Needing help with Blender...

[RenaissanceFan]

Hello, I've been trying to prepare the art from the Man-o-War in Colonization for Civ V, but so far no luck. I have absolutely no experience with Blender. If someone could make the Blender steps and upload me the FBX fles, I'd be very grateful. Also, I'll post the mod here, should anyone ever want it.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Takhisis]

You haven't ever used Blender? You should start here. It'll be blindingly painstaking to learn at first but then you'll start catching on .

 

[RenaissanceFan]

Actually, I've tried to use Blender very recently, to try and export the Man-o-War art, but still, I am not getting anywhere. I'd be extremely grateful if someone more skilled could do it for me.

 

[Takhisis]

What files do you have? What do you need? What can you do? People aren't going to help you if you don't come forward with more info.

 

[RenaissanceFan]

Okay. Based in the tutorial, what I need is for someone to do the Blender part with the art files in Civ4/Col/Assets/Art/Man_O_War/, up to the conversion to FBX (use Civ5 animations if needed).

In this meantime, I've been trying to convert it myself. I'm quite getting there, but, every time I export the NIF,the rigging area gets black. I mean, instead of just the rope, there is the rope, surrounded by a black plane.

 

[Takhisis]

I'll state the obvious: check to see if there isn't any black plane, perhaps hidden or in another layer?