Skinning Problems: Skin showing up in Character Tools 2 but not in game

[Razahl]

Ich, this certainly wasn't my idea of a first post but given my recent road block I suppose I have no choice. I've been playing Freedom Force on and off for the past year or so and recently decided to start modding it myself.

As a means of familiarizing myself with the tools and process I decided to just take one of the built in custom characters (NoCapeMan was my subject) and make some quick and minor changes to their mesh, then I would import the modified mesh into FFvtTR. As I went on I hit a few snags, but managed to sort them out and learn more about the programs I was using. Unfortunately I have no idea how to solve this new problem and Google has failed to find me a solution.

After modifying the mesh in Blender and using NifSkope to copy the new mesh into the default NoCapeMan character.nif I have loaded the subject into Character Tool 2. Upon first clicking on them they have no skin and default to a purple color, but when I click on one of their skin options it appears and they look exactly like what they are suppose to. I decided to see how serious this problem was by loading the character in-game, when I did the mesh appeared properly but the skin was a mix of black and white.

If I had to guess i would say the problem was caused by Blender, but would be solved with NifSkope. I have yet to find a solution online, but perhaps the people of this site are familiar with the problem. If you need any additional information or screenshots, just ask.

[Randomdays]

Check with nifskope to see if you're still set to look at the default skin name/type and location. The only problem I've ever had with Blender is the default setting of "force .dds" overriding the actual .tga texture.

[Razahl]

Thanks Random, I reset the paths to the skin location and it worked fine. Why do I always miss the obvious solutions?

Well, back to experimentation.

[Bloodshadow]

Welcome to the community Razahl,glad ya got your problem fixed.