Blender 2.9 help

[Lorkhansheart]

Hello All, i am trying to make a mesh using Blender 2.9 and the Niftools plugin for it - everything is going okay except for applying the texture in the Shading tab, on export i get an error "do not know how to export image node in Material - delete it or change its tag" that is the only thing that is stopping me from making said mesh, any ideas or solutions would be good to know

[Pellape]

That part is a bit tricky as it is not visible under the material when you make a new mesh, only first when you import a mesh but you can still add the UV. So there is 2 ways to solve it.

• Import a mesh and use its material or
• Make a material or use the one already available

 

• Change Principled BSDF to Diffuse BSDF Material
• Set NIF to Oblivion under the Scene Properties
• Export as you can do nothing at this stage
• Open the mesh with Nifscope and set a base texture to the NiTexturingProperty and save
• Import it back to Blender

Now look under the Diffuse BSD as color is suddenly changed to Base and now you can also change textures as well

 

When you export a NIF with several materials, it will put them all together so then you need to split them up with Nifscope if you want or need too by using 2 Nifscope,

• Copy branch from Nifscope one
• Paste Branch to Ninode in Nifscope 2

We should add this issue to Blender.org really as it is irritating and frustrating to do this way for sure... It took me almost 2 days to solve this when I picked up Blender again...

Edited December 28, 2020 by Pellape

[Pellape]

I also must add some stuff I did noticed with the different versions of the NIF tools for Blender as I only tested v0.03 ones as I use v2.6.0

 

• v0.03 cant import meshes properly
• v2.6.0 imports meshes perfect
• v.0.03 exports the meshes, but 10 times bigger
• v2.6.0 do not export the texture path in the NiTexturingProperty, so that still needs to be added in Nifscope

I have both installed at the same time at my home computer but not where I am right now, at my GFs comp but I did report this as a bug at the current nif tools project

 

When it comes to the Base color issue under Material (NiTexturingProperty), I do not know if it is a Blender or Nif tools issue... We should bug report it at both places I guess

Edited December 28, 2020 by Pellape

[skyflash71]

That part is a bit tricky as it is not visible under the material when you make a new mesh, only first when you import a mesh but you can still add the UV. So there is 2 ways to solve it.

• Import a mesh and use its material or
• Make a material or use the one already available

 

• Change Principled BSDF to Diffuse BSDF Material
• Set NIF to Oblivion under the Scene Properties
• Export as you can do nothing at this stage
• Open the mesh with Nifscope and set a base texture to the NiTexturingProperty and save
• Import it back to Blender

Now look under the Diffuse BSD as color is suddenly changed to Base and now you can also change textures as well

 

When you export a NIF with several materials, it will put them all together so then you need to split them up with Nifscope if you want or need too by using 2 Nifscope,

• Copy branch from Nifscope one
• Paste Branch to Ninode in Nifscope 2

We should add this issue to Blender.org really as it is irritating and frustrating to do this way for sure... It took me almost 2 days to solve this when I picked up Blender again...

 

 

 

wow thank you!!!! the first method works perfectly while you are using a template nif file to scale your object you can also use it`s Material and export without any problem !!! , we need to report this bug to the nif plugin`s github Page

[Pellape]

The report I did made, was incomplete they thought as I did not use their template, so if you do it, be sure to use that template