I think I might actually try and learn this. 

Still hoping someday we reach a state where we can just pose character bones individually in game for screenshots (niooverride mod doesn't really work 100%). But until then glad stuff like this is out there. 

On 1/9/2024 at 3:56 PM, dryuya said:

I think I might actually try and learn this.

You'll never know, you might find it a fun hobby - I know I certainly did, despite a complete lack of any prior 3d experience 😀

Should you need a static animation for posing, just pose the character in one frame, and if the AI autoposing tool is not giving you the exact pose you want - switch to box controls in there, this will turn off all the AI tech and will let you style the pose exactly to your liking. 👍

Great work !

I'm new to make the Skyrim animation .I've tried to rig a Cascadeur auto-posing file using the skeleton_female.nif and my body mesh. I used the niftools to import the skeleton in blender,and successfully created an auto-posing armature and made a simple animation in Cascadeur,but the .hkx import seems that has wrong transform in hksposer .It works well in blender,but have wrong axis and z transform in hkxposer .

I want to rig with my own skeleton, so can you tell me how you deal with the transform problem?

11 minutes ago, zcl1236 said:

I want to rig with my own skeleton, so can you tell me how you deal with the transform problem?

When exporting the hkx with Blender, under the Scale field in the export plugin, there are orientation pickers - try playing around with those.

The first version of the rig I did had that same problem, so I had to constantly change them to -Z and Y, iirc, but after I got tired of doing that,   I re-imported and re-rigged everything so the orientation matched the export plugins one 😀

I think you could also try looking into settings for the FBX export in Cascadeur, think you can play around with the export orientation in there too.

Took me a sizeable amount of trial and error to figure out the correct procedure 😆

15 minutes ago, zcl1236 said:

I used the niftools to import the skeleton in blender,and successfully created an auto-posing armature

Ooh, that took me quite some time to get it right, so props right there!!

I've used PyNifly for importing nifs into Blender, good to know that niftools also works 👍

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When exporting the hkx with Blender, under the Scale field in the export plugin, there are orientation pickers - try playing around with those.

 

The first version of the rig I did had that same problem, so I had to constantly change them to -Z and Y, iirc, but after I got tired of doing that,   I re-imported and re-rigged everything so the orientation matched the export plugins one 😀

 

I think you could also try looking into settings for the FBX export in Cascadeur, think you can play around with the export orientation in there too.

 

Took me a sizeable amount of trial and error to figure out the correct procedure 😆

Thx ,  I ‘ll have a try using PyNifly and changing the orientation . Indeed i've also got tried of changing the axis orientation lol.😃

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Ooh, that took me quite some time to get it right, so props right there!!

😇, the auto-posing only need the right bone relationship so i adjusted it to what the armature in Unity like.

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I've used PyNifly for importing nifs into Blender, good to know that niftools also works

Actually, the niftools are still updating in GitHub - niftools/blender_niftools_addon: The Blender Niftools Addon is a Blender add-on to enable import and export of NetImmese File Formats including .nif, .kf, .egm.. But it seems that PyNifly get right result when importing the skeleton.