Mod articles
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White or Purple Blocks for Rain / Snow
NMM has a major bug where if mods are stored on a drive other than the drive where the game is installed, it will have incomplete or failed installs a lot of the time. I frankly do not understand why this has never been fixed, but it's a common issue. Please read this in full for solutions.
This happens not due to a bug, it is simply because the texture or material assets are not loading due to something going wrong with the configuration, or install process. Literally 100% of reports have been due to something going wrong with the install, the configs, or something else on the user side and about 90% of the time it is the fault of NMM.
The files are not loading correctly. NMM can sometimes cause problems with its virtual directories if you are... -
Press ~ to open the console, and use the command FW to force weather. Please note that if the region you are in does not have the weather you are testing in its list, it will revert to a different weather in a couple of seconds. That's not a bug that's just how the engine works.
fw xxx
where xxx = the numeric ID listed below. For example, fw c8220 will trigger a rain storm.
LIST OF VANILLA WEATHERS ALTERED / EDITED BY TRUE STORMS
SkyrimFog
SkyrimOvercastRain
SkyrimStormRain
SkyrimStormSnow
FXMagicStormRain
SkyrimOvercastRainMA
SkyrimFogMA
SkyrimFogCO
SkyrimOvercastRainRE
SkyrimFogRE
SkyrimStormRainFF
SkyrimOvercastRainFF
SkyrimFogFF