Ojox

Sup, So, I'm fed up with only the green and orange books (the big chunky'uns) standing up properly on my shelves, you know Biography of Barenziah type stuff. The easiest way to change this, since I can't be doing with all these new-fangled book mods out there, is to change the mesh to the same one for every book (excluding journals, notes and letters). Firstly, I don't know if this would work (I don't know if it would skew the textures designed for smaller books), so if anyone can point out why it wouldn't, just holler. Secondly, is the only way to change every book mesh to either go into the creator and individually change them, or to copy and paste the mesh as many times as there are meshes into the directory and just rename them so it automatically locates them before the compressed ones? Sorry this isn't very clear, I'm knackered, it'd be great to get anyone's input, Cheers!

I admit it, I am a complete noob when it comes to modelling. I have literally just installed 3ds Max (and the .nif plugin, obviously) and I want to remove part of a helmet - but I don't actually know how to start... I have watched a few tutorial videos, but I can't find anything telling me how to do this.. Help would be appreciated, thanks :)

I don't know, that was just a wild guess really.. I just can't think why it's not working, and then - even more bafflingly - I just checked again and originally I was editing the ultra dragon mask; which has a unique mesh and textures - but then Krosis, a normal mask - not corresponding to any of the same files did the same! Went invisible in the menu and, on trying to equip, the game crashed.

I just compared it; it doesn't look like I have... I haven't yet placed an alternative texture, though - could it be that it's looking for the texture?

Hi guys, I've recently started trying to work on a mod that makes 'cuts holes' in a helmet so that the character's eyes are visible, similar to the Dragon Bone Helmet, in that respect. However, as editing the mesh proves near impossible I am resorting to changing the texture so that it doesn't show - making it look like I've edited the mesh and so the 'eye hole bits' are invisible. Basically, by editing the alpha channel, I should be able to hide a piece of the mesh, making it look like it's gone. For this, I had to - in Nifskope - attach NiAlphaProperty to each mesh, and I have done so. now, however, in game when I equip said piece the game crashes and in the inventory where you can preview any item, there is just a blank space - no preview is there. I was wondering if anyone could proffer any suggestions for what I'm doing wrong/not doing. Many thanks, Ojox

Thank you so much! This is literally exactly what I was looking for :D

@Clarian, This information is so useful, as it is literally exactly what I've been looking for, however, I'm not familiar with editing the 'channels' (and I'm on GIMP, because I'm a cheapskate) but when I select on the 'alpha channel' it's all already black, am I missing something? :P Many thanks

To test this, I created a blank .dds file (pathed correctly) which should have made a helmet invisible. However, upon loading the game, this helmet was still clearly visible, hence my assumption that Skyrim loads both textures. My problem is that I want to "cut a hole" in one helmet, so that you can see the character's eyes through the helmet... Would it even work to replace the texture? Or would there be an issue because the texture doesn't cover the whole mesh? Do I have to edit the whole mesh for this, or can I compress a texture into a bsa, so that Skyrim looks only for that file, rather than loading them both? Thanks for reading my craziness... and if you understood that, treat yourself to a cookie from the cookie jar :D

Hey guys, You're probably thinking I'm the type of noob who is here demanding stuff and then I won't understand it when you tell me etc. However, I'm really keen to learn how to remodel (namely for Skyrim) and I'm certainly very willing to learn and be independent - to a certain degree - however, there don't seem to be any tutorials for Skyrim remoelling and so I was wondering if anybody would be willing to help me learn. I know there are lots for Oblivion remodelling, but I understand that the process is slightly different. Even if you don't want to personally help me, anyone who can point me in the direction of a good walkthrough would get much love from me! Cheers guys! :D PS. I have googled around a bit and not turned up anything great... I'm sorry if I've missed something really obvious

Don't think the boots are unique, I may be wrong but I'm about to go out - I'll check later if I remember :P Also, I could easily make a mod that replacer the original Alik'r hood and Redguard robes with Nazir's if you'd like. :)

Once the Creation Kit is out, this will be easy, but for now: player.additem 000e0dd0 1 (Clothes) player.additem 000e0dd2 1 (Hood)

Topic says it all really; on FNV, I looked through the textures and the majority have both _n.dds and _m.dds - _n.dds is the normal map - what is _m.dds?

If I actually use the mod and go to the location, will the lighting wok or not?

Hello, I'm currently working on a Gas Station conversion mod, I deleted all the lighting that was originally there to redo later, I've got to "later" and now the lighting effects won't work... I can insert any lighting effect, however, none of them work, ie. the cell remains dark. I saw a really old post that was complaining of this but it didn't get solved... any help would be appreciated :)

Okay, sorry to be even more annoying but my google keeps crashing (?) and anyway is there a bsa cmd out that will actually do Nv because I have a really old one from when I used to mod Elder Scrolls

You beautiful man! Thank you very much, I think I looked in all the steam folders other than this one.

If this has already been asked I'm sorry, really I am, but I'm in a bit of a rush as I need to go out, but can anyone direct me to where I can find the BSAs for this game... I can't find Bethesda in my program files... thank you! : )

That's perfect, thank you :)

I was wondering if it would be possible for someone to make me some Dark Brotherhood Goggles from Morrowind, I think these look much better than the skin tight hoods the Brotherhood where in Oblivion, if someone could do this I'd be really grateful :) (I know it says in the first thread that if I need to type 'I know this would be easy so could someone do it' it will already be done but I really don't think this has been done. All comments and contributions welcome :) Also, sorry about the huge picture, it was the first good one I found and I don't know how to resize it - sorry :) http://bestgamewallpapers.com/files/elder-scrolls-3-morrowind/dark-brotherhood.jpg

Well, if I have any trouble finding it I make take you up on that, I really appreciate it.

Thank you very much, I have Vista, the good tech they gave to the n00bs.

Will GIMP run on my lower-than-average computer do you reckon?

@Unavi No, I haven't created new normal maps, but the object when used in game looks fine, it looks detailed and correct, it is a fairly boring re-textured silver longsword and the issue lies purely in the menu. @David Brasher As I mentioned in game the object looks fine, but in the menu it looks wrong, it looks like a shiny black version of the sword (and sheath) and when you turn it seems to blend right through my character, so I will turn him around to look at where the sword should be on his hip and it will look like it should be on the other side and so on and so forth. Unfortunately my terrible PC I'm using (at the moment) and have to use for mods can't handle the real Photoshop so I have to stick with Photoshop Elements which you may know cannot be use channels, so I basically don't think I can create new normal maps, which sucks.

I'm a lazy newb. I'm sorry I can't help it! I'm in a rush and tried a quick search for a similar issue but could not see one, basically I'm new at re-texturing, I've tried two, they are just the same textures with different colour filters applied, I can do all the basics and it almost works, I'm sorry, I'm bad at explaining this, basically I got into the game, spawned it and then I equipped it and - it went black in the menu and when you turn it sort of disappears - it's well odd, as soon as I'm in game, both first and third person the re-textured items look correct with my filters applied it's just in the menu and I'm confused if anyone understand me and knows how to help I'd REALLY appreciate it, so much that I might give you a virtual cookie. This is driving me mildly insane.

Hi guys! I just had a brilliant idea of a theme park in oblivion, you could have rides and stuff and sweet shops, just a thought, but it could be pretty awesome.