NV Nail Polish

[throwaway10650]

I'm trying to make a mod to add nail polish to the game. The idea is the nail polishes themselves are aid items, which through a script effect, will equip cosmetic items that give the appearance of nail polish (the fingernails would be colored, but everything else is the same). There's also nail polish remover, an aid item that, through a script effect, removes the nail polish. The polishes and remover will be purchasable randomly from merchants, and maybe found in random loot wherever pre-war clothing could be found.

 

I already have the scripts working, and I could make the leveled list adjustments fairly quickly. The only thing that's beyond my means is the meshes and textures. I've tried a couple things, but everything I tried either made the hands disappear entirely, or caused no appearance change whatsoever.

[madmongo]

It would help if you gave is some indication about exactly what you did with the meshes and textures. Telling us that you tried a couple of things is extremely vague.

 

You are probably going to have to make hand replacers, and you will probably need to copy the fingernails from the existing hands (copy the entire mesh and delete everything but the fingernails), enlarge them slightly so that they don't have clipping issues with the existing hand mesh, then apply your fingernail texture to the new nails. You'll want to give them a shader type of SHADER_DEFAULT instead of the SHADER_SKIN that the normal hands use, otherwise variations in skin color will change the shade of your fingernail polish. You will also want to uncheck SF_FaceGen and check SF_Shadow_Map instead under the shader flags. In other words, shade the fingernails like they are a piece of clothing instead of a human body part.

 

As long as you copy the original hand meshes, the bone weights should copy over as well, so you shouldn't have to do anything with that.

[throwaway10650]

I cut out the fingernails. I did it twice, once at 1.005x enlargement and once at 1.01 enlargement. It's set to SHADER_DEFAULT and not SHADER_SKIN. I know the armor is spawning and equipping. I tried using a separate item for each hand, and a single item for both hands. I tried making the items use the hand slots, and making them not use any slots. I even tried going into third person and zooming into my hands to check if the nails were clipping into the hands. Nothing. No cosmetic change whatsoever, as far as appearance was concerned, it is as if the nails might as well not exist. The only game effect difference anything I've tested was the game would CTD if one item was set to use both the left hand and right hand slots in the GECK.

[JimboUK]

Maybe having a look at how it's done here would help? https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/44312