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I tried changing the names already, to no avail. I can get the mesh to load, but it only appears in first person, and isn't where it should be, regardless of any changes I make to position, rotation, or scale. I'll try making a separate anim_base.1st.nif file and see if that does anything.

Do you have a Blend file for Moonboy? That would help tremendously.

Unfortunately the blend file is lost. But hey, I figured this stuff out all by myself, so the good news is that it isn´t unsolvable.

Roger that. Soldiering on.

With a lot of help from DestinedToDie, I managed to get it so there's a working model that doesn't depend on Bethesda's rig, using Moonboy as a basis. I imported Moonboy's NIFs into Blender and they re-export fairly well, and I was able to replace Moonboy's extant body parts with parts of my own. For some reason, the non-Moonboy body parts don't animate (which is weird because they work just fine with the vanilla rig), so that's next on the to-do list. I also need to adjust proportions a bit.

What does the command prompt say when you try to move? Maybe it doesn´t animate because nothing is rigged.

That being said, we really should forget about using Moonboy. The skeleton is too primitive, the animations were done with a blockman and I´ve no idea how horrible they look on a smooth human body.

DestinedToDie wrote:What does the command prompt say when you try to move? Maybe it doesn´t animate because nothing is rigged.

That being said, we really should forget about using Moonboy. The skeleton is too primitive, the animations were done with a blockman and I´ve no idea how horrible they look on a smooth human body.

I'm working on a solution right now. Right now I just need it to work. It can look pretty later.

It's alive! She still needs some tweaks to get the proportions right, but animations are working with custom body parts!

The bones have now been proportioned and positioned properly, and attachment points for clavicles, weapon, hair, and shield have been added. I'm also learning a lot about the logic behind certain things, like why all of the *_skins.nif files include the hands and torsos. After reverse engineering all of this, I'm bound to be one of the foremost experts in the subject.

I want to see if it'll support IK solvers, and open-close bones for the hands, but those will probably have to wait as I hope to be busy with other things for a few days. I expect that animations will have to be redone basically from scratch.

P.S. I'd like to apologize if I've been a pain in the ass to anyone during this process.

Thanks for your hardwork johndh,

looks like everything is coming together.

Keep it up!

Any news on this ?