NWelf Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 Ok, I'm trying to add several tattoos to a custom (scarred) skin texture. "Smooth Male Body - normal maps for Better Males - by Urishi" http://www.skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/26145 -The Scarred body texture file And I'm trying to add these Tattoos to it: "Vagrant Story Osana Tattoo CBBE - Better Malesby Garrett666" http://www.skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/6671 -specifically the BSM1 tat from that psd file. "Tattoo for CBBE v3-2 and UNP and Better maleby Moein Aria" http://www.skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/26985 -Layer 2, 3, 5 (2 of layer 3, one on each arm) Now I get as far as copying the tats as layers on the texture, but the Layer 3 Tat intersects a portion of the scars on the chest of the skin texture. I tried adding a layer mask and erased the little bits that overlapped. And then I flattened image and exported as malebody_1.dds, but when I go to open the .dds file to check it, All I see is that checkerboard pattern .... Not sure what I am doing wrong. I've uploaded the files (one is in .xcf format, the other in .psd format, depending on which texture editor you use) - http://www.mediafire.com/folder/1dt9m4pd6rqam/Tattoos_Folder If anyone is feeling generous, could you take a look at it and see if you can see what I am doing wrong?? Cause I've spent the last 30 hours (no joke lol, literally the last 30 hours straight) combing youtube and webpages for tutrorials. But I've only gotten bits and pieces from them, and still cant find exactly what I need. Any help would be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepherose Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 (edited) I'll check it out for you and let you know how it goes. EDIT: Looks like you forgot to apply the layer mask to the chest tattoo before merging the layers. I got a fixed version, if you still for some reason can't get it to work let me know and I will toss the DDS your way, game ready with mipmaps. Edited July 4, 2013 by Sepherose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWelf Posted July 4, 2013 Author Share Posted July 4, 2013 I'll check it out for you and let you know how it goes. EDIT: Looks like you forgot to apply the layer mask to the chest tattoo before merging the layers. I got a fixed version, if you still for some reason can't get it to work let me know and I will toss the DDS your way, game ready with mipmaps. OMG lol, I figured it would be something simple that I missed lol. I will go back and try to fix it myself, but if you want to send me the fixed .dds file that would be great too, just in case mine doesnt work lol. And thanks a bunch for taking a look at it for me, you saved me a lot of hair pulling and cursing lol :biggrin: . Ok got another question, in gimp when you right click in the layers tab there are 2 options at the bottom, 1. merge visible layers, and 2. Flatten Image. I'm not sure which of those I need to do (or both) to make it ready to be saved as a .dds file . Sorry for the newb questions but all the tutorials I have found so far are for like one particular thing or another, and the others are not very detailed, so I get confused as to what I need to do for certain parts of the process. Sidenote: Love this btw : I can only hope that Bethesda has installed some sort of failsafe into Skyrim, like an NPC that tells you "THIS IS A GAME, YOU NEED TO EAT AND SLEEP IN REAL LIFE TO SURVIVE" when you've passed one week of consecutive game time or something. Thats me in a nutshell lol, I live and breathe Skyrim lol, when I'm not playing, I'm modding lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepherose Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 I always use 'merge visible layers' with the 'expand as nessicery' option in GIMP. I went ahead and uploaded the DDS to my google drive, if yoou private message me I can toss access to you that way :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWelf Posted July 4, 2013 Author Share Posted July 4, 2013 I always use 'merge visible layers' with the 'expand as nessicery' option in GIMP. I went ahead and uploaded the DDS to my google drive, if yoou private message me I can toss access to you that way :smile: Ah ok cool, yea wasnt sure which to do. Ok last question, I think lol, what compression should I use? DXT1, DXT5, or some other compression (dont remeber all the options in gimp lol) ? and yea I'll send ya a pm soon as I finish typing this :) . Thanks again for all the help, its much appreciated :) . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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