Weird Male Khajiit only issue

[nerogoth]

HELPS! - LOL! 

 

Did a complete new reload of Skyrim (Steam) Legendary due to it just giving me the finger after not playing for a few days (don't ask!). Installed and did base save game (called it Vanilla) in three spots at the 'getting off the cart' and the moment before she yells archer. All good. 

 

Installed SKSE latest. Used MO to expand out S.T.E.P., then merged all the 'texture, mesh, script, sound, USKPs' but no other ESP/ESM mods into one folder. Activated that, loaded game, runt through to getting off cart all good. Methodically did this for all the grouping of patches next (step 2N as compared to step 2G) then finally used TES5Edit Merge Plugin to make a 'fake' ESP pointing to all the ones that were GREEN of the the respected group to get the number down near / under 100 before I started to look at actual character mods, races, armors, weapons and followers. Okay everything working fine. 

 

So I am near my last steps (you can see I am taking this slow and steady) and suddenly for no reason, only on the Male Khajiit, I can't add the Muscular Khajiit Textures - Stripes to the body. 

 

http://content.screencast.com/users/NeroGoth/folders/Jing/media/6c765bcf-7376-4006-9e29-718397b04201/2015-03-17_1945.png

 

I unpacked it, put it manually even in the right folder (as I done before) and won't "take" in game. Female Khajiit is fine, as well as Argonaian Male and Female, infact even my added races Kygarra and Lykaios are perfectly fine. 

 

So I done the following:

Turned off ALL Mods (back to nilla) with just SKYUI installed, went back to the save points, even tried my old save (my opening comment) I am trying to rebuild back to, and still same thing. 

 

Removed all files in Skyrim\Data\textures\actors\character\khajiitmale and just place the bodymale.dds and bodymale_msn.dds - still fail. 

 

Removed all files in both the textures and mesh for khajiitmale, and unpacked Tony Follower http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/images/113868/?  andput his textures and mesh to replace the default khajiitmale respective folders. STILL FAIL!

 

So I am at a loss here one what the problem is causing this snafu, and could someone point me in the right direction. NOTE: even with just VANILLA load ONLY, it is not picking up from the directory, or where would it be? Is there a possibility of a script or some other 'method' other then a esp/esm to redirect where it should be 'looking' to reload the male khajiit. I am out of ideas. 

[zenna11]

dont know much about MO so i ca give some sugestion what i know all mods need be instaled by MO and game need be run by MO or mods wont work ,you said you instal it manual so maybe that the problem ? did you try instal with MO ?

and make sure in skirim.ini under archive you got bInvalidateOlderFiles=0 set to 1 

[nerogoth]

Well as I said.. it isn't MO's problem because I ran it vanilla, and still same thing happens, it ONLY pulling from Skyrim.ESM the texture. If I switch to Female, it pulls the female skin I changed it too (http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/62193/?). If I change to any other race it applies right, but for no good reason it just doesn't seem to care for the body texture for Male Khajiit. 

 

Does anyone know maybe SOS, or other scripting that may REDIRECT what the Male Khajiit skin file name / location should be instead of as shown in the screenshot?