heavywaters

I have the same problem with a custom sword that keeps me from releasing the mod. I've asked for help here but never got any response, hope you can resolve the issue.

I imported the obj into Nifskope then copy/pasted the NiTriShape branches into the vanilla silver sword Nif. The collision should be really close to the dimensions of my sword model so I didn't mess with the vanilla one. Which brings to mind another annoyance: I can't get Nifskope to render the collision mesh for any Nifs.

I still don't know why my sword has issues with weapon racks. Does it have something to do with improper flags in the Nif? Any suggestions would be great.

I would like to see staves useable in a "dual-weild" like manner: left click to fire it's enchantment/magica effect, right click to strike mele-style or vice-versa. It would require new animations and a lot of work, so not likely to see anyone do it.

I found that an Ambient Occlusion map bakes out screwy if you try to overlap texture-space in the UV map, even if the two halves are identical. So no I don't bake only half of the model, but I did some experimenting and found that after exporting the Nif back out to an .obj that the body was now in two halves along the UV seams. I have no idea why because the original hilt part of the model was, and still is one piece. I did accomplish a decent looking chrome effect by using a nearly black diffuse texture with the chrome_e.dds cube map and setting the specular, gloss and env. map strength as high as possible. http://static.skyrim.nexusmods.com/images/708891-1346561996.jpg I inverted the green channel in the normal map as per Ghogiel's suggestion and that helped reduce the seams a lot. Between that and getting the chrome material right, those lines are almost gone.

Yup, I made the sword in Blender quite a while ago, but just converted it into Nif format recently. It's not turning out the way I had hoped so I didn't release it. Posted my problems in this thread and Ghogiel was nice enough to give me some pointers on 2 of my issues. Still need help with one more problem, so if you have any answers, post them.

I have added a custom sword to Skyrim based on this model. http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/049/f/1/vorpal_sword_by_heavywaters-d4q7pwr.png For the most part it works fine in-game but there are three things that are giving me problems. 1.) The biggest problem would be the normal map, I'm getting really bad lines at the edges of the UV map. (Isn't tangent space supposed to prevent the normal map from doing this?) http://static.skyrim.nexusmods.com/images/708891-1346261919.jpg 2.) The entire model disappears when I try to place it in a weapon rack. 3.) I can't quite figure out how to make the texture look chrome like in the render instead of white-ish. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. ~Heavywaters

I'm the one that made that very render... I have added that sword to the game but a few things didn't turn out the way I would have liked (does NOT look like the render). Maybe I'll release it as is, but I'm very critical of my own work, so hopefully someone might give me tips on how to fix the problems.

I have made the sword... http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/051/3/8/vorpal_sword__rework__by_heavywaters-d4qglia.png Was planning on making the shield, but I'm no armorer.

I thought I read that there was an issue with 2.6.6 and 2.49b though I may be confusing it with something else. Wouldn't be the first time...

While 2.49 may work with Python 2.6.6, the Nif export scripts are not compatible.

No, use the version LHammonds suggested in the guide.

Finished the high-poly model of the Loki helm, still have a lot of work left to do, hope you like... http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/imageshare/images/708891-1338020950.png

I started working on this very sword over Easter. Still in the early stages, have to complete the snake head then I should be able to texture it. http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/imageshare/images/708891-1337404148.jpg My be a while before it's finished, something else caught my interest and I want to complete that first.

It's nice to see someone actually include pics with their request. I've wanted to create Loki's helm since the first time I saw the original Thor movie, never done ANY armor before but it may be time to learn.