How To: Make Leaderheads! Ekmek's Guide

[Ekmek]

Btw, Ekmek, you haven't told me the answer to that problem! Don't worry, I fixed it on my own and it works! Now I just have to give the file to my friend.

thats because there is so much random stuff in this thread i'm starting to lose track!

please limt this thread to questions or problems and post nifs and blends when you do. previewing LHs should go in other threads.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Hmm, I have a problem.

I started Blender today and noticed all my saved blends off.

I think I know the problem, recently I turned off UAC as it was interrupting something. I restarted and checked now and all my blend saves are gone. This is strange as turning off UAC should actually stop interrupting programs and stuff.

Will it be fixed if I turn it back on?

And where are all the files than? Have they all been deleted?

 

[Ekmek]

Inever heard of UAC erasing or blocking blender - i'm on vista too. but where did you save your blends too? try fly open it should show your last blend file. also search for he blend files through your explorer. but it does sound weird.

 

[TheLastOne36]

I went on EU3 and saved a game and it saved, but all my previous save games were lost.

I assume when you switch on/off UAC it erases stuff.

I tried searching my explorer. Open recent doesn't work.

it's not like I did that much on blender though. If anything, it is a good thing, redoing the steps so I memorize them.

 

[TheLastOne36]

I ran into a problem. I was making Zara more unique by giving him a bigger chin, than I came upon this problem when in Edit mode and have Textured on, Everything is pink!

What gives?

 

[Ekmek]

did you have the texture files in the same folder when you imported?

 

[TheLastOne36]

I have the .nif in the folder if that is what you mean.

I'm restarting Blender, maybe that will work.

edit: restarting Blender didn't help.

 

[TheLastOne36]

I've noticed that shaded now works to.

It is Textured mode that I have a problem with.

here is an updated screenshot of it in Object mode:

Now it looks like a missing file, but everything should be there, as it worked before.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Was hoping for a quicker answer.

But then I realized you guys have lives to.

Taking a break, playing EU3, WOO!

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I actually did alot, I changed Zara`s ears and lips, made his chin bigger, and eyebrows slightly fatter, also made his cheeks fatter. I will replace his hair (the guide covers that right? cause I'm going to be lost..) and reskin him white in a reskinned De Gaulle outfit and I'm hoping for a fairly unique leaderhead - for my capabilities.

 

[Ekmek]

I have the .nif in the folder if that is what you mean.

I'm restarting Blender, maybe that will work.

edit: restarting Blender didn't help.

textures mean tga or dds files.
if you select all in edit mode and then go the uv editor you can open the texture to apply it.

 

[cfkane]

Hey Ekmek,

What course of action would you advise for non-shaded objects showing up solid black on a shaded LH?

 

[Ekmek]

Hey Ekmek,

What course of action would you advise for non-shaded objects showing up solid black on a shaded LH?

well i havent messed with that in awhile but I have this in my troubleshooting section:

• Part of my LH came out solid black! – You probably added a shader LH part to a nonshader LH nif so there is no lighting associated with the light files. The way to fix this is to get a shader LH nif and do the nif swap there. A nonshader mesh should show up fine in a shader.nif.

 

[mechaerik]

Ekmek, how can I change an animation, ex. XY_greeting.kf, to XY_friendly_anim.kf?

Just rename the .kf. That simple.

 

[Vortilex]

Ekmek, I"m having trouble importing FDR into Blender. Is his suit in your leaderhead parts package? When I try to import FDR, I get his skeleton and nothing else.

 

[Nitram15]

@Vortilex

I have the same problem with FDR. But I really can't import it, because "blender.nif.import WARNING: Skipped Vertex Material Matrix: 0101231" error, but this error is appeared repeatedly, and I don't know why this isn't import!

 

[Ekmek]

try importing the nonshader version. and yes the suit is in my collection.

 

[cfkane]

well i havent messed with that in awhile but I have this in my troubleshooting section:

• Part of my LH came out solid black! – You probably added a shader LH part to a nonshader LH nif so there is no lighting associated with the light files. The way to fix this is to get a shader LH nif and do the nif swap there. A nonshader mesh should show up fine in a shader.nif.

Never mind, I figured out what was going on.

I somehow got two copies of the lighting objects onto the mesh and that's what took away the lighting.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Ekmek, there are no TGA files in the BTS Folders, and I have a total of 18 .DDS (9 per leader)

There are frequent blackouts lately, and this has been messing with my cookies and stuff for Firefox, could this be the problem and would I need to maybe reapply the textures?

I'll try doing so anyway, maybe that will work.

 

[Ekmek]

well you don't eally need the textures for blender - it will map to them. the only problem is that you won't see them in blender. when you export to a nif it should be ok.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Sorry, I had another blackout..

So I should export as a .Nif than re-import it to Blender to solve the problem?