Hey all, I am currently creating a personal mod to add a Legionnaire class to Oblivion and would like to add images to the class... However I am unsure of what resolution/size/whatever to make each image. I know the TES Construction Set Wiki says that I can check the files:

* \Textures\Menus\Level-up\class_creation For large resolution images
* \Textures\Menus80\Level-up\class_creation For medium resolution images
* \Textures\Menus50\Level-up\class_creation For low resolution images

But those don't seem to be in my Oblivion directory.

Any help on this?

Those folders exist within Oblivion Textures-Uncompressed.bsa. You can browse it with BSA browser that came with OBMM. At least that's how I browse mine

Alright, whereabouts is the BSA browser?

OBMM>Utilities>BSA Browser

Alright, it's still kind of tough to pick out those three files among all the others though.

I believe you don't actually have to browse the bsa. Simply create the folders yourself in Data folder, it's a custom class anyway

That bsa browsing thing is useful to extract the stock images and see the dimension of the images

Yeah, I extracted them and made an image with the exact same dimensions but the DDS Converter I downloaded isn't allowing me to convert the image to a .dds so I don't really have a way to put it in the game now.

If you're using Photoshop, there's nVIDIA's DDS Plugin for Photoshop that will allow you to save the image as .dds.

Or refer to http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/DDS_Tools for sets of dds-related tools

What file type are you trying to convert into a .dds file?

I'm using the DDS Converter 2.1 listed on the TES Construction Set Wiki and I've tried converting it from .jpeg, .tga, and .png to the .dds but none of them seem to work.

And on top of that I'm having some scripting problems now that I know worked on the last class I made... Goddammit.

I use Paint.NET, and it comes with a built-in DDS exporter. I know for sure that it works.

Plus, the whole program is easy to use. People recommend GIMP, but I recommend Paint.NET. (Heck, I'd recommend MS Paint before GIMP...)

When you state that the conversions don't work, do you mean the conversion process fails, or the result is not usable in the game?

The former is likely to be related to support for things like alpha channels, e.g. you can't convert a type that doesn't support transparency to one that does, because there's no source for that channel.

If it's the latter, the most likely thing is you used the wrong setting for the conversion. Some dds files need to be DXT1, others DXT3 or DXT5, according to how they're used. Mipmaps may be required, or not allowed, etc. If you extracted an existing one, then DDS converter will show the settings for Alpha, mipmaps etc. for that, and you need to get yours to match.