bethesda creation kit animation tutorial

#Bethesda creation kit animation tutorial how to#

You can then collapse this modifier on all objects.Īgain, if you've imported a vanilla nif then you'll need to remove all Havok data from it before proceeding, you can do this with the 'Remove Havok Data' button on the Havok toolbar or from the text menu (Havok Contents Tools > Remove Havok Data.) You can also show the Havok toolbar from here, if it's hidden ('Show Toolbars' option.) You'll need to add a vertex paint modifier to all your objects, select white as your colour (on the vertex paint toolbar) and paint them all using the 'Paint All' button. If you've imported a vanilla nif using the niftools unofficial plugin, it will have painted all your vertices black, if you export a nif like this it'll show up black like it's been scorched in the Glowing Sea.

If you want your door to fit vanilla doorframes, it needs to be 96 units wide and 168 units tall, breadth seems to matter less, vanilla doors can vary from 4 to 8 units front-to-back. Your keyframed animation should all be on one timeline, the only special step you need to take is leaving one frame between the end of your “open” animation and the start of your “close” animation as when you're telling the Beth plugin where in the timeline your animations are, you cannot use one keyframe in more than one of your animation stages.īasic Nif Settings

#Bethesda creation kit animation tutorial how to#

This tutorial won't show you how to create the model for your door and add keyframes to it, we're assuming you've done that already. 8 Setting Animation Sequences and Morph Tags.4 Advanced Method (Custom Collision Objects).