Question about mechanics

[starlazer]

I have been trying to make a custom weapon NIF with custom painting, while building the nif and uv mapping it went fine i still cant seem to paint it.

I dont see a section to specify a texture file in fo3 edit so does the nif file contain a link to the texture file, or what?

ive looked at several tutorials but i still cant quite understand how to take the mesh and combine it with a texture.

please help.

[Rekicker]

Yes, the NIF points to the texture file. The file format is DDS and all textures are in the Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Fallout 3\Data\Textures directory.

 

http://www.coldchaos.com/tutorial/niftexture.jpg