Custom Meshes

[Amberlyn0007]

I'm working on a mod called the Mage-Light Underground and anyway, there aren't a lot of meshes out there that exude the kind of atmosphere I'm trying to set up. An underground club, lit by mage-light selling 'illegal' spells and artifacts. At any rate, Is there a tutorial out there that tells me the programs I need and a tutorial to follow to create my own custom meshes for my mod?

[Shadeybladey]

Making new meshes is highly specialised and needs expensive software like Cinema 4D. I don't know of any freeware versions for making meshes. There are YouTube videos showing how to do it.

 

try searching for

 

Skyrim Modding Tutorial - Weapon [Model+Textures+Import] part1

 

There are 4 parts. In English by a German modder.

 

 

I use NifSkope and GIMP. You can change colour of textures with GIMP and fiddle with colour settings of the meshes in NifSkope and can make newish-looking things with Vanilla resources, but it's a bit limited.

 

I've been refining my spell mod and I'll upload version 2.0 soon, which shows some things that can be done, but it's not too spectacular. Sometime you can combine different things to make something that looks almost new, but that is where my skill ends.

 

~.~

[PsychedelicHands]

Before you get too gung ho on the idea, know that creating new assets is difficult and it will take a bit of dedication to develop your skills. (Not to discourage you too much)

You can either download a program called blender (which is free and open source) However the nif export script only works for version 2.49b. But I would recommend download both that, and the newest version. The new version and a vastly supprior UI which will make it easier to learn, so model in that and then just export with V 2.4b. (Which is what I do.)

Or if you a student, you can download 3dmax for free. Which is pretty good because it is pretty much the standard program in the actual game industry.

I can't say which is truely better because I've only used blender before. But I believe the general concenous is that it comes down to personal taste. So maybe try both?

[Amberlyn0007]

oh ok, thank you both! heh, wasn't honestly expecting anyone to reply.