[SKY] Mesh looks dark in Creation Kit

[Torja]

Hello everyone.

 

I had to change a bit mouthhuman.nif for my new race (had some teeth-through-the-lips troubles after applying the morphs to the head). I exported mouth file as an .obj and then imported it into Nifskope. After all adjustments mouth looks dark in CK (textures don't show up).

Any ideas what's wrong? Need your help.

My nif:

http://www.mediafire.com/?wf9is3drzdjsfvk

[ResolveThatChord]

Looks correct in all ways I know about, except for possibly a couple of things: 1, I've found importing .obj can mess with the normals so you may want to right click on the mesh in nifskope and try mesh>Face Normals and possibly mesh > Update Tangent Space. I the past that has fixed meshes that weren't displaying normal or specular effects. 2, the problem could be in the texture you're using; check that you've used the right .dds compression type for each texture. 3, and this has probably nothing to do with this particular problem, but I was under the impression that you can't use .obj files for clothing or body parts as it doesn't work with vertex weights. If I'm wrong, PLEASE tell me because that would save me a lot of headache with importing to nifskope.

 

Good luck!

[Hanaisse]

In your NiTriShapeData, change Has Vertex Colors to No.

You'll also need to change the Consistency Flags to CT_STATIC.

[Torja]

I found the reason. UV crashes every time I import my obj in nifskope. The same thing is about 3ds.

Any ideas how to keep uv?

[Hanaisse]

That would have been my next reason.

 

The latest version of Nifskope cannot import/export .obj's. It loses all it's information. The NifTools guys are aware of this but are too busy to expect a fix any time soon. You have two options...

 

1) Get a lower version of NifSkope - 1.1.0 RC6 works.

2) Export your mesh as a nif, copy/paste the NiTriShape branch over into your existing mesh.

[Torja]

1) Got this version. Still doesn't work.

2) It will kill all my attempts to move all the vertices a bit back - it was the goal of all changings in the nif (the first post).

[Hanaisse]

1) Can I see your .obj file?

2) Not if it's done properly. You could also just rig the one you're working with yourself.

[Torja]

1) Of course. http://www.mediafire.com/download/hhjw1lpskdjyw2t/mouth.obj

2) Not sure I follow. I thought changing of the NiTriShape branch will affect all vertices positions.

[Hanaisse]

The .obj file import works perfectly fine on Nifskope RC6.

 

This was your mesh before. That little tiny red dot you see in the corner is your messed up UV.

This is the mesh now. Perfect UV (except for a few strays).

 

I imported your .obj file into Blender, fixed the material settings (OB was not set with a material), applied a texture, and exported again as .obj. I then imported that .obj over the NiTriShape of your original nif file.

 

So, I'm not sure what to tell you, the process works.   It may have been the slight errors in materials and textures that went wrong.

[Torja]

I'm working with 3ds Max an I'm a total noob in Blender. It's absolutely new program to me. 

Tell me please, what should I do there exactly?

[Hanaisse]

Ok, for some reason I thought you were using Blender. Doesn't matter, you did not set a texture to your mesh. No texture = no UV.

Curious though why you wouldn't just export as .3DS.

[Torja]

Actually I did. And had the same troubles.

But now the thing with texture works. So the problem solved. And you're the best again.

I think it's not a coincidence

Edited June 22, 2013 by Torja