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Nifskope and Mod Organizer


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I realise this question has likely been posed before, but I saw no clear responses to it so...

 

I have recently begun switching from NMM to MO, and for the most part things seem to be going cleanly. However, I've run into a bit of an issue regarding nifskope and it's texture paths. Previously, whilst my Skyrim installation ran on NMM, I had made some manual edits using Nifskope to models from mods; namely, I swapped a vanilla texture (since the mesh being changed was a modified vanilla model) to one from a replacer mod. Seeing as MO uses a virtual data folder rather than the normal one, I must ask: what new texture paths need I set for modded models to render textures properly in Nifskope?

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open nifskope, go into options>resources and click autodetect game paths. I also added the Mod Organizer folder to the paths. I don't know if this is actually necessary, mb it is.

Now go into MO and add nifskope as an exectutable. If you want to see the textures in Nifskope you have to run it from inside MO.

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I was having this problem too. Once I put Nifscope as an executable into MO2 and added the paths, it worked. I'll also add, even with the fix, it does not work if I'm opening a nif directly from MO2's 'data' tab. I like the folder view, like the data tab, so I find it easier to go into 'Explore Virtual Folder' and find the nif how many ever folders down from 'meshes'. Plus, it allows me to open multiple instances of nifscope so I can do side by side visual comparisons.

 

Either way, opening a mesh from nifscope or the virtual folder, it's really nice to see the textures compared to the wireframe. Thanks.

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You can open NIF files in NifScope from the MO file tree/conflicts if you associate NIF files with NifScope in Windows. You don't even need to set up as a MO executable, I don't think.

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I was having this problem too. Once I put Nifscope as an executable into MO2 and added the paths, it worked. I'll also add, even with the fix, it does not work if I'm opening a nif directly from MO2's 'data' tab. I like the folder view, like the data tab, so I find it easier to go into 'Explore Virtual Folder' and find the nif how many ever folders down from 'meshes'. Plus, it allows me to open multiple instances of nifscope so I can do side by side visual comparisons.

 

Either way, opening a mesh from nifscope or the virtual folder, it's really nice to see the textures compared to the wireframe. Thanks.

 

2020 NifSkope can definitively read .dds files now.

 

To anyone getting here through google nowadays, check your NifSkope version, you might have downloaded a older version linked by a tutorial or some like that. (that's me)

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