Psyclosarin

Brilliant, cheers for the info. I still have GIMP installed from when I was making icons with transparent sections so I'll dust that off and have a look at some tuts as well. As for ripping the base textures out of the game to edit, any suggestions on how to do that/what applications can be used?

Hey all, I've been interested in modding for a very long time and have been using mods since as long as I can remember, but I've never gotten around to learning how to do it myself. I've had a look through files and have a vague idea on how a 2D texture is applied to a 3D model, but no idea what software to use to 1: Retexture without looking like crap and 2: How to go about using them so they'e compatable. Main question is, how do I get started out, what kind of checklists would I need to do to ensure things work properly so I'm not left with a purple "texturenotfound" texture. Lastly, I'll be starting out on Fallout 4 because that's what I'm wasting most of my waking hours outside of work on :P So this will generally centre around that, for now.