Can't change textures to armors/weapons

[Ulthrax]

I've tried to apply some modified textures to armors using the addons Steel Dwarven Armour and Weapons and/or Orcish Metal Armour but for some reason nothing happens, everything just stays the same.

Neither Manual or NMM installation seem to work. I've double/triple/quadruple checked file locations and everything seems in the right place.

These are the addons I usually run:

- SkyUI

- Quality World Map

- Complete Crafting Overhaul/Smithing Perks Overhaul/Complete Crafting Overhaul

- Spiders Begone

- Younger Females

- HR textures, the official ones from Steam

I guess none of them has something to do with Dwarven/Orcish textures. I can smoothly replace meshes (I'm using Masked Orcish Helmet replacer with no issue) but my Skyrim doesn't seem to like different textures. Disabling any other addon is useless as well.

I'm obviously not bashing said mods creators :) I'd just like to figure out what's wrong.

Thank you in advance.

[Blessing01]

This is a well known problem with the HD texture packs.

 

 

TheOutlander

How to use the new Official Hi-Res texture pack with user created mods:

 

1. Disable or delete the esps that came with the official texture pack.

 

2. Backup then open

SteamAppsCommonSkyrimSkyrim_default.ini

&

DocumentsMy GamesSkyrimSkyrim.ini

 

3. Change this in both files:

[Archive]

sResourceArchiveList=Skyrim - Misc.bsa, Skyrim - Shaders.bsa, Skyrim - Textures.bsa, Skyrim - Interface.bsa, Skyrim - Animations.bsa, Skyrim - Meshes.bsa, Skyrim - Sounds.bsa

 

To this:

[Archive]

sResourceArchiveList=Skyrim - Misc.bsa, Skyrim - Shaders.bsa, Skyrim - Textures.bsa, Skyrim - Interface.bsa, Skyrim - Animations.bsa, Skyrim - Meshes.bsa, Skyrim - Sounds.bsa, HighResTexturePack01.bsa, HighResTexturePack02.bsa

 

4. Save both files.

 

Now user created mods will be able to override what they need to override in the official texture pack.

 

As long as the new bsas are later in the list in the ini, then they'll override the vanilla ones that come with the game. Sadly the HD pack doesn't replace all the textures in the game, so if you renamed and removed the original Textures.bsa you'd end up with a large percentage of your game without textures.

 

My method = User created mods > Official HD Tex Pack > Vanilla Texs

 

No need to cherry pick because the user created mods will override the HD Tex pack just as if it were the original Textures.bsa

 

If the [Archive] isn't there in the first place you shouldn't need to add it. As long as the Skyrim_default.ini one is done it should work fine. If it doesn't, copy paste the whole [Archive] section into the Skyrim.ini