Tutorial/Help request for porting race mods

[SenReality]

As the title states, I'm trying to port a race mod from Oblivion to Fallout New Vegas for personal use, however I've been having some major problems and have been confused to hell as to how I do this, since I believe if I manage to do this - this will help me learn more about modding on FO3/FNV

 

The race mod in question in the famed Moonshadow Elves race mod, I've seen images of people with this mod ported over to new vegas. So I'd like to do it myself as well, but the problem is - all the head stuff, like Moonshadowhead.nif, mouth, teeth lower, upper - shows up to me as big red boxes with the ! mark, so can anyone tell me what I might be missing, whats wrong ect - do the nif files need to me reworked or something? and also the texture for the head is all weird when I put it on say 'headfemale.nif' guess thats supposed to happen.

 

Someone please help x.x tis my first attempt at truly modding.

 

 

Figured something out at-least, well perhaps - maybe I need specific Oblivion files for this to work? since the head, mouth, teeth, eyes nif files show up as error red blocks ( even though you have the meshes and textures. ) am I correct in this?

Edited February 26, 2011 by SenReality

[SenReality]

Decided to go get Oblivion again, and just check the mod out in Oblivion once more - then do a clean mod for FNV an otherwise port it over in such a manner, making alterations if needed - I figured out that the missing files were actually oblivion files ( which last time I checked since I nabbed another mod from oblivion an simply dropped it into FNV an it worked, they are somewhat compatible. ) for now if I manage to get Moonshadow Elves mod working perfectly on FNV, I will keep it to myself until I get a reply from its author and permission to upload it. Plus I'm also waiting on a reply to see if anyone can help me with these issues, since even though it is not by lore ( this moonshadow elves in FNV ) but I think in my honest opinion that such a beautiful race mod would do fine in FNV, no one can deny that the Moonshadow Elves are a pretty race - and to combine those looks with red hot barrels of pure destruction, like AEV Nasty Grandpa weapon mod - would just be enjoyable, more so like the 'Primura' character image posted in the FNV Pose mod, if you haven't seen her then well - your missing out on one very beautiful character ( http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/images/35825-1-1298106549.jpg by SpcSpectre )

 

So please if anyone can lend me some help, I'd really be grateful as this is driving me insane - and with me, once I set my mind to something, I do not know why but I just have to finish it, I need to complete this or I fear that I would've otherwise disrespected such a beautiful and promising mod.

 

If you would like to see the Oblivion mod, Moonshadow Elves ( http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=30707 ) here they are! by Sulpyun and TerranceKim324 give them props for such a beautiful race.