Wings on a Body...?

[Gabrax]

I don't know what exactly I am doing. I have an obj file of wings and i'm trying to attach them to the upperbody of the upperbody.nif file for males.

 

I'm using nifSkope and poser 7. In poser i imported the wings and imported an entire upperbody nif. I remembered that I had to import and change each body part one at a time just like a weapon (it made sense from the tutorial on here). I exported the upperbody part "arms [0]" from the nif file (which is the torso).

 

http://igabeyourocks.googlepages.com/makingwings1.jpg

 

 

Importing it back into poser, the torso was HUGE. Three times larger than the import with the entire body. Anyways I figure I should not touch the torso's size and figured it would be sorted out in nifskope. I resized and realigned the wings to the big torso model and exported them as a welded obj.

 

http://igabeyourocks.googlepages.com/makingwings2.jpg

 

 

i open a new window in nifskope, import the new torso with wings and I copy the NiTriShapeData. I paste the data over the original file's NiTriShapeData and the torso on it disappears. I can find no trace of the new model anywhere.

 

What am I doing wrong?

(Also, blender is a pain to work with but, my 3ds max trial is over and I'm not shelling out 3k for just making models. Got recommendations for another 3d program I could use?)

 

*On a side note, I took a break from that and went on and downloaded the skeleton file and modded it for the wings too.

http://igabeyourocks.googlepages.com/makingwings3.jpg

[Gabrax]

;) bump

[DamianDrazhar]

"I paste the data over the original file's NiTriShapeData and the torso on it disappears"

 

you just replace the wing mesh with the mesh of the torso

well...

there is no turning around, you have to export the wing+torso mesh via 3d program