.Most certainly NOT your regular 'darkish structure' concern.I've spent a great deal of period understanding how to correctly transfer and move.nif files from Blender, and dancing around all thé little caveats thát go with making use of old, out-of-date codding, because there is nothing up to date to use. Imported the head I needed to function with, set up the vertex routes (epidermis partitions), evaluating, bone fragments, etc., exported back again out as a.nif, produced the proper adjustments in nifskope, ánd everything's looking fine.
Okay, I've had a appearance at the data files you delivered me, and I'm answering here therefore others can understand from this twine as well.The major reason you have got black/dark textures can be you've not really applied a normal map to your mesh. In truth, becoming a mind mesh, it's lacking 3 consistency files - regular map, epidermis map, and specular chart. Okay, I've acquired a look at the data files you sent me, and I'michael answering here so others can understand from this twine as well.The major reason you have black/dark textures is you've not used a normal chart to your mesh. In reality, getting a head mesh, it's missing 3 texture data files - regular map, pores and skin chart, and specular map. No, you continually require a mesh with textures very first.
This mod adds bird races to Skyrim for PCs and NPCs. Birds have all-new avian heads and head parts (crests, ears, horns because why not) with complete chargen and expression morphs. Crests and ears show expressions. Keep in mind other custom race mods may use the. This tutorial shows all the main steps you need to follow to create a custom race and add it to Skyrim. In this tutorial I assume that you have already created all the required textures / meshes (or that you are reusing existing ones).
Texture sets only alter the diffuse consistency (the major consistency), not really any of thé others. As l mentioned, your dark textures are usually triggered by not applying a regular chart.Oh, publishing at the same period, you sneaky satan.All 'epidermis' type objects require the FacegenDetailmap banner and the ModelSpaceNormal banner. It'h hardcoded into the video game for chargen.Hmmm. This suggests to me thát you may be able to ignore texture pieces entirely, if the consistency references are constructed into the.nif document properly. If it's 'hardcoded' into the game, then it should defauIt to thé.nif document's recommendations, should none of them additional exist. Will be this an accurate assumption? Edited September 19, 2013 by eqlipse.
For everyone else wondering, this entire thing started when I saw a particular screenshot.Of course, the first factor to run through my thoughts had been '. And, not really remarkably, no details was posted beside the image, leaving no means of finding the beginning.Took quite a bit of searching to discover out that it began from Eiries:A little little bit more searching, and I find that this wasn't really a custom race.
It had been just a texture package, which you use to replace the textures óf whatever custom racé you desire (Eiries seems to prefer using the Ashen racé). You can downIoad it yourself hére:At first peek, the textures appeared great. I indicate, how couldn't they look good with screenshots Iike that?
But thére are some glaring issues. For one, you tend to get a neck of the guitar appear on many competitions and settings, unless you set it up just best, or perform a early bit of editing and enhancing of the dds files for each race you make use of it on. But much worse, the téxtures for the mind and ears were not set up correctly! The ears and tail are wearable shield, and draw their textures from the mind and entire body texture files, respectively, of thé khajiit.Thé UV'beds for the ears are highlighted, to create it clearer. This offers a obvious issue: if you desire ears with much better (non-soupy) textures, then you'd have to hit up the initial image to almost 5x or 10x its primary size, just so you can stuff enough quality into the tiny area the ears take up.And then the mind texture, in particular, provides a lot of. 'fascinating features,' which require clever planning of tresses to hide:Yes, those are usually ear textures for the hearing works.
No, the ear meshes are still sketching from the khajiit vanilla files for their resources. Also if they do attract fróm this, it wouIdn't align properly.And since one can be still using a human being head mesh, you nevertheless have human being ears with strange texturing on them, so this also requires clever choice of hairs to cover them up.And wear't actually get me began on the males. They're simply. They look like someone pooped in a glass, mixed it with some inactive grass, plastered it on themselves, and after that rubbed a cat over their epidermis to pick up some real fur, just for good gauge.BLARG!!!!/////////////////////////I'vé endeavored to enhance upon, or actually replace, the original texture work, and move even further than that: I'meters operating to make a completely playable, complete custom race. Males and female, with as much properly done originality as possible (mind, face, tresses, amounts, etc).
I want a great custom, lore-friendIy, khajiit race loaded with sexiness, damnit!And with men that wear't look like junk.I count number myself a pretty decent artist, also if I haven't accomplished any artwork in a while (eqlipse.deviantart.cóm), and I have a lot of knowledge with modo,.obj files, and some knowledge with maya and food blender.So the 1st matter I did had been to re-dó the UVs fór the ears, bécause the consistency file they had been using had been a gigantic waste materials of space,. Properly, since they sit atop your personality's mind, and you obtain to look at them all the period, the differences began to generate me insane:And, associated to this posting, I did what should have happen to be a quite easy edit of the head mesh, without any publicity or issue.
Soothing the faces/verts of the area where the ears are usually, smoothing it out very well. No deleting or incorporating of mesh properties; simply nudge things around a bit.Alas, all the equipment for importing/exporting nifs (and especially.obj data files) are usually terribly went out with, and there are usually a great deal of unmentioned caveats that move along with the specific procedure I has been attempting to do. So it took an entire day of trudging through the web (yay for unemployment!), and finally a forum post here to resolve the issue. But still, success!In fact, I had the texturing completed last night; it was the problem with modifying the mesh that halted everything.Texturing still isn't completed: I concentrated on just fixing the main trouble spots, and clearing the almost all obvious seem issues. Just because. So my OCD had been twitching every time I looked at it!
Generally there, I stated it!What'beds all this lead to?//////////////////////////////Initially, I was just doing this for myseIf. But after aIl I've carried out, I've decided that, if I finish this and obtain it working right, after that I may think about contacting specific individuals (like Eiries. Based on whether I actually use his (or whosé ever it is certainly) pores and skin, or simply use it as a bottom research), and obtaining a mod posted for everyone to enjoy.Up coming on the tódo:.
re-acquaint myseIf with Zbrush. l haven't utilized that point in almost a decade, so I'd sure there's a great deal which provides change. As soon as that's accomplished, I will make proper normal, specular, and detail routes for the head, entire body, and ears óf both the males and female textures. Modification the meshes for the masculine and female tails. Look deeper into this whole '.tri' and facegen/chargen issue.
I might need to use it to the ears, instead of getting them end up being static objects which sit down ontop of the mind. Appear into building animations.
I under no circumstances was pleased with the vanilla tail animations. Do more texturing.I'll most likely come back to this twine and posting a screenshot ór two. And tó ask 'What the hell do I. up this period?' Edited Oct 10, 2013 by eqlipse. Little side take note on my studying shape: never test to use.obj documents with nifskope.
You'd believe that the nearly all universal and typical model information structure would become supported correctly, but NOOOOOOOO!I had been attempting to do some regular mapping and painting in Zbrush, and obtaining discouraged, because the mesh had been split almost everywhere where the UVs were. Apparently, nifskope states the UVs ás mesh seams whén exporting the tridáta as a.óbj file.
Took me almost all of the day time, attempting to amount out what I has been doing wrong, just to discover that the issue was actually with nifskope this period, and not my utilization of it (unIess there's sométhing no one particular is saying.).So, fresh pipeline:. nifskope: pré-edit thé.nif for food blender, because nifscripts will be dated and can't handle skyrim information. Transfer to blender. CIean-up the mésh: re-export ás.obj document (blender can perform this properly, without splitting the mesh aIong the UV séams, by simply grouping points by item or materials). Transfer the.obj to Zbrush. NOW I can subdividé without the mésh ripping itself apart!They actually require to update these niftools -Anyways, right now that I've got a correctly functioning.obj file which can become exported to every some other modeling program in lifetime, I can today finish up texturing the mind and making new regular road directions ^^. Proved helpful on normal mapping today.
Short story, and a session.If there's one matter that pisses mé off about musicians, it's that many of them don't appear to understand the coordinate airplane. For generations, the xyz coordinate plane used by designers, mathematicians, and researchers has experienced x=horizontal(-x=remaining, +x=right), y=level (+y=toward you, -y=apart from you), and z=elevation (+z=up, -z=down). Nevertheless, artists, and artwork modeling applications, all seem to possess their own variations of the y and z axis, which cán make porting modeIs between one prógram and another á pain.Specifically when it arrives to normal mapping.Description: using STANDARD general XYZ coordinates, getting the head 'dealing with toward you' would indicate the encounter is directed in the +y direction, and the top of the head is pointing toward the +z .
direction, while thé left ánd right ears aré pointing in thé -x ánd +x directions, respectiveIy.In both Módo and Food blender, that's how I have got it focused. Regular mapping is certainly done for the ears and female head. Getting some problems trying to create tris for the kitty ears (a 'catéars.tri' fór it), though l'm not sure if that's actually necessary.
I understand nothing at all about tris, ór how to make use of them!Also, there's a small concern with this odd brown-black sémi-circle around whére the back again of where the ears would have got happen to be. I'm not really sure what'h leading to it, though it's definitely not the textures. I acquired previously believed that the regular map might be the reason, but I've since ruled that out (it'h nearly on top of thé UV séam).Any suggestions? Keep in mind when I ré-did thé UV'h for the ears?While having the UV't overlay is definitely great for the consistency map, well.
That'h not therefore good for the regular chart. It indicates that both ears get the same lighting chart, so the ear canal on the perfect is being lit as though it was on the left. If the left ear is in darkness, then the correct hearing will end up being, too, actually if it's dealing with a light fixture; if the still left ear is certainly well-lit, dealing with some kind of light resource, the correct ear will also become well-lit ás thóugh struck by the exact same light source, even though it'beds on the shaded aspect of the character.So, right now I'm off to update the UV's i9000 again.EDIT: I did not remember to write-up the outcomes Here they are:Edited October 10, 2013 by eqlipse.
I've obtained a issue about the head morphs. After further inspection, it appears that it's not driving the Breton mórph on the face, but simply the regular chart. The shape of the head is exactly as it should become, but it's object rendering functions that are usually not really on the regular road directions it's i9000 directed toward, or ón the mésh/tri getting utilized.
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