Very nice. I wonder if one could apply the vanilla texture of the iron dagger to the short steel dagger and use that to make an iron dagger replacement, then simply keep the fine steel texture for steel daggers, making these textures go a bit further. Also the resize is a nice touch, since you want to keep them in dagger territory and not shortsword.
Yeah that's exactly what I thought about 2 of the daggers which is why I resized them lol.
As for the iron dagger, I'd rather look for a custom model replacement. But what you described is possible: 1. Take the default Bethesda steel dagger texture, replace the blade, hilt and other details with those from the default iron dagger texture. Save that under a custom .dds name like irondagger2.dds or whatever. Just don't replace default textures. 2. Grab the steel dagger model. Change the texture path to point to steeldagger2.dds (example). Save as dagger.nif under IRON subfolder (will replace the iron dagger model now). 3. Grab the fine steel dagger texture, apply the details to a normal steel dagger texture like in step 1.; now overwrite to replace the default steel dagger texture.
...or just simply find better model replacements for both on this site lol. That's what I'd do xD
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As for the iron dagger, I'd rather look for a custom model replacement. But what you described is possible:
1. Take the default Bethesda steel dagger texture, replace the blade, hilt and other details with those from the default iron dagger texture. Save that under a custom .dds name like irondagger2.dds or whatever. Just don't replace default textures.
2. Grab the steel dagger model. Change the texture path to point to steeldagger2.dds (example). Save as dagger.nif under IRON subfolder (will replace the iron dagger model now).
3. Grab the fine steel dagger texture, apply the details to a normal steel dagger texture like in step 1.; now overwrite to replace the default steel dagger texture.
...or just simply find better model replacements for both on this site lol. That's what I'd do xD