Nifty - Automagic Dismember Tool

Nifty V1. 0 ---------- By Colourless Nifty is a program to automagically update Fallout 3 models to fix up skinning problems after a model has been modified. In particular it updates vertex weights and model paritioning so they match an existing model. For Fallout 3 model partitioing is extremely important. If the paritioning is incorrect, which it will be if you use Nifskope and probably all other Nif tool to generate them, then VATS and Dismemberment will not work properly. Nifty is specifically designed to allow updating existing models and still have them work in game properly. That said, it could be used to automagically skin an entirely new model, IF the model doesn\'t vary too greatly from the models shipped with the game. License ------- Nifty is provided as is with no expressed or implied warrenties. Nifty uses the Niflib NIF File Format Library. Nifty can be used and distributed provided you do not violate the Niflib licence. The Niflib licence is in niflib_licence.txt Usage ----- nifty list - List shapes nifty reskin - Automagically fully reskin a shape. If a required weight or partition is not specifically found for a vert or tri, nifty will attempt to calculate reasonable values for them. (For now it just grabs the nearest) nifty fixparts - Automagically fix up the paritition of a shape to get dismemberment working on a shape that has already been properly skinned Technical Details ----------------- When automagically regenerating the skinning, for each vertex in the model being fixed, Nifty uses the nearest vertex in an existing model to get the bones and weights needed. When calculating partitions, for each triangle in the model being fixed, Nifty get the parition information from triangle that has nearest centre to one being allocated. Nifty masks the parition types to match the shape currently being worked on. Partition Number Reference -------------------------- As a reference these are the partition numbers used by Fallout 3 used on a biped and what they mean. Haven\'t examined non bipeds to see if there are differences. 0: Body Dismemberables Parts of Limbs: 1: Head (you wont need this for people, the head is a separate model) 3: Left Arm 5: Right Arm 7: Left Leg 10: Right Leg Meat left on limb after dismemberment: 101: Head 103: Left Arm 105: Right Arm 107: Left Leg 110: Right Leg Meat left on body after dismemberment: 201: Head 203: Left Arm 205: Right Arm 207: Left Leg 210: Right Leg Non Dismemberable Parts of Limbs (you need this for things to look good in VATS): 1000: Head (you wont need this for people, the head is a separate model) 3000: Left Arm 5000: Right Arm 7000: Left Leg 10000: Right Leg I have no real idea what the unknown short in the paritions is. It looks it is some flags. Bit 1 is never set