How to customise an outfit in Nifskope (beginners tutorial)

[MrFishi]

Hey um I have a question that is somewhat related to this. I was trying to make my own armor for Skyrim. I was combining the steel armor with the novice mage robes, and I got it to look pretty good in nifskope, but when i played the game my armor was invisible, the textures displayed properly in nifskope so im not sure what could be wrong, anyone have an idea that may help?

[aruless]

Did u check that the has vertex colors option is true/yes?

[dragnhuntr666]

Will this tutorial work for FONV? If so, I am running Type 3M clothing mod, and I am trying to add skin texture to the body suit under the power armor but the BSLightingShader in the NiBlock for the suit isn't selectable. Is it not texturable with other textures?

[odin1323]

New to this and this really helped. I was just wondering under "Adjusting the new shape" portion of the tutorial is there a way to disconnect an object from the skeleton? I was trying to beef up an armor mesh by copying the left arm shoulder pad, paste it and just rotating it to the right arm. Thought it was that easy but I went in game and the shoulder pad was by my characters head. thanks

[WinterRanger97]

I need some help. This is a great tutorial for meshing armor together, but what if I want to add armor to a creature? More specifically, I want to add a vault security helmet onto a vault 34 security ghoul. Can you help?

[scotty94]

Hey I'm having a bit of trouble with a simple mod I'm doing, basically I want to put a stealth boy on piece of armor, now I can view it in the GECK when I add to the game, but when I view the piece of armor on an npc, to see how it fits, the stealth boy disappears, and I have know idea what's causing it, if someone could help that would be awsome, thanks =]

[sam2101]

you sir.... you are awesome :happy:

 

i made an amazing armor customization all thank go to you and your simple tutorial :yes:

 

all respect :thumbsup:

[assaultdrone]

What if we want to strap a rifle to our backs? I've tried this with weapons and the Soil Stradivarius, but neither show up in game. They do if Nifskope, and in the GECK, but not actually in the game.

[Omny]

I have a question: I'm trying to make my own armor out of parts of the Marked Men armor, specifically the old license plates strapped to their bodies. However, when I select them in NIFskope, a whole bunch of other meshes are selected that I don't need. I only need one little piece on the leg, not the entire body! Is there a way I can "detach" parts from a single large mesh in NIFskope?

[DrThang]

Is there a way I can "detach" parts from a single large mesh in NIFskope?

I've been trying to figure this out for weeks, looked through dozens of tutorials and videos, none of them explain it. I know that if you go to the BSDismemberSkinInstance of that mesh, then into NiSkinPartition, you can see the Skin Partition Blocks, which split up the mesh into a few different parts. From there, you can change the Num Skin Partition Blocks to a 1 or 2 or whatever and then update and it will crop it down to the first 1 or 2 blocks. However, if for example, you want the 3rd skin partition block, which is what I'm trying to do with something, I can't figure out how to do that because you can't seem to simply change the order of the blocks. Anyway, that's all I know.