dds file location?

[bartuxx]

Hey guys you have been so helpfull. when you are in the race edit screen and you select the image files and it says something like character/eyes/breton.dds i cannot find where they are stored i have looked at the cd and the bethesda folder and the only dds files i find are for the landscape.

[dyfed99]

DDS files are stored by default in data/textures sub-folder in your Oblivion folder. If you need to change the textures of a custom race they will be in data/textures/characters/name of race, assuming this race has custom textures. If you try to change the vanilla textures for a vanilla or custom race they aren't in that subfolder! They are compressed by default in Textures.bsa or a similar other .bsa. This is the standard compressed file format used by Bethesda (it means Bethesda Softworks Archive). You need an unpacker utility to unpack them in their appropriate folders, like BSA Commander or BSA unpacker. Beware, the unpacking process could be very long if you unpack all the files! Then you must 'navigate' in those .bsa files using any utility and extract just the .dds files related to the race you want to modify! And you must put them in the appropriate folder! If not they will not work! You need also to validate these texture replacer using another appropriate utility, such as BSA patcher or OBMM.

 

 

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