armors files viewing

[donews]

Hello,


I want to merge some little armors mods for making outfits for NPC creation. I will use TesVSnip to do that and I have no problem to build them in Creation kit.

 

But I search a simple way to have a look these armors before to decide to join them in my mod. I use NifScope for meshes and IrfanView for textures, but it is not very practical.

Is there a better way to have a complete look of each piece of these armor (form and color) ?

For example could NifScope display colors of these files ?

[Deleted1308005User]

Nifskope can view textures as well.

(If you mean that the texture is directly on the armor, just like viewing it in-game)
You need to add the texture paths to Nifskope to make it work.
(Steam/Steamapps/common/skyrim/textures)

[donews]

I thank you

 

And how to add the texture paths to NifScope ?

 

I add ../skyrim/data/textures path in settings but NifScope don't display colors.

Edited February 16, 2013 by donews

[scrivener07]

Console command coc qasmoke will have ever item and armor in the game to view in game

[Deleted1308005User]

Console command coc qasmoke will have ever item and armor in the game to view in game

I think he meant to view mod armors, which usually aren't added to Qasmoke.

 

And in addition, view them outside of game.

 

@Donews

You might not see textures for couple of reasons:

Wrong texture path. Usually modders have habit of setting texture paths to C:/Program files/Steam/steamapps/common etc.etc., so unless your game is installed there as well, you can't see the textures.

 

Textures might be packed in .bsa

 

I only point you towards:

http://niftools.sourceforge.net/wiki/NifSkope/Change_texture

 

That's something related, and from that wiki you'll find everything you need.

 

It's too much work to explain all I know about textures, as I've learned everything myself from trial and error, so it's not too "professional" when I explain stuff.

[donews]

I thank you for that link.


I have adjusted the settings and it is working better. I have changed the background of the render window too. Some colours are well, some less, but my first needs are satisfied. I just want to have a look on these files before to pick them.

 

(I open a new thread about Qskope)