Question for Freaks on 3D modeling

[poblivion]

How difficult would be to modify the 3D model characters from other games to work in Skyrim?

[Vioxsis]

Depends on the model, and your skill.

[blabba]

I'm a complete novice, and yet I can get some weighting and basic deformations done pretty well thanks to Outfit Studio/BodySlide 2

 

Now I'm in the 'big leagues' and trying out 3DS Max, and me being not artistically talented and a general 3-D inept is kinda holding me back a bit. But the more time I spend with the program it gradually gets easier. It also helps to have a mentor or be able to ask a question and get fairly quick responses from a forum community.

 

(LL is great a place for finding 'mentors' and asking questions compared to nexus, at least from my own personal experiences xD)

[kingkong]

 each game is using different forma and compression and skeleton and engine for 3d models      first you need to pic the game you want to convert     than you need to find a way to extract 3d files    than you need to find a way to import them to your blender/3dsmax

after the 3d files you need to think about textures !

 

after this major probleme you need to get your way through blender/3dsmax 

[Guest Ragna_Rok]

I'm a complete novice, and yet I can get some weighting and basic deformations done pretty well thanks to Outfit Studio/BodySlide 2

 

Now I'm in the 'big leagues' and trying out 3DS Max, and me being not artistically talented and a general 3-D inept is kinda holding me back a bit. But the more time I spend with the program it gradually gets easier. It also helps to have a mentor or be able to ask a question and get fairly quick responses from a forum community.

 

(LL is great a place for finding 'mentors' and asking questions compared to nexus, at least from my own personal experiences xD)

 

first, blender also works, 3dsmax is just one fish in the sea. second, yep, the more you work with a program, the better you get, thats how xp irl works third, true, a mentor is nice, but also a WORKING FUNCTIONING community is great, which leads me to fourth: nexus sucks, LL rules.

 

cheers, keep on modding folks

 

[poblivion]

So it's not too easy. Thank you all for the information. I like Khajiit race from the upcoming game The Elder Scrolls Online. So I was wondering if it would be possible to use in Skyrim. Just do not know how it would be with a copyright?

[nawrot]

Few helpful tools for RIPPING models from ther games:

http://www.deep-shadows.com/hax/3DRipperDX.htm

And for most of unreal engine based ones:

http://www.gildor.org/en/projects/umodel

 

You can extract most with thsoe 2. Rest is your skill and time. GL