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[Turbotortoise]

I once had something called "Nif Viewer" which allowed me to view *.nif files. Found something called "NifScope"; it is not "Nif Viewer". When I opened an *.nif file it was able to also show the texture around the mesh. It was simple and what I needed, something to just view the mesh how it would be seen in the game. Can anyone help me find it? I've been looking for 2 days. I don't know where I obtained it from originally, but it was an Oblivion related site.

[LHammonds]

Yes, NifSkope is what you are looking for. It allows you to view as well as make some edits.

Home page: http://niftools.sour...t/wiki/NifSkope

Download page: http://sourceforge.n...files/nifskope/

[chaospearl]

I once had something called "Nif Viewer" which allowed me to view *.nif files. Found something called "NifScope"; it is not "Nif Viewer". When I opened an *.nif file it was able to also show the texture around the mesh. It was simple and what I needed, something to just view the mesh how it would be seen in the game. Can anyone help me find it? I've been looking for 2 days. I don't know where I obtained it from originally, but it was an Oblivion related site.

I'm almost sure you're talking about Scene Immerse, but for the life of me I can't find anywhere to download it these days. It was originally a Morrowind thing, though, so maybe I'm wrong. All the links I can find for it are broken. There doesn't seem to be anything else out there that lets you just view a NIF without the options NifSkope has.

Is there a reason you cannot use NifSkope? It can not only show you the textures, it'll let you change them if you want. If you opened a NIF with NifSkope and didn't see the texture overlaid on the mesh, it's cause the texture path was weird -- normally NifSkope automatically displays the texture, but it has to be able to find it. You can tell it where to look in the Render --> Settings menu if it's not finding your textures.

[LHammonds]

Once your texture paths are setup, you can press F2, then F3 so that the only thing that is displayed is the model itself (no tree or detail panel)

[Turbotortoise]

Thanx. Yes, the Nif viewer I was using was originally for morrwind. What I liked about it was that it was easy and with the limited time constraints to build my mod and the fact that my 7 yrold grandson could use it. It was all I needed. But it looks like I will have to take the extra time somewhere in my week to really mess with NifScope. Maybe instead of just coding a new mod I might make more graphics changes then I originally planned (I code to relax). Again, thank you. Still, if anyone finds Nif Viewer let me know.

[heavywaters]

Thanx. Yes, the Nif viewer I was using was originally for morrwind. What I liked about it was that it was easy and with the limited time constraints to build my mod and the fact that my 7 yrold grandson could use it. It was all I needed. But it looks like I will have to take the extra time somewhere in my week to really mess with NifScope. Maybe instead of just coding a new mod I might make more graphics changes then I originally planned (I code to relax). Again, thank you. Still, if anyone finds Nif Viewer let me know.

I have the NifViewer program you seek. Handy for quickly making shure all the maps are correct in your nifs visually, and its a parallax map generator.
It was created by Timeslip, and it should be bundled with the Oblivion Mod Manager and is its default nif program.
In OBMM under Utilities.
I could be wrong, but hope that helps.

[martinthemage]

I have NIF Viewer as well, and it IS bundled with OBMM. So in order to use it, you'll have to download Oblivion Mod Manager. In the obmm folder, run NifViewer.exe.

[Turbotortoise]

I know it's been awhile, but thanx. Have not had time to myself to continue my project (or even check the e-mail account this was linked to) for a while now. But thank you anyways.