Gallery View of Nif Files

[Retsam]

I've searched for this sort of thing off-and-on for awhile now, but never found anything really useful. Figured I'd ask the community.

The first goal would be to have some sort of Gallery view of a directory of Nif files. Much like thumbnail previews of Images in Windows Explorer.

The second goal is a better way of generating PNGs of Nifs. Typically I use either the screenshot feature in Nifskope or open a Preview in CK and use Windows Snipping tool to grab a picture of a Nif model.

Thing is, this time around I have several hundred models and there is no way I can do that many individual screenshots and have any hope of keeping them uniform (scale, perspective, etc), or keeping my sanity.

Although I doubt there is such a thing, it would be marvelous if there is some software that could either provide a full screen gallery/thumbnail view of a directory of Nifs or a way to automate generating a few hundred screenshots of Nif files.

Thoughts?

[niston]

Unfortunately, NiflySharp is probably still broken.

It would otherwise enable one to write a program, such as you desire.

[Retsam]

I looked that one up. Not much about it, but it did lead me to viewing Nifly.

https://github.com/ousnius/nifly

I have an awareness of Nifly, pretty sure one of my Blender plug-ins is based on that. But even though I call myself a Senior Developer, I've never really done any work with C++.

Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm kinda surprised no one has taken that and made a gallery/thumbnail viewer.

It would be an interesting venture, but realistically it would require too much learning time for me to do anything with it. Shame.

Thanks for the input though. Gave me some new thoughts.