Creating a new armor

[rosestorm]

Hello Everyone,

 

I am wanting to create a new mage robe set and I need some help. I have looked at the creating a new armor tutorial here on the nexus, and my main issue is that I don't know how much of the instructions it gives apply to what I want to do.

 

What I want to do is to create a new robe set with the vampire royal armor as the base mesh, http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Vampire_Royal_Armor, the new set would be standalone and not a re-placer. The only adjustment to the base mesh that I would like to make are the removal of the half cape and Molag Bal badge. The creators of two other mods have given me permission to integrate their work into this armor so I already have the textures for the base robe from one of the mods. The other mod is a retexture of noodles cloaks of skyrim mod, so I already have all the texture and mesh files for that that I might need.

 

The other thing I need to do is to make Serana's hood wearable by males in the game. Any help that anyone can give would be appreciated. Would I need any other programs besides the creation kit to do what I describe above? I think I may need an outside program to remove the half cape from the new mesh, how would I go about doing that?

[HumiIiation]

Look at nightasy's tutorials on youtube, he takes you through the process of installing required programs to texturing and making custom meshes. By far the best tutorials out there.