LoginToDownload Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 You can turn other image-types into .dds files with DDS Converter or a similar program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 So far you have a 3d object that may or may not already be in .nif format - Nifscope does that very well. What you have is called a Mesh. And for use in the game should look lsomthing like this: YourObjectName.nif .To have a complete object , your mesh needs a Texture - actually 2 textures. Think of texture as the coating of the object - color and pattern, while Mesh is the bare 3d shape without the coat. You get the texture either by assigning one from the default game. The instructions are available in the CS wiki. Or by creating your own with a program like photoshop or Gimp. Gimp is free and there are many tutorials available for it on line. It will be able to save your object with the texture you want using the .dds format. Your .nif object needs 2 .dds files associated with it to work. Once you have your Mesh (.nif) and both textures (.dds) you can use the CS to place your object into a cell in the oblivion world. If when you look for your object you see a yellow block with a purple ! the game has found your object but not the texture. if it has a funny color, usually violet or pink the game cannot find your texture. If there is nothing, it may not have found the object to exist in the game. You can get gimp here http://tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=14920 And a tutorial here http://www.gimp.org/docs/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kebubas Posted March 13, 2008 Author Share Posted March 13, 2008 i got these progs : 1.PhotoShop CS32.Blender3.MilkShape4.TES4:Oblivion CS5.NifScope I got the textures allready and i know how to put them on my sword but when i load it again i need to put the texs again ... can photoshop save textures into .dds? and how the h*** to transfer my Milk Shape mesh into .nif format? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kebubas Posted March 13, 2008 Author Share Posted March 13, 2008 By the way ... the DDS converter shows " Illegal instalation " or something like that and just "not responds" ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 Photoshop can take the place of gimp. I'm not sure if it can export .dds files or not. if it can't you may need gimp to convert the photoshop textures to .dds. If I read you right, you used the dds converter to try to convert something to a dds format. was it a photoshop prog, and what format? As I am not familiar with Milkshape I don't know what the file format is. Whatever it iis though, there should be some program that can import it and then export it as a .nif. The problem with going through a half dozen conversions is you loose a little bit on each conversion. I do know that Gimp is very close to photoshop. close enough that there is a version called Gimpshop that uses the same interface as photoshop. and it does work with .dds files. I would asume that it also works with the native photoshop files also. A quick look shows that there is am Nvidia plug in for Photoshop that allows it to export as .dds. There is a section on the tesnexus that has a lot of info on making mods as well as a lot of info on the various tools. Maybe there is a tutorial on converting meshes from whatever format Milkshape uses to a .nif that can be used in the CS. Several programs have plug ins for either .dds or .nif Look here http://thenexusforums.com/index.php?showforum=200 Lots of good info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kebubas Posted March 13, 2008 Author Share Posted March 13, 2008 erm ... well my pc doesn't let me use gimp ... it says something about resolution ... my screen can only suport up to 800x600 OK ... now i can make .dds ... and mesh niifting to go :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kebubas Posted March 13, 2008 Author Share Posted March 13, 2008 Ok ... my milk Shape has expired (although i had 27 days left on my 30 day trial) ... btw ... i'm learning to work with Blender ... hope it can export a format which can be imported to NifSkope... then it should be more or less clear ... then i'll ned to learn what to do with texture and mesh folders like in many other mods ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kebubas Posted March 13, 2008 Author Share Posted March 13, 2008 ok ... i can't find a good spot where to learn ... i can't understand ... i'm lithuanian and i don't speek english wery well ... i can speak only from wha i learn in school ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kebubas Posted March 13, 2008 Author Share Posted March 13, 2008 in here -----> http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/Custom_Sword_in_Blender it says to import "File>Import>NetImmerse/Gamebryo" but i can't find it... what to do ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kebubas Posted March 13, 2008 Author Share Posted March 13, 2008 woop ... exported with nifskope as .obj and imported to blender as .obj :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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