ok a full run down of what i was trying to do but i guess maybe its just not possible: i was trying to remove all the studs and rings from the blaspemer's set, the dark difficulty act 1 special armor, i used the paint's cloning feature to clone areas of the jacket over the studs and rings and i went ahead and manually did that to each of the 3 files needed for the xbm's but the finished product looks like pieces of the armor are all together invisible leaving behind just strips of black leather in some areas and complete nothingness in areas, it also for some reason changed colors of other parts of the armor which i did not even mess with, and it turned geralts forarms from looking normal to solid black as well. i suppose modding and retexturing may be completely out of my league, ive been reaseaching and doing what i can to learn but there just arent any definitive guides on how to do things like this out there, perhaps ill just go to school for graphics design or some such lol...