modding How to make a custom body part mod.

[Pickle_Juice]

Hey guys, i was wondering how to properly create a bodypart for a race, I want to make some custom feet for the argonian and the khajiit races, i'm using the meshes from the "Better Claws and Gauntlets" (the mod will remain personal until i get the approval of the creator) to make the feet, i use bodyslide to move the nail meshes and fit them into the feet, i change the weights of the nails from all the fingers to the feet bone known as "Toe1" i open CK i create the "Armoraddon" with the new feets _0 and _1 for the "khajiitfeetnude" and "Argonianfeetnude", i save the .esp and open the game, but both races are still using the "femalefeet" mesh, no nails to be seen. i haven't found any tutorial that helps me out on this issue, since i can't find any tutorial that talks about modyfing or creating a race, so i woulnd't know...

[Seijin8]

If this is supposed to replace the existing meshes, then creating a new ARMO/armor addon is only useful if the ARMA/armor is referencing it and has the races set up correctly.

 

Also make sure the nails are referencing the same bodypart data as the feet (should be slot 37).

[Pickle_Juice]

14 minutes ago, Seijin8 said:

If this is supposed to replace the existing meshes, then creating a new ARMO/armor addon is only useful if the ARMA/armor is referencing it and has the races set up correctly.

 

Also make sure the nails are referencing the same bodypart data as the feet (should be slot 37).

I dunno what you mean by " ARMA/armor is referencing it and has the races set up correctly" but yes the feet are in that slot.

 

All i did after making the feet and adding the weights on bodyslide was opening the CK going to the "ARMORADDON" and then i went to "NakedFeetArgonian"  and "NakedFeetKhajiit" and i changed the file mesh path for the female feet from "femalefeet_1" to the file i created named "femalefeetbeast_1" (I also made both weights for the feet) and then i saved the .esp and came back to the game and character was using the same feet as the human races.

 

Do i need to use nifskope?

[Seijin8]

23 minutes ago, Pickle_Juice said:

I dunno what you mean by " ARMA/armor is referencing it and has the races set up correctly" but yes the feet are in that slot.

 

All i did after making the feet and adding the weights on bodyslide was opening the CK going to the "ARMORADDON" and then i went to "NakedFeetArgonian"  and "NakedFeetKhajiit" and i changed the file mesh path for the female feet from "femalefeet_1" to the file i created named "femalefeetbeast_1" (I also made both weights for the feet) and then i saved the .esp and came back to the game and character was using the same feet as the human races.

 

Do i need to use nifskope?

No, shouldn't need nifskope for this.

 

Can you drop a copy of the feet here?  Also a copy of the esp?

 

Also, make sure your esp is loading, and is the last thing in the load order.

[Pickle_Juice]

4 minutes ago, Seijin8 said:

No, shouldn't need nifskope for this.

 

Can you drop a copy of the feet here?

 

Also, make sure your esp is loading, and is the last thing in the load order.

Ok here are the feet take a look.

femalebeastfeet_0.nif femalebeastfeet_1.nif

 

Also i forgot to mention, they're UNP feet, hope that's not a problem!.

[Yakub]

34 minutes ago, Pickle_Juice said:

Ok here are the feet take a look.

femalebeastfeet_0.nif 599.25 kB · 0 downloads femalebeastfeet_1.nif 599.25 kB · 0 downloads

 

Also i forgot to mention, they're UNP feet, hope that's not a problem!.

Nails in your mesh use slot 33 (hands), I recommend nifskope to quickly change this.

[Pickle_Juice]

2 minutes ago, Yakub said:

Nails in your mesh use slot 33 (hands), I recommend nifskope to quickly change this.

That's what i was thinking but i don't know which slot to use in nifskope, cause at least in my Nifskope i don't see the name of the slots, just the numbers, so which slot do you recommend me to use?

[Yakub]

1 minute ago, Pickle_Juice said:

That's what i was thinking but i don't know which slot to use in nifskope, cause at least in my Nifskope i don't see the name of the slots, just the numbers, so which slot do you recommend me to use?

37 (feet), of course

[Yakub]

http://wiki.tesnexus.com/index.php/Skyrim_bodyparts_number

[Pickle_Juice]

5 minutes ago, Yakub said:

37 (feet), of course

Wait... you said they're using the slot 33? where do you see that?.

I don't see any 33 on nifskope...

 

UPDATE: NVM, i didn't update the page, so your link didn't showed up, i saw it on your link where to find that, i'll fix that and see if that does it.

[Seijin8]

2 minutes ago, Pickle_Juice said:

Wait... you said they're using the slot 33? where do you see that?.

I don't see any 33 on nifskope...

I will take care of it.  The nifs need some cleaning up.  Give me a few minutes.

[Seijin8]

femalebeastfeet_0.niffemalebeastfeet_1.nif

 

Assuming the esp is good, these should work now.

[Yakub]

2 minutes ago, Pickle_Juice said:

Wait... you said they're using the slot 33? where do you see that?.

I don't see any 33 on nifskope...

 

 

Also, nails still use UV of original mesh, you should reposition it to actual feet nails.

Spoiler

 

[Pickle_Juice]

11 minutes ago, Yakub said:

thttp://wiki.tesnexus.com/index.php/Skyrim_bodyparts_number

That's fixed the issue! thanks a lot! i had no idea about that NifSkope thingy! now if i have the spare time i might do some nails textures for both the hands and the feet. thanks a lot!.

 

 

5 minutes ago, Seijin8 said:

femalebeastfeet_0.nif 599.24 kB · 0 downloads femalebeastfeet_1.nif 599.24 kB · 0 downloads

 

Assuming the esp is good, these should work now.

 

I just tried them and they worked! you did the same process too? now i was going to say that didn't wanted to fix them yourself but you did it too quick! i wanted to learn to do it myself, cause i want to get into modding and know how to fix issues 'n stuff, but i really apreciate you lending a helping hand! means a lot!

 

Thanks both of you guys!

[Seijin8]

2 minutes ago, Pickle_Juice said:

That's fixed the issue! thanks a lot! i had no idea about that NifSkope thingy! now if i have the spare time i might do some nails textures for both the hands and the feet. thanks a lot!.

 

 

 

I just tried them and they worked! you did the same process too? now i was going to say that didn't wanted to fix them yourself but you did it too quick! i wanted to learn to do it myself, cause i want to get into modding and know how to fix issues 'n stuff, but i really apreciate you lending a helping hand! means a lot!

 

Thanks both of you guys!

You're welcome.  In Nifskope, this is what you would want to be looking at:

 

 

The other issue was that two of the NiTriShapes were sharing a block of data, which can also cause problems.

 

 

[Pickle_Juice]

2 minutes ago, Seijin8 said:

You're welcome.  In Nifskope, this is what you would want to be looking at:

 

 

The other issue was that two of the NiTriShapes were sharing a block of data, which can also cause problems.

 

 

Yeah that's something i belived was causing and issue.

So i went to blender and merge both "Claws" and weighted the meshes in blender and it was more easier!

Thanks for all the help!

[fx1400]

Hi people! please tell me are these leg textures ready? Where can I download and install it? I have been looking for similar textures of legs with claws for a long time.