niftools and blender plugin

[psi29a]

i said to remove the '.zip'. extension, not extract them.
A limitation of forum post attachments.

[Frik]

Oh, sorry. I must have skimmed that part.

[psi29a]

blender output is piped to console, so run it from cli to get a clean stack trace.

[Frik]

Ok, will do on the trace. Was able to export the house you posted after removing the texture. Is that what I should have done, remove it? How does importing and exporting of textures work with the Blender .nif plugins?

Thanks!

[psi29a]

Not sure yet, haven't gotten that far yet.

I usually create/export the NIF then use nifskope to have the vert(s) point to textures, at least that is how I did it for 2.49b.

I don't think OpenMW supports textures embedded in NIF (yet?).

[Frik]

I usually create/export the NIF then use nifskope to have the vert(s) point to textures, at least that is how I did it for 2.49b.

Works for me.

I don't think OpenMW supports textures embedded in NIF (yet?).

Some of the vanilla nifs like in_c_door_wood_square.nif uses Tx_common_door.tga (and several others) in NiSourceTexture. I just assumed that texture was embedded, being I couldn't find the tga anywhere.

I extracted all the data from the bsa files. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place.

[psi29a]

I could be wrong, but I remember reading something along that line somewhere. Maybe someone can verify this? Scrawl? Zini?

[sjek]

https://bugs.openmw.org/issues/2295

nipixeldata is supported. if the method is same as in 2.49 it's set inside blender baking the uv textures with absolute filepath.

[Frik]

Looking at some other vanilla models in nifskope, It appears that all the texture file extensions in those .nif files were .tga. Can I assume the game engine falls back or simply loads up a .dds whenever it encounters the .tga extension?

[psi29a]

I can't really answer that, I don't know. Thanks sjek for the link, so there is a way to get texture data into a nif. I would rather just link (path name) to a texture external of a nif since it would be easier to test and adjust.