Welcome to the sixth newsletter of Beyond Skyrim Welcome to the sixth newsletter for the Beyond Skyrim Community. And that means Happy Birthday Beyond Skyrim Newsletter! Looking back at one year of this format and your feedback, we feel it was amazing and we are grateful for all the positive replies we got. Usually, [...]
Texture Workflow General Introduction The Diffuse Map, the base colour map that is using slot 1 in the texture set, has some specific needs in Skyrim. It usually needs to be significantly less bright, especially when dealing with metallic objects. The Normal Map, which has the height information and [...]
Common Shaders General Structure of a Mesh Make sure, that you visualise it as tree diagramme. Note that there is a hierarchical order, similar to shoulder -> arm -> hand -> finger. In theory, your mesh could be sorted differently, but most meshes look like this. If you see slight variations, [...]
Outfit Studio as supplemental tool for Rigging Please make sure you have read about rigging process and mesh export to Nif formate Using Outfit Studio for a rigging and implementing an armour: 1) Requirements: Bethesda Archive Extractor (only once), to extract vanilla body meshes: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/78/ Outfit Studio, to import and export meshes [...]
Rigging with 3ds Max Please make sure you have understood the basics of how to export in 3ds Max to nif formate If you are only interested in the export, jump to parragraph 10 below. (BlackKnight:) Hello everyone, I want to make this tutorial fast and easy to understand as possible. This [...]
Texturing with Substance Painter Content by Hayden Price This is going to be a cross-post for the Allegorithmic blog post. This assumes you know the basics of high/low poly modelling and baking, as well as UV-unwrapping your models. Substance Painter Stage 1 - Preparing Your Project I generally start off my projects [...]
Compiling Scripts in Notepad++ content by OpusGlass Writing Papyrus scripts in a dedicated code editor can be much easier than writing it in the CK for a variety of reasons. Here's how you can set up a Papyrus environment in Notepad++. This assumes you've already extracted your Scripts.rar archive. (Otherwise, you can't compile even [...]
Rigging with Blender 2.7+ Please make sure you have read Hayden's article "Exporting From Blender 2.7+ to Skyrim" (OpusGlass): This is a collection of all the info I've learned about using Blender 2.7 for rigging and exporting rigged meshes. It probably includes a lot of info applicable to working with rigged meshes in [...]
Writing: Narrative Exposition Hello, Skyrim fans and BS members, welcome to this little tutorial on writing. 1) General Considerations Writing is a vast field. It includes the most potentially creative opportunities to shape a new concept of a game. But it is also the most critical step because it can provoke structural difficulties, which [...]
ESP Management Cleaning with TS5Edit and Merging with Mators Merge Plugins Hello, BS Teams and Skyrim fans, there are a few merging procedures, Version Control and Merge Plugins are the most common ones. I find it straightforward and intuitive, and I think simplicity amplifies performance in a hobby community, so when I [...]
