Meeru, you're alive!
I see, so your method doesn't actually cross GPK swap in the end, it's actually using the same source for everything. But damn, I can't complain, I was grinning from cheek to cheek when this finally worked after all the effort Ive been putting into it, haha. It seems that this should work just fine on other races and genders, Blueholes way of organizing everything is spot on for this type of edit
This is Castanic Leather to Castanic Plate, yay, my dream character. Since I installed this game I was mumbling and grumbling at how the coolest classes had to wear the WORST armor by far (in my opinion).
So how it was done, adding onto Meeru's instructions and adding some clarifications (Warning: I'm not very good at explaining stuff, but I did my best)
-Open the GPK in some kind of hex editor, I used Winhex
-Let's say you're doing High Elf Robes to High Elf Heavy, you'd be opening Heavy armor GPK since that's your goal
-Search for Race_ArmorType and as Meeru says in the post above me, you'd begin replacing the H's (For heavy) to R's (For robes)
-So in this example you'd be searching HighElf_F_H and making them HighElf_F_R
-You'll typically do this until you reach I think it's armor 18? Don't make the same mistake I did, open search again and keep going down to keep eliminating all the H's for R's, there's more beyond this main bulk
-Something im unsure of, which I ran into, were these file paths that lead to TGA image files, they were something like Castanic_F/H/(File parts here, you will see them eventually..), I didn't think to stop and test it without doing this, I actually think this area could have been related to the little icons of the armor. Unless you want to find out if that F/H/ needs to become F/R/ or not, I'd suggest to do those as well
-When you stop getting search results for your targets, test it out, if it crashes, go back and open search
-Since you were looking for H's, make sure you didn't accidently change the H of a "Hand" part - So search like "Rand" which should be "Hand"
-Take your time, if you have a problem with doing it all in one sitting, take breaks - If you mess something up it's probably not going to work
-Make sure it's named correctly. You edited HighElf_F_H.gpk, but it needs to be HighElf_F_R.gpk
-Always have backup files before trying to make mods
That's all, I probably won't make anymore as this is my only character. BIG! Thank you to Meeru, for the simple instructions
This GPK is not modded for nudity or any of that, all it does is make Leather turn to Blueholes Plate. Also this wasn't tested very much, but I feel it would have crashed by now, as I am in a pretty populated area. No promises it'll hold up for something like a Nexus.. I should have waited before posting it, I'm sure people will find out soon enough.
-Side effects Ive personally found:
Weapons don't show when sheathed.
If the hair would normally be tied up or left down, is decided by the original leather armor used, it would be interesting for the real perfectionists out there if we could find out how hair position is decided, and if it's hex changeable
Castanic_F_L (Leather to Heavy).gpk
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