Perhaps I should find a Nifscope forum for this or something, but here goes: I was looking at the ancestor ghost, and wanted to try a different texture on just the skull, but changing it changes everything else as well. Obviously different parts of a mesh can refer to different textures since you see it all the time, but is there no way to accomplish this from within Nifscope?

the ancestor ghost uses a single texture TX_Ghostward_tunic.TGA so you would have to change it in the NiTexturingProperty. you'll first need to add a new NiSourceTexture and then assign it to the NiTexturingProperty what you want to have a separate texture.

Edit: Clarification

Wait, how do I assign it to the NiTexturingProperty? Nevermind, I just realized that if I set its' "Has Base Texture" to no, then I can add a new and seperate NiSourceTextures. Thanks.

you assign the NiSourceTexture by selecting the NiTexturingProperty you want to change then click the "+" in front of "Base Texture" and then change the "Source" in the ancestor ghost it will be "31 [NiSourceTexture]" you'll want to change it to the new NiSourceTexture #

Edit: Wow i didn't get Ninja-ed

This won't work as tronvillain has already stated that it changes the texture of the whle model.

NiTexturingProperty is where you normally put the texture. It is the parent of the NiSourceTexture, so don't worry, you were doing it right but in this case the parts of the ancestor ghost share properties so doing this will change every texture in the mesh. Normally you can just use the split properties spell to allow you to assign different textures but that won't work on the Ancestor Ghost as all the NiTexturing properties point to the same branch. In this case you can just right click and copy the branch that you want to be seperated, paste it back in the same place and then delete the old branch. Then you can change this texture individually. Make sure that you do the exact same thing in the x.nif of the ancestor ghost too otherwise it won't work in game.

it you right click on the NiNode and "Block">"Insert">"NiSourceTexture" you can then insert it to what ever part of the ancestor ghost with out changing it all. It changes it all because it only has one NiSourceTexture for the Base Texture if you add another one you can break it up.

Actually thought of an easier way, depending on how handy you are with Nifskope. This way might take a little longer the first time but is cleaner and more reliable than my previous method.

Right click in the block list (usually on the left hand side of Nifskope, highlight 'block' in the menu that popped up, click insert and choose 'NiSourceTexture' then go to the NiTexturingProperty above the NiSourceTexture that you want to change (in your case it would be 30 and/or 39). Next you need to go into the Block Details (usually at he bottom of Nifskope) scroll down to where it says 'has base texture', expand it and change the target number to the number of the new NiSourceTexture that you inserted earlier.

You will need to do this whole procedure twice if you want to change the texture for both the skull and the jaw and then do the same thing in the x.nif as before. Hope this helps.

Ok i get what your saying i can't say that i have tried messing much with animated stuff. I wasn't taking the animation in to account. so I may be wrong.

Thanks Chainy. That is essentially what latendresse76 was telling me to - I checked and it works perfectly. But, the way I mentioned works quite well too: left click on NiTextureProperty, set "Has Base Texture" to no, then right click on NiTextureProperty and select "Texture>Add Base Texture."

Anyway, why I was wondiering is that the Ancestor Ghost skull uses an approximately 242x264 section of a 1024x1024 tx_ghostward_tunic.dds, which seems ridiculous when we have 1024x512 skull textures for the Skeleton. It should make a difference, but I'll have to test it out in game now... after changing the x.nif as well, since that wouldn't have occured to me. *chuckle*

Thanks Chainy. I know what I learned today...

Check it out: http://i55.tinypic.com/wlf6zp.jpg and http://i56.tinypic.com/ix81nn.jpg. What do you think, worth releasing? Personally, I think the after version looks a lot more intimidating.

Vast Improvement.

i'll second that, there is a lot more definition in the sockets.

Okay, I guess I'll add it to a new version of "Better Skulls" then, since that is also about replacing various meshes with the Skeleton skull. *chuckle*

The new looks a lot better! I am just learning NIFskope so this is a handy guide to yet another thing I didn't know how to do. I wish someone would put all these little "how-to" things together. Perhaps I should...

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this had a good some where in it http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/955345-wipznifskope-tutorial/

its some thing to work with

thanks!!! checking it out right now!

ST