Is there any way to change the color of an item???

[KnightRangersGuild]

Just wondering if there is an easy way to change the color of an item without having to learn about textures?

[acidzebra]

Since it's all done with textures... not really?

 

But it's not really hard; extract textures from BSA, install photoshop/gimp plugin for DDS files, and if you just want to change colors you won't have to mess with the normal maps or anything, just apply a color filter of your choice to the main texture DDS you're looking to change, save, and off you go.

[ghosu]

Only the whole thing/mesh, not different areas - you can change the item's cubemap, emissive and specular color in NifSkope...like i did with my ammo addon:

 

http://666kb.com/i/c900wvcacuf9b5ujc.png

 

... just for the base metal body i'm using the same texture for all versions, same with the colored sphere - just changed the above mentioned settings in NifSkope with a few clicks, but doing this or using a filter/color adjustement on the texture as mentioned before takes the same time i guess.

 

http://666kb.com/i/c95130z6isoudqy1z.png

In both cases you have to extract (.dds or .nif) and need an external program (Gimp/Photoshop or NifSkope), the edit itself takes a few seconds.

Edited November 20, 2012 by ghosu

[TheGreenLion]

Sometimes in the case of gems they aren't colored by a texture but rather vertex color in the mesh which is a pain, unless what ghosu mentioned will override the vertex coloring.

[KnightRangersGuild]

Thank you guys, I will try the nif color change first since I have expaience with niffs, so I have to change both the emissive color and the speular color to the same color??? I think thats where I was going wrong.

[ghosu]

Nah, don't have to be the same...try around with different settings/strength to see the difference, result depends on the cubemap as well.