I need help. I have OCO2 mod and would like to use Robert's Body mod with it. But no matter what I do, I get ugly neck seam or discoloration between body and head. I tried everything. I installed in proper order, but nothing fixes this problem. I saw this mod and give it a try, but problem is still there. I don't know what to do. What is proper order of installation: first this mod than OCO2 and Seamless OCO2 mod (and if which one IDIOT or Nude or both). I realy would like to get rid of neck seam. Please help!!!
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND GETTING WRYE BASH and using that to install the mods as it seems to have the best results in my opinion. I took me a while to use but it's very helpful for these types of things so go download it. When opened, you start off in the mods tab, this will tells you what .esps and .esms you have. There is an arrow between File and installer below the mods tab, click it, this mode will allow you to move your mod load order(important as some mods need to be in a specific order, if you're just using OCOv2 and the body/equipment replacers you won't need to worry about it much (if you have reinstalled oblivion and the esms have a red highlight (not a check box, this telling you that files have been replaced or aren't functional), right click the esm, go into file and select 'redate' that will fix the clashing problem. Now to add mods and install them simply click installers, if a question box pops up (i can't remember because I think it's a one time thing) hit yes, wait for it to load and you will be greeted with a bunch of empty windows. The large box on the left side is where you add your mod packages, simply download a mod, open wrye, click the installers tab, click and drag the file into the your packages tab/large left box. Once there right click the file in wyre bash and click install. It will place all of the files where they need to go and replace them for you. If you jump back into the mods tab and scroll to the bottom all of your install mods esm files will be here, just check the box, exit and you've activated the mod and can play oblivion now.
Okay, so now to get to the installation process (it has to be done in this order, make sure you open oblivion each time to make sure you didn't break your game, so if you do, you know what caused it):
1. download your all your unofficial oblivion patches and plugins (obse, the universal skeleton nif (pick the controllable folder when you unzip and place the file in the appropriate oblivion folder) and blockhead, just unzip, look into the readme and move the files to where it tells you )(don't need wrye for this one)
2.download OCOv2, the compatibility patches provided (so roberts and hgec) and any unofficial patches to fix some of its base game issues made by other modders. Install it with wyre bash, so download, open wrye, click the installers tab in the top left, drag the file into the packages, right the file in wyre, hit install.
3. download seamless races (you want the OCO Bain file), repeat except before you click install, you'll notice the box in the middle of the windows labelled sub-packages. Here you will have 3 named files with titled 10 CORE meshes, 20 HGEC TGND2 DMRA or Variants and last but not least 20 Robert male v5.2. Each has a box next to them, tick all of them EXCEPT 20 Robert male v5.2. Now right you can right click the SR-OCOv2 bain and hit install. You may get an orange highlight that's fine because your adding the better meshes and body types later. I recommend downloading the seamless khats and args as well because it will make them look better, it reinstalls over OCOv2 heads with a different set using the vanilla age maps and eyes, there are addons to rectify this but the different head textures (for the argonians) blend in WAY better than the OCOv2 heads with the body (not as much of an eye sore).
4. Okay finally the fun part. downloading seamless equipment. Roberts is easier so we'll do this one first. So download the standard normal one (DON'T DOWNLOAD THE IDIOT ONE OR THE NUDES, if you want nudes you can do it it with this package) once in wrye you'll notice the file box in the packages window has a magic wand over it, right click it and select WIZARD. This will open up another window that allows you to select flapping in the wind(nude) or big pants please, hit next and then you get to select your male's body type, so muscly, scrawny, athletic, standard etc, each has a circumcised option if you're a free hanging nudist. Next is your pants selection if you chose dignity. After that what type of feet you'd like and after that select no (as this is different mod support) and the one after that for changed idle animations select whatever you prefer. Finally you hit the end, the left box just tells you all the sub-packages you selected. Now all you need to do is tick the apply these selections in the bottom right and hit finish. Congrats all male bodies and equipment are done.
Now for the females. Before you download the seamless equipment female go download and install EVE HGEC BodyStock and Clothing bases first (make sure it's the bain file). Now when you install this one, you need to select the appropriate sub packages. You need the 00 Core file ticked, 01 Body textures is not needed since these packages cover that for you so leave it blank. Okay now you have 6 sub packages beginning with 10, 6 with 15, 3 with 20 and 3 with 25. Your 10's are the upper body, 3 types (c-cup, e-cup and the EBE e-cup) with the option of nude or clothing, select ONE of what you prefer. 15 is your lowerbody, so wide, normal and EBE with the choice of clothing or not, select ONE of your preference. Now your 20's and 25's are you clothing replacers. So pick one of each BUT your 20 needs to match your 10, so if you the chose 10 normal e-cup then you tick the 20 equipment replacer normal e-cup. Same goes with your lower body clothing replacers, if you chose the 15 lowerbody normal then you select 25 equipment replacer lowerbody normal. Now you're all done and can right EVE HGEC file and hit install.
NOW you can install the seamless equipment female hgec. This follows the exact same install process as above, except it lacks the core and body texture files, so select the same upper body and lower sub packages you chose before and install.
FINAL: Okay you've done it all and succeeded, hit the mod tab on wrye, scroll down and check OCOv2 and all of the OCOv2 unoffical patches, check them. Put OCOv2 above all the OCOv2 patches and below all your, oblivion esms, dlc esps. The unofficial oblivion patches should be below their respective game esm/esp file, so the unofficial knights patch.esp should be below the knights.esp. The exceptions to this are the oblivion citadel door fix.esp and UOP vampire ageing fix.esp then drag them and place them below the unofficial oblivion patch in that order.
You can now finally exit and play the game. In theory everything should be workin.
Hardly anyone takes that kind of time to clearly and methodically list out the correct steps like you have here. I was having issues like the comment you replied to (thank god i back up my oblivion install), and looking at your steps, I see that i installed robert"s mods first before OCO and patches. Also ticked Robert's on seamless because i thought i should have and that may have played in to the issue. A kudos to you kind sir! People like you rock. I'm going to try this order now thanks again. Also... "if you chose dignity." I laughed my ass off reading that lol.
Thanks for putting these mods together. I'd like to report a game progress breaking bug. It appears that this mod has inherited a crash bug related to an OOO cuirass armor model from http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/14984/ (see the posts on that mod).
Basically, using the OOO option for "SE- Robert Male v5.2 all-in-1 Addons" will install "meshes/armor/TheSilverDragonOrder/m/cuirass.nif" which will crash the game every time you try to go into a cell with the NPC that wears it: Ri'Zikar, the leader of Blackwood Company. This means that you cannot finish the Fighter's Guild quest line.
To reproduce the crash run this in the console (while having OOO and "SE- Robert Male v5.2 all-in-1 Addons" with OOO checkbox enabled): prid 000A564E moveto player (game crash)
Fix: the proper fix uploaded by someone to one of these file sharing sites isn't available anymore, link is obsolete (see the Posts in the mod I linked above).
Workaround: remove the "meshes/armor/TheSilverDragonOrder/m/cuirass.nif" file from your Oblivion Data directory, it will then revert to using the original mesh from Oscuro's_Oblivion_Overhaul.bsa which works fine. If there are seams introduced by doing that I couldn't say, this armor is only being weared by one NPC in the whole game and I'm too busy avoiding being killed by them than noticing any neck seams
My request to the authors of this mod, please remove that mesh from your pack to avoid people running into those crashes.
Hey, you carried over the problem with the Leather Thin Black Greaves in Armamentarium into your mod, fixed mesh is here: https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/48232
I finally figured out what I was doing wrong causing redguard bodies to be darker thean their heads.
I didn't uninstall robertsmalebody52 after installing OCOv2 plus addon then Seamless mods.
This time I didn't even install roberts, installed HGEC, then OCOv2 plus addons (both HGEC and Roberts), then Seamless ocov2 IDIOT plus Nude addon, then the SE for Roberts and HGEC and it was still borked, but running BOSS and rebuilding the Bashed Patch fixed it all. Now I can enjoy the game!
Hopefully this helps others out with similar issues.
Does this not work with any other texture? I've tried installing the texture I want first, I've tried installing it last, but with this mod I cannot seem to use anything but the default texture and my men look far too manscaped for my liking. Not sure how that is since at some point you'd expect the body texture to get overwritten.
argonian males have a weird half argonian, half imperial texture. the feet and low legs are imperial and the rest of the body is weirdly polkadoted. What can fix this?
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The author has locked this comment topic for the time beingOkay, so now to get to the installation process (it has to be done in this order, make sure you open oblivion each time to make sure you didn't break your game, so if you do, you know what caused it):
1. download your all your unofficial oblivion patches and plugins (obse, the universal skeleton nif (pick the controllable folder when you unzip and place the file in the appropriate oblivion folder) and blockhead, just unzip, look into the readme and move the files to where it tells you )(don't need wrye for this one)
2.download OCOv2, the compatibility patches provided (so roberts and hgec) and any unofficial patches to fix some of its base game issues made by other modders. Install it with wyre bash, so download, open wrye, click the installers tab in the top left, drag the file into the packages, right the file in wyre, hit install.
3. download seamless races (you want the OCO Bain file), repeat except before you click install, you'll notice the box in the middle of the windows labelled sub-packages. Here you will have 3 named files with titled 10 CORE meshes, 20 HGEC TGND2 DMRA or Variants and last but not least 20 Robert male v5.2. Each has a box next to them, tick all of them EXCEPT 20 Robert male v5.2. Now right you can right click the SR-OCOv2 bain and hit install. You may get an orange highlight that's fine because your adding the better meshes and body types later. I recommend downloading the seamless khats and args as well because it will make them look better, it reinstalls over OCOv2 heads with a different set using the vanilla age maps and eyes, there are addons to rectify this but the different head textures (for the argonians) blend in WAY better than the OCOv2 heads with the body (not as much of an eye sore).
4. Okay finally the fun part. downloading seamless equipment. Roberts is easier so we'll do this one first. So download the standard normal one (DON'T DOWNLOAD THE IDIOT ONE OR THE NUDES, if you want nudes you can do it it with this package) once in wrye you'll notice the file box in the packages window has a magic wand over it, right click it and select WIZARD. This will open up another window that allows you to select flapping in the wind(nude) or big pants please, hit next and then you get to select your male's body type, so muscly, scrawny, athletic, standard etc, each has a circumcised option if you're a free hanging nudist. Next is your pants selection if you chose dignity. After that what type of feet you'd like and after that select no (as this is different mod support) and the one after that for changed idle animations select whatever you prefer. Finally you hit the end, the left box just tells you all the sub-packages you selected. Now all you need to do is tick the apply these selections in the bottom right and hit finish. Congrats all male bodies and equipment are done.
Now for the females. Before you download the seamless equipment female go download and install EVE HGEC BodyStock and Clothing bases first (make sure it's the bain file). Now when you install this one, you need to select the appropriate sub packages. You need the 00 Core file ticked, 01 Body textures is not needed since these packages cover that for you so leave it blank. Okay now you have 6 sub packages beginning with 10, 6 with 15, 3 with 20 and 3 with 25. Your 10's are the upper body, 3 types (c-cup, e-cup and the EBE e-cup) with the option of nude or clothing, select ONE of what you prefer. 15 is your lowerbody, so wide, normal and EBE with the choice of clothing or not, select ONE of your preference. Now your 20's and 25's are you clothing replacers. So pick one of each BUT your 20 needs to match your 10, so if you the chose 10 normal e-cup then you tick the 20 equipment replacer normal e-cup. Same goes with your lower body clothing replacers, if you chose the 15 lowerbody normal then you select 25 equipment replacer lowerbody normal. Now you're all done and can right EVE HGEC file and hit install.
NOW you can install the seamless equipment female hgec. This follows the exact same install process as above, except it lacks the core and body texture files, so select the same upper body and lower sub packages you chose before and install.
FINAL: Okay you've done it all and succeeded, hit the mod tab on wrye, scroll down and check OCOv2 and all of the OCOv2 unoffical patches, check them. Put OCOv2 above all the OCOv2 patches and below all your, oblivion esms, dlc esps. The unofficial oblivion patches should be below their respective game esm/esp file, so the unofficial knights patch.esp should be below the knights.esp. The exceptions to this are the oblivion citadel door fix.esp and UOP vampire ageing fix.esp then drag them and place them below the unofficial oblivion patch in that order.
You can now finally exit and play the game. In theory everything should be workin.
Basically, using the OOO option for "SE- Robert Male v5.2 all-in-1 Addons" will install "meshes/armor/TheSilverDragonOrder/m/cuirass.nif" which will crash the game every time you try to go into a cell with the NPC that wears it: Ri'Zikar, the leader of Blackwood Company. This means that you cannot finish the Fighter's Guild quest line.
To reproduce the crash run this in the console (while having OOO and "SE- Robert Male v5.2 all-in-1 Addons" with OOO checkbox enabled):
prid 000A564E
moveto player
(game crash)
Fix: the proper fix uploaded by someone to one of these file sharing sites isn't available anymore, link is obsolete (see the Posts in the mod I linked above).
Workaround: remove the "meshes/armor/TheSilverDragonOrder/m/cuirass.nif" file from your Oblivion Data directory, it will then revert to using the original mesh from Oscuro's_Oblivion_Overhaul.bsa which works fine. If there are seams introduced by doing that I couldn't say, this armor is only being weared by one NPC in the whole game and I'm too busy avoiding being killed by them than noticing any neck seams
My request to the authors of this mod, please remove that mesh from your pack to avoid people running into those crashes.
https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/48232
It's not Roberts body modified, though.
I didn't uninstall robertsmalebody52 after installing OCOv2 plus addon then Seamless mods.
This time I didn't even install roberts, installed HGEC, then OCOv2 plus addons (both HGEC and Roberts), then Seamless ocov2 IDIOT plus Nude addon, then the SE for Roberts and HGEC and it was still borked, but running BOSS and rebuilding the Bashed Patch fixed it all. Now I can enjoy the game!
Hopefully this helps others out with similar issues.
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