I am trying to retexture a sign adding a Text field to the dds file, using Gimp I am able to accomplish it just fine, it looks good. but when I pull it up in nifscope and then later in CK the text looks like your looking at it through a mirror where all the letters are backwards, anyone have any idea what could cause this effect? Gimp shows the lettering just fine.

roadmaster

I've noticed this before. Some of the sign meshes have reversed UV maps, which is fine if you have no text on the sign. You might want to try another mesh.

Thanks for the info, that prompted me to take a closer look and your right, before I even add the Text the image gets reversed. Does anyone know of a way around this issue? I wanted to find a sign that I could use as a wall plaque style sign, to put up on the walls above some chests, so that I don't have to go and point my cursor on the chest to see which one I want to open, I just have to look at the sign above the chest to know which one to go to. I found MrkSignAlchemyShop01.dds and it seemed to be the perfect solution. If there is no way around the Text Reversal then ill have to look for a different sign if I can find one.

roadmaster

I think that one of the was to avoid it is to... mirror the text itself in the image editor.