jaysus Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 (edited) :pirate: copy paste of my thread at beth forums: so last night i meddled a bit with the usual pre CS madness... heres what i found out: porting models without rigging aka statics and weapons, not armor: requirements:throttlekitties modified nif.xml, get it here: http://dl.dropbox.co...ifTools/nif.xmland put it into your nifskope installation directory 1. you export the mesh as an *.obj or *.3ds 2. you open a skyrim mesh of similiar properties, aka a sword if you want to port a sword and select the nitrishape node of the sword mesh 3.click file->import->import *.obj and select your exported *.obj filethis will overwrite the currently selected nitrishapedata and even keep UVs intact!!! (thx ghogiel) 4.click the nitrishape again and at the very bottom of its block details click on "properties" expanding the fields below, enter the index number of the bsdshaderproperty that emerged below the whole tree of that nif when you imported the *.obj, this will attach the bsdshaderproperty to your mesh and hence allow it to use textures 5.delete the imported materialproperty from that nitrishape branch6.assign textures and copy paste properties etc as you need, save and done, a gameready mesh :) 7.for weapons its advisable to also copy/paste over the imported nitrishapedata over those shapedatas inside the two branches titled blood sominthis will allow the blood effect to be applied to your mesh, if you dont at least delete the existing one or youll have blood floating around in midair ------------------------------- getting the item ingame: 1. open TESSnip, (a tool inside FOMM or fallout mod manager) 2.open skyrim.esm 3. delete everything except GRUP (WEAP) (if your item is a weapon that is), GRUP (CONT) (which are chests and so on) 4. delete every subentry inside GRUP (CONT) except the one you want to modify or clone, delete every subentry inside GRUP (WEAP) except for those you want to modify or duplicate, preferably one with stats close to your new item 5. duplicate the one entry in GRUP (WEAP) that you kept, double click it, in the upper right change FORMID to something in hex but also something the game probably did not use yet 6. while still having your new CONT (WEAP) entry selected, double click EDID (lower left field) and give it a new id, thats not the name just an id inside the CS) 7. double click MODL and change the path to your new model 8. doubel click DATA and change the numbers on the lower left to set a price(dint find out whats damage yet or first person model yet) 9. now click on the GRUP (CONT) item you kept and in the lower left again select one of the CNTO entries, those are the items inside a chest, select one and hit ctrl+c, select the CONT(whatever i chose) again and hit ctrl+v, thast duplicates that CNTO entry and you got it twice inside your chest now 10. double click the new CNTO and in the lower right change the FORMID to that FORMID you gave your new item in step 5(click the blank button next to the formID to confirm the change and make the new formid stick) 11. click on TES4 at the very top of your esp and uncheck every box!! change unknown 2 to 00000000 and unknown 3 to 0000000f 12. save your esp, youre done and can now find your stuff ingame inside that chest you put it, if you put it into a CONT entry starting with "merchant" the merchant using it will also sell your item :) ----------------------------------------------------- @armorseems the nifexporter for 3dmax is kinda ready to export rigged nifs, i cant confirm that as i didnt test it yet but well... give it a try@CSSkyEdit has been released!!!! still alpha but some functionality that makes the process easier has been included yet Edited December 16, 2011 by jaysus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghogiel Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 You can already keep the UVs intact with the current nif.xml. :biggrin: http://www.skyrimnexus.com/imageshare/images/209926-1321904145.jpg No special magic. Just nifskope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaysus Posted November 21, 2011 Author Share Posted November 21, 2011 i hate you! :facepalm: at least tell us hooooowwww :P ...please.... nifskope version 1.1.0 with nif.xml 0.7.0.0 is what i use and it doesnt work :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghogiel Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 err... pretty much the the most straightforward thing you could do. Open a skyrim nif and just import the obj over a nitrishape block. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaysus Posted November 21, 2011 Author Share Posted November 21, 2011 (edited) well i just imported em... never occured to me that you should select a block first so it gets replaced and i dunno why that keep the uvs intact either, doesnt make any sense... guess its magic XD :wub: thanks a lot! Edited November 21, 2011 by jaysus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghogiel Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 (edited) Yeah it's a bit random. I've not looked at what the difference actually IS between what kind of data is pasted over vs one that is obj imported. Might be a clue as to what ends up fubar if there is a discrepancy. Edited November 21, 2011 by Ghogiel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidD Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Is it me being bad at using NifSkope or can you simply not look at textures in NifSkope currently? Also, isn't the NiTriShapeData the triangles, and the BSLightingShaderProperty where the textures are? So as long as you only overwrite NiTriShapeData you should be good. Maybe NifSkope does this for you when you paste in a model? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaysus Posted November 21, 2011 Author Share Posted November 21, 2011 nifskope cant currently display the skyrim textures for some shader reasons, nothing problematic tho -------------------having some trouble ingame now, items vanish from your inventory after you reload and they dont have an inventory model :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidD Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 nifskope cant currently display the skyrim textures for some shader reasons, nothing problematic tho -------------------having some trouble ingame now, items vanish from your inventory after you reload and they dont have an inventory model :/ Ah okay, I posted on their forums.. D'oh well, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rookwood101 Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 (edited) In terms of modding other things within the game, I was wondering if you guys knew what COCT, CNTO, CNAM, BNAM and NAM1 mean. (Used in the iron ingot recipe node - RecipeIngotIron.) Edit: Worked out CNAM equals the form id of the item you're creatingEdit2: Sorry for spamming a bit guys found a tutorial for what I wanted anyway :) Edited November 23, 2011 by rookwood101 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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