[Can import, but cannot export .nif files?]

So did using a nifscript plugin series 5 work with blender 2.79? I don't want to use a blender version earlier than 2.79 if possible.

[Nif edit - Invisible parts]

Never touch the textures of meshes using material "skin" and having "upperbody"/"arms", "lowerbody", "hand", "foot" or "tail" in the names of their NiTriShapes/Strips.

Having this combination they're controlled by the game engine and will be using the texture of the race they're worn on, including skin tint and coloration as defined during CharGen, and the game will ignore any texture setting or material attribute changes you make in the NIF.

 

However, making them point to textures without normalmaps causes a "missing normalmap" (pitch-black or invisible) error ingame, although the texture itself will never be used.

 

Additionally, messing with the filenames away from the defaults seems to be able to cause several weird issues, like half-transparent see-through bodyparts and "missing texture" (purple) issues.

 

Have a mesh use material "skin" but no proper keyword in the name of the NiTriStrips/Shapes the game does not know which texture slot of the race to use and can cause pretty weird issues once again.

 

Change the material away from "skin" and it will be like a regular item, no control by the game engine will occur anymore. Then you have to make sure the textures assigned do exist, have normalmaps and are working and fitting properly to the mesh. It will not behave like skin in any way anymore though, so make sure that's really the intended goal.

Sorry to crash an Oblivion thread, but I'm trying to change the barmaid nif for Sid Meir's Pirates!, and Drake the Dragon's reply seems the most viable description of my problem. I use nifskope 1.1.3, GIMP 2.8.10, and 3DS Max 2010 32 and 64 bit for modding. The nif mod I am swapping in is the ADEC TBBP Body Version 3_0 Nude-5390-3-0. I have included a snap of the barmaid https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3742149/inviiblebarmaid.png, a snap of the files used https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3742149/dds.png, and the nif itself https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3742149/barmaid.nif. I'm suspecting the change of the dds filenames may be a problem? Also notice the brown square that DOES appear. I didn't have the eyebrow dds, and therefore did not alter any of its naming conventions I'm thinking that may be the reason for the brown square?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I really want to master (or at least be functional) modding nifs.