Retexturing guns

[jehames]

i literally have no idea how to retexture guns, i mean, the closest ive got is swapping the textures with another vanilla texture, and even then it only looks that way when its lying on the ground, as soon as i pick it up and its in my hand, it goes back to having the original texture. i really am clueless, please help? thankyou :)

[GuerillaWarlord]

I have it for you in 8 steps:

 

1) Extract the texture .bsa and go to Data/Textures/Weapons/What ever you want to retexture

 

2) If you have Gimp or photoshop make sure it is able to open .dds files (if not just google for the plug in) and open the texture you want in it.

 

3) edit the texture

 

4) save in Data/Textures/NewFolder <---(Rename it to something easy to find)

 

5) in the Geck create a new Texture set with your texture as the Diffuse and for the normal map choose the _n.dds of the weapon you are retexturing (eg. HuntingShotgun_n.dds)

 

6 )go to the weapon you want and create a new form for it (unless you want it as a replacer) and add your texture.

 

7) Find the frst person model for the gun that you are creatiing (in the static section) eg. 1stPersonHuntingShotgun and create a New form and add your texture.

 

8 ) go back to your weapon and add the new 1stperson model to it, save and you are done!

Edited June 7, 2011 by GuerillaWarlord