Importing new humanoid models to Skyrim

[Stormcroft]

Hi I was just curious if anyone here could help explain how I can import custom humanoid models into the game. I have a model of a character and skin from another game that I wanted to import into Skyrim, but I'm not exactly sure how I would do that.

 

I was trying to make it be a custom race option.

[Renmiri]

I am doing it, making a Thane Krios, from Mass Effect 2 follower. Since it is my first mod it is going slowly.

 

To speed up things I made a follower NPC copying the Argonian follower Derkeetus. He is the only Argonian tthat can a follower. He can also marry the Dragonborn.

His involvement with the whole story is minimal which is good because i am using his NPC instead of creating my own. So far I got the following steps

 

- Create a new NPC follower - done

- Create marriage enabled NPC - done

- Voice acting - works

Here is why I have to use Derkeetus: you can make a new voice type but it won't trigger companion / marriage dialogs if you don't use an existing voice. Male Argonian voice type is perfect. The only npc that uses the companion and marriage dialog trees is Derkeetus so you can alter it directly and your character will speak what you want and it won't affect the other male argonians in slyrim since none of them are followers or marriage material. Instead of trying to create things from scratch, jJust go on the dialog tree for Male Argonian and record the new sentences saving over the existing files. Make sure you are only altering follower speech.I have already changed every follower dialog to be on the voice of Thane. Now I just need to change the marriage tree and some generic dialog and the voice part is done.

- Race (in progress)

I am not sure but I think a new race will be the safest way to make a new mesh for the new character. Looking on how to create Drell race, with Drell looks.

- Body / Head (in progress)

Still unclear on how i am going to do that but I think armor mods already replace the body so will try that

- Custom Weapons and armor (in progress)

Using Nifscope and blender / 3dsMax to try to bring one Mass Effect2 Weapon for Thane Krios. Managed to get them both imported into nifscope, now the hard part begins.

 

 

I now have Thane Krios npc that follows and marries the dragonborn, it looks argonian and uses Thalmor armor but speaks like Thane :D

[ResolveThatChord]

Well, I imagine that the body, feet and hand .nifs would be exported in a similar way to armour pieces. You'll have to use nif export scripts for your modeling program of choice (provided you choose blender or max), so that your mesh retains it's vertex weight data, then you'll have to get up to your elbows in nifskope.

 

There's a tutorial here on nexus; I tried it with some success for armour. It also includes info on how to do things differently for body parts:

http://wiki.tesnexus.com/index.php/Creating_an_armour_for_Skyrim._Part_1

 

I hope this is of some help. Good luck!

[Renmiri]

Yay, ty, ya it helps, as you guessed i am up to my elbows in nifscope :P

 

Unfortunately, it has to be a personal mod, as the character is copyright BW. But I can post here the steps needed to import any character :)

 

How to Import a character into skyrim:

I think the easiest way is what I did: Create a Male Argonian companion / spouse, then altering dialogs to use your import's voice. It is pretty clean cut as the only Skyrim Male Argonian companion/ spouse is pretty isolated in the game and doesn't interact with any ongoing story and missions. Male Kahjeets wont work, you will mess with Jzargo's dialogs, same for male dark elves or other race. (Instead of making new dialog topics, you can do what i did and just use the creation kit to record over the Male Argonian prompts for DialogFollower, RelationshipMarriage and even some Dialog Generic /Hello/ goodbye prompts). This is the point I am at: I have a Male Argonian NPC called Thane Krios (from Mass Effect 2) located on Dragonsbridge tavern, I am able to get him to follow me or marry me and his voice uses sound files ripped from mass effect. (which makes it fair use for my personal use since i own both games, but very illegal to distribute it :unsure: )

 

What's left to do:

I have Thane's body and head ripped into 3ds max files so i can get a ".obj" file out of it and import it into nifscope and save as a skyrim compatible nif. This is not as easy as the voice dialogs because as you said above, I need to make sure vertex weights and shading are compatible. I might not make another race and just use armor for the body and create a new "hairstyle" or helmet for the head. Not sure yet. I did fiddle with NPC Editor and a male argonian head but couldn't get rid of the snout so it is useless to make a "Thane" face.

 

In short, importing from a pre-existing toon into skyrim is possible but a lot of work and illegal to distribute. I am doing it to learn skyrim modding so is not that big of a deal but whoever else thinks about doing it be forewarned: lots of work and only you can see it. :P

 

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/5650/nifscope.jpg

[wamsleyXxX]

hello. im making a similar project and was wondering if you could give me a list of the meshes required in skyrim for a humanoid playable character. im trying to put myself in game. then id like to make a tutorial video to show other people how to make theyre character look like them. the help would be great if you can. thx

[RatchetthelastLombax]

I know this forum is very old but I am trying to figure how to import 3ds character models into the game (skyrim) the link here https://plus.google.com/u/0/+RatchetthelastLombaxalwaysloveMelisatheLombax/posts/YEgmEifwaux willl show you the GIF that I uploaded

 

I have seen people posting their mods in steam which have characters from ANOTHER games and yet I managed to get some 3ds models

 

anyone can give me suggestions?