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Hm. Thought I'd said already I was doing this. Must have said it on another forum. And in another thread. :D

That's sort of the main reason I'll be doing it. :P I made the Tabaxi race for Oblivion on a whim once in response to a request thread somewhere (disclaimer: I myself have still have never played one). The more complaints it got about being "furry" or "anime" the more inclined I became to keep working on it, building support for it, and increasing its visibility in the mod community. I was content to let it fade away with Oblivion, but the furry-haters and anime-haters and just haters in general have convinced me not only to re-work the race for Skyrim but to do as I said above: make multiple versions for multiple tastes. :D

As soon as I have a working construction set in my hands (so to speak) this is basically the first mod I'll be doing, with several versions to appeal to a range of tastes from slightly-more-humanlike khajiit to the anime-style girls-with-kitty-ears. The Mithra style will fit in there somewhere. ;)

You didn't look very hard then. Every Oblivion cat race mod I can think of, including my own, had both male and female versions.

Hm. This seems like it would be trivial to do. Not that I know anything about catgirl mods, though. ;)

It sounds like maybe you didn't save it with a proper alpha channel. Face textures (the _0d.dds, or diffuse, texture) need to be saved in DXT5 format. Don't mess with the normal or specular maps (_0n.dds and _0s.dds) unless you have specific reason to and know what you're doing.

I have written a detailed, step-by-step guide and posted it on several forums. Here's one such link - you'll probably have to sign up to see it, though. It was written back when the toolset was still the 1.0 version and tended to break games, so some of it doesn't really apply any more, but the basics still do.

Can't be done yet. There's a mod in the works to make it possible, but until then - one body for all.

You can hide all that stuff. But as for panning the view - hold middle mouse button to pan the view. CTRL+LMB/MMB/RMB also move the view in different ways - play around and you'll get the hang of which does what.

Her body probably disappears because you still have her wearing her original robes - which do not have an elf mesh (you need a mod for that) so there's no body to render. Remove the robe and I bet she'll appear all elf-y. :P