[How To] Skyrim Modding Tutorial - Editing Armor Textures [HD]

[MAGGOTKnees]

thankyou dude

[DeadliestExpert]

can you change weapon color too?

[blitztpie]

@regaz93 hey dude awsome tuorial!! just a quick question i want to hide the hood on the shrouded cowl so its just the half-mask visible, if you know how to render a specific piece of armour invisible id apreciate any help thnx!

[thisbguyeh]

man i followed everything but i use gimp rather than photoshop, do i have to do something different in gimp rather than photoshop?

[9901jake]

This helped alot thanks sooo much.

[ScrewKikyo]

i like modding in morrowind better, though this will do i guess :D

[MassEffectedX13]

Hey, great tutorial. Sorry if you have already answered this but I'm having a problem when I am dragging the dds file from the desktop to gimp. I get an error message that says Opening 'C:\Users\Mark Gonzales\Desktop\boots.dds' failed:

Unknown file type

Please tell me what I am missing! Thanks!

[MassEffectedX13]

Actually never mind. Gimp was open when i put the plugin in the gimp directory so all i had to do was restart gimp.

[regaz93]

@MassEffectedX13 After you installed the plug-in did you restart gimp?

[KingxInxYellow]

When I load a file in gimp, it only shows half the texture, the colours are all wrong and there's a checkerboard pattern over it all. Is this normal?

[XCesium137X]

You could save time by doing that simple color change in gimp. It can do that and a lot more. Also, repeatedly converting files will cause a loss in quality. And technically this is texturing not modding, in order to actually truly mod, you need to know a programing language. But this was a great video. You are very good at instructional videos and should make more in the future.

[TheAfrorika]

does anyone have the problem with the missing libgimp-2.0-0.dll file missing from the libray so they cannot import the dds executable from winrar. need diagnosis and possibilities to fix this

[ConnorGilks]

Thanks for the great video man! But how do I make this into a mod to share with others that is standalone/non-replacer? Say I've created a standalone item in Creation Kit (that is just a item from Skyrim with some stats changed) and want to make a new texture for that, how would it work? Thanks man.

[Ninjawithaplan]

hey what about changing the imperial armor to spartan armor

[ItsSkyrim]

BTW, I bought the game in a store and it goes in a different place, which is easier to locate.

[TempoPanter91]

a lot easier to just use the nvidia dds plugin for photoshop

[GordyTheOverlord]

Is it strange I turned the execution hood into a S&M hood? :P

[AskingAttila]

Hey when I go to SteamApps, their is commons folder? Help?

[ItsSkyrim]

yeah click common then skyrim

[AskingAttila]

@ItsSkyrim I meant I don't have the commons folder. (sorry)

[ItsSkyrim]

@AskingAttila Look for your steam name, THEN skyrim

[AskingAttila]

@ItsSkyrim Yeah, that's what I did, I went to Steam, SteamApps, and their is no commons folder, no textures, nothing, just.bas files. Could I possibly make a Textures, or commons folder and put all the items and folders into that one? Or would it just muff everything up?

[AskingAttila]

@ItsSkyrim I think ima reinstall because it still doesn't have the folders...

[Pixelgent]

Download the Nvidia texture tools, you can open the .dds right in photoshop.

[sereously]

Forgive me if I'm stupid. I installed BSAopt, extracted it and ran it, and went to the right place, but the textures still aren't showing up. :(

[omgSylienneomg]

If you are having issues with the texture showing up try turning off the high definition esps if you have them.

[sungalion]

do you need to have the skyrim game to use modding

[superking796]

You made an error with the last part which might be annoying for some people.

You forgot to enter the correct path for the files. It's textures/armor/dragonscale/m(o­r 'f' for female armor) THEN dump the dds file(s) in the m (or f) folder.

Without the m or f folder it doesn't work, It took me a while to figure out but it fixed it for me.

[MichaelxDavid]

You can't hide from me! You pirated photoshop like everyone who has Photoshop!

[mrYennare]

@regaz93 i'd like to know if there's a tutorial showing how to create HD textures.....i mean i know how to simply "adjust" an existing texture, but what if i would make an HD version? i searched the whole web and found nothing about. if you know how to do it pls make a tutorial on it! a lot of people will apreciate!

[H4rdstyl30wns]

Can you change character textures? I mean like make your guy green and put tattoos on him? If so is that hard? Cuz it would be cool to have an illidan, or a kratos!

[HolyShadow180]

Thanks for the Tut I will give it ago tomoz

[FeatherandCup]

When I go into my data I only get update misc and interface. any ideas where everything else is?

[khaza1wolfgurl]

yay, GIMP!! I looove GIMP xD

[shilipsy]

Did this step by step and didnt get a result. Dont knwo what I did wrong.

[TheKrensada]

not even ten seconds in and i could not keep watching due to your pretentiousness.

[mitchmazda6]

Can you do this with Creation Kit instead of FOMM

[chaosrdeX]

when there are 3 different files for one skin, which one are you supposed to use?

I'm trying to retex the nightingale armor, and there is 'nightingalearmorbodym.dds', 'nightingalearmorbodym_n.dds', and 'nightingalearmorbodym_n.dds'.

[chaosrdeX]

@chaosrdeX Forget it, I just realised that the shitty "High res' textures that Bathesda released was overriding all of my stuff.

[czzoverkill]

is this for pc?



[MegaSpooke]

@czzoverkill

lol is that serious question ?

[880User088]

duuuuuuuuuuude that was helpful maaaaaaan !

[MrNomadNinja]

fo mod manager link is corrupt or broken or something because i get an error message everytime i try to get to the site :)

[regaz93]

I just used it :/ I'm not sure try typing fallout mod manager in Google?

[1022wil]

thanks

[immrgrunty1363]

what about replacing UV maps?

[Bonovasitch]

4:42

I see what you did there

[TheGyroid]

i hate drm it just complicates things and there was a workaround the day the drm was realeased

i dont pirate games because i have tried to make games like this but completely failed also i love bethesda

[olly123451]

My gimp is 100% ready to go whenever i want it.

He doesn't have much choice about it either.

[bustillomoreno]

how can i make ingame menus to modify potions??

[xXSuperGXxx]

GIMP?!??!?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOO!

[CaIlidus]

Hey I figured I ask you since you were really helpful with this whole procedure.

I wanted to edit a certain helmet with another piece of armor what would I exactly need to work with.

For ex. I want to use the base of the Ancient Nordic Helmet trim the horns away and fancy it with the spartan look using the imperial legion helmet.

[rydout]

@realdenni199 yes I figured it out. Close that window, fire some reason the first time u open this program it shows a different window. The regular window will be there underneath smaller and blank. Just drag and drop the file you want to edit there and voilah. Hope this helps.

[Alucard4661]

I followed these procedures with the ebony armor but got no results. Any help?

[regaz93]

@Alucard4661 make sure you named and placed the folders that you created in the right place.

[redfoxarts]

@regaz93 do you have any other tutorial like this? using 3ds max 2011, photoshop extened cs5 or 4... FO3 archive utility? officerbeardontcare's video is confusing... he didnt show a step by step tutorial...

[IShadowZ40]

@regaz93 what if your modding a modded texture?

[progbrad]

Nice dick!

Lol. Thx for that, I just needed to know how to open them. Great video man.

[lachupacabra17]

great video man

[Markussoll]

how ccai add new houses to the world of skyrim?? i have the mod breezehome first wing and how did he build it without construction kit?

[TheJasonReaper]

man. im laughing when you draw that"Penis" LMFAO

good tutorial though

[CSRgamer]

I downloaded BSAopt because I didn't have Fallout, but when I go to extract a file the only option is 'Convert', and when I click that it starts copying every file it seems, even if I've only selected one texture. How do I extract one texture like you did?

[stpieraf]

AWESOME video. Thanks SO much!

[KirkRW112]

hey it didn't pick up my .dds file its just using the original texture

[JakeHeaden]

awesome vid man thanks a lot

[wikanz09]

lol the d*ck

[YourichiCat]

Hey regaz, great video, really helped :) However I have a question, if you want an armor, to for an example have spikes sticking out, can you just draw it? But won't it look flat while looking from different angles? I have never modded before xP

[CSRgamer]

@YourichiCat

Correct, since you are editing the texture, it would appear flat unless at the perfect angle, and that's if you did a really really good job. To make spikes you will have to get a 3D modeling program like MM3D (Which I use to modify Halo models, I don't know for sure if it works with Skyrim).

[YourichiCat]

@CSRgamer Oooh right, thanks man :)

[katholischious]

ty for this ^_^ i've been trying to make my own warpaints and this was very helpful <3

[Valinorzx]

Quick question. Say i have a wooden dragon mask and would like to remove the light armor specification (make it like mage's clothes). I've tried opening it up (a custom esp of the dragon mask, i've changed it's textures) in FOMM in and TESnip but don't know how to proceed from there. any suggestions?

[lendial]

can i use this swap armor textures? say, i want to make make elven armor look exactly like ebony armor but retain its stats.

[Sutcliffe1019]

work for xbox360?

-I am a noob modder!!!!!



[iibSpankiinx]

@Sutcliffe1019 No.

[Blindingscythe13]

SIR, can you teach us how to make MESHES on Skyrim??? Ive been making meshes in 3DSmax, but i cannot import them to skyrim....

[Flint925]

Hey I've extracted to the desktop but Gimp wont recognize it as a .dds. help

[ste6843]

I got this to work and edited the redguard dark brotherhood hat (the one nazir wears) but when in game there is a big white area around the hood? However, the texture has changed, any idea how to get rid of the white area? Thanks for any help :)

[seraphlord]

thanks dude :)



[rydout]

OK, so i used gimp to edit, don't have photoshop, and i changed some color balance, hue saturation and brightness & contrast settings to get the desired effect i wanted, but when i go to save it, i get this: DDS: It appears your image may be a volume map,

but not all layers are the same size, thus a volume

map cannot be written.

Any help?

[realdenni199]

@rydout Me too. Have you figured it out?

[Sladeofdark]

im surprised i have not found how to apply the smoke Shroud effect that comes from Ebony Mail to other armors.. i have my Knightingale with custom enchants and Shrouded Armor bonuses. but the LAST thing i want is that black smoke effect on the armor i have now and i will be ready to go ahead and stop doing side quest and just finish this excellent game

[Insanicle]

Great job bro, I have actually made a pretty epic Katana using these methods XD

[iacio]

Thank you thank you, <3

[HonestDiscussioner]

I tried to remove an area of armor, but when I do it leaves a visible white line along the edges of where I deleted it on the model in game. Know how to remove that white line?

[RickyV300]

I dont have a nividia card, can I still get that photoshop plugin?

[PDPking908]

did you get photo shop for free or buy it?

[JScivlancer1]

why dosn't it work for me? I tried several time but didn't manage.

PS Will there be an easier method then this when the mod-kit comes out?

[PigOnProbation]

Is there anyway to make the files that you modded for ps3??

[S1lentStr1ke]

I just want to notify you guys that nVidia has made a .dds plugin for Photoshop CS5.

[CuzImAzz]

Hi, i downloaded a mod which allows you to get Anduril the only problem is that its 1handed, would you know how you change that to 2handed?

[pablomag77]

Totally unrelated but.. what's the add-on/program you use in your windows to get those black bars and shortcut menus?

[rvr1982]

I really hope you said poop-looking and not poop-licking. Thanks a lot for this video, very instructive and easy to follow ;)

[Deathbringer99699]

my question is.. will they be replaced or did you do a back up of the boots color mesh?

[regaz93]

@Deathbringer99699 Nothing is actually replaced. Think of it more as overriding the original. If you were to delete, or move, the folder that we added (Textures) then it would revert back to the original files.

[calantlor]

@regaz93 dude i already had gimp lolz but back on topic.

i have a problem when i apply the textures etc, it does'nt apply any texture for my headgear, no error messsage nothing any ideas.

[LapisGarter]

Why don't you just get the DDS plugin for Photoshop?

[regaz93]

@LapisGarter Not everyone has Photoshop :P

[A7C11]

@regaz93 when i open the skyrim texture folder, the only thing inside is a folder called actors, no textures or other folders like you had at 3:50 :(

[scottykal12]

@LapisGarter Photoshop is a waste of money when you can get gimp (legally) for free.

[SuperRasean]

I FREAKIN LOVE YOU...... Is what i would say if i was that kind of guy.. but thanks you really just helped me solve a 5 hour problem i was having. im really amazed how the quality of youtube tutorials has dropped and i cant find more like this. thank you very much

[xXCupcakeMageXx]

can this be imported to x box via horizzon?



[dmarks89]

BEST VIDEO EVAAAA!

[john92666]

question i did what you showed on the tutorial and it only worked half way cause i changed the color and everything and saved it. then in game the changes are made when i look at the item in the inventory but not when i put it on. any suggestions??

please email.

john9266@hotmail.com

[ColetheCreater]

that armor is shit Legendary Daegric is the way to go!

[PlancksTime]

Good video man, THANKS alot !

[zachcuden]

Oh I got a question. I changed a swords mesh to look like a fan so now ingame it is a colorless fan. I want to color it but when I open the texture it still looks like the original sword. (I didn't touch the texture when changing the sword to look like a fan, just mesh)

[Kenosos]

Thank you! I've been wanting to get into modding Skyrim but wasn't sure how to start. Well made tutorial too.

[zachcuden]

Alright sweet ill give dome recoloring a try. Oh yea ive downloaded almost a hundred mods already, ive just not been courageous enough to try making something up myself. Let alone artistic. I have no idea how to use photoshop. And even if I do look at tuts my work will probably turn out hideously haha

[zachcuden]

Sweet you seem chill. I'm never even gonna do this because I don't wanna eff up haha but thumbs up anyway. Do ya know how to port things from oblivion to skyrim? Say you want a certain sword from tesnexus to replace some skyrim sword such as daedric dagger?

[regaz93]

@zachcuden You cant really mess anything up man! You can have at it! and sorry I dont, but check out Skyrimnexus(.)com you can find a lot of cool stuff.

[caliss155]

thanks for the tutorial man!! helped me make my dragonscale armor look like daedric. ^^

[SuperJeremy1982]

That looks awesome. Thanks man, I think I'll make my Steel armor look like dragon armor ;)

Also, what are the applications you run on your desktop?

[regaz93]

@SuperJeremy1982 Haha have fun! Im glad you enjoyed the video! and here you go :)

For my Icons I use:

Fences (by Stardock)

For my Desktop I use:

Rainmeter Desktop Customization

[Vohcaz]

Very well made tutorial. I applaud your work!

[regaz93]

@Vohcaz Thanks man lets hope everyone else who sees it thinks the same! :)