The Conformulator

The Conformulator v0. 7 Read Me Please note that if you have the setup version 0. 6 of the conformulator installed, you\'ll have to uninstall it before installing this version. What Does it Do? It basically makes creating hair or helms in Oblivion possible. Using parent tri and egm files. You can generate an egm and an optional tri file for your own mesh. So when you move the sliders in the Character Generator your mesh will distort in the same way as the parent mesh. You can now generate a hair morph which is influenced by the hair length slider. How do I use it? 1. Create your hair/helm mesh to fit the race head you are creating it for. i.e. for an imperial the mesh will fit the headhuman.nif file. The hair model must only use one mesh as the FaceGen morpher can’t work across several meshes. 2.(Optional - can now load nif files). Load your mesh into NifSkope and export the mesh as an obj file. You must use NifSkope as the structure of the obj file must exactly match the structure of the nif file. 3. Start the conformulator. 4. In the top box select the head tri file the hair is for. You must also have the corresponding egm file in the same directory. 5. In the other file select box select the obj file of your hair, saved by NifSkope or you can specify a nif file. 6. Select the quality. Nearest Point This is the worst quality. Will only use 1 data point. Nearest Line This is the medium quality setting. It will interpolate between 2 points of data. Nearest Face This is the best quality setting. It will interpolate between 3 points of data. 7. Select if you want to generate a tri file. This contains the talking and expression morphs. None Don’t generate a tri file. No UV+Model Special Oblivion compatible compacted tri file. It removes the model and UV data from the file. Not compatible with the FaceGen modeller. The same size as No UV but will compress better. No UV Creates a slightly smaller tri file. Removes the UV info from the file. Compatible with the FaceGen Modeller. Full Creates a “proper” full version of the tri file. 8. If you wish to only conformulate within a certain distance of the head mesh then tick Conform range and set the distance that you wish the conformulator to stop conformulating. NB. The higher the quality setting the more accurate this will be. 9. If you wish to generate a hair morph then tick the Create HairMorph box. The morph model for the hair morph must be called (hairmorph).obj and be an obj file. So if you are conformulating spikeyhair.nif the hair morph file would be spikeyhair(hairmorph).obj. A hair morph will only work if the hair is set-up as being hair in the constuction set. 10. Click on the Conformulate button. If all goes well an egm (and tri) file will be created with the same name as your hair’s obj file and in the same directory. 11. Copy the newly created egm (and tri) file into the same Oblivion data folder as your hair’s nif f