Thank You Mom..I mean Professor Mom*.. a concise and pleasant introduction for noob's like me to consider venturing forth into this great subject ...I have some artistic talent and love gaming..sculpting is another fav of mine.. to be able to learn the skills needed to create character-outfit manipulations such as what is high- lighted by your awesome instructions is a blessing..I explored Bender a bit and found it challenging to say the least..keep up the great work...We all appreciate the effort and professionalism you have gifted us with..Thanks again*
Thank you so much for this amazing comment! It is the gratitude of people like you who keep me going on this series. I am so glad that these videos are helpful, and your excitement and success becomes my own! I know it sounds crazy to say, but I’m proud of everyone who is taking the leap to try learning how to do this. And I’m thrilled to be part of your journey. Happy Outfitting!!! 😁
(Re: 3:07) In case it helps anyone: One thing I did in my workflow when using Outfit Studio in Fallout 4, for mesh navigation. I was doing a lot of mashups, so navigating into all the various folders was time consuming. So I made a folder I called "Outfit Dashboard". Inside of that, I put shortcuts to the multitudes of mesh subfolders that I frequented. Then workflow was: Open dashboard Right click on each folder I'd be working in, and "Open in New Window" Now, I had my three or four windows all very easily accessible for dragging and dropping the various nif files into Outfit Studio.
If the reference to spacing in brush settings is anything like spacing in Photoshop or Krita brushes, spacing determines how much of an effect you get as you stroke the brush across a surface. A high brush space setting will give you more space between the effects of the brush, a low brush space setting will increase the effect of the brush as you stroke. The higher the spacing, the more you need to go over the area to notice a difference. The lower the brush space, the more dramatic the effect. I just found your videos and am planning to dive into converting several individual armor pieces for a mash-up outfit. I'm truly grateful you've shared these tutorials. This knowledge is priceless for the modding community. It is my belief that more outfit conversions would be available for vastly more body options if others sought out your videos. I'd post links to them in outfit conversion forums of I had permission. So informative. You deserve more subs. ✨
First of all, thank you for the added info! I really love it when viewers share their own knowledge so we can all learn from each other. 👩🎓 And second, thank you for the kind feedback! I really hope these videos will help you achieve what you would like to do. I am always grateful to hear that my series is adding value to the modding community for a game that I love so much. 😍
Ok it’s official, I’m hooked!! I was hitting a lot of buttons not really knowing what they were supposed to do or how to use them properly. Trial and error and a lucky hit at best. I love how you’ve taken the time to not only explain what something does but show what it does as well. Many thanks from a very happy Little Old Lady! Looking forward to the next tutorial.❣
Thanks so much for this wonderful comment! I had to LOL when I read this...because I know well the feeling of mashing buttons and hoping to get lucky. I'm really glad that the style of the videos so far has been effective; I will keep trying to make them easy to follow...although it gets somewhat hairier pretty quickly with this stuff. Hopefully I can get my scripts right so they land well for new users. I do apologize in advance that I can't get these out quicker; but I hope you will find the future videos helpful even if it takes me awhile! :)
@@ciraeyna-mom Totally understand, the amount of time and effort you’ve put into these videos is worth waiting for. Before I’d watched your video, the first time I saw the red and green dots I thought whoa! What the heck, I am not touching that! Ever tried getting rid of a narrow strap with nothing but the deflate button and a teeny brush…..frustrating much!! Thanks to you I’m off to experiment ……bring on the dots lol! 😄👍
@Little Old Lady Gamer - kudos for jumping in and experimenting! That's how I learned, though I sure wish I'd had someone to ask a bunch of dumb questions when I was starting off (NOT to imply that your comment/question is dumb...there really are no dumb questions since we all start at zero at some point). A lot of this stuff is not very intuitive. I'm not planning to cover deleting vertices for awhile, but I'll give you a quick overview if it helps. The *act* of deleting vertices is pretty easy; the *implications* of doing so is more complex. To delete them, just make sure the part you want to delete is all green (selected) and the rest of the mesh is red (masked). Then go to Shape --> Delete Vertices. POOF! They'll be gone. But...some things to bear in mind: 1) depending on how the mesh was made, especially if there is not a clean "de-link" between the parts, you may end up with a hole in the mesh. You can do some magic to work around this that involves tweaking the texture file too...but that's a lot to explain in writing. :p 2) you must be sure you delete *exactly* the same vertices in the size 0 file and the size 1 file, and this can be harder than it sounds. You can save the mask from one size and apply it to the other size as long as the mesh has exactly the same name (and as long as you don't close out the project in-between); or you can just use your new size 0 mesh and create the size 1 mesh from it to be 100% certain. I will be covering all of that in more detail in future videos...so apologies if it doesn't make a lot of sense for now! But give it a whirl and see what happens! You can't really break anything unless you accidentally overwrite the original mesh...so I'd definitely keep at least one backup copy somewhere. Happy OS'ing! :)
@@ciraeyna-mom Thank you so much for this! I’ve been experimenting and instead of feeling confused and frustrated I’m actually enjoying it now. I’m not saving anything at the moment, just having fun. 👍
👍 Really nice job on this. Knew a lot of this stuff, but watched anyway because I believe there's always a chance to learn something new. Behold: A and D to increase /decrease selections, with smart selection on top of it!? Blew my mind. I could have used that SO MANY TIMES. Thanks again.
This is so true! It's amazing how many little useful nuggets of info you can find by being persistent and/or patient. :) Really glad that you learned something new here!
I stumbled upon some of your videos today in the course of trying to figure a couple things out and I'm very glad I did! I'm fairly new to modding (and very new to 3D modeling) and have been playing around in OS for a couple weeks now, but this video alone has taught me a whole lot that I hadn't figured out yet and a few things I didn't even know I needed to know. The amount of thought and effort that you put into these tutorials is very apparent and greatly appreciated!
Vert's are link or not link by the creator, for example some creators make tops and pants as ceperate items, some don't, they make belts stand alone or sometimes as part of the clothing
Hello and welcome! You can see my video about Vertex Colors here: ruclips.net/video/Kau3WHVOnQw/видео.htmlsi=tDK_CZwvDcKl87ni But that might not help you, depending on what you mean by "it's just darkness." You might have the wrong texture paths, bad normals, or other possible issues affecting the texture of your outfit. If you can describe the problem more, I can try to offer other suggestions!
@@ciraeyna-mom I did watch that one but what I mean is when try to color it for example white or any other color. It just darkenss in the app (hadn't got to try it in game)
Hmmm, I am sorry but I don't have an obvious answer - other than to be sure you have followed each step in the Vertex Colors video. And make sure you don't accidentally have your mesh 'masked' because that makes it all look dark as well. Or, you can check the normals and fix those in NifSkope - that might be the issue. See my NifSkope videos for that. :) If none of that helps, then I suggest you join the Ousnius Modding Discord and ask for more help there! discord.gg/2qg2Rzw
Thank You Mom..I mean Professor Mom*.. a concise and pleasant introduction for noob's like me to consider venturing forth into this great subject ...I have some artistic talent and love gaming..sculpting is another fav of mine.. to be able to learn the skills needed to create character-outfit manipulations such as what is high- lighted by your awesome instructions is a blessing..I explored Bender a bit and found it challenging to say the least..keep up the great work...We all appreciate the effort and professionalism you have gifted us with..Thanks again*
Thank you so much for this amazing comment! It is the gratitude of people like you who keep me going on this series. I am so glad that these videos are helpful, and your excitement and success becomes my own! I know it sounds crazy to say, but I’m proud of everyone who is taking the leap to try learning how to do this. And I’m thrilled to be part of your journey. Happy Outfitting!!! 😁
(Re: 3:07) In case it helps anyone:
One thing I did in my workflow when using Outfit Studio in Fallout 4, for mesh navigation.
I was doing a lot of mashups, so navigating into all the various folders was time consuming.
So I made a folder I called "Outfit Dashboard".
Inside of that, I put shortcuts to the multitudes of mesh subfolders that I frequented.
Then workflow was:
Open dashboard
Right click on each folder I'd be working in, and "Open in New Window"
Now, I had my three or four windows all very easily accessible for dragging and dropping the various nif files into Outfit Studio.
Great idea! Thanks for sharing! I might just have to onboard this one myself. 😄
👍
*Clarification: Right click on each SHORTCUT for "Open in New Window'
If the reference to spacing in brush settings is anything like spacing in Photoshop or Krita brushes, spacing determines how much of an effect you get as you stroke the brush across a surface.
A high brush space setting will give you more space between the effects of the brush, a low brush space setting will increase the effect of the brush as you stroke.
The higher the spacing, the more you need to go over the area to notice a difference.
The lower the brush space, the more dramatic the effect.
I just found your videos and am planning to dive into converting several individual armor pieces for a mash-up outfit.
I'm truly grateful you've shared these tutorials.
This knowledge is priceless for the modding community.
It is my belief that more outfit conversions would be available for vastly more body options if others sought out your videos.
I'd post links to them in outfit conversion forums of I had permission.
So informative.
You deserve more subs.
✨
First of all, thank you for the added info! I really love it when viewers share their own knowledge so we can all learn from each other. 👩🎓 And second, thank you for the kind feedback! I really hope these videos will help you achieve what you would like to do. I am always grateful to hear that my series is adding value to the modding community for a game that I love so much. 😍
Ok it’s official, I’m hooked!! I was hitting a lot of buttons not really knowing what they were supposed to do or how to use them properly. Trial and error and a lucky hit at best. I love how you’ve taken the time to not only explain what something does but show what it does as well. Many thanks from a very happy Little Old Lady! Looking forward to the next tutorial.❣
Thanks so much for this wonderful comment! I had to LOL when I read this...because I know well the feeling of mashing buttons and hoping to get lucky. I'm really glad that the style of the videos so far has been effective; I will keep trying to make them easy to follow...although it gets somewhat hairier pretty quickly with this stuff. Hopefully I can get my scripts right so they land well for new users. I do apologize in advance that I can't get these out quicker; but I hope you will find the future videos helpful even if it takes me awhile! :)
@@ciraeyna-mom Totally understand, the amount of time and effort you’ve put into these videos is worth waiting for. Before I’d watched your video, the first time I saw the red and green dots I thought whoa! What the heck, I am not touching that! Ever tried getting rid of a narrow strap with nothing but the deflate button and a teeny brush…..frustrating much!! Thanks to you I’m off to experiment ……bring on the dots lol! 😄👍
@Little Old Lady Gamer - kudos for jumping in and experimenting! That's how I learned, though I sure wish I'd had someone to ask a bunch of dumb questions when I was starting off (NOT to imply that your comment/question is dumb...there really are no dumb questions since we all start at zero at some point). A lot of this stuff is not very intuitive. I'm not planning to cover deleting vertices for awhile, but I'll give you a quick overview if it helps. The *act* of deleting vertices is pretty easy; the *implications* of doing so is more complex. To delete them, just make sure the part you want to delete is all green (selected) and the rest of the mesh is red (masked). Then go to Shape --> Delete Vertices. POOF! They'll be gone. But...some things to bear in mind: 1) depending on how the mesh was made, especially if there is not a clean "de-link" between the parts, you may end up with a hole in the mesh. You can do some magic to work around this that involves tweaking the texture file too...but that's a lot to explain in writing. :p 2) you must be sure you delete *exactly* the same vertices in the size 0 file and the size 1 file, and this can be harder than it sounds. You can save the mask from one size and apply it to the other size as long as the mesh has exactly the same name (and as long as you don't close out the project in-between); or you can just use your new size 0 mesh and create the size 1 mesh from it to be 100% certain. I will be covering all of that in more detail in future videos...so apologies if it doesn't make a lot of sense for now! But give it a whirl and see what happens! You can't really break anything unless you accidentally overwrite the original mesh...so I'd definitely keep at least one backup copy somewhere. Happy OS'ing! :)
@@ciraeyna-mom Thank you so much for this! I’ve been experimenting and instead of feeling confused and frustrated I’m actually enjoying it now. I’m not saving anything at the moment, just having fun. 👍
Wonderful!!! This makes me so happy to hear!
👍 Really nice job on this. Knew a lot of this stuff, but watched anyway because I believe there's always a chance to learn something new.
Behold: A and D to increase /decrease selections, with smart selection on top of it!?
Blew my mind. I could have used that SO MANY TIMES.
Thanks again.
This is so true! It's amazing how many little useful nuggets of info you can find by being persistent and/or patient. :) Really glad that you learned something new here!
This is super helpful, thank you so much!
Thanks Laura! I’m so glad it has been helpful! 😁
wow thank you so much for making these videos omg I can't STAND that all the guides out there don't include information for beginners.
ohh, I know - I felt the same way when I was starting off! It's so hard to find the basics, and I'm really glad this was helpful for you! 😊
Just found you, awesome series thank you! Subscribed!!
Thank you, and welcome to my crazy corner of the world! I hope these tutorials will be helpful for you! 😊
I stumbled upon some of your videos today in the course of trying to figure a couple things out and I'm very glad I did! I'm fairly new to modding (and very new to 3D modeling) and have been playing around in OS for a couple weeks now, but this video alone has taught me a whole lot that I hadn't figured out yet and a few things I didn't even know I needed to know. The amount of thought and effort that you put into these tutorials is very apparent and greatly appreciated!
Welcome to the series! I'm super glad you found it, and even more glad that it has been helpful for you already! 😍
Thank you for this tutorial! I learned a lot!
You're very welcome! 😄
man the frustration I have experienced trying to figure this out over the years have all been made clear. How the heck did you learn all this?
Lots of trial and error and failing - and reading/watching everything I could get my hands on! 🤣
FYI for Vortex users playing FO4. Your files will be in FO4>Data>Meshes>(mod or item name)
Vert's are link or not link by the creator, for example some creators make tops and pants as ceperate items, some don't, they make belts stand alone or sometimes as part of the clothing
Thank you
You're welcome! Glad you are enjoying the videos! 😄
Hello
I know you said you don't talk about the colors part. But please do tell how I can change the color. It just darkness what try to color
Hello and welcome! You can see my video about Vertex Colors here: ruclips.net/video/Kau3WHVOnQw/видео.htmlsi=tDK_CZwvDcKl87ni But that might not help you, depending on what you mean by "it's just darkness." You might have the wrong texture paths, bad normals, or other possible issues affecting the texture of your outfit. If you can describe the problem more, I can try to offer other suggestions!
@@ciraeyna-mom I did watch that one but what I mean is when try to color it for example white or any other color. It just darkenss in the app (hadn't got to try it in game)
Hmmm, I am sorry but I don't have an obvious answer - other than to be sure you have followed each step in the Vertex Colors video. And make sure you don't accidentally have your mesh 'masked' because that makes it all look dark as well. Or, you can check the normals and fix those in NifSkope - that might be the issue. See my NifSkope videos for that. :) If none of that helps, then I suggest you join the Ousnius Modding Discord and ask for more help there! discord.gg/2qg2Rzw