About This File
SixColorOverlay is a utility for users who want to make their own overlay designs, and provides the option to publish them as mods. It requires RaceMenu v2.5.1 to add overlays for warpaint and tattoo's on the head, body, hands and feet.
To experiment with overlay designs, and to use them in game, SixColorOverlay contains 6 dummy files for each of the 4 body areas; hands, feet, face and body. The dummy files are meant to be overwritten with your own design. Six overlays is a lot, but is meant to test several different designs at one time, and to bring your final design in Skyrim, with up to 6 independent colors. Up to 6 independent glow colors are optional.
The dummy files are 1K .dds files, but can be overwritten by any size you want.
Look in Data/textures/Actors/Character/Overlays for Body, Hand, Feet and Face folders.
For instance, rename your body paint file to BodyColor1.dds and overwrite BodyColor1.dds. Open RaceMenu and choose BodyColor1 in the texture list, choose a color for the texture (a color for glow is optional).
A mod with your final design can be made by unpacking this mod, overwrite with your .dds files, and archive with 7-zip.
Warnings: be aware that this is my first mod and that is has been tested for a short time only. It works when other overlay mods are present or absent. I had an unintended (but reversible) glow effect once when two overlay mods added textures to the same area. It works when Racemenu Loose Base Scripts v2-5-0 is present or absent. TES5Edit gave no warnings on loading.
Installation: use a mod manager or install manually. RaceMenu v2.5.1 is required. I put it after RaceMenuMimic.esp (not required, not present) with BOSS Userlist Manager. Loading after Racemenu or Racemenu plugin is probably OK.
Credit: I mentioned that this is my first mod but only part is from me. Compiling became a guessing game for me; I got help from B3lisario, and from Uriel who compiled it for me (which is of course a crucial step). Racemenu includes Netimmerse override and these mods make overlays possible, both were made by expired6978.
Credit: Link to this page if you want to post this somewhere else. Nothing is required of users, but a (link to) an image with home made overlays would be nice. Overlays can be shared.
Example: In the image 3 different textures are used, which each were given a different texture color and just tiny bit of a glow color (similar, or very different from the underlying texture color). Hands, Feet and Body each have 3 textures (I made no textures for the head this time). The original is a photo from the ESA/Hubble site, credit: ESO, edited version of heic0913c; http://sci.esa.int/h...l-box-heic0913/ For more images (earlier version) see http://www.loverslab.com/topic/15224-show-your-skyrim-counterpart/page-539?do=findComment&comment=759968