Creating Skyrim Armor in Blender Tutorial Series

[Hanaisse]

You'll find all the body meshes under meshes\actors\character\character assets folder.

Nifconvert is now part of NifUtilsSuite.

[Sangheili15]

There is only skeleton, and skeleton beast. Plus, not all armors are showing up, or even animals. Do I need to change security settings or something? Plus, is there a script that lets Blender export in DDS? I don't have photoshop.

[RabidGears]

It's probably unlikely that you're still looking for an answer after two months but...It sounds like you didn't unpack the BSA properly.

[masterzenii]

First thing first this is a simply amazing tutorial. But I've got one simple (and probably stupid) question:

Does an "_0" armor require a clean "_0" skeleton and also "_1" armor a "_1" skeleton?

I'm working on melding the savior's hide and cultist robes but I started with "_1" by accident and I can't load a clean "_1" skeleton to save my life...but "_0" skeleton was clean first try.

[Hanaisse]

There are no stupid questions!

 

No, you can use either skeleton for both.

[masterzenii]

Thank you so much, Hanaisse--especially for such a swift reply. Glad to hear that it will work either way. I'll finally get to try putting it in the game here shortly. If it turns out good I'll be back to share the results if that permissible.

[Hanaisse]

Absolutely! Would love to see it!

[MarekkC]

I have a little problem when I try to assign armor mesh to esp in creation kit. I open it in model window and the whole CK crashes. Do you know how to fix this?? Thanks

[Hanaisse]

If your model is crashing the CK there is something very wrong with it. I'll need more information. Pics of it in nifskope would help. An explaination of what you made and how you made it would help too.

[MarekkC]

I´m attaching the armor in nifskope : https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpt1/v/t35.0-12/11204822_920832464628469_1075804210_o.jpg?oh=027951178a892547f40f438b4a461c0e&oe=554A8CFE&__gda__=1430881101_29735f7f967ae5717b82e614302455ac

 

As you can see on the armo mesh it has two SBP_32_TORSO (originally BP_TORSO just renamed) and it is made up of two items in blender I joined them with ctrl +J so it was one mesh maybe this could be the problem? And one thing, the armor when I first opened it in nifskope exported from blender it had already 3 BStexturesets that I just linked to created BSlightingshaderproperties (actually just copied from original armor mesh) so that´s that. Thanks for help.

[Hanaisse]

Looking at that I can immediately see it's wrong. The two SBP_32_Torso's is the least of your problems.

 

You seem to have two different skeletons in your mesh. You should only ever have one skeleton, the very first (top) NiNode in the block list, and all your bones and NiTriShapes under it. From that picture you have a top level NiNode and that NiNode named bodyfur:000 under it.

 

What exactly did you try to join? You should not join a body and the armor.

[MarekkC]

I just joined leather and thieves guild armor mesh to be one mesh to can easily assign body parts. So I guess I shouldn´t do this??

[Hanaisse]

Make sure you are joining pieces that are not yet weight painted or rigged. This is causing the confusion. Always clean each mesh as you import it to remove the parent skeleton and vertex groups. Work on clean meshes then do the weights and rigging last.

[MarekkC]

What if I delete the skeleton now and just delete all body parts and do the weight painting all again...Will that solve the problem for me?? Or I must do my whole armor again?

[Hanaisse]

That should work.

[MarekkC]

Okay I´ll try it and Thank You for your interest and your help . Words can´t express...

[MarekkC]

Ehm...sorry that I am weary again, but that didn´t helped I have all that ni nodes and then another same ni nodes inside of my BSdismemberskinpartition blocks....Or is that right??

[MarekkC]

It must be right because I have it on all armor even that which are absolutely vanilla...

[Hanaisse]

Show me a full nifskope pic?

[MarekkC]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t35.0-12/11211756_921249151253467_1327215389_o.jpg?oh=78e5023330c8e99ffca67c3778e5f463&oe=554B2FB6&__gda__=1430970582_dabb48387a776da64d00ed29e27a7a11

 

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpt1/v/t35.0-12/11211898_921249144586801_1204763048_o.jpg?oh=5fe2d3cdcaca9a11e81f35c5a9940667&oe=554AD432&__gda__=1430962881_09d17a852303a2f1efbb3002bb406bea

 

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t35.0-12/11201258_921249147920134_250389010_o.jpg?oh=bd8725d8f749cdc6080551c94d5d3ec8&oe=554B047E&__gda__=1430977699_7dd81361d5b3500e9e47fece70b7b212

 

this is how the armor looks ingame, its all crazy a also attached photo of the armor in nifskope so you could see what is wrong

[MarekkC]

There are also independent ni nodes upper in the block list

[Zchu]

Hello, I am new to modding skyrim and have been looking for a good tutorial for refitting, altering and creating armor in skyrim.

 

I was just wandering if this tutorial is still up to date? I noticed it was posted back in 2012 and want to be sure all the information is accurate and relevant still (such as the Nifscope version to be used ect)

 

Thank you!

[Hanaisse]

@MarekkC, no, that is still incorrect. There are still 2 skeletons in that mesh. At this this point it's probably best to start over. When you import parts, make sure to clean out the old skeleton and the rigging before you begin working on editing the meshes (or joining meshes in your case). When you re-weight paint, make sure you're copying from the same source to each piece.

 

@Zchu; Hi, welcome to TESA.   Hm, actually, the nifskope version is out of date. It's now up to 1.1.3. Otherwise yes, the rest stands.

[MarekkC]

Ehm...sorry, it´s me again still the same problem even now I was very careful and made sure twice that I cleaned the mesh and everything, but it seems I just can´t join the meshes and make them separate, do you think that this is relevant and can help me? 

[MarekkC]

Okay I remade it without linking it because it seems this was the problem with it but now I just don´t have BSdismemberskininstance in my NiTriShapes. Could I just copy it from original armor mesh?