Odd condition in CS

[astr0wiz]

SO, whilst investigating a weird problem in a game where my bats were completely invisible (w/out detect life spells of course), I thought I would check the bat models in CS. I loaded the plugin -- in this case it is MMM -- and found the leveled list in the cave...then the reference to the bat...then the Creature entry for the bat.

Now, when I select the Model List tab, I get this error, and there are no models in the list selected. What should my next step be to fix the invisible bats? Anyone run into this before?

The error says: "Files have been removed from this model list. Please save and check in."

[Hanaisse]

Have you looked at the meshes and textures folders for MMM to make sure the creatures/bats are in there?

[astr0wiz]

Well, that crossed my mind, but I wasn't sure how to do that. You suppose I compare what's in the MMM archive and see if I can match it up?

[Hanaisse]

Yeah, take a peak in the MMM archive and see if it has this;

meshes\creatures\Imp\bat.nif

textures\creatures\bat\bat.dds, bat_n.dds

That's how it's set up in mr_siika's Bats For Cyrodiil file, which also has a Mart's Monster Mod - Bats addon.esp. Not sure if that's been added into MMM or if maybe you need to get this too?

[astr0wiz]

Aha, that was it. Actually, there were several other issues. The MMM.bsa file was missing (huh?), several other textures, and a couple meshes. What a mess. I thought I followed the instructions, but I guess not. Oddly, I have been playing with this mod setup for a few months now, and only recently realized that something was wrong. Thanks for the advice.

[lilith]

I would have to ask if you've properly registered or renamed your MMM BSA? I ask this because all of the bat meshes and textures are in their proper places in the BSA archive. I would also have to ask which actual plugin you loaded into the CS as MMM is unique in its setup.

I've looked through my MMM BSA archive and have found all of the above mentioned files where they belong.