Bangarrang87's Joker Suit Recolor


This is the .DDS image file for my Joker reskin of the Clean Tan Suit in Fallout 4. It replaces the default texture for the Clean Tan Suit to be a Purple suit, with pinstriped pants, green undershirt, pink striped tie, and green handkerchief in the pocket. The aim is to resemble a classic-style Joker from the Batman canon. This is my first recolor, and I had to teach myself to figure out how to place the .dds inside the game files in order to get it to work, since all of the textures are archived in .ba2 files. SO, with that being said, I'll tell you what I did to get it to work. Keep in mind this replaces the original suit graphic so if you want to keep the original, you should keep a backup copy of it somewhere, for safe keeping. Playing with game files can break your game if you don't know what you're doing, so here's what I had to do, but that does not mean that it is necessarily the right way. Make sure you know what you're doing before listening to me.

*NOTE* Some of you may have already begun playing with textures. If you have, you may (or may not) have some of the following folders and files in place already. Fallout 4's textures are all archived in .ba2 files so there are no individual files/folders for all of the textures unless you have modified some of them already, or create them. This will explain where to put the included files, and what folders to create if you don't already have them. If you have to create the following folders, you obviously will not have to REPLACE any files with the included files, rather just simply place them in the newly created folders.

The location of the fallout 4 files, by default, should be something like:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Fallout 4\data

Once there, you will continue to the Textures folder. If it does not exist, make one. This specific suit is further located under textures>Clothes>Suit

You may not have these folders in your textures folder. I didn't. I had to make a "clothes" folder inside of the textures folder. Then a "Suit" folder inside of that. In this folder is where the .dds files can go.

*NOTE* - There are 2 other .dds files that were in the archived location of this skin, I will include them as well, but I am not sure if they are needed. Place them all in this folder. The path should be this:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Fallout 4\Data\textures\Clothes\Suit

Personally i created a folder inside of this called "Custom" where i keep the original suit .dds and the customized one just in case i want to switch back at a later time.

Once the customized SuitClean_d.dds file has been placed (or has replaced the original if there was one), start up the game and either equip the suit, or open the command console with the "`" key and type: player.additem 00151E34 1
This will add the clean tan suit item to your inventory, equip it, enjoy the recolor.

**DISCLAIMER**
I'm probably not going to worry about checking up on this so comment if you like it, or not I suppose, but I won't be discussing the methods of getting the file to work any further. I strongly recommend that you research how to do it on your own, or already know how. As this was an experimental modification for me, I cannot say that my method is correct, or safe. It DID work for me without issue, however. But I am a noob at this and I'm not responsible for you messing up your game files.