Hey mesh people!

[youbetterwork]

I have a question. You know how the load screens are really static objects in the CK that you can place in the game, right? How do they do that? I want to make a statue of an NPC and have it be a static object in the CK, but I don't know how.

 

An NPC in a quest I'm making is a taxidermist.

[SlashSgt]

Well, for general loadscreen collections, it's quite simple: you select all your objects in the render window and then right click, select create static collection, and that's that.

For what you're asking, its a bit more complicated since NPCs do not exist as their own meshes in the same way that say a chair does. Essentially you would need to create a static nif that was identical to your NPC, and there is not any way that I know of to do that apart from perhaps manually editing a T-Pose of your NPC.

[xXBrytonXx]

In the Creation kit select the NPC you want to export and press f2

(I think its f2 it might be alt f2)

 

This will bring up the fbx exporter which you can use to export the currently selected item or items as a fbx file.

If an npc is selected the current facedata is also exported resulting in a mesh that looks like the character.

The only problem is that they will be in T-pose so you'll probably have to re rig and pose the mesh.

Also There are a few strange things that happen like the head being at the feet of the model or the neck being horribly twisted by the skeleton of the model.

But after you have reposed the character, Most likely requiring your own rig you could export it as a static nif and bring it into the CK for the statue or I suppose stuffed figure.

[greekrage]

To add ..

Load screens...especially those that show a "scene" like the medical scene or barber scene for example are SCOLs (static collections )...