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Title: Skin Partitions
Post by: BentonGrey on February 06, 2010, 05:28:59 PM
Howdy guys, I'm trying to fix the ghosting issue with a few meshes, and I found a post by Tommyboy that mentioned how new versions of Nifskope can make skin partitions automatically, thus fixing the problem without having to go to a lot of trouble.  However, when I tried, I obviously didn't know what I was doing, as those meshes now crash the game.  Can anyone help me figure this out?
Title: Re: Skin Partitions
Post by: yell0w_lantern on February 07, 2010, 03:27:50 AM
Yeah, don't fool around with Tommyboy's method. Get a copy of python Win and I can send you a script Tazpn made to re-do the partitions.
Title: Re: Skin Partitions
Post by: BentonGrey on February 07, 2010, 05:50:49 AM
Okay YL, send it my way, and I'll give it a try.
Title: Re: Skin Partitions
Post by: BentonGrey on February 09, 2010, 11:02:17 PM
Ba-bump.
Title: Re: Skin Partitions
Post by: BentonGrey on February 15, 2010, 11:31:50 PM
Hey, can anyone point me to where I can find this scripted way to fix the ghosting issue?
Title: Re: Skin Partitions
Post by: Previsionary on February 15, 2010, 11:41:12 PM
Comprehensive list of tutorials: repeating mesh fix (http://freedomreborn.net/forums/index.php?topic=50675.0)
Title: Re: Skin Partitions
Post by: BentonGrey on February 16, 2010, 01:40:06 AM
Thanks Prev.  I had looked at that list, but I missed that entry!
Title: Re: Skin Partitions
Post by: BentonGrey on February 16, 2010, 03:40:16 AM
Hmm....I can't get this to work.  I open Python, but it will only open in, like a DOS window.  Then I open the skin partition file, but it opens and closes in the blink of an eye.  I have Python 2.6  Do I need to use 2.5 instead?
Title: Re: Skin Partitions
Post by: Previsionary on February 16, 2010, 03:41:30 AM
You need a program like "Pythonwin" to run the program. You need to be able to open IDLE. I see what my next tutorial on the blog will be. :P
Title: Re: Skin Partitions
Post by: BentonGrey on February 16, 2010, 03:48:53 AM
Hehe.......sorry. :P  Thanks Prev.  So I just need to track down Pythonwin?
Title: Re: Skin Partitions
Post by: Previsionary on February 16, 2010, 04:03:35 AM
Yeah. I already took the tutorial pics as well, so that's a positive that resulted from this question being asked so many times. :P.

Anyway, python win (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/), which was linked to in the repeating mesh fix thread  ;). Once you have it, just right click the "ffvt3rskinpartion.py" and click "edit with pythonwin."
Title: Re: Skin Partitions
Post by: BentonGrey on February 16, 2010, 04:04:29 AM
Thanks Prev., that's a big help!