Creating custom skin texutres

[Tekmon]

Hello guys :), I'm not really sure where to find on how to do this, but, how exactly do you create new... eh, skintones for fallout 3, does it involve creating custom races? I really couldn't find any tutorials on how to do this.

 

Edit: I'm wanting to create two female texture, a dark green one, and a Furry green one. I'm not sure on how I should do this :P.

[oOBlazeOo]

well that depends on how many people you want to have the changed tone. you can easily change your own tone if you open the console (press^) and type: showracemenu and then navigate to the tone options. if you just want...lets say 3 people have this tone, you can open the geck and edit their tone manually there (actors->npc->your choice) or you create a new race where you can set the default skin tone. setting npcs to that new race should give them the new tone.

[Tekmon]

well that depends on how many people you want to have the changed tone. you can easily change your own tone if you open the console (press^) and type: showracemenu and then navigate to the tone options. if you just want...lets say 3 people have this tone, you can open the geck and edit their tone manually there (actors->npc->your choice) or you create a new race where you can set the default skin tone. setting npcs to that new race should give them the new tone.

 

Oh Okay :), I just wanted to do some basic texture work :P

[oOBlazeOo]

well then you could edit e.g. the male upperbody texture and then create a new race and set the upperbody texture path to your new one and there you go ;) if you just edit the existing male upperbody,every male character ingame will have that texture.

edit:just saw your edit.open up the existing female upperbody and face texture with fotoshop or another program,make a grinch and and try the above.

[Tekmon]

well then you could edit e.g. the male upperbody texture and then create a new race and set the upperbody texture path to your new one and there you go ;) if you just edit the existing male upperbody,every male character ingame will have that texture.

edit:just saw your edit.open up the existing female upperbody and face texture with fotoshop or another program,make a grinch and and try the above.

 

It's that easy? Thanks dude for your help :).

 

Edit: Now just to find the files :P

[oOBlazeOo]

if you have fomm this is an easy one: open fomm -> bsa unpacker ->textures.bsa and then type upperbody or femaleupperbody in.then you can save the desired files where you wish. if you do not use fomm you can unpack the texture.bsa with a bsa-unpacker and then go to textures->characters->female

I think giving it a green color touch is kinda easy yes. well I can give you a description in Paint.NET, but I guess in photoshop it shouldn't be that different: open up the upperbodyfemale.dds,then create a new level (or is it called layer?hope you know what I mean^^). color the new layer in green. if you have the green layer over the skin,you gotta make the green more transparent. there should be layer settings somewhere,there you can set the tranparancy. if you got the skin over the green,make the skin more transparate. maybe you get the just same result,but I would prefer to have the green over the skin. same procedure with the face and there you go.

[Tekmon]

if you have fomm this is an easy one: open fomm -> bsa unpacker ->textures.bsa and then type upperbody or femaleupperbody in.then you can save the desired files where you wish. if you do not use fomm you can unpack the texture.bsa with a bsa-unpacker and then go to textures->characters->female

I think giving it a green color touch is kinda easy yes. well I can give you a description in Paint.NET, but I guess in photoshop it shouldn't be that different: open up the upperbodyfemale.dds,then create a new level (or is it called layer?hope you know what I mean^^). color the new layer in green. if you have the green layer over the skin,you gotta make the green more transparent. there should be layer settings somewhere,there you can set the tranparancy. if you got the skin over the green,make the skin more transparate. maybe you get the just same result,but I would prefer to have the green over the skin. same procedure with the face and there you go.

 

I have fallout mod manager, and I have gimp (Free alternative to photoshop). So I'm all set :). Thanks again.