possible you;'ve installed it incorrectly. Check the nexus site & Google keywords for possible fixes. If none of thoes work, ask for assistance and then inform the mod author.

[No-Face $hiba]

i dont have any mods how do i fix it?

[Danna]

Hey guys I took out all my mods after setting up my fallout the way I love to play it a lot of guns and love and such I got purple tires the clutter that's around the first thing I see is tires it might have been me wanting to live in a snow lands so I started it up with that but it was weird so I took it out but noticed the purple tires and im like great something that will draw my attention so I sort things around and still nothing so I don't know what to do its not mods I took them all out and still purple tires so what can be done to fix as long as I don't have to redo my mods again reloading them all will be hell so can I clean fallout somehow or is there any other way of making a new fallout thing clean no mods effecting gameplay yet if so let me know i just now got the courage to play modded fallout after getting a new pc smaller and better.

[Danna]

Hey guys I took out all my mods after setting up my fallout the way I love to play it a lot of guns and love and such I got purple tires the clutter that's around the first thing I see is tires it might have been me wanting to live in a snow lands so I started it up with that but it was weird so I took it out but noticed the purple tires and im like great something that will draw my attention so I sort things around and still nothing so I don't know what to do its not mods I took them all out and still purple tires so what can be done to fix as long as I don't have to redo my mods again reloading them all will be hell so can I clean fallout somehow or is there any other way of making a new fallout thing clean no mods effecting gameplay yet if so let me know i just now got the courage to play modded fallout after getting a new pc smaller and better.

[Ludakriss]

Originally posted by ronr42:

There's one other simple thing you can try that works quite often with New Vegas when a mods textures are purple. Does not work much for FO4, but it's worth a try. Go to the tools tab in NMM and reset Archive Invalidation then close NMM plus the game and re-open them.

That was so helpful! Thank you! I didn't have purple textures but Dartmouth Professional Building's entire ground floor was covered in a 'white wall'. What I understand to be missing/unloaded textures. I could walk through them and from the inside-out, I could see everything fine. Come back out, and same 'white wall'.

For now, your advice seems to have fixed my problem. Thank you very much!

[Niko Bellic]

I know this is super old, but i wanna just say that with my vietnam gear mod, all the gear while wearing it is purple, but not when i drop it, i dont get it, its also purple when worn by others, like the raiders n stuff, if anyone knows how to fix it, it would be very much appreciated, im on my PC and im new to it so some things are confusing for me to figure out but i eventually do lol