Need help with retexturing.

[derekhaltom]

Hey everyone, I had recently decided to try my hand at retexturing a set of armor from this mod: Reinforced Chinese Stealth Suit by Gaijune and I seem to be missing something. First off let me say I am not planning on uploading, just trying to wet my toes with this whole modding thing, and figured a retex would be a quick way to get into it. Anyways, I went and changed each texture file that came with the mod, yet for whatever reason when I load up in game, the arms and the belt retain their original color. Is there a hidden file or something that I am just not seeing, or is there something else I need to be doing?

 

To change the colors I had been using Photoshop CS3 with the .dds plug in, and I can see the color changes in game, but like I said, not on every piece of the armor. Any ideas?

[MDC519]

Hey everyone, I had recently decided to try my hand at retexturing a set of armor from this mod: Reinforced Chinese Stealth Suit by Gaijune and I seem to be missing something. First off let me say I am not planning on uploading, just trying to wet my toes with this whole modding thing, and figured a retex would be a quick way to get into it. Anyways, I went and changed each texture file that came with the mod, yet for whatever reason when I load up in game, the arms and the belt retain their original color. Is there a hidden file or something that I am just not seeing, or is there something else I need to be doing?

 

To change the colors I had been using Photoshop CS3 with the .dds plug in, and I can see the color changes in game, but like I said, not on every piece of the armor. Any ideas?

 

Sounds lilke you are not finding all the parts to re-texture. Are you using niftscope to look at all the meshes used by the suit?

If not then here is a link to it and it can help you track down the missing pieces.

http://niftools.sourceforge.net/wiki/NifTools

[derekhaltom]

Cool, thanks for the info. How would I use this to find the missing textures?

[MDC519]

Cool, thanks for the info. How would I use this to find the missing textures?

In Nifscope you would load the nif(mesh) of the mod and in the blocklist look for lines that say BSShaderTextureSet...clicking on that will bring up textures in the block details...click on that and it will show the .dds files associated with that part of the mesh. There may be several texture sets for a single mesh(armor, etc.) and this will help you find all the .dds files you need to retexture.

[derekhaltom]

Thanks!