T pose

[Distorto]

How can I make the mesh load into a t pose in nif skope to make it easier to skin?

[Cyber Burn]

Just out of curiosity, have you tried using the Character Tool (You probably want CTool2 if you're using FFvt3R) to Skin?

[Distorto]

I do use character tool, but you cant change the background color. And it can be hard to see the skin because of certain animations

[detourne_me]

You can manually make a T pose by changing the values of the nodes, but that seems like a lot of work.  You can zoom in/rotate/pan the camera in nifskope using the mouse wheel for zoom, click and drag for rotate, and the middle wheel button to pan the camera around.