stuff in jars?

[vaknathi]

Hi, ok, I think this is the right board (it can get confusing sometimes).

 

I've seen around the place mods that include alchemy ingredients and other stuff in the bug jars. Oaristys has a few in his marvelous modders' resource pack, there were some in Pinewoods Cottage, and I recall some ships in jars and a wordwall, and other things like that.

 

I was wondering if someone could tell me how to do this. I really just want to know how to put items that are already in the game into jars, then get them back into the CK (though I can usually manage to get a completed mesh with assigned textures in with little problem).

 

Yes, I know, I'm fairly dim and not terribly experienced at modding outside the CK, and I can't immediately see any way to do it in the CK, so I'm assuming there must be at least one other utility involved.

 

Thanks for reading, and thanks, in advance, to anyone who might have the time to answer, it will be very much appreciated.

[steve40]

I'm guessing that you would have to open a jar mesh in Nifskope and the item in another Nifskope window, and then copy the item mesh shape into the jar mesh, then use the Translate option to position the item in the center of the jar. You might even be able to open an insect-in-a-jar mesh and just paste in the object and delete the insect.

 

There are insects in jars in Skyrim. Search for their form in the CK, extract the mesh and texture files from the Skyrim bsa files using BSAopt and study them.

 

EDIT:

 

Critters\Bee\BeeInJar.nif

Critters\Moths\MothMonarchInJar.nif

Critters\Dragonfly\DragonFlyInJar.nif

Critters\Firefly\FireflyInJar.nif

Critters\Moths\MothLunarInJar.nif

Edited June 3, 2012 by steve40