Italian Arquebusier (generic)

[KrugerPritz]

try this nif (and you can see what i wanted to say, see "Bip head 2")

perhaps the neck still need a bit of fine tuning

I thinkt hat You saved me once again , I will post Your gun.nif with the new sword and it's done... but i'm still wondering the procedure:
!) You renamed first the bip head, isn't it?
2) then You copied first the bip head 2, or all the nif?
3) You used the nifviewer too, following the nifviewer tutorial coping and adjusting the single bips, or used exclusively nifscope?
Is that that i would like to understand, sorry i'm a little old, my brain is an old 80-086 cpu (the first pc I've used)

 

[GeoModder]

Before you finish up, have you checked if when the arquebusier rests his hand upon his musket its on top of it, not somewhere one third down the barrel? One of the pics you uploaded shows this to us.

O yes, any chance for a little teamcolor? Could come handy if this unit is used for some more greco_roman civs...

 

[KrugerPritz]

Before you finish up, have you checked if when the arquebusier rests his hand upon his musket its on top of it, not somewhere one third down the barrel? One of the pics you uploaded shows this to us.

O yes, any chance for a little teamcolor? Could come handy if this unit is used for some more greco_roman civs...

For the first question: i returned to gun.nif (used by The_coyote) instead of musketeer, and this cause me too i've noticed that error, and i'm not sure to be able to repeat the steps made by The Coyote... and so now the unit turned to use redcoat animations.
For the team color, is another thing that I don't know, i've seen that team color uses dds3, instead I use dds5 for the transparent parts... it's only an empiric knowledge and maybe i could have mistaken in my opinion ... but i could try...

 

[The_Coyote]

1) You renamed first the bip head, isn't it?

yes, but the one to which the head of the model was linked

2) then You copied first the bip head 2, or all the nif?

i opened the nif a second time, but because your nif had already a child bone to the head, i only renamed this to the new name, than i was forced to rename on of the nodes to scene root to be able to copy the model, see last point

3) You used the nifviewer too, following the nifviewer tutorial coping and adjusting the single bips, or used exclusively nifscope?
Is that that i would like to understand, sorry i'm a little old, my brain is an old 80-086 cpu (the first pc I've used)

i only used nifscope (i know the tutorial and without this tutorial i had no idea what to to, but in most cases nifscope is a bit more user friendly), nifscope rerig a model after the names of the bones, eg if you would rename one foot to head and the head bone to foot and than copy a rigged model in this nif, the head would be there where the foot bone is, and the foot at the position of the head. Therefore it´s important that the structure and the names are the same. In your case all bones beside the head worked good, so all other parts of your model could be rigged to the standard bones, only the head needed a special threatment (i only had to rename one bone to scene root to clean up the nif - to see to which bones a model is rigged in nifscope, go to the mesh and open the nifskininstances, to all nodes listed there the model is rigged - and when you want to copy a model from one nif to another all bones listed there must be existent [if not there will be an error]) More or less the point is, when all position of the bones in the animation are reseted, changing the numbers in the nif will not help, adding the new bone (which is not animated - but will make the same movement like the mother node) give you the change to make small changes to the position of parts of the mesh (in this case, lower the head). More or less is the same whats is explained in the tutorial only another program and a small addition

btw, linked your model to the musketman (in extreme closeup there are small errors, but it works), still the old sword

 

[KrugerPritz]

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For the moment I guess what are You telling to me... but to have control of it I have to try and try Thank You very much again.

 

[Shqype]

Cool! Will you be making any more arquebusiers (of other nations like the Poles, Austrians, etc)?

 

[KrugerPritz]

Cool! Will you be making any more arquebusiers (of other nations like the Poles, Austrians, etc)?

... ahem... it was a request, now i have another request (p1000 ratte) to satisfy... that i'm afraid it will be a very troubling work... and then return to my want to do list... this should be my aim...