Skin Retexure

[otis0310]

There is patch of skin on an armor that I wish to retexture to make it look like its covered, without acutally making a new mesh. The character's back is exposed, and I want to retexture the body mesh so that it is not, using what is now the body mesh. So what was once exposed skin looks like a different layer of the armor. That simple.

 

Please note that I have tried simply rexturing the armor in Nifskope. Although in Nifskope the body is now retextured to look like another layer of the armor, as I intended, in the game the skin still shows up as if I never retextured the body mesh at all.

Edited June 27, 2011 by chrisoldfield

[LHammonds]

Pointing the NiTriStrip to a different DDS texture is only 1/2 of the procedure. The material name is a special name that tells the game engine to render the skin shader on it. I believe the material name is "skin" so you just need to rename the material to something else.

 

I am speaking from Oblivion modding. It may be slightly more involved for Fallout.

 

LHammonds