Significant Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Okay, so a friend and I are trying to figure out how to create our own mods after messing with it for ~5 hours or so.We've watched YouTube videos, but they're not helpful when we're trying to create new races and they're telling us how to make followers, or whatnot. We both have NifSkope, Photoshop CS6, and the CreationKit. And I already know that modding isn't an easy thing that can be learned overnight. What we're mostly stuck on is the fact that we can't get our custom texture sets to go into the CK.We've created our own textures in PSCS6, and we downloaded a converter that makes the .jpeg file .ddsBut when we put this .dds file into the CK, it says 'invalid directory'. Soooo, can someone please help us out? :] It seems we're stuck on the whole creating-dds-files part.NifSkope is a bit confusing, so if NifSkope is the program that makes the dds files, can someone please give us a dummy-tutorial for that? To give you an idea of what we're trying to recreate is this:http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/images/139127 I understand that Eiries is the creator, but we've already messaged them and got their opinion on things, we just need the whole technical part to be troubleshot. Any advice will help tremendous amounts, considering we picked up this whole modding thing as of 5 hours ago. Please and thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleork Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Put those textures into the textures folder in the data folder.They need to be in that folder, otherwise you get that invalid directory thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hushly Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Put those textures into the textures folder in the data folder.They need to be in that folder, otherwise you get that invalid directory thing. Thanks! I now have the textures working. I had them a step up in another folder. We're also trying to figure out how to put the cat ears on (in my case), a nord head. She's using a Breton. Both combined with Khajiit. So only the head is the human part. : ) If you know how, please let me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Significant Posted October 29, 2012 Author Share Posted October 29, 2012 (edited) Yeah, thanks so much for your help. Now we're having problems about finding Skyrim's normal meshes, if those are even available to the public. Scratch that, Hush found them but I'm sure we'll run into other issues rofl. God, we suck at this. LOL Edited October 29, 2012 by Significant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleork Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Yeah, thanks so much for your help. Now we're having problems about finding Skyrim's normal meshes, if those are even available to the public. Scratch that, Hush found them but I'm sure we'll run into other issues rofl. God, we suck at this. LOL I am not really good with texturing/modeling so cant help on everything but skyrim meshes are in meshes.bsa, you can unpack them with an unpacker like this one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hushly Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Yeah, thanks so much for your help. Now we're having problems about finding Skyrim's normal meshes, if those are even available to the public. Scratch that, Hush found them but I'm sure we'll run into other issues rofl. God, we suck at this. LOL I am not really good with texturing/modeling so cant help on everything but skyrim meshes are in meshes.bsa, you can unpack them with an unpacker like this one Thank you! I'll give it a shot. : ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hushly Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 I'm still puzzled how to get cat ears and what not working. And we got the texture working but it's crooked on her head. So yeah. Any advice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleork Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 I'm still puzzled how to get cat ears and what not working. And we got the texture working but it's crooked on her head. So yeah. Any advice? Those cat ears, you made a mesh for them? are they suppose to work as a hat or you want to change the head completely? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hushly Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 I'm still puzzled how to get cat ears and what not working. And we got the texture working but it's crooked on her head. So yeah. Any advice? Those cat ears, you made a mesh for them? are they suppose to work as a hat or you want to change the head completely? I was hoping to put it onto the head like a Khajiit's ears. Otherwise I was going to have to put it on the hair, I'm sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleork Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 I was hoping to put it onto the head like a Khajiit's ears. Otherwise I was going to have to put it on the hair, I'm sure. My guess is that you will need to do a new mesh for either the head or the hair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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