Help with Nihilus Mask mod edit.

[DragorTheDrake 0]

So I recently downloaded the fantastic Darth Nihilus Animation Fix 2.0 By Ӄhrizby. I must say I love it but I decided to make a few adjustments for myself as the mod creator said that would be okay as long as you don't upload it without their permission. Well, I made my adjustments and everything is working fine except the icon for the item has changed and I can't change it back. I've tried the methods that the tutorials have shown me but it does not work. Even though the mod already comes with its own custom icon, it won't use that icon.

Does anyone have a suggestion on what might be going on? What changes I might have to make in order for something as simple as this to work?

[DarthParametric 3,784]

Delete the instance of the item from your save with KSE before adding it again after updating any details, including the icon.

[DragorTheDrake 0]

37 minutes ago, DarthParametric said:

Delete the instance of the item from your save with KSE before adding it again after updating any details, including the icon.

Okay I'll try that and then get back to you to say if it worked

[DragorTheDrake 0]

On 11/4/2019 at 6:06 AM, DarthParametric said:

Delete the instance of the item from your save with KSE before adding it again after updating any details, including the icon.

OK, so I've realized that I don't know how to do that. Since I'm new to this also the item was not a part of my save to begin with. I added it with console commands to test it out so it's not apart of my save as I quit without saving after testing it.  Any advice?  Here's the edited mod files to give you an idea.

Also for reference, here is what it originally looked like with the icon that I want it to have.

[Effix 532]

I'm guessing you're using a mod (next to this mod) to add a Nihilus disguise. The icon in your screenshot looks like it might be part of that. The icon is not the one from the mod by Ӄhrizby, which shows the mask, so maybe some of the files from both mods are clashing.
By the way you can get a free program like XNView to quickly view the .tga files. With it you can browse through the images in your override folder to maybe find some clues.

The original item file "nihilusmask.uti" from Ӄhrizby's mod has Jedi Master Robe as the base item, this makes the icon file start with "ia_MstrRobe_", it has a texture variation of 16, which makes the full filename "ia_MstrRobe_016.tga".

 

[DragorTheDrake 0]

I have no other mod that changes my character to the Nihilus disguise - just this one. I changed the base item from a master robe to a mask. I then changed the "ia_MstrRobe_016.tga". to "ii_Mask_030.tga". Then finally, I changed the texture variation to 30 and then re-downloaded it but it still does not work. What have I done wrong?

[Effix 532]

Hm.. masks work a bit different than other items but that sounds good. I'm out of ideas for now.

[DragorTheDrake 0]

18 hours ago, Effix said:

Hm.. masks work a bit different than other items but that sounds good. I'm out of ideas for now.

In what way do masks work differently?

[Effix 532]

I think that wasn't related to the icon, that should work with the texture variation number. It's just the texture that does not, that only uses the texture that's within the model file, which is something that most or all other items do not do.

Feel free to send me your files for a closer look.

[DragorTheDrake 0]

Items attached.  Obviously these files are not originally created by me and belong to Ӄhrizby.

Darth Nihilus Animation Fix 2.0 Readme.txt Install Darth Nihilus Animation Fix 2.0.exe installlog.rtf changes.ini ii_Mask_016.tga info.rtf nihilusmask.uti N_DarthNihilus.mdl N_DarthNihilus.mdx

Thanks for all of the help your offering BTW.

[Effix 532]

I get shown icon ii_Mask_001.tpc when I try these. I'm a bit out of ideas, maybe someone else can contribute.

[DragorTheDrake 0]

Yes, that's the problem. I don't know what is going on with it. For some reason, it won't work. I've also got some of your mod downloaded BTW and they obviously work fine. It's just this edit with the icon.

OK. . . so I decided to play around with the save editor and I found that the icon for the robes is the right icon. However it's only in the editor and not in my game. What is going on?

 

Update: I got it to work!  It turns out that I had to change the 016 to 001 and it seems that the 001 item is not in the game in the first place. I'm fine so far and thanks for your help guys. I appreciate it! I will update you if any weird stuff starts happening again. Thank you!