Texturing help

[The_Laughing_Man]

In nifskope the mesh I have is all white. The guide says to just rename it and it will work. Well What does that mean? I have the mesh on my desktop. And changing the name does not seem to do anything. Maybe I am just reading it wrong

You might see the mesh looking all white, even though the "nisourcetexture" node in NifSkope has a texture there. This is because the texture is in a different folder than NifSkope expects. Rename it to the correct one (BSAS/textures/armor/leyawiincuirass.dds or whatever) and the texture should appear.

Is what I do not get. Does that mean the texture needs to be with the mesh or what?

[grond]

Well you're unpacking them so this might be a moot question in a few minutes. I thought I read somewhere that you could get NS to find the BSA, but it might have been a dream I had.

[The_Laughing_Man]

Nope. I have both meshes and textures now. And still its white

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a317/CyberDragonZeroX/Oblivion%20tests/picture033.jpg

[grond]

If you have them in the 'out' folder, you'll need to copy/paste them into your Data folder. If you've got a good machine, I say do all of them. It's 8GB I think...

[The_Laughing_Man]

Data as in Oblivion? Wont that over write my other textures/meshes?

And my Out folder is only 3 gigs

[grond]

Not if they have different names than vanilla. If you have custom files in your data folder and you haven't renamed 'em, take 'em out, or rename them before you copy/paste. But nothing will be overwritten that has a different name.

[The_Laughing_Man]

This is stuff they need to put in a guide..I bet there is one...lol

[grond]

Well, anytime you unzip a mod into your data folder, this is what happens. A warning pops up that there's already a folder named XXX, and that files will be overwritten. It's basically the same thing here.

I think I wondered for some time about the in and out folders before I just figured that's the holding bin - mine's 6.5 GB, but I have everything out.

EDIT - I'm sure I've forgotten something, or am ignorant of something. A master will come and add soon. Always happens...

[The_Laughing_Man]

Lol I am still confused. I just wanna edit the stuff and now overwrite anything in my game...yet...maybe I missed something. Ill go read the walkthoughs again

http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/Better_Retextures_:_Detailed_Guide_For_NifSkope_and_the_GIMP

Is what I am going by. Can't get past step 1 lol.

AHA! Got it

The source texture file was in correct.

[grond]

Now I'm confused. What do you suppose will be overwritten?

[The_Laughing_Man]

Now I'm confused. What do you suppose will be overwritten?

I figured it out. I think you meant about adding something into the game. I meant about the tool its self showing textures as white.

[grond]

Nope - I gotcha about NS not showing textures. All my blathering has been about throwing the out folder into Data so the Textures can show up in NIFSCOPE. But you got it to work somehow, so cool.

[The_Laughing_Man]

Nope - I gotcha about NS not showing textures. All my blathering has been about throwing the out folder into Data so the Textures can show up. But you got it to work somehow, so cool.

My issue was about the texture path.

It was not finding the texture for the armor.

Lets say

Blades

It got the Mesh up fine

However when it went to find the texture for said armor it did not go to the correct place (I assume it went to my data file. Which is not in use because of a armor/weapon texture over haul mod)

[grond]

Yes, the texture path. That's what I've been attempting to help you with. But now that I know you don't use your Data folder I can't help! I have no idea how you can do anything without using the Data folder!

But that's just me. Major Vanilla.

[The_Laughing_Man]

Yes, the texture path. That's what I've been attempting to help you with. But now that I know you don't use your Data folder I can't help! I have no idea how you can do anything without using the Data folder!

But that's just me. Major Vanilla.

Ahh lol. I am not even sure if its vanilla or roberts.

[donnato]

Ahh lol. I am not even sure if its vanilla or roberts.

Morning TLM. Have you checked out the tuts offered by Insanity Sorrow (painting),Dark Rider(blanket), or Vince`s "Texturing 101". These contain the same steps you`ll be needing. I was able to retex my brumaHouse roof and chimney using the info from there sources.

[The_Laughing_Man]

Ive done pretty well with very little reading. But ya I have used most of the guides when I get stuck. My new challenge is to make the logo of my armor bumpy.

[The_Laughing_Man]

Un needed bump for showing off*

[grond]

OH - a thousand times OH - great job!

[donnato]

Wow, lovin that. Really nice work.

[The_Laughing_Man]

And the end result nets us

Screen shot does not really do it justice.

Well I guess this can be closed. I got the info I need. Thank you all.

[grond]

Closed per TLM's request. Nice work!