Editing existing textures in Blender question

[Trypal7]

Ok I'm at the point where the mesh is done and the texture already assigned to it is showing up in texture paint. I can edit the texture and paint the colors etc but how do I save those changes to the existing texture?

 

I'm editing the femaleupperbody.nif and the texture that loads with it is the texture in the fallout/data/texture etc folder. This is fine, it's the texture I want to edit but I need the texture to be on the mesh because it's impossible to edit the texture with fine detail without it.

[Trypal7]

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