Enable belt with dress?

[Nomster]

I was looking into wardrobe stuff because there's too few normal looking stuff that my sorcy would wear. Texturing seemed to fry my braincells just looking at the how-to so I decided to check out how colour changes etc were done. I've managed to save this dress and loaded it up in a module but I can't get the belt to appear. Doesn't it work by default for this particular dress or have I missed something? I was able to change the gloves which works in a similar matter.

Screenie from the Toolset:



Are there things to keep in mind when doing wardrobe items? I think I saw a rant about blueprints but I can't remember the specifics


The other day I played around in the Toolset just to see how it worked. For your amusement, 3 hours reading a tutorial and clicking random stuff produced this. It seems to be really patient and nitpicky work. I spent half an hour trying to rotate a tree and found out by a Google search that they couldn't be rotated

[Solarina]

hehe yea i tried tinkering with that thing myself.

[Duster47]

Regarding belts appearances applied to an armor (clothing), you must first un-equip an actual belt item from your character. Then equip the armor (clothing). Last, re-equip the belt item. Then the utility belt appearance in your screenshot should appear on your character.

Yeah, the Toolset is rather daunting.

A note about my own preferences* w.r.t. armor (clothing) appearances:
- change "glove" to bare hands (naked, 0)
- no helmet
- no cloak
- simple boots, no boots is better
- belts, yes!

If you want any of the "no" items above for your armor, then create a separate instance of it as seperately equipable item.



* For the record, I changed dozens of appearances in the AppChanger not conforming to this standard.

[Nomster]

Ah yes, I got it to work now, thanks

I found an easier texture tutorial and fiddled around in Photoshop. I have the messiest template ever for this dress ! I've no clue how to make bump maps/'normal map' with shine/depth whatever its called that gives the texture life. Seriously, how do people do that, I tried editing that file and it was a disaster. I also don't know how to have it in game without overriding the original.

[Duster47]

Getting it IG is complicated. Look up "cloning *mdb files". Or if you get something you believe is worthy, you can PM me the files.

[Nomster]

Worthy..? Dunno about that!

I would've thought for a game where so much custom content is made there would be tons of tutorials with step by step.. wishful thinking!