Retexture port-over

[Enclavecommander225]

I was wondering can you port-over a Fallout 3 retexture to Fallout: New Vegas. e.g Download a T-51b retexture from Fallout 3 Nexus and put it in the New Vegas data folder and will it work. The Owner hasn't put his retexture on New Vegas Nexus and I was wondering could it work if I just put in the New Vegas folder? can someone please help

[TrickyVein]

In short, yes *IF* the texture from Fallout 3 is named as the same for the T51-b (non-faction) armor in New Vegas. You'll have to unpack the .bsa to see what the texture is called for the NV armor. Then it's only a matter of renaming the file you want to use to match it and putting it in the right folder.

 

Also make sure to have your archive invalidated or just the Fallout Mod Manager (FoMM) which you'll need to open up the .bsa for the game anyway.

[Xaranth]

That also assumes that the retexture work conforms to the original UV map of the power armour mesh, that the power armour mesh is identical across the two games...

[TrickyVein]

I think it is?

 

Good point though. All of this would be cleared up if someone just looked at the darn thing in NifSkope - but I'm away from my home machine atm.

[llamaRCA]

I can't think of any vanilla armor that's used in both games that's been changed so that textures used in one game couldn't be used in the other. I might be wrong about that as I haven't worked with every nif, but I've played around with most of them. Anyway, I did pull up the model in Nifskope from both FO3 and NV and compared them (I don't play with PA so I did have to check that) and they look identical to me.

 

So, ya, @ EnclaveCommander225, you should be able to put the textures into your armor textures folder in the same path it's in for FO3 and it should work.