Custom Hand Textures

[Vildryn]

I've been having some trouble with custom hand textures, because my own creations never seem to work...

 

I always end up with the hands being the purple no-texture colour. All the other parts of a body texture generally go pretty fine, and I have no trouble modding them...

 

Also, the hand textures work with NPCs, just not with the player... is there something else I need to edit? Or is there a specific naming requirement for hand textures?

 

Maybe I should have put this in troubleshooting

 

but I'm tired.

 

and it's here now.

 

>.<

[Ghogiel]

I've been having some trouble with custom hand textures, because my own creations never seem to work...

 

I always end up with the hands being the purple no-texture colour. All the other parts of a body texture generally go pretty fine, and I have no trouble modding them...

 

Also, the hand textures work with NPCs, just not with the player...

...in 3rd person as well? ;)

 

Or is there a specific naming requirement for hand textures?

yes as it happens. there are 2 textures, for example: handmale.dds and handmale_1st.dds

 

the one with the suffix "_1st" is the first person texture. I'll be honest, I don't know whether it is a hardcoded naming convention and the game automatically picks it up, or if it is set up somewhere in the Geck. I could just check to see how its used, but I'm not that bored.

[Vildryn]

Yeah, it does it in 3rd as well...

 

It's a personal mod, so for time reasons (I was in quite a rush), it was basically a copy -> paste -> rename -> retexture job, rather than creating a new folder...

 

I'll try reverting a name and putting it in a seperate folder with all corresponding files once all of today's lectures are over.

 

If it works, I'll confirm it here.

[Vildryn]

Works fine... so remember folks: making custom hand texture files, keep the original name.