hi well this is my frist texture its a edit of the imperial legion curiass i edited the texture in photo shop and then saved it as a DDS file in the right data folder opened up nif scope and assinged the texture to the a copy of the legion curiass it showed up fine in nif scope but when i use the construction set to make it in to a pice of armor and euip it on to a charcter the whole of thier upper body dissapers i cant figure out whats wrong really need help here

DId you also make a copy of the original normal map ( cuirass_n.dds) file ?? -- the normal map lets the game know how to handle the reflectivity of light on the item and without a normal map no light is reflected thus it dissapears ! -- for your purpose just making a copy of the original normal map and renaming it to match your new texture (with the _n.dds added) and placing it in the same folder as your new texture might work or if you made changes to the texture you may need to create a new normal map (get the http://developer.nvidia.com/object/photoshop_dds_plugins.html and read through the http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/Photoshop:_Normal_Maps_Basics

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Glad it helped ! - If you run into problems you can't figure out while making the new one either post back here or PM me a message and I'll try to help.