Difference between revisions of "User talk:DavidJCobb/Tutorials/Editing NIFs"

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Import hair mesh into modern Blender (you know, the one that isn't a horribly broken crime against all that is holy) and make edits as needed. Latest NIF scripts can import skinned meshes and preserve weights, but cannot export them (even unmodified).
If you're working with multiple meshes, parent them to the same armature-object.
Save two copies of your BLEND file -- the latter with the "legacy" flag ticked, so that Blender 2.49b can load it.
Open legacy BLEND in Blender 2.49b.
Flip to text editor and delete the "BoneExNames" data block; it's trash and it will break your export.
Export as a Fallout 3 NIF.
Use NifUtilsSuite's NifConvert to upgrade the NIF for Skyrim.

You may still have to screw around with FO3 partition names.

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	* Use NifUtilsSuite's NifConvert to upgrade the NIF for Skyrim.		* Use NifUtilsSuite's NifConvert to upgrade the NIF for Skyrim.

	You may ~~need~~ to ~~modify some of the mesh or bone data. I was attempting to make corrections to Orc hairline NIFs and needed to copy the armature-data's coordinates onto the meshes~~.		You may still have to screw around with FO3 partition names.