I can't mesh, I admit it (oh, and I'm crying, too)

[rivergenesis]

Hello.

 

I am on the verge of giving up completely on creating armor meshes. I feel worthless, stupid, dumb as a bloody brick and a complete waste of space. I don't get it. I can't do it.

 

Please don't tell me to use Blender. I tried. I didn't understand anything after 3 days and uncountable hours. The only 3dsmax I have access to is 2016, which is happy to make rather stunning meshes but no matter which options I tick I can't export them as Nifs. In the end, in pure desperation, I exported as a 3ds file and got it into nifskope.

That's where it is now, and I can't get it to work in game. I don't know where to begin to figure out what's wrong. I have tried copying only what was missing from my version from the original. CTD on load. Tried copying everything. CTD on load. I think the problem lies with the BSDismemberment parameter but I can't for the life of me figure out how to fix it. This is after watching five different people on youtube and reading eight tutorials. I still can't get it right. The only thing I managed to do was make the armor invisible. Oh... and CTD the moment my character put it on. At least I managed to load the inventory screen, that's an improvement.

 

I can't mesh. But I can cry, feel worthless, and crawl back to simple retexturing. At least I can handle GIMP.

 

I don't know why I even bother, but I am adding links to my current meshes here in the non-existent hope that someone will look at them and tell me where I keep going wrong.

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/f1pnt6dfgmnnw20/ASC_tavernwench_0.nif?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/oipjbxio34ivirc/ASC_tavernwench_1.nif?dl=0

 

Love,

AdiaStar