[solved] Gray texture when creating custom penis

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edit: so basically i just needed to have a transparent diffuse texture. i even told myself this before but instead i deleted the image in S4S's "warehouse" tab instead. i'm gonna leave this up just in case there's one person out there who struggled like i did lmao

 

I'm attempting to make a custom penis model to use with WickedWhims based on an edit MMOBoys made. I just grabbed an existing penis mesh from a Skyrim mod and I'm using Luumia's Smoothish II to texture.

 

Now, here's my issue:

 

Every attempt I've made to texture the penis results in a gray texture.

 

I thought that the existing diffuse map would just "overlay" onto the skintone color, but obviously that just results in a gray penis. The UV map is placed on Luumia's existing textures, which are gray by default, so I thought not having any reference to a texture would somehow point the UVs to the skin texture that would be "blended" in-game, but that results in the red-and-white "Your CC is missing shit" checkerboard texture. I even attempted to make a custom skintone following the WW tutorial and even that failed.

 

Obviously, I can't color the diffuse texture myself since other pre-existing penis textures I checked out for references are gray themselves, so what gives? I can't find any information on this issue here, on the WickedWhims site, nor on Google, so I'm at my wit's end figuring this out.