Sorry to crash an Oblivion thread, but I'm trying to change the barmaid nif for Sid Meir's Pirates!, and Drake the Dragon's reply seems the most viable description of my problem. I use nifskope 1.1.3, GIMP 2.8.10, and 3DS Max 2010 32 and 64 bit for modding. The nif mod I am swapping in is the ADEC TBBP Body Version 3_0 Nude-5390-3-0. I have included a snap of the barmaid https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3742149/inviiblebarmaid.png, a snap of the files used https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3742149/dds.png, and the nif itself https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3742149/barmaid.nif. I'm suspecting the change of the dds filenames may be a problem? Also notice the brown square that DOES appear. I didn't have the eyebrow dds, and therefore did not alter any of its naming conventions I'm thinking that may be the reason for the brown square? Any help would be greatly appreciated as I really want to master (or at least be functional) modding nifs.
