Mass changing of paths in Nifskope

[vometia]

I've been wondering about this for a while: does Nifskope (or any other part of the Niftools set) have a batch-file-friendly means of changing elements of the nif file? By which I mean something that doesn't involve extensive programming

The specific thing I was wondering about was changing the pathname of textures, e.g. armour\abc\hat01.dds to armour\xyz\hat01.dds. Using Nifskope's normal interface to do this is fair enough if you have one or two nifs to change, but not so cunning if you have dozens. So I'm thinking of something you could run from the command line or from within a batch file along the lines of "nifskope mymesh.nif --node=upperbody2 --texture1=armour\xyz\hat01.dds --texture2=armour\xyz\hat_n.dds".

In the end I used a text editor to make the changes: fortunately my before and after pathnames were the same length so I didn't have to worry about offsets and that sort of malarky, the only slight complication being that it appended a newline to the end of the nif but that was easily enough dealt with (and didn't seem to cause a problem even if not dealt with, but better safe than sorry). But it'd be nice to know if there was a less risky way of doing it, especially one that had some extra flexibility such as changing the path for a longer one if necessary - e.g. I tend to use my initials as a prefix to certain textures if there's a risk another mod might overwrite them with something UV-incompatible.

I'm guessing the answer is "no", but I figured I may as well ask!

[InsanitySorrow]

There are a couple of tools that allow you to change multiple texture paths:

Automatic-Nif-Changer

Texture Replacer

TR is a command line tool.

[vometia]

Blimey, that was quick! Thanks. Especially as I didn't think such a thing existed.

[Cydonian_Knight]

I find that Texture Replacer, which IS linked to, is faster at mass changing texture paths than Nifskope. It has a really simple interface and quickly shows you all the different textures a Nif uses.

[syscrusher]

I just used Texture Replacer to refactor my resource directories, with well over 1,000 meshes affected. That tool is AWESOME! As a Linux command-line geek, I can say that graphical UIs may be *easier* for doing a thing once, but you can't beat the command line for being *efficient* at doing a thing hundreds of times.

[latiro]

Hello everyone,

I downloaded this useful tool as well, but I have trouble figuring out on how to use it - To be honest, I'm not much of a programmer, and I haven't yet been able to figure out how to use the command-line. I downloaded a modders resource by InsanitySorrow (A huge thanks to you from our team SureAI, your resources are awesome! ) and wanted to change the texture path to Textures\Enderal\Insanity, instead of Textures\Enderal for the sake of clarity. I did usually did this manually, but as you can imagine, it took me ages to do so.

So I downloaded the TextureReplacer and I have .nifs all ready in a folder. Could someone explain my how to change their textures paths? Or is that even possible?

All the best,

Latiro

[InsanitySorrow]

For Oblivion I use Automatic Nif Changer - http://oblivion.nexusmods.com/mods/35503

For Skyrim I use NifTextures - http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/19266 , simply edit the two paths in the INI file and run the exe.

[latiro]

Hello InsanitySorrow,

Thanks for your quick help - Worked perfectly!

All the best

Latiro

[Arion]

I tried using the Automatic nif changer but never figured out how to make it work. Needless to say 10 hours and 300+ meshes later they're all done by hand.

[InsanitySorrow]

It is a bit tricky at first, been a while since I've used it so can't remember how it works

[vometia]

I specifically don't recommend my method, which was to use a text editor, which then required another utility to remove the trailing newline it added to the file. It worked (as long as the paths were the same length) but it's officially a really bad idea!