Standing water texture issue

[Sakiri]

I'm running an added to, full STEP build dated from last June approximately(unsure of the version number now that I think of it, I'll include a modlst) and I'm having a few issues with standing water textures.

The water appears either solid black, solid white, or missing entirely.

Like this: 

I think it might be a conflict with lighting and water, but I can't be sure, and since I haven't added or removed anything from the guide that affects either, there shouldn't be a problem... or I'd assume. I've added to it, but it was things like armors, followers, perks and houses. This doesn't seem to affect running water, but only standing water in the world. Blacksmith troughs are unaffected, for example.

 

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[TechAngel85]

Yeah, honestly I'm not sure. The load order looks okay and if there is nothing overwriting RWT meshes, then I'm at a bit of a loss. Are there any mods conflicting with RWT meshes?

From that console, DynDOLOD was the last to touch it. If you haven't already, I would rerun DynDOLOD. You might just had a bad run...happens sometimes. Before that, make sure you've unchecked the TEMP files from the LOD section of the Guide.

[TechAngel85]

It's mostly likely connected to weather/lighting/ENB. For example, if it only happens during certain weather, then an issue with your weather mod or something weather related.

[Sakiri]

I'm not using an ENB either, I've heard those can do this but I haven't used one.

 

I'm using lighting mods that were in the guide. I've had this issue since installing now that I think of it. But that's why I'm confused. 

 

It's all the time, not limited to weather. Also does it indoors. I suppose I could rebuild the install all over again, but there's a week I'll never get back(haha, I kid, I love modding).

 

Any suggestions on remedies? Could try reinstalling the water or lighting mods perhaps?

[Sakiri]

No ideas?

I updated RWT and it's still doing it. The spot where the water is supposed to be in the Ragged Flagon is completely black and there's no sounds, so it's like the water is just completely missing. 

I really don't want to do something drastic like run a file integrity check as I'm afraid it'll wreck my load order. I put a post up on reddit asking about this as well, and it got 0 replies. I can't find anything on Google either.

Here's the Flagon: 

I suppose one thing I could try is updating the lighting mods to the 1.0.0 set up and updating my L&W patch? I haven't updated to the latest version because I'm unsure how to do it without messing up everything(so many things I need to update if I update SKSE for example). 

Ideas?

[Greg]

I could be mistaken, but I'm questioning whether the black ring where the water could be is a missing mesh since I seem to recall missing meshes usually appear as black objects. The white water in the original post seems to be more of a lighting issue.

[z929669]

Agree. I would add More Informative Console to your install near the top of the list and click on those assets to get more info and then find/view them in your MO data folder.

[Sakiri]

The white water might be a lighting issue but half the time the mesh is just missing.

The flagon, it's a tossup between black and missing water. This only happens with standing water. If there's any movement in it, it's fine. Most affected areas are ponds in the rift, and the flagon. In fact, those seem to be the only spots.

I'll come back with some console information.

Ok I'm back. It took two saves worth of attempts because the first time I went in there, the water was just outright missing.

And the console screenshot(ignore god mode, had to get past the npcs somehow on a low level character lol😞

 

Edited March 2, 2021 by Sakiri

[Sakiri]

Will do that in the morning(9 pm). I'll look over the guide again, too, to make sure I'm doing it right.

What do you mean by temp files unchecked?

And I'm not sure how to check if something is conflicting.  I don't think I have anything else that modifies those meshes. 

I'll rerun and see what happens. 

Edited March 2, 2021 by Sakiri

[Sakiri]

Should I rerun the LOD generation or the textures or both?

[TechAngel85]

Within the LOD instructions on the Step Guide, it has you enable and disable mods. Make sure those mods are disabled after running through the LOD section. If they're not disable for gameplay, they can cause issues. So ensure they are disabled before you rerun that section of the Guide. 

[Sakiri]

Ok I'm in the process of doing it a second time.

First attempt was an update, and it gave me a "could not read data from DynDOLOD_Tamriel error so I made a new save inside, unticked, reloaded, resaved, reticked and reloaded as mentioned in another thread dated back a few years(hey, worth a shot). No fix.

Tried a new save. Everything from character creation to picking a start worked, but as soon as I slept in a bed to actually start, I CTD on the load screen.

Result, redoing my LODs again from scratch.  If it doesn't work, I'll take this to the DynDOLOD forum for advice. If it does work, and the water's fixed, I'll update here.

I'm *this* close to ripping it all out and rebuilding with 1.0.0 but I don't have internet so I can't. 

[Sakiri]

Water's fixed! And my wold map LODs look better too. The water in that was all blocky looking.

 

Thanks, TechAngel and crew!  ❤️