Outfit studio; editing a geta mesh to be straight during movement

[Keradiin36]

I have been messing around with outfit studio to edit the mesh/textures of mod armors for my own use and have gotten fairly decent at it, even done a few mashups of different armor mods for personal use.

 

However, there is something i am curious about, i have a mod which adds geta, a type of wooden sandal, now when my character walks/runs the back of the geta sticks to the heel, now to get to the point; Is it possible to edit the nif file so that the geta stays straight and has the back of the shoe not follow the heel while walking, and if it is, how i could actually get this to happen, i assume it has something to with the bone weights, fyi there are six bones in this nif file (toe,feet, calf for both feet).

 

so if there is any advice or direction to pull something like this off, i'd be grateful and if it's not at all possible i'd rather know now then spend time trying to get something that the technicalities of the engine won't allow, it's just something small i want to try doing and not overly important to me.

 

either way, thanks for reading

[Hanaisse]

You could try repainting the weights of the "foot" bone so it's at its lowest possible weight (dark blue) all along the geta. That way its at least weighted to something and should barely move when the foot actually moves.

[Keradiin36]

Thanks for the response, i'll give that a go (i back up all my nifs before ingame testing anyway, so i wont bork anything permanently) and just so i have clarity, i take it your suggestion means i select the geta parts in the meshes tab and then go to the bones tab and select the " foot" bones and paint on those?

[Hanaisse]

Yes, that is what I mean.

[Keradiin36]

Just a quick reply, worked perfectly thank you, except i did it slightly different, i used the toe bone instead of the foot bones on all meshes, and removed weightings for the other bones on the meshes and now in game it works exactly how i wanted, so again thanks for the advice, helped me learn a bit more the weight element as well.