Need some help with an armor mod

[dragonchris152]

So pretty much trying to swap out the texture for the tullius female model for a texture I made. It works fine in the ck but in game the armor is invisible. Now I reverted back to the original model with out the texture swap and the armor is still invisible. I can seem to figure out the problem with this and would appreciate any help on it. Edited January 10, 2013 by dragonchris152

[gamefever]

I would have replaced the texture in one of two different ways.

 

I would have either used a BSA program to find out the texture path of the armor in game and then recreate that folder structure nameing my file exactly the same.

 

Or I would use nifkcope to find the mesh path then in that program I would rename the texture path to my texture and then place my altered "TeliousArmor.Nif" into the same file structure into my games data directory.

 

These are both sure ways to see if it will work and both of these ways do not use up ESP's in a persons load order which for hardcore modders is actually a plus.

The trouble with using the construction set to do this is'nt that it's not possible it's that it's not the easiest way to do it.

Also consider that your new form object must overide the games associated texture information it would still be easier to use Tes5Edit to make your overide just to be sure that your texture replacer esp is written correctly in a DATA FORM.

 

Also you would be able to quickly test to see if a Bashed Patch or Merged Patch would undo your changes and check to see if your Esp has dirty edits.

 

The more I think about it it's more troublesome to make the game itself change the texture than to just use the replacer methods I described above, when it comes to public use.

 

PS make sure your ESP you made in the CK is not activated in your load order when you are trying to revert back to normal. Also the game uses .DDS texture files I'm not sure if you can see other texture files in your CK but you didn't post enough information to go on. When you have invisible armor's it ussually means your mesh is the problem, you may have altered the female varient in such a way that the changes are still present in your game, check your load order for the esp, then check your file structure in these 2 places

 

Skyrim\data\meshes\armor\telious\f\ Meshes are here

Skyrim\data\textures\armor\telious\f\ Textures are here

 

Thats about it I can't think of any reason beyond that as to why your armor would be invisable. If your still having the problem after checking those 3 posibilities please post back here with more information.

Edited January 10, 2013 by gamefever

[dragonchris152]

thanks for the reply gamefever. Seemed to manage to sort it out though, as replacing it with the same model from a back up of my mod seemed to do it. Not sure what had happened to the model, but as you suspected that was the problem.

[gamefever]

Hey no problems Dragon glad I could help you, I remember being new to all this.