Oblivion being Oblivion - Insane issue with rings blog - VKVII

I sincerely don't know what the fuck is wrong with rings in Oblivion.

I ran into several problems regarding items in all the games I modded (as naturally when modding a game), FO3, FNV and Skyrim, but everything has always been solved with logic, patience, or the knowledge other players shared in forum boards or tutorials.

I NEVER encountered in those games the WEIRD things I sometimes see in Oblivion.

And in this case (rings models!) there is no logic, nor patience, nor other's suggestions that can possibly explain what the fuck is going on!

This time around, it makes no sense whatsoever!

Oblivion freaks out with rings, BEHOLD the madness of this game:

if you create rings as clothes (the category "Clothes"), and I mean skinned meshes, with bone weights, like any outfit model (not like the vanilla rings that have extra data Prn with the value of a bone to which the ring is attached), SOOOO if you crate a ring like the most common thing on earth, aka a weighted mesh... this is the result:

the ring wont render on the player.

LOL WHAT

On NPCs it renders, not on the player.

I can't find for the life of me a possible explanation to this insane fuckery.

But

behold again

there is more, I made a discovery so 'awesome' that my jaws dropped underground:

if you create that exact same ring (NOTHING DIFFERENT) as armor (the category "Armor"), then it renders anywhere with not problems at all!

What can I say? Other than WTF

Ah yes... "IT JUST WORKS"(cit)

So, to summarize:

• A custom ring is not displayed on the Player, while it displays perfectly on ALL NPCs.

• If you add that same custom ring to the game as 'Armor' instead of 'Clothes', it will be displayed with no problem: on Player AND NPCs.

So, after I've spent an outrageous amount of time trying to solve this mystery to no avail, I had 2 possibilities to circumvent the ring issue:

1. make all my rings as Armor instead of Clothes, which I despise as a solution. I have assigned new models to ALL vanilla rings and I don't like to make them all Armor, changing also Leveled Lists and all the clusterfuck of records that need to be changed, only because they wont render on my character. Even creating an exclusive set for my character only, when picking a vanilla ring, I don't like this solution. It could be ok for new ring but not the vanilla ones.

2. I see there is a function that makes it render the rings, so I'm attaching a simple one-line script to every freaking ring.

I don't know if I'll keep this solution or if I'll ever find out what the hell is wrong with rings.

If anyone is interested, encountering the same problem with rigged rings models, what I did is to attach to the rings a script object with OnEquip Player block and use player.Update3D

In this case the Update3D function perfectly works on player, (the official OBSE documentation reports this function not always works on player, in this case it works for what I've seen so far).

I would have avoided adding a script object, but until I find out why in the "it just works" world this is happening, I'll keep it.

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P.S. There are very few ring mods around (it's a small item barely visible after all), the few old mods of rings I found... they add IN FACT new rings to the game as Armor.

Who made those rings years ago, surely ended up baffled like me today and discovered rings are rendered with no problem ONLY if added as Armor.

Oblivion is incredibly weird sometimes.