My meshes are not soul absorb fix ready as I still lack the knowledge to do that manually. Though, I've managed to patch my dragons using one of underskincho's mesh but unfortunately can not share due to perms. But, if the textures are Soul absorb fix ready so you can use it with the GoT Dragons - Fixed Soul Absorb And Optimized meshes for texture variations, if you're up to it. 


This is not suggesting this is the "proper/ best" way of doing this but this is how I did it for my game

I did it by importing my mesh blocks (body, horns, etc.) inside 1 mesh of Soul absorb fix through outfit studio, essentially.
* knowledge on nifskope blocks and outfit studio tools is needed, just the basic mask and move vertices are enough.
* If anyone has an easier, more proper method please let me know

1.) First and this is important, copy my lighting and texture settings manually to the SA fix mesh. (Not the whole block to avoid messing up the linked settings, just the values, the colors and texture paths) 

2.) You'll be loading up the edited SA fix mesh inside OS, then the mesh you want to convert on top of it. 
- delete the blocks from the latter mesh which are the same/ aren't changed (claws and mostly tongue, teeth)

3.) Move all the SA fix blocks away from the modded mesh blocks, except the blocks which are the same of course (+500 on the z axis or whatever, so it could be easily mask-selected and deleted)
- the modded mesh blocks should be in the original position

4.) With the 2 mesh blocks separated, merge mesh blocks. Satisfy the requirements/ fix the errors if prompted (usually adding alpha with 0 threshold)
- if prompted: too many triangles (the body blocks), delete most vertices of the SA fix and leave just a small part, then merge. 
- it should say "no errors found"
- When merged, delete the remaining floating vertices

5.) Do this to all mesh blocks.

6.) If satisfied, export as .nif then spawn test in game.


*** You only have to do once this per HotD dragon model (e.g. 1 Syrax mesh conversion, 1 for Caraxes, etc.). After that, you can just change the lighting settings and texture paths for the variations. ***


***If you want to just use my SA fix-ready textures to the SA fix mesh, mix and match textures, just for variation, etc., just transfer my edit's lighting color and values and texture paths into SA fix mesh.


Optional:
While you're in Outfit Studio, you can follow these instructions to make the neck nodes follow the mesh better to address neck distortions in some way:

* I forgot if this is carried over when merging so just check.

* Does not matter what mesh block is selected but 1 of the body is preferred. Visualize the bone nodes by pressing Shift+B.

1.) Select the Bones tab, look for the nodes: NPC Neck1 to NPC Neck5

2.) Right click on 1 and select "Edit Bone..."

3.) At the Origin column, change the Z value to the ff. (these are the values I use in my edits):

• NPC Neck1 - Z value to 260.00
• NPC Neck2 - Z value to 265.00
• NPC Neck3 to 5 - Z value to 270.00