[LE] Changing the armor of town guards (to custom armor)

[aarons6]

the guards are leveled, and based on quests.. for one if you do the imperial war and dont choose to give whiterun to the stormcloaks the guards there will be different.

 

it would be MUCH easier and probably less game breaking if you just changed the whiterun guard amor.

[jet4571]

Just because you cannot figure out how to make it work does not make a bad suggestion any better.

[cramlow]

Just because you cannot figure out how to make it work does not make a bad suggestion any better.

 

 

Can anyone advise on how to change the guards like jet4571 suggests, primarily the facial parts?

[lopez125]

The dependencies can be cut anywhere. Uncheck the checkboxes at the one you want to be the template and his inventory will be changeable and everyone dependent on him will use his gear and everyone below him will not.

 

So you would rather he create a replacer than do it properly? That is just WOW unbelievable.

 

*Edit

Creating a replacer is the last thing you would want to do in a situation like this. there are mods that allow people to craft the guards outfits. Replacing them could turn away mod users because they have a collection of guards outfits or just really likes that one. Doing it properly replaces what the guards wear but leaves the original intact.

 

This also would allow him to find the guards that watch the castle and change what they wear to the new gear making them more of an elite guard if he chose to go more in depth. Though i think that would require creating a new set of guards or changing the guard spawn marker to use only certain ones and remove them from the rest of the markers. but that is possible and a straight replacer as you suggested would make it impossible.

 

 

i am looking to do something similar and i was thinking the replacer approach might be better off due to how easy it should be, can you give a walkthrough for your method? because i inted to go through and Give each Town's gaurd a different Armor Set for example if you've played with immersive armors Falkreath would where the Falkreath Hold Armor set, I would retexture or craft new armors for the other holds, except for windhelm or the rift perhaps. (i wouldn't be making it public without hoths permision of course this is a simply private thing) So if you could walk us through your suggestion i would appreciate it?

 

but how would you go abotu doing either? Does simply adding another .dds file of the same name as the default one override the default set by the game?

Edited November 26, 2012 by lopez125

[wolverineweapon]

i changed the armor and my guards are naked i did it the way jet4571 said did miss something i tested it on the front gate guard 1

Edited April 30, 2013 by wolverineweapon

[iamthebigyeti]

Can someone just give a step by step guide (an easy understandable one) on how to replace stormcloaks/imperials armor and town guard outfits with a custom made armor mod!!! ive looked everywhere but litterly none of them actually explain how to do it without someone else saying their doing it wrong :/