Texturing models

[Cyberdragon2121]

Last night i downloaded blender, nifskope, and few other files to work with models. i will admit now that i am no artist. i too the hunting rifle nif and imported it to blender and messed around with it adding a scope and silencer to it. i exported the file as a nif and looked at it in nifskope and it looked fine, however when i loaded it to geck all i saw was the ground.

 

where did i go wrong? I think i left something out but not sure what. can any of u guys out there help me.

 

ps: please note that i only started using blender and nifskope last night so my knowledge of them is limited to the multiple tutorials i watched, none of which explained how to take a blender file and prepare it for fallout 3.

[neunen]

hmm one thing just to check it when you open the model in the geck preview and dont see it

click and scroll around with the mouse a bit.. possibly it was positioned odd and its underneath the ground? (just a shot in the dark)

 

also check out this tutorial

http://geck.bethsoft.com/index.php/Creating_A_Custom_Weapon

it has steps for getting a blender file into fallout and totally saved me from going insane

 

hopefully that will help a bit

[tyokio]

I've learnt that on occasions the geck can be un reliable when It comes to testing a model. The only test thats accurate 100% of the time is using it in game.

 

Another thing to check out would be the alpha settings on the models inside NifSkope, I had this happen to be when exporting from 3ds.

 

 

Edit: Also, in the GECK previewer press W which will display the model as a Wireframe to see if its really invisable. It sometimes shows up really transparent.

[Cyberdragon2121]

thanks for the info guys