Fallout 4 collisions

[Spysteven]

Well let me start off by saying I've had the worst month trying to fix what should be a simple thing, I resized and object in Nifskope and only later found out I have to resize the collision as well for it to work. I tried using the blender nif plugin which doesn't work for me. I tried the 3ds max 2013 I can import but I cant export collision or do any of the basic things I need to as per vague tutorials. everyone keeps saying to refer to Skyrim tutorials that do nothing to help things and there's little to no information on how to do a bloody collision for a model. How come in papyrus scripting and xedit I can do complex things such as create opening and closing vault door and linking up power through splines but edit simple collisions is such B.S. my free trial of 3ds has ended and i'm no closer to my fix for collisions than I was a month ago, the key gens don't load or exist. to be quite frank I might just upload the nif for anyone to do whatever is need to make them work.

[VIitS]

Some very good tutorials:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SssqMofI_Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr31Tf2XXGk

 

Since you don't have access to 3DS Max 2013 anymore, for simple shapes you can do what people did before Bethesda released the plugin and use existing collisions that fit. The way I did it was to position the NiNode* using Nifskope so that the visible mesh matches up with your object, then delete the BSTrishape (the visible part), leaving the collision behind. Make sure you adjust the translation/rotation data on the NiNode, not the BSTrishape, or the collision mesh won't move properly.

 

One thing to note: if you try and change the scale, it won't work. The visual mesh will scale, but the collision won't. So if you don't have an exact match you need to use multiple smaller meshes. (overlapping is usually fine).

 

*the one that the collision data is linked to