A few Words to Niopa

[Gukahn]

 

 

This is but a small Guide to NIOPA which is the most important Tool you could have to make your Story's.

The Work with this Mod is often a Hit and Miss, Trial and Error and depending on the Poses you do, it can take a long Time until you are satisfied.

This little Tutorial will be long and go over a few Posts since I will be adding a few tips for special events later this Week.

 

First things first, the Mod and it's most useful Addon:

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LE:

 

SE:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/niopa-hotkeys-57392383

This Addon gives you an MCM to change the hotkeys of Niopa. Very neat and gives you the benefit not to always forget what the freaking hotkeys are ?

 

 

So, let's start with the Basics:

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Selecting of Characters.

Your Player Character will always be registered in the Member List, everyone else has to be put into it first. So that is what we are going to do. Selecting member List and search for nearby NPC's. Be a bit careful where you do it. Too many actors might slow the process down.

 

Once we selected an Actor Niopa will tell us exactly who we took. The Actor will also glow for a few seconds, so not easy to forget aye?

You can also remove Actors from the List, which resets all the adjustments you did to them. Something you might need some day since the Mod can only save a limited Number of People.

 

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One of the easiest and quickest Things Niopa allows us is to completly get rid of any clipping our Body Parts can suffer from.

Prime example my read headed Girl who has a very big Chest.  Her Breasts almost always clip with her Hands ?

 

So here is what we gonna do. We will mostly adjust her Hands and Arms for this one, so all bones we need are in the upper Body section for it.

 

I highly advice you do not make extreme changes to the Upper- and Forearms, also avoid doing the Hands. Both "break" very easy and will starting to look very, very off. So when you have to do it, be "gentle" with them. Shoulders are a far better option to change the Position of the entire Arm, don't get too crazy but they are easier to move without "breaking". In this case however, we will be using the Forearms and moving them a little bit down and to the left. Afterwards we

move the shoulders a bit to the back..

 

 

 

 

Perfect

 

 

Something different and more complicated are couple Poses. Poses where Actors have to touch each other take a lot of time sometimes. You have to adjust two Characters ever so slightly to avoid breaking their body mesh, it's almost always a good idea to position them near each other before you do anything Niopa related Jaxonz Positioner  is a great help for that. I advice to know exactly what you want to do, some poses are hard to figure with what purpose they were created and not all Pose mods come with example pics for them. BUT you can also make Poses never meant to work with each other well, work with each other. Niopa gives us the means for it. The only thing that stops you is your own imagination. But we will be taking a normal couple pose for the example.  One of the easiest ones I could find.

 

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We want these two

 

To end up like this

 

And we want to make a second shot for.. Research purposes ?

 

 

To get there, the best way is to move their Root bones. Blondy is already in the perfect position height wise, so we can save us her Root bone and concentrate on Reds. On a side note: IF you use your Player Character, moving him with the Root bone will stop the NPC AI from avoiding you. We all know the troubles of moving into the perfect position, some of us used TAI or are still using it for stuff like that. Stop using it for peaceful posing by the way. You don't need it with Niopa. We will still have collision on Breasts and other regions too.

 

The Root bone is in the upper Body section

 

 

So now that they are together, let's get rid of the clipping and position the Arms the way we want. Red is supposed to have hers around Blondy and Blondy is shall fondle reds butt (Because Gukahn said so. Pose says otherwise but it has no say in this >_>)

 

 

We will be moving Reds shoulder to the left and further down and her forearm to the back and twitch it a bit

You see we broke her Arm? We can actually "repair" it with enough time, but we don't really need to. Nobody will see that mess. Don't think you always have to be perfect, keep the Angle you want to make the picture in mind.

 

 

 

We will be doing the exact same thing with Blondy, but in addition we will move Reds Butt a little bit. Yes you can do that. Also Breasts can be moved.

 

In this picture, her Hands and Arms are already perfect, we will get rid of the clipping with reds Butt bones.

 

 

 

And move her left Butt Root to the left and a little bit up. The End result is the picture above.

Here a little Side note tho. I don't know how it is on Legendary Edition, but on SE:

 

 

These two Bones, Right breast, Left breast, don't do anything. Move Breasts with the Root bones above.

 

 

So the girls are happy, what about our Dude? He ain't part in this pose but he has a very special Thing we need him to do.

You know Niopa has Items? Its another mod you can get on it's download page.

 

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You can get magic Effects

 

Gukahns favorite Items:

 

 

And a few Misc stuff like Books. We will be using  a Book  this Time.

 

 

We choose a Pose not related to anything for this example. He isn't supposed to hold something but I want him to have the Book because of story reasons while he is in this pose. So first we think about how he could hold on to it. IN this case, stuck between his arm and his Body could work.

Moving Hand Items with Niopa can be quite a pain. Its not simply left and right moving but with enough patients and time, we will get them where we want them to be.

 

 

 

 

 

And again with the Clipping. We already know how to fix that.

 

 

Not bad considering this pose was never meant to have that Book. (We could've used the left Arm. Would have been a bit easier. Always think what would be easier to do. Don't be a Gukahn and use the most complicated solution >_>)

 

 

 

 

 

Part Two

Now we know the bare minimum of what we can do with Niopa, but lets take a quick look at the Mcm Addon and let Gukahn give you a bit of advice while we are there.

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The MCM Options we have here are limited but they also give us a small hint on what we really doing with Nio.  Take a look at the lower right and you see that we don't really move things left and right or up and down. We are using Axis, which means depending on the pose you are using, the bone you want to move might move in a different direction then you thought it would. It takes a bit to get used to, Items like I said, are harder to move around because of this reason.

 

 

If you take a look at my options you will see that I disabled Reset All Key Resets Hotkeys too. Self explaining and I don't know why this is even an Option. why would we bother setting Keys if we reset them any time we put reset an actor?  We do that a dozen of Times in each sitting! So yeah, Disable that please unless you want to lose your mind

 

 

 

 

 

Now let's talk about something more practical and fun. We all know there will be a Time where you want to make a fight scene come to an end, aye? And nothing beats the good old chop off his head! Ending for a villain. This can actually be done with other things BUT if your Villain happen to be an Immortal Follower, an NPC that can't be killed  or in my case, A "Lazy Follower" he can't get beheaded. 

So we going to use, you guessed it, Niopa and a bit of our favorite kind of bullshit.

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make a copy of your villain and get your hero ready

(Two Arlans! We are doomed =D  )

 

We will be using one of them as the Main Body, in our case the one in Blue. Pose him in a way you want him to die, we do this really quick at random tho, whatever works for this example.

 

We don't have to use Niopa for him, unless you need to adjust him of course. We will focus entirely on his copy

Of course, if we pose him in anyway, we will see him. So we get us this mod or make our own equivalent with Nifscope

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/34640

On a Sidenote, this mod also comes in Handy to hide your player character if you have to. Sometimes free came will port your perspective to who knows where. So its neat to have it at hand.

 

As you can see, we dressed him in all armor parts but the helmet. =D

We will put him in a pose and put the helmet on the Main Dude

 

The rest is just posing all actors accordingly an using Niopa to move all 2 of them. Important since we don't want to trigger the Ai to run away from us.

 

 

The rest are angles and work photoshop/gimp or Paint net to add blood effects and other stuff you want, like bones and so on if you are feeling daring

 

Hey Arlan is dead! Women are save again ?

 

Lets get to another, very interesting and neat Thing. If people know me than they know this was just a question of Time.. Let's get Lewd! ?

 

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We will be loosely recreating a scene I did for the Blog a while ago, to keep it simple just imagine there is a Dildo between her legs >_>

We want her vagina to be open. How do we get this done? Collision of course. You have a few ways of doing that. Either move he own hands further to the collision sphere, which of course will break them and you might need to keep an eye on the angle you make the shot, or we can make it a little bit more complicated but better looking.

For that, we need another mod

This Mod is extremely valuable for me. It gives you almost complete control over what it does and I love having control. best example are animations where nobody gets penetrated but still "touches" places. You can disable the opening entirely with this or enhance it. One of gukahns most favorite Mods

 

We will go to it's mcm and increase the Pelvis Collision for Vaginal Animations to the Max. Don't forget to set the Hotkey for switching if you want. Its important if you want to do that with another orifice or if you want to have both open at the same time.

 

Now we will be putting Blondy in a Pose and move her near red with Niopa

Door is open Folks =D (and Arlan is still dying.. )

 

Put the invisible armor on her and we are done for the Day

 

 

 

Edited April 20, 2023 by Gukahn

[Tirloque]

And so one of the currently most prolific authors of the blogs section commits to a tutorial !

 

It had been quite some time since we didn't get a new one in the club btw, and getting to know how to use NiOPA seems indeed quite useful/powerful. In between characters and objects, one could reach similar results with Jaxonz, but that can require some tai/tcl in case the collision refuses to let objects collide, not to mention it's more difficult to pair two characters between them, and impossible to adjust the pose of a character to itself. So NiOPA (should I say NiOPPAI ? ) definitely extends the possibilities here. Nice guide, Gukahn ! ?

 

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not sure about the PNG choice for the tutorial though, at 3 MB each, some people are gonna get slowdowns loading the images.

 

[Gukahn]

4 minutes ago, Tirloque said:

one could reach similar results with Jaxonz, but that can require some tai/tcl in case the collision refuses to let objects collide, not to mention it's more difficult to pair two characters between them, and impossible to adjust the pose of a character to itself. So NiOPA (should I say NiOPPAI ? ) definitely extends the possibilities here

Yes, I would always consider what you wanna to and choose between accordingly. I tend to use Niopa over Jaxon now, but the later is the faster choice for simple things and poses that "just work" ?

 

6 minutes ago, Tirloque said:

definitely extends the possibilities here. Nice guide, Gukahn ! ?

Thank you ?

Like I said, I will be adding stuff to it later this week. I have a few really interesting finds in regards to it and a few other things I want to add ^^

 

7 minutes ago, Tirloque said:

not sure about the PNG choice for the tutorial though, at 3 MB each, some people are gonna get slowdowns loading the images.

Oh damn, you are right. I will be changing them into jpg when I update the page ? thanks for making me a ware of this ?

[Guest]

?Wonderful, I try experiment more and if I get in any trouble, I let you know.

 

? So we can make this tutorial even better.

 

 

[Gukahn]

On 4/19/2023 at 8:58 PM, Tirloque said:

not sure about the PNG choice for the tutorial though, at 3 MB each, some people are gonna get slowdowns loading the images.

So I changed the Images into Jpegs ^^

 

Change log (that I ever come to write that.)

 

 

 

- Added two Sections, one for beheading and one for lewd stuff And added a few simple tips

Edited April 20, 2023 by Gukahn

[Demonella]

NiOPA is the most important tool for me when it comes to posing/story-telling these days. It basically removes the limits given by normal poses and none of my pictures are done without NiOPA.

 

Here's an example of mine, combining both Jaxons Positioner (for the skull) and Niopa (both girls). "Root" was used to place them on the altar and feet/arms/heads are moved via NiOPA.

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From all the options of NiOPA, I'd say "Root" is the most powerful. No more troubles with the collision of actors and no limits when it comes to gravity. Building a human pyramid or hanging from the ceiling like a bat - "Root" makes in possible.