Zarago Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 I would like to re-texture two mounts from the "Mike's Mystical Mounts" mod. Is there anyone who can instruct me or lead me to a tutorial? The mounts in question are the deer and elk mount, if anyone is at all interested, and I would like to blacken them. I want to do this in a way that I won't affect the rest of the deer and elk of Skyrim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulfric1 Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 On 1/1/2014 at 2:29 PM, Zarago said: I would like to re-texture two mounts from the "Mike's Mystical Mounts" mod. Is there anyone who can instruct me or lead me to a tutorial? The mounts in question are the deer and elk mount, if anyone is at all interested, and I would like to blacken them. I want to do this in a way that I won't affect the rest of the deer and elk of Skyrim. For the darkening effect, just use a free program like GIMP, and play around with it until you get it looking the way you want. Then name it deer_dark.dds and save it as a DDS(you'll need to install a plugin to do this, google GIMP DDS or look around the GIMP website). You'd then need to open the model in a graphics program like Nifskope, change the main texture to the new one, and change the model's name to something like deer_dark.nif. If you want it to look good, you'll also want to change the _msn(normal map). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarago Posted January 1, 2014 Author Share Posted January 1, 2014 OK, I have installed Nifskope and the DDS plugin. Could you tell me where to find the textures that I need to edit? Also, should I open them through GIMP? I'm also not sure how I can reserve my new textures for these mounts and not all deer and elk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ghosu Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 (edited) Well, i have no access to my modding rig for a few days so i just installed a few tools on a pretty lame desktop computer to take a quick look... If i got it right this mods just replaces the vanilla skeleton of animals, adds a bone so you can mount it...and still uses the original meshes of those animals. So you have to open the game's textures archive file and edit it - though this will affect all animals of the same kind. So you have to find someone that explains you how to make the mount version standalone - if possible, can't check it out since this computer can't handle Skyrim and the CK. If you still want to adjust the texture you have to download FO3 Archive Utility (google for it or search it on the Nexus mod archive) and open ...\Skyrim\data\Skyrim - Textures.bsaWithin this archive you can browse to textures\actors\elk\ - within this folder you find several .dds files like ElkBody.dds, that's the diffuse map you have to edit using GIMP with DDS plugin if you just want a simple color adjustment. http://666kb.com/i/ckmqy4xbb350fsw97.jpg So extract this file to the same folder structure as shown in FO3 Archive Utility, in this case ...\Skyrim\data\textures\actors\elk\ElkBody.dds, then open/edit/save it as .dds with Gimp - that's it, to undo the whole thing just delete this extracted file. The game will pick the original file from the .bsa archive then. If you're not sure if you edit the correct texture, FO3 Archive Utility, open Skyrim\data\Skyrim - meshes.bsa, browse to meshes\actors\ and pick the animal you want and extract the .nif file, open this .nif file with NifSkope click on the 3D model and on the left side browse to BSLightingShaderProperties' Textureset to see the texture paths that are used by this model: http://666kb.com/i/ckmqxv4ftvd347497.jpg Edited January 2, 2014 by ghosu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarago Posted January 2, 2014 Author Share Posted January 2, 2014 (edited) Thank you for this. I really don't know who to go to for making the mod "standalone". Would it be easier to make a deer and elk mount separately and not use this "Mike's Mystical Mounts" mod, and make them standalone? It is quite messy and removes the roof from the Whiterun stables. I really don't know where to start. Edited January 2, 2014 by Zarago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghosu Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 (edited) Would make no difference...all deers use the same texture in vanilla Skyrim, this mod just makes them useable as mounts.In fact you have to check out if it's doable to make only the mountable deer a seperate race using the CK or you find another mod with a mount you like that uses an own race/texture for the mount version only...can't help any futher since i'm taking a modding break. greetings Edited January 2, 2014 by ghosu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarago Posted January 3, 2014 Author Share Posted January 3, 2014 (edited) I'm sure it's possible since they are saber cat mounts with custom colors out there. I have Automatic Variants, if that makes a shred of difference. Edited January 3, 2014 by Zarago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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