Not able to find some clothing textures directory

[Back2friday]

Hello, Im trying to recolor 2 outfits. The forswornarmor and prison clothing. 

Anyone know where these dds files are? 

 

The meshes are in data/meshes/clothes/prisoner & meshes/clothes/forswornarmor 

 

But im not able to find these maps in the textures/clothes directory

[Guest]

Open the files with NifSkope, inside the BSLightingShaderProperty

 

Inside the Textures values you should get the full path for the dds files

[Back2friday]

6 minutes ago, CPU said:

Open the files with NifSkope, inside the BSLightingShaderProperty

 

Inside the Textures values you should get the full path for the dds files

Hmmm its not there. Nifskope is saying armor/forsworn/forswornarmor.dds but the directory is not even there lol. In game the texture are installed so it has to be somewhere right? lol 

[Guest]

They are for sure inside a bsa file. But I do not know which one.

Sadly the quickest way (it is not quick) is to open the bsa (or bs2) files and check which one has the files.

[Back2friday]

Just now, CPU said:

They are for sure inside a bsa file. But I do not know which one.

Sadly the quickest way (it is not quick) is to open the bsa (or bs2) files and check which one has the files.

Yeah nvm then. Im not messing with bsa files at this point. 

 

I did found the prisoner files. They are in the texture/clothes/because directory for some odd reason. 

 

anyway thanks 

[Pfiffy]

For modding I extracted all bsa's in a separate folder far away from the game folder. It makes working much easier.  

[coolfreaky]

you will not mess anything with it !     Bethesda Archive Extractor (BSA and BA2) at Skyrim Special Edition Nexus - Mods and Community (nexusmods.com)

 

you can extract the files where you want : only textures or only meshes or the all thing .  you can extract only the folder you need , pic a file.dds change it ( with gimp + dds or photoshop + dds ) and put it in Mod Manager folder by making the right path . ( under any mod of your chois if no one overwrites it ) .

[Back2friday]

18 hours ago, coolfreaky said:

and put it in Mod Manager folder by making the right path . ( under any mod of your chois if no one overwrites it ) .

Can you explain this? I have no idea what you mean with this. 

If i extracted the files, how do i put it back inside?  Ill try to look at some youtube video's 

[Guest]

You do not need to "put them back inside".

You can just place them in the correct directory structure.

 

Loose files will be used before the ones inside the BSA/BA2 files.

 

If you found the file inside: armor/forsworn/forswornarmor.dds

 

Then you have to place it in a folder called: data/armor/forsworn/

(and use the exact same name)

It will be loaded by the game as the main file.

[Back2friday]

52 minutes ago, CPU said:

You do not need to "put them back inside".

You can just place them in the correct directory structure.

 

Loose files will be used before the ones inside the BSA/BA2 files.

 

If you found the file inside: armor/forsworn/forswornarmor.dds

 

Then you have to place it in a folder called: data/armor/forsworn/

(and use the exact same name)

It will be loaded by the game as the main file.

edit: thanks i got it to work! 

 

If i only could make it player exclusive, but thats asking too much i guess lol 

 

Thanks everyone!!! 

[coolfreaky]

1 hour ago, Back2friday said:

If i only could make it player exclusive

 

you can try something like this :

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/11656

 

 

[Pfiffy]

I'm work on a clothing replacer and from that point I can tell you that it is easier to make something player-only than to make it accessible for all NPC's.

For player only you just have to make a separate armor that is just craftable or accessible via Additem. To distribute it you have to edit a lot of outfit/leveleditem entries.

 

If you simply replace the existing texture, it is one-armor-for-all. Do you know how to use the CK?

[Back2friday]

5 hours ago, coolfreaky said:

 

you can try something like this :

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/11656

 

 

woah i need to  check this out. Thanks

[Back2friday]

5 hours ago, Pfiffy said:

I'm work on a clothing replacer and from that point I can tell you that it is easier to make something player-only than to make it accessible for all NPC's.

For player only you just have to make a separate armor that is just craftable or accessible via Additem. To distribute it you have to edit a lot of outfit/leveleditem entries.

 

If you simply replace the existing texture, it is one-armor-for-all. Do you know how to use the CK?

No i never used ck. No worries ill try the exclusive refitter mod. Im basically set for this playthrough.

 

Feel free to explain your thoughts, i might save this page to bookmark. I kinda enjoy doing all these modding/editing to make the game look better. Who knows what i could do if i actually start making my own mods  but due to work and personal life stuff, not much time 

[Pfiffy]

I depends on what you want to have in the end.  If you just replace the texture, your version will appear on all NPC's that wear that armor. If you want to have an exclusive armor with your texture you will have to set it up a separate version.