Converting Armor and Clothing For Different Bodies

[Ginnyfizz]

Hello, my fellow and much more knowledgeable members! If there is already a tutorial on this elsewhere, then please correct me and point me there!

I have recently started using Robert's Female Body. Whilst there are some conversions for it, and some pieces made specially for it, there are not a lot. I have seen some gorgeous stuff by distinguished modders that I'd like to see converted. So, what I am asking is, as per the topic description;-

(1) What software do I need to have installed to do conversions?

(2) What is the step by step process (remember I am a complete noob)?

Thanking you all in advance!

Ginny

[greenwarden]

Ginny I think Blender will be necessary, first and foremost. I have attempted some converting myself, albeit not yet successfully.

[violets-are-blue]

Download Blender (most stable version) from Tesnexus. Lhammonds has all the plugins and stuff for oblivion assembled there in one download with instructions.

You can follow this guide http://sites.google.com/site/sickleyield/uf3clothingconversion. It's for a different body and FO3 but I think it helps to see the process.

Someone posted a pictorial somewhere a while ago, but the pictures were broken when I finally found it. I kinda did some web snooping, found the source of the pics, and put it together for myself. Unfortunately it's not mine so I can't really post it..

EDIT!!: I looked up the pictorial again and the pictures are fine again. Linkage http://grotto.moddersrealm.com/index.php?topic=9519.msg186407#msg186407

Hope that helps. I'm working on learning Blender and converting too =]

Edited June 1, 2010 by violets-are-blue

[grond]

Ms. Ginny, try this tutorial:

UFF Roberts Clothing Tutorial

This might not include conversion information. Hope it helps!

[Siouliusn]

And small tip from someone who also took this path some time ago : start with a simple model for your first conversion, don't rush directly into the hardest one ;p

[DarkNinja13]

I have been fighting with Blender and Nifscope for some 6 hours following these instructions and I am getting nowwhere but seriously POed (I have very little time and I hate wasting it).

I keep getting error messages about not transforming something in the Nif, but I have transformed every blasted line in the thing - and still nothing.

Is there a set of directions for those of us who, like me apparently, should be shot because we are just too damned stupid to use blender and nifscope?