Textures Issue

[KhajiitStealth]

I am just starting to make mods for Morrowind, and one thing I am trying to do is make a sword which has a custom texture. I used Nifskope to retexture the sword, and it looks fine in the program. However, when I load the .nif file into the construction set, my custom texture isn't there. I couldn't find any reference to why this is happening online.

[FIMzzZzz]

https://www.tamriel-rebuilt.org/content/modelling-resources#pnifskope

 

 

Texture paths:
When changing or giving textures, NifSkope will by default give absolute paths, which won't work if users have Morrowind installed in a different folder. You should shorten to relative paths. For example if the full texture path is "C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Morrowind\Data Files\Textures\A_Bear_Boot2.dds", the relative path is "Textures\A_Bear_Boot2.dds". NifSkope will shorten new paths automatically for you if you go to Render->Settings...->Rendering->Add Folder and set the path of your Data Files folder.
Vanilla files omit the "Textures\" folder from texture paths, but the engine requires it if the texture is in a subfolder.

 

also be sure the texture is actually in the data files/textures folder

and while i'm here, a lot of info about nifskope here too http://niftools.sourceforge.net/wiki/NifSkope/Working_With_Nifs_101_:_Basic_Use

[abot]

you need the path for the texture inside the .nif file to respect these rules:

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   if the texture is inside a subfolder (e.g. Data Files\Textures\subfolder1\mytexture1.dds), you need the path to include the Textures part so e.g. Textures\subfolder1\mytexture1.dds

   
   
   
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   if the texture is right in the Textures folder (e.g. Data Files\Textures\mytexture1.dds), you can use both Textures\mytexture1.dds or simply mytexture1.dds

   
   
   

Nif Texture Stripper is a tool able to automatically fix most texture paths in a bunch of .nif files very fast.

I use it with these parameters: nif_tx_strip.exe --local --back_slash --no_texture_path --bmp2dds --tga2dds > out.txt so it logs to the out.txt file, then you can look for --> in the out.txt file for changed textures report