Altering models with NifSkope?

[Shizune]

I've got a quesiton with concerns modifying meshes with NifSkope. One of the Japanese bloggers used to post various Skyrim armor mashups etc. What was interesting about his was that he modified many thing with NifSkope. E.g. changed the breast float making the UNPB breasts much, much bigger, deleted meshes from Daedric Chainmail making it just a bodysuit.

I've seen the knifestrap he's using. Somehow he managed to add another strap to the legstrap from Ashara Princess of the Woods. However I have no idea how to get that aditional strap so I can make it 3-strapped legstrap (God, how many straps..).

Any idea?

 

What I mean:

 

to this

 

and the closer look on a .nif file:

 

[gregathit]

While you "can" make mashups with nifskope (use copy branch\paste branch), that is not the preferred method as the results can be unpredictable in game. 

Ideally you need to use blender or 3dsmax.

[Shizune]

Well yeah, but I'd love to give it a try. I mean the Japanese blogger I'm talking about seems not to be fully into modding, he just uses things that are available and modifies them a bit with NifSkope.

What's more for a long time I've been trying to get as close to the related character as it's possible.

I know that probably no major modifications were included. The character uses UNPB body modified by NifSkope so that the breasts are larger.

Two things I want to achieve: 

 

- large breasts that clip a bit through the hood #example

- three-strapped legstrap (as shown previously)

 

This is what I managed to achieve so far:

 

 

[Shizune]

Alright. The conclusion I came to is this three-strapped knifestrap is not a result of modding, but still it's mashup. It's just both Temptress Leg Strap and Princess of the Woods Knife Strap equipped together.

 

What I'm still looking for is the way to make the breasts more similar to the photo. Anybody knows how can I do that? Is this all just a matter of breast float or further changes in NifSkope?

[kingkong]

if you want to modify anything it is much simplier to use Blender but you can do it with nifskope and a lot of courage.

 

in the file.nif you select the NiTriShaps / Stips that you want to change   open it with clicking on '+'   go to NiSkinInstance and open '+'

 

you select 'highlight' NiSkinData     than you go down to Block Details      where you open the Bone List 

 

now depending the meshes you might have 1 to 30 or more of bones  each Bone List is attached to a groupe of vertices and a specific Bone    ---you look at the position of the bone that interrest you under the NiSkinPartition--- than you select the bone that is in the same position in Bone List you click on '+'  you will see just on the line of Skin Transform a sort of cross (red, green, blue)

 

just click on it    a pop up window will open Translation Rotation  x, y , z    and Scale  ( from here have fun transforming and adjusting the meshe )    not to forget to apply Update All Tangent Spaces.   

 

[redseekerz]

what is the name of that armor? or just the link