texture for a clothing item keeps reverting to an unusable state

[Atmogenic]

I've been trying to get help on this issue for a long time now but without any successful result, a person on reddit has tried to help me but seemed to have given up, I tried nexus forums but that forums is pretty dead with troubleshooting and even joined the skyrim discord only to get nothing.

 

I've got a clothing mod called RR skyrim seifuku which is formal school uniforms and the clothing parts are blazer, skirt, shoes and necktie, the parts (except shoes) comes in different colours blue, red, green and caramel. I've dressed up my followers and they're able to wear the clothing, but because there was no colour for a black tie, i changed the yellow necktie in gimp to be completely black and had to "export as" dds as i'm unable to just "save as" dds. At first it works fine, the texture I changed from yellow to black is working, but after I used the WAIT function, it goes to this picture below

 

 

 

The above is the problem that keeps persisting after I change the texture, it's meant to be the ones with the necklace symbol and saying amulet, but it keeps going to the shield symbol and making it unusable because its not equipping for myself nor my followers.

 

below are my edits to the person who was helping me on reddit but has stopped responding, it's just to help understand the progression that has happened

 

edit: I think i fixed it, i'm not sure if it will changed. I just used another necktie "necktie.checkdarkblue.dds" which was one of the neckties that had "amulet" all I did was go into gimp, load the dds of the necktie, coloured it black and then exported it with generate minimap (gimp) and now the necktie is showing. Though I still don't know why the yellow one isn't showing back even though I reinstalled the mod.

 

edit 2: nope nvm, after giving my followers the new necktie it was working and was enchanting them but after I used the WAIT to skip time, it went right back to what the yellow necktie by not equipping and just a shield

 

edit 3: I even got a child's eye patch which are both not having a type necktie, yet they're not equipping the necktie but the eye patch is fine

 

 

 

So if anyone here who has the skills to tell me how to possibly fix this minor thing that has become a complete mess, thanks 

 

link to the clothing mod as its been removed from nexus

[lisander68]

19 hours ago, Atmogenic said:

 

So if anyone here who has the skills to tell me how to possibly fix this minor thing that has become a complete mess, thanks 

 

 

What exactly would your problem be? Are you unable to wear the tie or does it not stay black?

[Atmogenic]

we're able to wear the necktie for a short period of time but then it will just vanish and won't be shown again in-game, I think maybe the mesh is the issue as a friend of mine edited the texture and made it much nicer just like the original textures of the other neckties, but even that only stays for a period of time before it just vanishes.

 

So to try to make it more understandable, say u made a weapon or use a weapon that u like and will always use, you're holding the weapon and enjoy the look of it. But after some time (i.e loading into new area, using the WAIT function) your weapon has turned invisible and now is unusable even though it was working fine. 

[lisander68]

10 hours ago, Atmogenic said:

we're able to wear the necktie for a short period of time but then it will just vanish and won't be shown again in-game, I think maybe the mesh is the issue as a friend of mine edited the texture and made it much nicer just like the original textures of the other neckties, but even that only stays for a period of time before it just vanishes.

 

So to try to make it more understandable, say u made a weapon or use a weapon that u like and will always use, you're holding the weapon and enjoy the look of it. But after some time (i.e loading into new area, using the WAIT function) your weapon has turned invisible and now is unusable even though it was working fine. 

I have tested the mod on Skyrim LE optimizing it with 
Cathedral Assets Optimizer, the tie stayed in place even when changing areas or other actions like sleeping outside. Your problem might just be the modified nif. Make a copy of the modified one and try to restore it with the original, if you get the same result then it's a texture issue

[Atmogenic]

7 hours ago, lisander68 said:

Your problem might just be the modified nif. Make a copy of the modified one and try to restore it with the original, if you get the same result then it's a texture issue

 

But I haven't touched anything with the mesh at all, the guy who was helping me on reddit was just telling me where the path of the texture is with nifskope, so there is no modified nif, only the necktie texture.

[lisander68]

6 minutes ago, Atmogenic said:

 

But I haven't touched anything with the mesh at all, the guy who was helping me on reddit was just telling me where the path of the texture is with nifskope, so there is no modified nif, only the necktie texture.

Try reinstalling it. If you did it manually, install it with a mod manager

[Atmogenic]

On 9/12/2021 at 5:07 PM, lisander68 said:

Try reinstalling it. If you did it manually, install it with a mod manager

 

It's ok I've fixed it, all I did was using the "sort modlist" in vortex and after that the neckties haven't been disappearing anymore.

[lisander68]

7 hours ago, Atmogenic said:

 

It's ok I've fixed it, all I did was using the "sort modlist" in vortex and after that the neckties haven't been disappearing anymore.

Great, your solution will come in handy for others ✌️