[Question] Complete Retexture

[Hunter136]

A major noob question I guess, I am looking to retexture a piece of armor, but I have no idea how to do so.

 

Are there any good tutorials on how to do so?

[JustCaroAnon]

There's quite a few - I mainly use this guide, which is for GIMP 2.8 with the DDS plugin.

 

But, something several guides won't tell you is how to find the original texture, to get the filename and other properties. (Not everything has a square texture - IIRC, a few items have rectangular texture files for...reasons, I guess.)

 

If it's a vanilla armor, or an armor in a mod whose files are packed in a BSA, you'll need to get BSAOpt or Bethesda Archive Extractor to find the files. They'll generally have the same name as the NIF mesh files; if there's nothing obvious present, use Tes5Edit to find the ArmorAddon record for the Armor and see what the model filename is.