Elven Armor Replacer

[Tsewe]

Hi

I've already replaced the basic leather armor with another one and it works.

Now i want to relpace the vanilla elven armor with another one.

 

I know the trick: use BSA browser to browse the meshes, than locate the elven armor files' names, and replace my new armor's nif files with the vanilla name files.

 

However this doesn't work - all the elven armor composants are all vanillas.

 

The only file i cannot replace is the shield one because i have no shield NIF file. My question is thus:

 

To replace a vnailla armor, do I need to replace EVERY vanilla nif files or else it won't work at all? Can't i just replace the boots and the bracers if i wanted to ? (which isnt the case)

[David Brasher]

I am a CK guy myself. If I were doing this task, I would use the CK to get the best possible intel on all the Elven armor objects. This might lead me into NifSkope where I would see the exact names and file paths of the textures I wanted to replace.

 

And then if I built a texture replacer mod and it did not work, I would get ticked off and go into the CK and replace all the Elven armor items with my custom items that used my custom meshes and textures. (Or else I might repoint the vanilla armor items to different meshes using the CK.) It seems like one of these approaches couldn't fail to get the job done.

 

You do not need to replace the full set of armor. You can pick and choose which pieces to replace.

Edited August 8, 2012 by David Brasher

[Tsewe]

Well thanks for your reply, but as soon as I added a shield and replaced the vanilla one with it (it was the only armor set piece I had missing), all the items appeared ingame... before adding the shield, all the vanilla pieces were still there...