Kraeten Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 Would someone kindly explain how you retexture architecture? It seems to be fairly different from retexturing weapons or armor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidzebra Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 (edited) If you want to apply new textures to existing buildings uniformly you often can do it right in the CK since all the distinct textured surfaces are accessible in the model edit dialogue (not always, but a lot of the time). You create your texture and add it to Misc\Textureset. Then you edit the model in the CK (under statics). Click edit again to get to the Model dialogue. Here you see a list of possible surfaces which support alternate textures. Doubleclick any of them to assign a new texture. The only headache is that the 3d name is often obscure with only numbers distinguishing them, so I usually assign random textures to lines until I get the one which modifies the surface I want, then apply my texture set. To remove a texture doubleclick a line, then in the texture list press escape. As said, this will apply to all instances of that object in the worldspace. If you want a unique building, simply clone the existing building first, then apply the texture. Edited December 1, 2012 by acidzebra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Celegon Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 (edited) Just to add to what acidzebra said... You could also assign your textures through Nifscope, I find it easier and it gives a bit more control too. Other than thant, the main difference with armor/weapon retexturing, is that buildings use a lot more of tilable textures, and as their UVs are unfolded accordingly you usually have to test some re-scaling of said UV; if not adjust re-unfold some UVs too. That's something that you rarely do for (simple) armor retexturing. Re-scaling UV can be done inside Nifscope too, quite easily, just right click on the mesh inside Nifscope 3D preview window, chose "Texture"... edit UVs, and hit Alt+S for the position and scaling options. Edited December 2, 2012 by Celegon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kraeten Posted December 9, 2012 Author Share Posted December 9, 2012 Your help has been greatly appreciated acidzebra and Celegon! Kudos to both of you! The building rextextures I've been making are pretty minor, just removing moss from the Imperial exterior statics. If you want to see the fruit of your advice, check out these screenshots below. Thanks again! http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/images/171621http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/images/171629http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/images/171631 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidzebra Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 Nice :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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