I'm such an idiot

[Lateraliss]

I have spent the last 3 years modding Skyrim to be perfect. I've got well over 500 mods installed, many I had to merge together. I downloaded hundreds of follower mods, and individually replaced NPCs with them. Almost every single NPC was replaced by hand, and then merged. I had hundreds of new armor pieces, custom bodies and HD texture mods merged together. I finally found an ENB that looked great. I was getting 45 fps stable, which was a miracle for how much I put in this game.

Anyways, last year I broke the shit out of my arm and took a break from modding it. Today, I decided to come back and update some of the old mods I had installed. I began slowly updating, adding some new animations, some new armor pieces that came out, etc. etc. Start up the game, it still loads fine, but my player character is in the half t-pose. Ok, so I reinstall the skeletons, uninstall FNIS and reinstall FNIS, run FNIS, everything looks good. Start up the game, t-pose. Starting a new game doesn't fix it, installing a new skeleton doesn't fix it, validating files doesn't fix it.

I go, ok, I made a backup last year for just such an occasion. Well, guess what, my backup is not what I thought it was. The backup I made was before I really got into merging mods, which means it's only about half of what I had done.

So, let this be a lesson, even if you think you have a backup, make another god damn backup.

[MrEsturk]

Haha, I still have custom made files and online downloads from since 1995 for a very similar reason. Decided to only partially move the data from an old hard drive to a new computer, then discovered only after I threw the old drive out that I lost a ton of personally created mods for DOOM/Heretic/Hexen. I still kick myself about that, since it represented my earliest work as a modder. I never uploaded any of that stuff online, since my internet sucked back then, so its gone for good.

 

The whole experience turned me into something of a harddrive hoarder. My current drive is a maze of directories containing a 20 year trail of dumped hard drives 

[allsunday]

I'm sorry to hear that.  I feel like you still have a very good chance of fixing your current Skyrim game if the current problem is only T Pose.  Instead of simply using a mod manager to reinstall the skeleton, physically manually install it instead.  I mean it's not like you're ever going to uninstall it...

[Guest]

Is the Fnis version that you have installed the XXL one?Maybe you have many animation files that regular fnis version can't handle.Just sayin... 

[wwwizard3]

You can also try ReAnimate