right, i just got my kotor (frm best of starwars pack) freshly installed on my new vista laptop and the game works fine, and i have downloaded various mods and successfully put thm into the Override, but when playing unusual results happen with skin mods, the skin doesnt show properly but comes out white or invisible, but when viewing mod closely, like in a cutscene, u can see it showing through, for example the stormtroopers in the stormtrooper conversion mod look white but when upclose they texture shows through.
most apreciated if ANY one could shine some light on the matter as i got kotor 1 on PC to try mods. thnks.

it sounds like your missing the .txi files for the skins that tell it to instead of being transparent be shiny. or its vista i absolutely hate vista and i heard of some problems

i checked and the .txi files are there... ive also heard the probs with vista so it could have something 2 do with it, but i think its unlikey.
the textures are there, but u can only see thm close.

what does the txi say it should say envmaptexture CM_Baremetal if i remember right for the storm troopers armor, try reinstalling it.
what do you mean by you can only see them close?

right, the storm troopers are totally white, but when you veiw thm close, like wen speaking to thm, the white cracks and u can see the texture underneath

yep that means it isnt reading the txi and the cracks are supposed to be the most shiny parts. im not sure how to fix it since you reinstalled it are you sure they are all in you override folder and not in any sub-folders within the override that might be your problem if not i still blame vista but that is my opinion of course lol.