Reavor Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 Ok, so i want to start creating my own mods but i dont really know which programs to use. the only one i heard of is nifskope so i got that and of course the TES CS. Wat other programs do i need to get started? Oh ya, im not sure if this changes anyhing but i plan to do armor and weapon mods. If u guys could tell me the best free programs and maybe wat their used for that would be great! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsolless Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 Ok, so i want to start creating my own mods but i dont really know which programs to use. the only one i heard of is nifskope so i got that and of course the TES CS. Wat other programs do i need to get started? Oh ya, im not sure if this changes anyhing but i plan to do armor and weapon mods. If u guys could tell me the best free programs and maybe wat their used for that would be great! :) DDS Converter. Used to convert textures into usable files to change them and back into DDS. BSA Commander. Used to open up the BSA files to get the vanilla item meshes and texture. Blender. Used to make meshes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloakedbolt Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 Ok, so i want to start creating my own mods but i dont really know which programs to use. the only one i heard of is nifskope so i got that and of course the TES CS. Wat other programs do i need to get started? Oh ya, im not sure if this changes anyhing but i plan to do armor and weapon mods. If u guys could tell me the best free programs and maybe wat their used for that would be great! :) DDS Converter. Used to convert textures into usable files to change them and back into DDS. BSA Commander. Used to open up the BSA files to get the vanilla item meshes and texture. Blender. Used to make meshes. Trust me, the way of making a full custom item is a long one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sypron Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 Ok, so i want to start creating my own mods but i dont really know which programs to use. the only one i heard of is nifskope so i got that and of course the TES CS. Wat other programs do i need to get started? Oh ya, im not sure if this changes anyhing but i plan to do armor and weapon mods. If u guys could tell me the best free programs and maybe wat their used for that would be great! :) DDS Converter. Used to convert textures into usable files to change them and back into DDS. BSA Commander. Used to open up the BSA files to get the vanilla item meshes and texture. Blender. Used to make meshes. Trust me, the way of making a full custom item is a long one. No its not. You do a search, there are hundreds of custom armors and weapons around. As well as Blender for 3D moddeling try Softimage XSI ModTool. Its free and powerful and does animations and rigging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threedees Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 Are their nif plug-ins for XSI? I have only come across ones for May, Max and Blender Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reavor Posted September 3, 2007 Author Share Posted September 3, 2007 Thx all who answered, now just to learn the programs.... If anyone has anything to add plz do! I appreciate all advice and suggestions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordMaddog Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 Ok, so i want to start creating my own mods but i dont really know which programs to use. the only one i heard of is nifskope so i got that and of course the TES CS. Wat other programs do i need to get started? Oh ya, im not sure if this changes anyhing but i plan to do armor and weapon mods. If u guys could tell me the best free programs and maybe wat their used for that would be great! :) DDS Converter. Used to convert textures into usable files to change them and back into DDS. BSA Commander. Used to open up the BSA files to get the vanilla item meshes and texture. Blender. Used to make meshes. Trust me, the way of making a full custom item is a long one. No its not. You do a search, there are hundreds of custom armors and weapons around. As well as Blender for 3D moddeling try Softimage XSI ModTool. Its free and powerful and does animations and rigging. LOl yes it is It takes allot more then those progs to do Full custom Items It takes you knowing How to model, texture, rig, Skin, and some scripting with some programing all of witch Take massive amounts of time to learn how to do and yers to do them really good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sypron Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 You don't need to learn scipting, thats for different kinds of modding. And devotion can get you anywhere. If you have the motivation to sit down and teach yourself how to moddel then you can do it. And some people are faster than others at picking up programs. I used AutoCad for graphics at school and within 2 weeks I was the top of the grade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTerminator2004 Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 If you want to make textures, I'd recommend getting GIMP- the latest version even comes with the dds plugin already installed, so you can directly edit dds files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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