Help needed for atronach skin rework.

[rinzler675]

I have no modding experience. Non at all.

I want to change frost and storm atronachs' skins into flame atronach's skin. I mean I want to make it so that frost and storm atronachs look like flame atronach but with their original (light blue and purple) colors.

 

I've read some articles (or posts) about changing the colors of some skills or items.

I downloaded NifSkope, Photoshop, BSA Extractor to access some nif files and try to change their colors.

I extracted their meshes from the "skyrim - meshes.bsa" via BSA Extractor.

I imported only the flame atronach files one by one and found their BSLightingShaderProperty nodes and changed the emissive and specular colors to the purple I want (R-G-B > 80-0-180).

I did this to every single BS property color schemes I could find via NifSkope.

I opened up CK and duplicated NakedAtronachStorm (0006881D).

I tried to select the nif files I edited earlier through Male Biped Model section.

It just loads a regular flame atronach model without any color change.

 

As I've said before, I have zero modding experience. I also requested a mod for the idea I expressed in the beginning but no one seemed interested (1-2 years ago). So I decided I can give modding a shot and learn some things. I hope someone points out the mistakes I've made or the steps I've skipped. Thanks.