Texture Suffix

This article provides a list of suffixes for textures that the engine will read, and use.

Suffix	Type	Use	Comments
	Diffuse Map	Used to provide color to the texture.	Must not have a suffix.
_n	Normal Map	Used to provide simulation of bumps and small details on the mesh
_g	Glow Map	Used to provide certain parts of a texture to have emissive properties
_sk	Skin Map	Used to provide subsurface scattering to a 2D texture
_p	Parallax Map	Used to provide depth on a 2D texture
_e	Environment Map	Used to provide a mesh glossy or reflective properties trough cube maps and effects.	Without _e suffix will be treated as 2D. Only required for Textures in a Texture Set.
_em	Environment Mask	Used to provide strength of the effects listed under the Cube Map
_m	Environment Mask	Used to provide strength of the effects listed under the Cube Map
_1st	Body Texture	Used for player Skin Texture.	Purple hands/face bug is due to mods not including the _1st textures for their custom races.

Notes

These suffixes do not apply to textures specified within a NIF, any texture with any suffix can be attached.