made nif for weapon now what?

[thebic4]

ok i made a nif for a weapon saved it now what how can i make the dds and textures for it

[Moraelin]

Well, at least in Blender, you'd hit "UV Unwrap" and paint or load the texture. Alternately you can just do the unwrap there, export, and make NifSkope generate you a texture template in the resolution you wish.

[BoilingOil]

.dds files are the actual textures.

 

To start making textures, you'll need to be able to export .dds files from your graphics editor. You can download the DDS plugin for photoshop here or for gimp.

 

For some texture tutorials, the archive section has some pretty good starting points.