LarsK26001

I'm a noob at 3d modeling and texturing myself. Just trying to teach myself how to make some basic weapons... In short, it seems that most people take photos as a starting point and edit them in software like Photoshop or GIMP. What I'm trying to do ATM is this: I create the model in blender. I do the UV-unwrapping in Blender and export the UV map. I open this file in Photoshop, so I know where everything belongs. Then I load pictures into this file, tweak them, combine them... Finally, I export them to DDS and apply these textures with NifSKope. I don't know, how much you already know about different types of textures and their use in Skyrim, but here's a comprehensive guide: http://beyondskyrim.org/skyrim-nif-files-bsshadertextureset-and-textures/ I'd also recommend watching the video tutorials by Nightasy on youtube. He's got some very good videos. And he uses mostly GIMP, which is free. OFC he makes armors, but his tutorials also helped me a lot with my weapons. Wow, thanks! Really appreciate that you responded so quick, considering this thread is over two years old.

It might be because you are using a different version.

I'm sorry if this is a noob question but how exactly do you make the texture files? I've looked all over the internet but I can't find any tutorial or anything that even explains this process. So I would really appreciate it if you could help me.