Changing a mesh

[GothGirlDanielle]

The fact that I have to ask this is probably not a good sign.

The vanilla Blades Shield comes with four gold "mounds" on the center of the shield. Suppose I wanted to remove those four mounds so that a bas-relief image could be used instead.

The texture would be relatively easy: I would simply black out the mounds in both the texture and the alpha layer and create a bas-relief image for the shield, doing whatever other texturing I wanted.

The problem is mesh. It has the mounds on it. I'm wondering how much work and what tools I would need to remove those four mounds. Also, would I need to make the bas-relief image part of the mesh.

~ Dani ~

[Hanaisse]

If the mounds are their own separate NiTriShapes in Nifskope, you can simply delete the branch.

Otherwise, you'll need some Blender surgery.

[InsanitySorrow]

I don't think they're a seperate node on that shield, so you'll most likely need a Blender edit.

[GothGirlDanielle]

Thanks. I'll take a look at the .nif in Nifscope.

~ Dani ~

Edit: I just saw IS's response. How hard is a "blender edit". Is this something I could do relatively easily.

The key being "relatively".

~ Dani ~

Edited February 20, 2011 by GothGirlDanielle

[InsanitySorrow]

It's not a hard edit at all, but it'll require basic working knowledge of Blender

[GothGirlDanielle]

That doesn't sound good ...

I don't even have blender, let alone a working knowledge.

But thanks for the info.

~ Dani ~

[InsanitySorrow]

Take a look over our tutorials here, they'll get you started , To help out a little, here is the edited model

[ub3rman123]

If you want an easier Blender-free method, I looked at the mesh in NifSkope. You can take the small part of the texture on the shield that has the bump and erase it to transparent. Then add on the NiAlphaProperty to the shield.

[GothGirlDanielle]

Take a look over our tutorials here, they'll get you started , To help out a little, here is the edited model

Thank you, that was very kind. Have a cookie.

I have other nif issues on the horizon, so I'll download blender and look at the tutorials.

Thanks again. I really appreciate it.

~ Dani ~

[InsanitySorrow]

Thanks