How to? Mesh & Texture replacement for children.

[Frost73ite]

I'm tired of seeing androgynous children in Skyrim. While RS Children is awesome, and helps, there's no real difference between the boys and girls besides hair and clothes. I'm trying my first foray into modding, and have gotten as far as creating the figure I want along with textures, and converting the mesh to a .nif. I haven't been able to figure out how to do 2 things. 1 I can't find how to change the target for the nif or dds for children in Creation Kit. The file type seems to be a different format, and I can't seem to alter that. 2 I tried to convert the source 3d mesh complete with textures, but am having problems doing so. Since this is for my own use only, I used DAZ to create the figure and textures, and converted it to 3DSmax, then to .nif. I lost the texture linking somewhere in the conversion to 3DS, and can't figure out how to remap them.

[M48A5]

Open the .nif file in NifSkope. In the image to the right, left click on the part you want to open.

 

Left click on the triangle to the left of the NiTriShape, the on the BSSHaderPPlightingProperty. Then Left click BSShaderTextureSet.

 

In the Block details you will see Textures listed. Left click on the purple flower to the left of the texture path.

 

This will open a dialoge box where you can set your texture path.

 

Make the necessary changes to each line of the texture path and save the .nif.