nexusplanet Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 hello community For those who already know me, you know about my english. for all the others - english is not my native language so please overlook some mistakes here and there :whistling: I got the following problem : I want to add some custom paintings to special locations like the frostcrag tower or the cheyinhal residence. I want them to be bigger than the ordinary paintings and showing some of my favourite pictures of course. Stretching the meshes of some stock pictures went well and i was able to add them into the CS but i'm not able to get the textures imported yet. I placed one of the pictures in bravil mages quild for testing purposes and all it shows is a plain purple surface. Looks not as beautiful as it was intended to (see attachments for screenshot). The frame size (without the wooden frame - just the area that holds the image) is 256px wide and 390px high. same dimensions for the image-texture. I tried saving the texture in tga and dds format with dxt1, dxt3, dxt5 and dxt1 without alpha settings. i tried creating the tga file - that was converted into dds file later - with irfanview and gimp and now i'm running out of ideas. Hope someone of you can held me. BTW : the same problem appears if i don't modify the meshes and use a 128x256 texture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WastelandAssassin Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 have you set the texture path in NifSkope?? (i assume that this is how such an item is made) also, i would guess that you didn't create the normal map look at this tutorial, it may be what you need Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexusplanet Posted February 22, 2011 Author Share Posted February 22, 2011 I replaced textures everytime i altered them just to make sure they are really replaced. I didn't make a normal map for the textures and it appeas that was the crucial point. Now i found a plugin for gimp that creates the normal maps for me. Problem solved! Thanks a lot WastelandAssassin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WastelandAssassin Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 don't mention itone of the few things i know about textures, so i'm glad it was a simple problem, and easily solved would really like to see the paintings you chose thoughcould never have enough art :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexusplanet Posted February 23, 2011 Author Share Posted February 23, 2011 (edited) This is getting worse every day. Today i was going to place the paintings within Frostcrag Tower but everytime i click the save button CS crashes to desktop. I also tried loading the original frostcrag.esp, leave it untouched and save it with a new name. Same problem -> CS crashes. Things i already tired : 1) I deleted CS, downloaded and installed the CS 1.2.404 from tesnexus.com -> same problem2) I deleted CS, cleaned up registry entries, reinstalled CS -> same problem3) tried running CS as administrator -> same problem4) tried running CS with Windows XP compatibility mode -> as you may guess ... same problem5) tried running CS within virtual Windows XP -> crashed on loading CS My system : - AMD athlon x2 240 (2 x 2.8 Ghz)- 4GB RAM- Windows 7 Pro x64- GeForce GT 220 graphics adapter I'm running out of options. Could it be that it is because Frostcrag Tower is a KotN file? Edit : 6) installed Unofficial DLC Knights of Nine-ESP Patch v1.0.2 -> same problem Edit 2 : !!! Solved !!! Creating a new Plugin out of the box and merging this one with Frostcrag Tower solved the problem. Edited February 23, 2011 by nexusplanet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WastelandAssassin Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 you should never modify the DLC pluginswhen working on the DLCs especially, and on large mods (or frequently updated mods), you should always make a new plugin, not modify the original glad you solved the problem though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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