In a few words, how to make outfits

[Farmthat]

So, I've downloaded blender, nifscope, and all that. I've gotten it up and running, and I'm building my first item of clothing, trying to teach myself the tools. I started based on the femalebody_0 mesh from the skyrim meshes folder, duplicated it, began editing vertices...

 

I'm hoping someone can explain to me in a few short sentences how to make my clothing move with the character, once loaded back into skyrim. I'm a fan of CBBE, use the XP32 skeleton--is there something I should be doing early on to make sure I'm not wasting my time?

 

My first project is a straightjacket. (I know this will have issues there's no crossed-arms animation yet, etc, but I'll cross that bridge later.)

 

Very beginner to this. Thanks!

[darkconsole]

weight painting. you load up a skeleton, pick a bone, and paint the area of the model that should move when that bone moves. i cant tell you how to do it in blender, i hate blender, i'm a 3ds max person i guess. even though i hate painting in max too.

 

or you load it in bodyslide outfit studio, load a reference, copy all weights, and tweak it from there.

 

instead of starting with an _0 or _1 nif, if you start with a reference shape nif from bodyslide, then it will be super easy to make bodyslide projects for it later so people can size it to fit their character.

[Farmthat]

Awesome, thank you for the tips!

 

I should learn 3ds max some day since my day job is architecture using basically every other autodesk product.