How do you make armor?

[seedy]

I am looking through the wiki and i can't see a tutorial or faq on how to make customised armor using the CS. I like the textures of the OOO darkrose amazons, but would like to alter meshes and edit textures of my own. I have gimp and nifskope.

 

Ideally I'd like to make 'glass' armor that was properly translucent, especially for the face as i like heavy armor but i don't see the fun in obscuring a face that i designed to look at :blush:

 

Can anyone advise me if there's a good site for beginners?

[Vagrant0]

http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/Armor

The CS doesn't really come into play till after all the real work is done...

 

Anything involving the actual changing of points on a mesh requires modeling software (3dsmax or Blender typically). It is unclear if you are wanting to just change the texture, or want something more radical to be done.

 

Textures have to be adjusted in a graphic program by someone who knows how to use that program.

http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index...pe_and_the_GIMP

As making anything transparent requires an associated alpha node in nifscope, and an ability to change the alpha layer in a graphic program, you may be unable to do this with GIMP. Likewise as the normal maps would be different, you may run into other problems if the new texture looks too different from the previous.

 

There are however a good number of plugins that change glass armor, so you may find the work already done for you. Could also remove the biped slot on the glass helm (it'll come up with an error, but will still work) so you still get the benefit of the extra defense and effects without it covering up anything.

[seedy]

http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/Armor

The CS doesn't really come into play till after all the real work is done...

 

Anything involving the actual changing of points on a mesh requires modeling software (3dsmax or Blender typically). It is unclear if you are wanting to just change the texture, or want something more radical to be done.

 

Textures have to be adjusted in a graphic program by someone who knows how to use that program.

http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index...pe_and_the_GIMP

As making anything transparent requires an associated alpha node in nifscope, and an ability to change the alpha layer in a graphic program, you may be unable to do this with GIMP. Likewise as the normal maps would be different, you may run into other problems if the new texture looks too different from the previous.

 

There are however a good number of plugins that change glass armor, so you may find the work already done for you. Could also remove the biped slot on the glass helm (it'll come up with an error, but will still work) so you still get the benefit of the extra defense and effects without it covering up anything.

 

Thanks for that! I used the data from meshes\Exnem\FemaleEyeCandy\Armor\Seductress although I am still struggling with the helmet; i know i saw a tiara somewhere that was perfect. :)

 

I have blender but couldn't say i know how to use it. I'll check out those URLs and play around.

 

I tried using the tiara from Exnem's Body replacer but my character went bald (the tiara is great though!). Do helmets replace the hair graphic or is it just a matter of making something transparent in the helmet texture?