Purple statues

[Splaticus]

All the statues in Skyrim are purple. How do I fix that in the creation kit?

[Cosmic Cat]

Does purple mean missing textures?

[Lady Aeleanor]

You have missing textures. Try doing a game file verification through Steam to see if it re-acquires any missing or corrupted files.

[Splaticus]

Can you export the textures, like exporting facegen with Ctr+f4?

[258789553873]

Purple objects just mean they're missing their textures. Did you uninstall a texture mod of any sort? If you do so using nexus mod manager, or vortex, the original textures won't be restored, causing the missing texture glitch that you're seeing. Just 'verify the integrity' of your files (an option that steam gives you) to restore the lost files.

The creation kit isn't going to fix anything for you. And no, you can't 'export' textures or models other than heads.

[Vlad 254]

Originally posted by Lady Aeleanor:

You have missing textures. Try doing a game file verification through Steam to see if it re-acquires any missing or corrupted files.

[Splaticus]

Verifying the game files didn't do anything.

[DragonMaster]

Do you have a mod that alters the statues? If so maybe moving it down in the load order

[Splaticus]

Yes, I have a mod that alters the statues. The first time I used it, it worked fine. After my game broke, I re-downloaded the game, and re-installed all my mods. Now the statues are purple.

[Lady Aeleanor]

Originally posted by Splaticus:

Yes, I have a mod that alters the statues. The first time I used it, it worked fine. After my game broke, I re-downloaded the game, and re-installed all my mods. Now the statues are purple.

Well, that's your issue. Temporarily disable the mod and if that reverts the statues back to a normal colour, then I would reinstall the mod.

[Splaticus]

Disabling the mod restored the textures. Re-enabling the mod turned them purple again.

[Lady Aeleanor]

Originally posted by Splaticus:

Disabling the mod restored the textures. Re-enabling the mod turned them purple again.

What mod manager are you using? Did you get prompted to overwrite any files when you first installed the mod?

[Splaticus]

Vortex. Yes, it prompts you to overwrite. But, like I said, I didn't have any problems with it the first time I used it.

[Lady Aeleanor]

Originally posted by Splaticus:

Vortex. Yes, it prompts you to overwrite. But, like I said, I didn't have any problems with it the first time I used it.

Well, it's clearly the mod that's causing it. Did you allow the mod to overwrite the existing vanilla files?

[Death Approaches]

Originally posted by Splaticus:

Verifying the game files didn't do anything.

No of course it won't, it's more for people that crash immediately trying to play, or when it doesn't even start. It's rare that it helps. It can even be dangerous, especially for manually modded games; people that use LOOT and Vortex et al because they're so non-technical they can't edit an .ini file without step-by-step instructions, still want to play with mods, and that's fine, but there are a few mods that edit stock files, files that are checksummed by Steam, and will be overwritten because it's different that what Valve thinks it's supposed to be.

But this, you have already solved it. Don't re-enable it, re-install it. Clearly the texture files for this mod are missing, either loose .dds files that got culled or never installed, maybe you're out of RAM/VRAM and tying to load in some 4k/8k highres maps, I suppose you could be on linux playing via SteamPlay aka proton and the mod creator is a Windows person and doesn't know that textures, Textures, and TEXTURES would are all separate directories (you'll have to rename manually in that case, but you're linux savvy and would know this)

[HazakTheMad]

Reinstalling the mod is indeed the likely fix, although I don't see how verifying files would be harmful unless it started an update when you were purposely on an older version, but even
that can be undone.