warnecromancer Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 I'm new to modding and I'm looking for a good free 3D modeling software to get me started. I want to make "from scratch" armor/weapon models and meshes and if I get good enough I may attempt to make some cross breed races like Khajiit-Orcs, or Argonian-Bosmer so i may need something that will allow me to do complex face models as well. ^_^ I have XP using Google sketch up 6 and anything that will allow me to convert files from sketch up to the program then to the creation kit to be imported into the game would be wonderful ^_^. So any advice or recommendations would be wonderful/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghosu Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 (edited) 3D Editor: Blender http://www.blender.org/Sculpting/Texturing: Sculptris http://www.pixologic.com/sculptris/Image Editor: Gimp http://www.gimp.org/ Afaik there is no nif plugin for the newest Blender version, the link below lists a Blender version+nif plugin+python scripts...whatever, i'm using Cinema4D/3DsMax myself so you have to find the fitting versions yourself. DDS plugin for Gimp (to edit/save textures in Skyrim's dds format)NIF plugin for Blender (to open/edit/save nif files, that contain the 3D model, in Blender)NifSkope (to adjust/edit nif files - i recommend version rc4, newer version sometimes mess up the texture)FO3 Archive Utility (to extract the original game files = models/textures/sounds...) http://code.google.com/p/gimp-dds/http://niftools.sourceforge.net/wiki/Blenderhttp://en.sourceforge.jp/projects/sfnet_niftools/downloads/nifskope/1.1.0c2-c7/nifskope-1.1.0-rc4-i686-w32.7z/http://fallout3.nexusmods.com/mods/34 tutorials:http://wiki.tesnexus.com/index.php/Creating_an_armour_for_Skyrim._Part_1http://wiki.tesnexus.com/index.php/Creating_an_armour_for_Skyrim._Part_2http://wiki.tesnexus.com/index.php/Category:Tutorialshttp://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/522532-skyrim-tutorials/http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/754151-tutorials-without-youtoob/...google and youtube. Edited October 15, 2012 by ghosu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warnecromancer Posted October 16, 2012 Author Share Posted October 16, 2012 Thank You :D i'll get started right away :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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