Old Game Modding Help - original Deus Ex

[BeelzeRog]

Hiya. Long time lurker, barely a modder. I'm hoping someone might help a newbie out.

I decided to take up a challenge. A few years ago, I found a nude mod for Deus Ex. It was terrible. Imagine ambling blobs of skin with no real distinctive features. After dabbling in doing some adult texture mods in a couple other few other games  (Saints Row the Third, GTA Vice City)  I decided to put up or shut up and try Deus Ex. I managed a few environmental texture changes (changed a few pictures, billboards, etc), but doing the characters turned out to be more in-depth. After stumbling around, I finally grew enough brains to look at what the last modder did. They generated their own DesuEx.u file which they then made sure loaded first by editing the .ini file.

I didn't want to actually use their DeusEx.u file because they'd swapped around some character models and I really preferred to use the originals for the characters. So I exported all the character skins I intended to use from the DesuExCharacters.u file and made a new UTX file, just like the previous modder did, unpack the character classes using the included UnrealEd, altered individual files to point to the new UTX when necessary, then used the console commands to generate a new DesuEx.u file that went into a separate folder with the new UTX file. I edited the .ini file and loaded it up. The screenshots below were the result.

My Google-fu is failing me and this is such an old version of Unreal that some of the sites that used to talk about it are just broken. So does anyone know what is happening here? Are the skins not loading at all? Is this a case of conflicting skins? I only did an initial mod on one character, to figure out where the nipples would be, but the other skins have not been touched. My intent was to get things set up, then be able to edit and swap out skins in the UTX at my leisure without having to regenerate a new DesuEx.u file each time. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[BeelzeRog]

OK, sorry to waste people's time. Seems that when I try to recompile the DesuEx.u, it changes where it looks for textures. It will change it to 0 for some reason. I've got to figure out how to make the edits stick.