FNV - Dirt is shiny + Some rubble has dirt texture

[GradusNL]

Hey guys, I just finished installing New Vegas using Qolore7's guide: https://wiki.step-project.com/User:Qolore7/Viva_New_Vegas
All I changed from the guide was replace SafeAutosave with CASM, installing Aptoms Legion Retextured instead of Legion Will Ryse and adding Less Empty Primm - A Primm Town Overhaul. None of these changes should affect my current problem.
 
When I explored Goodsprings I discovered that the dirt surrounding the empty grave was shiny:

 

 

 

Afterwards I discovered that the rubble in the wrecked houses in Goodsprings had the same dirt texture:

 

 

 

This didn't seem to affect all the wrecked houses, the wrecked house between Victor's shack and the schoolhouse had the regular texture:

 

 

My mod list

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+Smashed Patch
+Bashed Patch, 0
+ILO Patches Merge
+HUD + UI Merge
+Bug Fixes + QOL Merge
+Improved LOD Noise Texture
+FNVLODGen Output
+Much Needed LOD
+Less Horrendous Vikki and Vance Casino LOD Mesh
+LOD additions and improvements
+Trees LOD Billboards Vanilla
+FNVLODGen Resources
+Robot Collision Sounds Removed
+Human Collision Sounds Removed
+Immersive Pickup Sounds FNV Edition
+MTB - New Engine Sounds for Mobile Truck Base
+Mojave Music Radio - Extended
+All Weapon Sounds Overhaul
+NV IFR ILOFIX
+Interior Lighting Overhaul
+(Original SIze) Consistent Pip-Boy Icons
+Vault 22 Flora Overhaul
+Unfriendlier Persuasions - Vanilla Quest revisited
+Medical Clinic Expanded
+Hope Ford and Cooper CCC Avatars
+3dnpc
+YUP - Autumn Leaves Patch
+Autumn Leaves
+Deimos
+Mobile Truck Base
+Less Empty Primm - A Primm Town Overhaul
+Wasteland Loot (With New Locations)
+NVInteriors Rewritten
+NVInteriors Project
+Afterschool Special
+The New Bison Steve Hotel and Lucky Casino
+Someguy Series Tweaks
+Russell
+The Inheritance
+New Vegas Bounties III
+PM's Sweeter Revenge - Minimod
+New Vegas Bounties II
+New Vegas Bounties I
+The Someguy Series
+Scope Replacer Pack
+Melee Reach Fixed
+Cowboy Repeater without peep sight
+B42 Weapon Inertia
+Throwing melee weapon retexture
+Combat knife Retexture for WMX
+Cleaver Retexture for WMX
+Hatchet retexture
+Bowie and BloodNap knife retexture for WMX
+WMX - Weapon Retexture Project compatibility v1.2.4
+GRA WRP Unofficial Patch V2
+Single Shotgun Re-Retexture
+Bozar retexture
+357 Revolver Re-Retextured
+Weapon Retexture Project - WRP
+Retextured FALLOUT Ordnance - RFO
+YUP-WMX Patch
+Mono's WMX Plugins
+Weapon Mods Expanded - WMX
+YUP 10.4 - EVE - IMPACT - BLEED Compatiblity Patches
+EVE - JIP Ash Pile Tweaks
+EVE - Essential Visual Enhancements
+Prerelease Restored
+The Moon Comes Over The Tower - Restored
+Uncut Wasteland
+JSawyer Ultimate Edition - New Vegas Uncut - Outside Bets
+New Vegas Uncut - Outside Bets
+New Vegas Uncut 6 - If It Wasn't For Betsy Remastered
+New Vegas Uncut 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7
+More Cut Content Merged
+JSawyer Ultimate Edition - Water Overhaul Patch
+Water Overhaul
+Rewarding Exploring - Unique Places for Unique Weapons
+Economy Overhaul
+The Living Desert
+Limitless Stats
+Stealth suit Mk II fix
+Lonesome Road Flare Ammo
+Take Chems Make Fiends
+Ammo Crafting Schematics
+Pip-Boys to the People
+Gun Runners Actually Run Guns
+Alternative Repairing
+Ultimate Illness Mod
+Karmic Balance - Karma Consequences
+Follower Tweaks
+Immersive Recoil 2.0
+Enemy AI - Tactics - NPC Healing
+Combat Enhancer
+No More Trippin and Bear Traps
+Distributed Necklaces and Chains with More Neck Seam Concealer Necklaces
+YUP-Spice of Life Patch
+Spice of Life - Variety Armor and Clothing
+Burning Campfire HH Patch
+Burning Campfire REDONE
+Simple Street Lights Fix
+Simple Street Lights V2
+Mojave Raiders
+Mojave Wildlife
+VATS Alternative - A Comprehensive Bullet Time Mod
+JSawyer Ultimate Edition Mojave Arsenal Patch
+Mojave Arsenal
+BLEED
+Qolore Gameplay Tweaks
+YUP - Gameplay Tweaks - JSawyer Ultimate Edition
+JSawyer Ultimate Edition
+ALR - Aptoms Legion Retextured
+NCR Ultimate Overhaul - Vanilla Body Patch
+NCR Ultimate Overhaul
+Powder Is The New Black - Vanilla Body Patch
+Powder Is The New Black
+Greater Khans
+Brotherhood Reforged
+Boomers Go Boom
+Interior Fog Remover
+DYNAVISION 3 - Total Visual Enhancement
+FNV Realistic Wasteland Lighting
+High Resolution Male Body Textures
+Vanilla Underwear Replacer
+Character Expansions Revised
+Satellite World Map
+Dynamic Pipboy Light
+Pip-Boy 2501
+Retextured Playing Cards
+High-Resolution Bobby Pin Box
+Mccarran Escalator Glass
+Caravan Lunch - Fixed UV Map
+High Resolution Iguana on a Stick
+Pinyon Nuts Retexture
+High Resolution Bulletin Board and Primm Flyers
+Higher-Resolution Westside Craftsman Window
+High Resolution Potato
+High-Res Hula Girl Retex and Resource
+Snowglobes Redone
+High Res Vanilla Posters and Graffiti
+Transparent Nuka Bottles
+Tweaked Cashregister
+Semitransparent Door Glass
+Bighorner Ultra High Resolution Texture
+Bighorner Model Variants
+Securitrons in CRT
+Wasteland Flora Overhaul
+Pause Menu HD
+Vanilla Loading Screens HD
+High Res Turpentine
+PM's HD Ammo Boxes
+6IXES Clutter Texture Pack
+HiRes Water Bottle Textures and Meshes
+PM's Med-Textures - HD Chems and Venoms
+EXE - Effect teXtures Enhanced
+Improved Cyberdogs Textures
+HiRes Skill Books Retexture
+Magazine Redux
+Collision Meshes - Hectrol Tumbleweed compatibility
+Hectrol Tumbleweed Deluxe HighRes Retex
+Minimod - High Resolution Newspapers
+The Molerat Extravaganza - Molerat Retexture
+Nightstalker Retexture
+Healthier Yao Guai
+Hectrol ED-E Deluxe HR Retex EVOLUTION PACK
+FeralGhouls Hires retexture
+Ghouls Hires retexture
+Securitron Hires retexture
+Improved Robots Textures
+Super Mutants HD - 2k Retextures
+Vault Suits Retextured
+Metal Armors Metalized - 2K Metal Armor Re-textures
+Shifting Shadows - 2k Assassin and Stealth Suit Retextures
+The Gruntening - 2k Combat Armor Retextures
+Hockey Mask - Retex
+Book of Steel - Compatibility Edition
+Bornagain Combat Armor
+aMidianBorn NV Book Of Water
+Fake Shadows on Ranger Helmet
+Desert Ranger Combat Armor Re-Deserted - New Textures - OWRRP
+Desert Ranger Armor Retexture for ADAM MODE
+ADAM Reborn
+Improved Rawhide Cowboy Hat Mesh
+Wasteland Clothing HD
+Mojave Sandy Desert
+Collision Meshes - Textures Over Time compatibility
+Textures Over Time
+Audleys Misc Textures
+MGs Neat Clutter Retextures
+Collision Meshes - OJO BUENO compatibility
+POCO BUENO Texture Pack
+NMCs_Texture_Pack_For_New_Vegas
+Stimpak Hotkey (JIP LN NVSE)
+Hotkey Scroll Wheel (JIP LN NVSE)
+Caravan Card Control
+Faster Sleep Wait
+Simple DLC Delay
+JIP Companions Command and Control
+Tutorial Killer
+Universal Item Sorter
+Better Pickup Prompt
+Quest Item Hider
+Keyboy 3.3
+Loot Menu for FNV
+MTUI
+Traits Menu DarNified
+Darnified UI Add-on - DT and DR
+One HUD (oHUD) Darnified Patch
+DarnUI
+The Weapon Mod Menu
+One HUD - oHUD
+UIO - User Interface Organizer
+Comprehensive Cleanup and Item Respawn
+Swimming and Rebreather Restoration
+HeroinZero's Weapon Fixes
+New Vegas - Enhanced Camera
+Placed Creature Corpses use Vanilla Skeletons
+DiDisaan's Patch Emporium - YUP - Ragdolls
+Ragdolls
+Unnecessary Physics
+Collision Meshes
+Precision Collision - Clutter NV
+Legion AI-Bark Fix
+Fix Hit Lines
+CASM with MCM
+Pre-War Businesswear Fix
+Mod Configuration Menu Matches the HUD Color
+The Mod Configuration Menu
+Unofficial Patch Plus
+Yukichigai Unofficial Patch - YUP
+OneTweak for FNV
+JIP LN NVSE Plugin
+NVSE
*DLC: CaravanPack
*DLC: ClassicPack
*DLC: DeadMoney
*DLC: GunRunnersArsenal
*DLC: HonestHearts
*DLC: LonesomeRoad
*DLC: MercenaryPack
*DLC: OldWorldBlues
*DLC: TribalPack

 

 

My load order

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FalloutNV.esm
DeadMoney.esm
HonestHearts.esm
OldWorldBlues.esm
LonesomeRoad.esm
GunRunnersArsenal.esm
ClassicPack.esm
MercenaryPack.esm
TribalPack.esm
CaravanPack.esm
YUP - Base Game + All DLC.esm
oHUD.esm
SomeguySeries.esm
NVInteriors_Core.esm
Interior Lighting Overhaul - Core.esm
NVInteriors_ComboEdition.esm
Less Empty Primm.esp
The New Bison Steve Hotel.esm
3DNPC_FNV.esm
Afterschool Special.esm
3DNPC_FNVGeneric.esm
3DNPC_BlueNote.esm
D.E.I.M.O.S..esm
GRARG.esm
Interior Lighting Overhaul - L38PS.esm
CardMaster.esm
tmzLODadditions.esp
HUD + UI Merge.esp
The Mod Configuration Menu.esp
CASM with MCM.esp
The Weapon Mod Menu.esp
DarNifiedUINV.esp
LootMenu.esp
JIP Improved Recipe Menu.esp
KeyBoy Hotkeys.esp
Universal Item Sorter.esp
JIP Companions Command & Control.esp
Stimpak Hotkey.esp
Book of Steel.esp
Pipboy2501.esp
Dynamic Pipboy Light.esp
Uncut Wasteland.esp
Qolore Gameplay Tweaks.esp
Character Expansions Revised.esp
SimpleStreetLights (Extra Lights).esp
STDG.esp
outsidebets.esp
LegionAIFix.esp
TLD_Travelers.esp
JSawyer Ultimate.esp
YUP - Gameplay Tweaks - JSawyer Ultimate Edition.esp
Mojave Raiders.esp
DYNAVISION 3.esp
Mojave Wildlife (FO3-Style + No Chanced).esp
Wasteland Loot.esp
GreatKhanGreatOverhaul.esp
EVE FNV - ALL DLC.esp
BLEEDNV.esp
Burning Campfire.esp
vault22FloralOverhaul.esp
WeaponModsExpanded.esp
All Weapon Sounds Overhaul .esp
More Cut Content Merged.esp
Unofficial Patch Plus.esp
NewVegasUncut 123457 Merged.esp
NewVegasBounties.esp
NewVegasBountiesII.esp
ILO Patches Merge.esp
NV_IFR.esp
WMX-DLCMerged.esp
BoomersGoBoom.esp
Ragdolls.esp
Mojave Arsenal.esp
VATS Alternative - Bullet Time.esp
TheInheritance.esp
1nivVSLArmors.esp
Russell.esp
NewVegasBountiesIII.esp
Someguy Series Merge.esp
AmmoCraftingSchematics.esp
lexx_brahmin-betsy.esp
BLMedical.esp
MTB.esp
PrereleaseRestored.esp
ADAM Complete.esp
ADAM - MERGE.esp
NCROverhaul.esp
MojaveSandyDesert.esp
TripTrap.esp
CombatEnhancer.esp
XFO - 9a - Enemies - AI revamp.esp
XFO - 9da - Enemies - NPC Healing - low.esp
ImmersiveRecoil.esp
Ultimate Illness Mod.esp
ACS-DLCMerged.esp
Take Chems Make Fiends.esp
Flare Ammo.esp
Limitless Stats.esp
Economy Overhaul.esp
Water Overhaul.esp
TMCOTT - Restored.esp
WMX-POPMerged.esp
christinecos.esp
WMX-ArenovalisTextures.esp
B42Inertia.esp
Melee Reach Revised.esp
Bug Fixes + QOL Merge.esp
Rewarding Exploring.esp
UnfriendlierPersuasion.esp
3DNPC_HopeLies.esp
AutumnLeaves.esp
Alternative Repairing.esp
BrotherhoodReforged.esp
PowderIsTheNewBlack.esp
SimpleStreetLightFix.esp
tmzLODadditions-NVInterriors.esp
Distributed Necklaces and Chains.esp
Karmic Balance.esp
Alternative Repairing - Honest Hearts.esp
Alternative Repairing - Lonesome Road.esp
MojaveExtended100.esp
ImmersivePickupSoundsFNV.esp
MuchNeededLOD.esp
Interior Lighting Overhaul - Ultimate Edition.esp
NV_IFR_ILOFIX.esp
FNVLODGen.esp
FNV Realistic Wasteland Lighting - All DLC.esp
Bashed Patch, 0.esp
Smashed Patch.esp

 

[Audley]

Hey Gradus, 

 

I can't tell you exactly which mod is causing this issue because even though I looked at your mod list, I didn't see any mod that replaces those textures with that kind of normal map. The reason those textures are so shiny is that whoever made the normal map for them, didn't properly add the specular to the alpha channel, so the game automatically defaults to 100% specular shine which causes it to look very glossy. Not only that but the normal map looks out of place for that texture. What I'm thinking happened is that the normal map got overwritten for that texture but the diffuse did not. What I would do to figure out what mod is causing this is simply to uncheck graphical mods in MO a set at a time to figure out what problematic texture. 

 

Cheers,

Audley

[GradusNL]

Hey Gradus, 

 

I can't tell you exactly which mod is causing this issue because even though I looked at your mod list, I didn't see any mod that replaces those textures with that kind of normal map. The reason those textures are so shiny is that whoever made the normal map for them, didn't properly add the specular to the alpha channel, so the game automatically defaults to 100% specular shine which causes it to look very glossy. Not only that but the normal map looks out of place for that texture. What I'm thinking happened is that the normal map got overwritten for that texture but the diffuse did not. What I would do to figure out what mod is causing this is simply to uncheck graphical mods in MO a set at a time to figure out what problematic texture. 

 

Cheers,

Audley

Thanks for the response! I deactivated one mod at a time like you said and figured out that Mojave Sandy Desert was the culprit, I looked in the comments to see if there was a fix and the mod author said it was already included in the main file, but I downloaded the old hotfix and merged it with the main file. That fixed the shiny sand part of the issue.

 

When I deactivated the mod the rubble in the houses also returned to the normal texture, but when I activated it with the hotfix installed the rubble got the sand texture again, only now non-shiny.

I looked through the comments of the mod but it seems like nobody else has that issue.