Local TutorialConverting Bridge Commander NIF to OBJ

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• anthsco348 Raleigh, NCPosts: 68Member

  July 11 #2

  

  Part 2: NifSkope
  
  Hello and welcome back to this multipart tutorial. This time we are going to do an overview of NifSkope inluding opening and exporting an OBJ format of the model.
  
  Here is NifSkope loaded and ready to open our model. Notice that the eye ion has a red mark through it. When you load your model you will haev to unheck that. lik on FILE on the top left, then OPEN then navigate to where you saved the ship.
  
  
  In order to open the model you have to go the where the model is and follow the directory path which usually looks like this:
  
  \fca1.0\Data\models\ships\Fca\Fca.NIF""
  
  Here is the beautiful model loaded and the eyeball unhecked whih allows you to actually see the model. NifSkope allows you to edit the model but that's not the purpose we are exploring today.
  
  
  Using your mouse you an zoom in and out, rotate the model, all kinds of neat stuff. However we are going to export an OBJ file to the same directory where we have the model. At least that's how I do it. lick on FILE, then EXPORT then OBJ. if you have not selected the entire model you will see a prompt that says "No NiNode, NiTriShape,or NiTriStrips is selected. Entire scene will be exported." Just click "YES" and a new prompt will open up asking you to name the model and where to save it. I usually save it to the same initial directory the original diretory ie FCA1.0. Easier to find later.
  
  
  
  Now that we have hopefully successfully loaded, viewed, and exported our model it's time to move on to editing and adjusting it in PoseRay. Stay tuned.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
• Starship430 São Paulo - BrasilPosts: 1,958Member

  July 19 #3

  

  Very nice!
  There´s another way too, using the old GMAX (free) and nif importer plugin.
  Import the nif file and save it as STL, 3ds or obj.
• anthsco348 Raleigh, NCPosts: 68Member

  July 19 edited July 19 #4

  

  Starship wrote: »

  Very nice!
  There´s another way too, using the old GMAX (free) and nif importer plugin.
  Import the nif file and save it as STL, 3ds or obj.

  
  I didn't know that approach. Where can I get that NIF importer plugin? Already have GMAX somewhere.
  

  Post edited by anthsco on July 19
• Starship430 São Paulo - BrasilPosts: 1,958Member

  July 21 edited July 23 #5

  

  anthsco wrote: »

  I didn't know that approach. Where can I get that NIF importer plugin? Already have GMAX somewhere.

  
  Here it goes the links. There are different versions floating around, you´ll need to figure which is better (and compatible) with your GMAX version.
  
  
  http://www.niftools.org/https://sourceforge.net/projects/niftools/ (here, you can find this same plugin for Blender too).
  https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/5622?tab=files
  https://neverwintervault.org/project/nwn1/other/tool/nif-plugin-max5-9-gmax
  
  GMAX download links (Just in case):
  https://archive.org/details/gmax-1.2-with-registration-key
  https://neverwintervault.org/project/nwn1/other/gmax12-3dsmax4-importexport-plugin-script-collection
  
  
  
  
  

  Post edited by Starship on July 23
• Starship430 São Paulo - BrasilPosts: 1,958Member

  July 21 edited July 21 #6

  

  Also, if you have Milkshape 3d, there is a nif importer for it. In fact, there is a package which contain plugins that will help you to import a lot of those old file formats (SOD, SFC1, SFC3, MOD and others). And.... You can use it as a bridge to put your files in Blender: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender-addons/issues/29404
  
  I think this resource can interest you too:
  https://www.lonebullet.com/file/models/sfc-mod-gmax-plugin/475
  https://jkhub.org/files/file/3185-gmax-3dsmax4x-plugin-pack/
  
  
  Hope that helps.
  

  Post edited by Starship on July 21