need help with making a cat person race

[4byssthatsfull]

hello

this is my biggest mod i have attempted and probably my first one i might submit to the nexus.

what i hope to archive is to make a race that looks similar to Felicia from the dark stalkers game series.

 

I'm fairly new at modding and not very good at making meshes, so what i have done so far with this mod, is made cat ears & tail as equipment and they work fine. but i want to have them as default part of a playable race, and since I'm no good a making meshes and can't seem to edit the head.nif to add my ears to it, i was thinking i can use the G.E.C.K to make a body and head part and add that the race. but i can't found that type of option any where.

 

so if some could tell if i can do this through the G.E.C.K by making body parts and then use them as an add on to the race

or do i have to mix the meshes and textures together. if i have to mix the stuff together is there a tutorial that show's me how to do it.

 

thanks

[orangedemi]

Ok for starters head meshes and anything dealing with the head have to be all one piece one can not simply slap some ears on a head export it and comformulate it.

their are two ways around this 1) have the game auto add them to the players intentory like the moonshadow race does with elven ears, or 2) actually go in and sculpt the ears on the head in blender (or your favorite 3d moddling program)

 

as far as the body it concerned: the tail can be anchored to the upperbody if, if you dont know in new vegas the upper body.nif is the body with out the hands and head and most oblivion lower body nifs can be placed on the upper body with minor alterations. the tail cannot have any tail bones (ie bip tail01, bip tail02, etc) as the nv skeleton has no way of dealing with these bones in game.

 

but it all boils down to using Nifskope and blender (or 3dsmax,etc) the fact is you'll do very little in geck besides linking the meshes to a new race in game,

 

Example:

 

[4byssthatsfull]

so i have the ears and tail on the body the way i want them, now my next problem is that there is no fur on the body,ears and tail.

 

so my question is how do i make a fur texture that will look good in game, is there a tutorial or do have copy the fur from one texture to another?