Replacing a Modded Item's Texture and Model

[Arcmyst]

I've recently started playing with the Improved Atmosphere mod installed, and I'm really liking it. I just got a set of Revered Father Robes, but I'd like to set them to have an appearance on a female similar to that on a male; I'm not as much a fan of the shoulderless dress. Ideally, I'd like to take the Revered Mother Robes, retexture them, and set that up for the Revered Father Robes, but I'm having trouble figuring out how, exactly, to edit the Revered Father Robes. I can find plenty of tutorials for creating new items or editing those in the game, but none for editing individual UTI files from other mods. The Toolset can open them, but I've no idea how to navigate the numerical codes everything uses there (unlike the much more user-friendly interface with non-modded items). Any help, or at least a pointer to the incredibly obvious thing I've missed if I have?

 

EDIT: I should mention I'm extremely new to the Toolset. I'm sort of fumbling around right now, so I apologize if I'm a bit slow on the uptake with any advice I'm given.

Edited February 28, 2011 by Arcmyst

[encinodude]

Well, frankly, this is going to be a bit of a painful and tedious affair, so be prepared. To change the model of the robe you need to edit the MMH file (HF, assuming your character is a human female). MMH files can be opened with the GFF editor (without needing to open the Toolset), which can be found in the "Dragon Age/tools" directory. Change the model name in MMH_MODEL_HIERARCHY_MODEL_DATA_NAME to the mesh you want to use (hf_rob_cha_0.msh) in this case.To edit the texture, you open the MAO file (using notepad) and change the texture paths accordingly. There are a ton of files to edit if you want to do this properly. They pretty much involve changing the same things over and over, with slight variations depending on the file name. If you still have questions, post here again. Once you get the hang of it you'll realize it's easy in concept, just really tedious.