Less skin skimpy UNP armor?

[Sevish]

I think there is a lot of good Unp armor, but most of it's skimpy and, lets face it, wouldn't stop a cold breeze let alone an arrow to the knee. My question is this: if I wanted to mod some of this armor and say add a simple chainmail underlay (ex: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/24065) how would I go about doing that?

[shedidwhat]

get NifScope

if you don't have it already.

 

find the nif that you want to edit and open it with NifScope

will look something like this

 

I dont have that armor installed so thats why my image is white

 

 

 

in the bottom part of nifscope I have the chainmails texture path highlighted in blue. IF you right click on that you can choose

what texture to use.

 

to use that same chainmail texture on another body.

just right click on the texture path you want to change

and change its texture path ( copy and paste the texture path works too)

 

also check out this

Customising an outfit in Nifskope for beginners

[Kapt]

Download Xenius' Armor Compilation, he has a chainmail body texture that you can just set whatever armor's showing skin to. http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/23231

 

I'm starting work on some UNP mashup armors though which fit what you want, one of my WIP screens: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/images/144880

[Sevish]

Thanks I was going to take some the breast plates from http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/19772 and making some form fitting alts.

[Sevish]

Update: Shedidwhat, I tried using your tutorial to change the texture and it shows up on the nif but not when an actor is dressed in it. Am I glossing over something I shouldn't be?

[shedidwhat]

the texture you are tring to use

is it in your textures folder somewhere?

 

 

upload your nif or a image of your nif so I can see the texture path

[Sevish]

Here it is, just a test to see if it would work.

[shedidwhat]

ok replace this in the Nif's texture path

c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\skyrim\data\textures\armor\sleeksteel\sleeksteelmailf.dds

with this

textures\armor\sleeksteel\sleeksteelmailf.dds

 

and the texture path right under ^ that one change it to a femalebody_1_msn.dds

 

I changed them in this one

 

[Sevish]

Thanks, you rock. Now to figure out how to delete portions of meshes.

[shedidwhat]

in the tree view of NifSkope (left window)

right click on the NiTriShape or NiTriStrips that you want to remove

go down to Block

then click on Remove Branch

 

some meshes are in parts (NiTriShapes, Strips) and can be removed

but some have the whole armor as 1 NiTriShape.

 

for that you can try editing the texture by making the unwanted part transparent or edit them in 3DsMax

 

try this

how to get a legal copy of 3D Studio Max free

and how to use it

 

here is his full video tutorial page

http://www.youtube.com/user/NightasyTutorials/videos

[Sevish]

False alarm, I haven't gotten the chain to show when actually on an actor. Also what is the purpose of the _1.nif s?

[shedidwhat]

_0.nif and _1.nif is for the body weight

 

femalebody_0.nif lowest weight.

femalebody_1.nif maximum weight

 

if you ONLY want to use the slimmer, smaller bodies

you can copy the _0.nif and rename it _1.nif