new to modding. please help me to import/export body mesh?

[blackplasma]

Hi all.

Well im new to all this stuff and feel like ive fumbled through for a week or so but now ive hit a brick wall.

 

Aim.

To start by modding a custom body, and to develop some clothes/armour to fit.

 

I decided to begin with something simple and take a type 3 body and make it pregnant. start off simple, you know?

Having now picked up the knowledge to use fomm etc and geck to modify npcs, inventorys, race and textures, now i want to move on to modding a mesh.

 

I have blender 2.49 with nif 2.5.5 and the other bit installed but now ive got problems.

 

Problem.

Whatever new nif file i export will not show a 3d model when double checked and previewed in geck.

 

All i see is the red floor but no model. if i zoom around a bit i can see some sort of data in a 2d layer floating somewhere but no model.

 

Ok so i must have missed something a step, an install or something?

So back to basics..

 

I took a .nif imported it in to blender

delete the box, camera and lamp

select all with A

export to nif

wait an while

Place new nif in data mesh folder allongside original

double click

.....no pretty black mesh...red floor only.

 

Please help me get started?!

Ive tried loads of import export options but still nothing.

Could anyone link to or provide a tutorial?

Do i need to do anything with a skeleton at all?

 

Thanks in advance