Custom Armor/Clothing not showing up

[pupke]

Since I couldn't find any tutorials on creating/editing armor I decided to just try it myself. I know how to do it for Oblivion anyway so that shouldn't be a problem, I thought. Unfortunately it's not really working. I can add the items to G.E.C.K and when adding the biped model, it shows up the item. But when putting it onto a character the armor and body disappear, which results in floating hands and heads. So after trying for a half a day, I give up.

 

Can anyone maybe link to a tutorial on this or explain in clear steps how to edit existing armors. These doesn't have to be in much detail since I know how to work with G.E.C.K(experience with TESC) and Blender. Any help will be much appreciated.

[BurningSky93]

Are you using custom meshes and textures or ones that already exist in game?

[pupke]

Are you using custom meshes and textures or ones that already exist in game?

What I am trying to do is editing the meshes from already in-game items and use these in a new item. I tried this by copying the .NIF file and load it up in blender with skeleton.nif. After that I export the model using the exporter with Fallout3 default settings.

 

Then when I open this edited .nif I can see the mesh correctly, also the preview in G.E.C.K when selecting the biped model shows it correctly. However when I put it onto a character their body disappear.

[j4y1981]

I have a similer problem only mine crashed the game as soon as i load a save, although im not 100% sure which settings to use when exporting in blender. I do normaly check the mesh in Nifskope anyway which looks ok and it showed up in the GECK although again without the actual body only the armor itself?

[BurningSky93]

Have you tried editing an existing item that uses the same mesh and texture?

[pupke]

I'm probably doing something wrong with the skeleton. When I open original fallout armor into NifSkope the armor, body and bip nodes are visible. When I open my edited version of it, it is missing the body, skin data and all the Bip nodes. At least I know what I'm probably doing wrong now.