Copy & paste ears in NifSkope - How?

[Vasburg]

I am completely new to all the modding stuff and NifSkope in particular. And there's actually just one thing I am trying to do, but for the life of me I just can't seem to figure out.

 

There's that amazing 30k polygon long hair mod made by Gorg in 1985 (i.e. old, abandoned, no way to ask him - although the readme explicitly allows its reuse for modding purposes fwiw). The only thing it's missing is... EARS.

See, I'd really love to use it, but missing ears just bugger me too much.

 

So I googled a bit and downloaded NifSkope and thought I could just copy & paste a pair of ears from any other mesh to this mesh. Yea, I was naive and thought it would be just simple as that.

Well, after hours of trying I know better, having realized that I simply can't do it. No matter how hard I try and how hard I google.

 

Any tips on how to start? Obviously just selecting and copying the ear block from mod A and pasting it into mod B won't work.

I am not sure if it's pasted at all or just pasted into the middle of nowhere. Because admittedly I don't even know how to move stuff around or what blocks, nodes, branches etc. are. I don't even know whether the textures of a copied ear would move over as well (probably not, wouldn't that be just too easy?).

 

I am sure I could learn all of this in less than 6 months. But as much as I'd love to play a character with ears (yes, I am not gonna change my hair, it looks just THAT effin sweet!) somehow it just ain't worth that much of a hassle.

But it'd be worth some. So if anyone could explain a rather easy way for me to fulfill my dream - feel free to give me a quick rundown on what to do. If there is no quick & easy way... well I am willing to turn this thread into a lengthy tutorial of how to copy & paste ears onto another hairstyle.

 

 

 

[e] Oh my, I think I just did it. Copy & paste of BRANCHES kinda did the trick. Still don't know how to move around stuff, but the position pretty much fits anyway.