I need some help from someone who's familiar with resizing armors

[Trashdog]

First of all: Hello everyone and merry christmas!

 

I'am very new to 3D modeling and modding... I installed Blender something like two weeks ago and it was the first time ever I used such a program. It was tough but eventually I figured out the basics of the basics and I started resizing Razorponys HGEC Deadric Armor to fit Speedbusters Heavy AB Body.

 

Since I'am a noob I probably did it in a realy stupid way and thats why it took me almost two weeks of constant work, but well... I don't care, I just wanted it to be done. ;)

 

By now I'am almost finished and this is how it looks like:

 

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/4461/deadric.th.jpg

 

Sadly, as you maybe noticed by looking at the picture, there are three issues which I can't figure out how to solve and which prevent me from finishing my work:

 

1: The plate greaves on the upper legs and knees are still missing.

2: The skin color on the belly, butt and thighs changes when I put on the armor (it gets noticeably darker).

3: The lower legs clip with the boots.

 

Concerning the greaves: They are missing because I just can't manage to resize them in an acceptable way. The results are always messed up and more then terrible. First I tried it with lattices and later by draging all vertices one by one... but not even that was working since there are so many of them that the whole things ended up completely disproportioned and malformed, only roughly resembling the original shape.

 

Regarding the change in skin color: I have no idea whats causing this or how to fix it.

 

And last but not least concerning the lower legs and boots: I figure the only way to solve that is to resize the boots... but I have no idea how to even get them into blender... since the folder where I found the cuirass and greaves does not contain any boots file.

 

I realy hope someone can help me out with this, since I would be realy sad if all the work and effort I put into this would have been for naught.

 

Regards and thanks in advance.

[Trashdog]

Update:

 

I finally managed to resize the greaves and I also solved the problem with the boots. The problem with the skin color change when putting on the greaves still remains though. Here is a picture to make more visible what I mean:

 

http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/9852/skinp.th.png

 

The armor itself is almost finished, but I somehow deleted a vertice during editing and now the texture on the right thigh is messed up:

 

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/4133/issuesq.th.jpg

 

I tried to replace the deleted vertice and attached all the edges accordingly again. Everything looks fine in Blender and Nifskope but in-game its even more messed up then before when I do this. Any ideas and/or suggestions how I can fix those two issues?

Edited December 26, 2010 by Trashdog