Changing your followers textures

[WCSC]

Not sure if I'm using the correct terminology.

 

I read something a while back about changing the body textures of your follower.  I'd like to use some muscular textures or meshes of one follower i.e. Bee-V with some of my others.

 

How do I do that?  Which files do I take from follower A to give to B?

 

Any tutorials or video's on this?

[Swiftstep]

First you need to check whether the texture files are hard-wired into the follower mod (so that you can not replace them at all), or if the files can be exchanged. Check the mod for *.dds files. To open them, use paint.net (freeware). You'll realize quickly that skin and normal map files are always named in the same manner.

 

-> muscular = normal map = standard-nomenclature is "1_msn.dds"

-> skin = top layer, visisble ingame = "_1.dds"

 

Of course, the mod author could have changed the name to whatever she or he liked them to be called. That's way you need a tool like paint.net. If you can find those files, it's a simple matter of copy and paste to exchange the files. Only thing to keep in mind: is it UNP or CBBE?