Fallout 3 Adding Static Mesh Pieces to a Weapon tutorial

Kudos to my mate Prosper from the Bethsoft forums for creating this very helpful tutorial. :)

Requirements:

Nifskope-1.0.18.4332
- Download Place: nifscope
- Main Website: http://niftools.sourceforge.net/forum/v ... f=4&t=2037
Addon Piece
- Download Place: http://www.sendspace.com/file/02f2ml
- File size: 79kb
- Contains: Scope.obj, Readme.txt
- Author: Prosper
Addon Piece's Textures
- Download Place: http://www.sendspace.com/file/1800lq
- File size: 1,757kb
- Contains: Scope.dds, Scope_n.dds, Readme.txt
- Author: Prosper

Recommended
Experience with Nifskope, and the Garden of Eden Creation Kit.

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The Tutorial - Adding Static Pieces

1. Open Nifskope. Load an unmodified 10MMPistol.nif and then View-> Show Blocks in List. Select NiHeader. In the Block Details window set the num of strings to 20. Right-click on Strings and choose Array-> Update. Goto the last String in the list and input Scope:0 and then View-> Show Blocks in Tree.
Select the NiTriStrips titled 10MMPistol:0 and Right-Click on it Block-> Copy Branch. Select BSFadeNode and Right-Click-> Block-> Paste Brance. Select your newly created branch and in the Block Details window input 19 as the value. Now find the BSShaderTextureSet and set the Textures to:
textures\weapons\1handpistol\Scope.dds
textures\weapons\1handpistol\Scope_n.dds

Select the BSFadeNode.File-> Import .Obj and Click the Ok Button. Find the Scope.obj file and then click the open button. Find the NiNode that was just added and select it's NiTriShape. Right-Click-> Mesh-> Stripify. Now select the NiTriStripsData and in the Block Details window find and set TSpace Flag to 16. Now Right-Click on NiTriStripsData and Batch-> Update All Tangent Spaces. Next Right-Click on NiTriStripsData Block-> Copy. Select the NiNode you imported and Right-Click-> Block-> Remove Branch.

Go find the NiTriStrips you named Scope:0 and select it's NiTriStripsData and then Right-Click-> Block-> Paste
Over.

Now Right-Click on the NiTriStrips named Scope:0 and Transform-> Edit. Set the Y rotation to -90. Set the Translation Y to 9.25 and the Translation X to 10.

File-> Save as. Goto the meshes\weapons\1handpistol folder. Input 10mmpistolMOD and click the Save button.

Finally make sure your .dds texture files are in textures\weapons\1handpistol folder.


Pictures!
1st person view
http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo5/ ... newgun.png

Another view
http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo5/ ... unpic2.png

Thanks to Prosper and to Exorince for posing this excellent tutorial. Kudos.