Black textures in game (custom armor mod)

[sepharis]

I hope this is the right forum for asking advice, since I don't know which particular program is giving me problems to post in 3D modelling programs forums.

So I am making a armor from scratch and I managed to get this far:

 

http://i.imgur.com/ATaMn1z.jpg

But I am having issues with textures. The problem starts in nifskope maybe?

When I load in my textures, they seem to work because the colour changed, but it is just one solid colour. I tried with other DDS files but it just changes to another solid colour, as if the UV map was missing.

http://i.imgur.com/IgFHbPJ.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/indzWC2.png

 

My process is Blender -> 3DSMax 2016 -> nifskope

I use FO4Edit instead of creation kit because I can't get that do download. As far as I know, there's nothing wrong with the plugin file.

 

Things I have tried:

- Using both blender 2.73 and blender 2.49 to export FO3 files to be transformed to FO4 files in 3DSMax but with the same issues

- The UV map is fine is blender before export. But I am not sure how to check in 3DSMax

- Using Material Editor to create new and change the paths in the BGSM file to my textures. I have tried both forward and backward slashes.

- Changing the name of the BSLightingShaderProperty to the path of the relevant BGSM files e.g. "Materials\railroad_uniform\rr_jacket.bgsm"

- Repeating the process described here exactly multiple times.

 

Message me for a zip of nif file, textures and a blender 2.49 file if ypu want to help :smile:

Edited July 5, 2016 by sepharis

[sepharis]

Solution: I have no idea what changed, but textures show properly when I went from blender export OBJ -> outfit studio -> nifskope following the instructions here. So it works!

http://i.imgur.com/sVoDGEI.png

 

Also worth mentioning because I tried for hours getting the female version to work, if you are pasting BSSubIndexTriShape blocks into vanilla files and you get a error like

http://i.imgur.com/08jQfy2.png

In this case SPINE1 (can be some other thing) is missing, use another vanilla file. Also male and female versions of the same vanilla outfit may use different bones- so pasting might work in the male version and not the female. Just try another file that will allow pasting without errors

Edited July 5, 2016 by sepharis