Repeating Mesh Animations Fix

[Conduit]

One of the NifTools developers, Amorilla, has created a python script that generates a working skin partition for most meshes.

To use it, you'll need to have python 2.5 installed.  You can download that here.  I've also found that pythonWin makes it easier to use, you can download that here.  Then download and run these 2 installers:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/c8nszl
http://www.sendspace.com/file/il10cs

The script has a few sections that caused syntax errors whenever I tried to run them.  If you experience problems like that, download this and place it in the python25/scripts folder.

Start pythonWin, then go to the python25/scripts folder and open up ffvt3rskinpartition.py.  Click File, then Run...  Input the file path of the nif in quotes, like this: "C:\Program Files\Irrational Games\Freedom Force vs The 3rd Reich\Custom\Art\library\characters\ExcaliburRT\character.nif"  Then click Okay.  The script should run and generate a skin partition for that nif.

I've tested this on a few meshes, and it works fine on everything except Valandar's robot meshes, where it makes a few random bones dissappear.  Hopefully that problem will be fixed at some point.

[yell0w_lantern]

Excellent. I'll be trying this out.


Okay, I've run this on a number of meshes and found disappearing geometry in: Val's Bugbear, Val's Orc and Orc Boss, Val's Eye Beast, Val's Iron Golem, and soldier_2 (which is not by Valander). Val's Big Cat Versatile, Skeksis, Crimson Dynamo, Crinos Garou, Cthulhu and Godzilla Mark 3 were all fine so I'm not sure what to make of this.
I have not tried any converted meshes in-game yet to see if the ghosting issue is resolved. Maybe later Sunday.

[Lunarman]

oh Wow!

Nice find

[Conduit]

Amorilla has fixed the "dissapearing geometry" problem.  Download and install these 2 files:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/2bzxub
http://www.sendspace.com/file/wz5ccp

Then, run it from pythonWin as I described before.

[NomadX]

Sorry to necropost, but can you reupload these? I just got  :ffvstr: and would really like to be able to use shadows without having ghosting and clipping pieces.

[DEATH]

I'll second that request, as I missed this the first time around...

DEATH

[Conduit]

Okay.  You can download them here and here.

[electro]

Thx Conduit :blink:

[HumanTon]

My Python-Fu is weak. Does anyone have any idea how to run this script via a batch file (to do mass conversions)? Or, even better, to make the script recurse subfolders?