Texture issues

[VonLazlon]

I have a custom model with custom textures and for some reason they have stopped refreshing in game. I can see the updated textures in both nifskope and the creation kit but not in game. I thought it might have been the HD pack issue but my object is completely custom so that shouldn't be an issue. All I am doing is saving dds files from photoshop, they would update usually but it just stopped working out of nowhere, suggestions?

[d4em]

Make sure you replaced the file in your data folder too, not just the workfile - I forgot that once. Broke my head over it for 4 hours before finding out my stupidity xD

Otherwise, I wouldn't know. Do you have multiple layers in the saved .dds?

[VonLazlon]

Yeah, I doubled checked that when it first happened because I also did that once :P. This is the second time it has happened to me and I have no idea how to fix it. In the CK and nifscope everything displays properly and points to the correct place.

[d4em]

The only other cause I can think of is you checking the workfile model, not the data file one... but I do not think that's the problem.

 

Try a clean save without your mod, then deleting all your mods files from the data folder, then readding the files, then re-enabling your mod (if that works, please let me know - it would mean texture data is somehow stored in the save file, and that'd be interesting)

[VonLazlon]

Somehow I managed to fix it. I was wondering if it was because I loaded the skyrim data along with my mod data in the creation kit? I went back and only loaded the mod data, refreshed everything and it seemed to fix it.

 

Another question though, how do I separate the materials of obects? I want to be able to alter the gloss etc of things individually like you do in maya/3ds max. As it stands everything I have has the same spec quality but the appearance is just changed by the map I have.