Help reskinning monsters

[genmills]

ok then... copy the original file of the monster you wish to retexture and paste it were ever you want it to be.
then rename that file and its .dae and .ent file (all whit the same name(whithout deleteing the .dae and .ent) attention! you won't need to rename eny more files beyond the ones i said!
Then open the renamed .ent file whit notepad or notepad ++ and if you look for it you will see this code:

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<Entities />
        <Mesh Filename="H:/Lux/redist/entities/enemy/servant_grunt/servant_grunt.dae">

in this code its saying were is the .dae file that it wants to load... you will have to change its rewrite this to load the new dae file. in one of my monsters it will look a bit like this:
EDIT: dont mind about the </Entities> part... just edit the lower text

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</Entities>
        <Mesh Filename="custom_stories/Test/entities/enemy/servant_super_grunt/servant_super_grunt.dae">

then just replace the old texture whit new one (whit the same name of the original and in dds format) and congratz you have a reskined enemy!
maybe this way is not the best because you may see some problems but for now its the best way i know to reskin a monster :/ but i hope that helps

Thanks! I'll try that. I have opened the .ent and .dae files with notepad before, but I didn't realize there was code in there besides the all that gibberish. When I get some time today, I'll let you know if it worked. And hopefully, with that problem solved, my custom story will be getting close to ready... I'll make a thread for it sometime...

EDIT: You said I rename the folder, .ent, and .dae, right? Should I also rename my .dds that I changed? Just want to be very clear.