SSE Need help with retexturing armor mod

[CyranGE]

Hello guys, good day. . . I've been searching for a perfect nightingale armor for a week and can't find one that suits with my gameplay. .. so now I just want to edit the textures, but I dont know how. . can anyone help me edit some details in the textures, or can anyone help me with editing the textures as a whole, like removeing the chains in the texture and changing it to leather or something. .. or if anyone can just teach me how to edit textures and use it to SSE, I just need to crop and crop and crop. . . I am using GIMP btw. . .

Edited July 1, 2017 by CyranGE

[ruddy88]

Youll need to edit the _d (diffuse) textures first.

These are the files that hold colour information.

You have GIMP already, youll also need a .DDS plugin to allow you to edit and save those files (im not sure what plugin GIMP uses sorry).

 

Once youve modified the _d texture, you may find theres still evidence of the chains, this is because meshes use multiple texture maps, one such is the normal map _n (or bump map) which creates the illusion of extra detail on an otherwise low poly mesh. Something like a chain would have been baked into the normal map so even though you may colour over it on the diffuse map youll probably find that light in the game will still create the shape of the chains through bump mapping.

 

Youre better off sticking with a simple recolour to begin with just to get your bearings.

[CyranGE]

I tried editing it but after I edit it the file size were so large and can't be open via windows imagebviewer unlike the one before I edit. . .