Turning creature .nif into static?

[Jokerine]

Hello everybody! I have a bit of a weird question I guess.

 

I'm working on a little carnival/fair of sorts, and I wanted to have something like a merry-go-round with some giddyup buttercups. I found a great resource here and downloaded the "misunderstood" file. It looks really cool, but since I need it to be a static, when I import it into the GECK it just becomes a weird blob...

 

Could anybody help me out and make it into a static? I figure it wouldn't be too hard, but what do I know, I am not very good with models :tongue:

 

Thanks for reading! Look forward to any help!

 

EDIT: Well, I'll be darned. I tested in-game and it seems to work fine, although it has no collision. But still, if someone knows how to make it a static to avoid any possible issues, it would be appreciated!

Edited October 10, 2014 by Jokerine

[SpartanISW108]

It's fairly difficult to do custom collisions (from what I know, I'm not very good with models either)

But what I did with NifSkope, was I found something with a box collision, or anything you want that has a similar collision to the model you're using, then copied the model data (nitristrips, tritrishape) over the model that has the collision, then shrunk it down to fit the collision, then in GECK I placed the object and scaled it up to the appropriate size (collision scales with it so that's alright.

That's just my ghetto workaround for objects without collision anyway, I'm sure there's better ways to do it

Edited October 10, 2014 by ilyasw

[DizzasterJuice]

Actually custom collisions are fairly easy if you have 3ds Max, which most don't. You can just do what ilyasw said and copy/paste a similar collision.

Edited October 10, 2014 by DizzasterJuice

[Jokerine]

I usually do that same ghetto technique :) But I guess it would be easier to just slap a collision box in there with the GECK. :)