dds plugin options

[xioSlayer]

I'll concisely outline everything to make things simple.

 

My goal: modify Fawkes' pants color

I have the nvidia dds plugin for photoshop.

 

I extracted "textures\creatures\smspinebreaker\supermutantpants.dds" with F3Archive Utility.

 

Then I modified the texture to my liking and saved it

 

I put it in the data folder with its appropriate file organization.

 

I modified my ArchiveInvalidation to include it.

 

Then, however, Fawkes' pants are indeed different, but horrible graphical glitches ensued all over his body. His skin is now textured as rock (like The Thing from fantastic four) and he seems to be wearing glitchy transparent sheet of metal on his back and chest.

 

 

and so... where did I go wrong? I tried changing a great deal of the save options in the dds plugin, but no matter what I do, the glitches are still present on his torso (and wtf, how did this happen, i thought I was just modding the pants texture?)