Weapon Texture Replacement showing Armor Texture?

[Sweet6Shooter]

So I'm doing a retexture of mc_tammer's crowbar, and even though the texture looks great in nifskope, when I load it in the game, it uses the texture of the equipped armor? I'm not really sure what I did wrong, I exported the dds with mipmaps and bc3 compression, and the weapon is referencing the right nif.

 

I'd really love some help with this, it seems like a simple step that I just don't know to do. I'm very close to being able to release this retexture and another, much larger mod, once it's done.

[Sweet6Shooter]

Figured it out: Make sure that when you change your texture path, you remove everything to the left of textures\ in your paths.

Leaving it up for posterity. If a mod sees this, feel free to edit the title to say SOLVED

[dubiousintent]

Yes. The path has to be "relative" instead of "absolute". (See the wiki article "How to fix hard-coded texture paths in NIF files" for the procedure to locate the texture file entry within NifSkope.)

 

-Dubious-