Need Help (Weapons mod)

[InsurrectionAlpha]

I've tried adding custom sounds to weapons in my little personal project. No dice. The sounds never play. I don't suppose I need to convert the sound to a specific format/bitrate?

 

Also, I tried loading the weapon model in GECK after tinkering with it in NifSkope (adding nodes for projectile and trigger and whatnot and setting where the right hand grips the weapon, not sure I need much more than that considering I'm going with the Recharger ammo option), but all I got was a red shape with an exclamation point. Trial and error, I know, but any suggestions to fix that and make the weapon (Sangheili Plasma Carbine) load properly in GECK?

 

--IA

[Moraelin]

You get the exclamation if it can't find the mesh at all. Try invalidating the archive, I suppose.

[InsurrectionAlpha]

And how would I go about doing that? I'm a total newb in this modding scene, working on a personal project. Please, if you want to help, I need specifics.

[Moraelin]

Well, I use FOMM, and it has a menu entry that says "Archive Invalidation." I think NMM probably has it too, but I never used NMM.

[InsurrectionAlpha]

Checked FOMM, and it already has that Archive Invalidation option enabled. Did I do something wrong with the mesh? It shows up fine in NifSkope, but when I try to load it in GECK, I get the exclamation point.

[Moraelin]

Well, I'd try disabling and reenabling the archive invalidation. Sometimes it actually helps. Probably only Odin knows why.

 

That said, that does bring us to the next point: NifSkope is a LOT more... live-and-let-live about rendering those meshes than the actual game. There are things that will render just fine in NifSkope that will crash the game like it's been pollaxed, the instant you even look in their general direction. Or with NVAC on, they might render half-way or not at all. Be VERY nitpicky about the tree structure, because the game is. It has to be EXACTLY like in some item that works. There is no 'good enough'. Operative word is: exactly.

 

But, hmm, if it doesn't recognize the mesh AT ALL, I suspect there might be something off at the root level. Did you make sure the tree on the left side in NifSkope starts with a BSFadeNode as root? I seem to recall that exporting gives you a different node or such.

 

I follow a more old-timey way of exporting and importing, myself, so that doesn't happen, but on the whole it's only an improvement in the same way as driving an ox cart never runs out of gas :p

[devinpatterson]

Checked FOMM, and it already has that Archive Invalidation option enabled. Did I do something wrong with the mesh? It shows up fine in NifSkope, but when I try to load it in GECK, I get the exclamation point.

OP you should probably post the nif if you have permission to do so. It will be easier to examine it than to just guess what could potentially have gone wrong.

[InsurrectionAlpha]

I don't remember where I got the model for the Plasma Carbine I am doing this on, or I would have contacted the author. Even if I did, I can only send the mesh; the texture is over 5MB. Would a screenshot help?

[devinpatterson]

I don't remember where I got the model for the Plasma Carbine I am doing this on, or I would have contacted the author. Even if I did, I can only send the mesh; the texture is over 5MB. Would a screenshot help?

We don't need the texture. If you don't have permissions for the file I'm not sure if you can send it, so better to err on teh side of caution and skip that option. A screen shot may help, although I imagine there may be a few to cover an expanded tree/list, but give it a shot.

[Moraelin]

Actually, I suspect he could get banned faster than a Daedra at a Conjurers' Convention if he started distributing meshes that he never even contacted the author about. People take that kind of thing seriously around here. So, yeah, better stick to NifSkope screenshots and such.