The Alpha is being tested as we speak!

The name change is due to occasional mix-ups between NifScript and the Blender Nif Scripts. Because I don't want to infringe on NifTools' excellent work, I decided to rename this utility. NifSE, of course, is a portmanteau of OBSE and Niflib, the principal components of this utility. It's not really a "Nif Script Extender", so, like the SATs, I'm going to declare that it doesn't stand for anything, the name is just "NifSE" (in my head I pronounce it "nif-sea"). Cuz I'm weird like that.

Anyway, for v1.0 we have a staggering number of new functions, plus an entirely new backbone system for storing, manipulating, and saving nif files. There is no more hard-drive bloat, as the nif files are only very briefly written to disk for Oblivion to read when it needs them, and deleted again as soon as it is finished. Nifs are saved in the .obse co-save file, and recreated as needed. The old functions are both now considered deprecated (as is the undocumented function NifGetBackShield, which was never supported in the first place), but backwards compatibility has been maintained, and the old functions have been somewhat updated to use the new system and therefore no longer clutter the user's harddrive.

Download available from http://code.google.com/p/nifse/. Source code also available through SVN at the same place.







Full documentation of all of the functions in v1.0 can be found http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/Category:NifSE.

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1089336-alpha-nifse-v10/
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/922622-betawipz-nifscript/



Please post any ideas you have for the utility here!

Both should be the most up to date-versions (OBSE v0018 stable & CS 1.2.0.404). Never had any problem with other OBSE-Plugins.
I didn't compile anything, just downloaded the archive.

Yeah, now that shadeMe mentions it, I knew about this, I just forgot it with the harddrive nightmare. I'll upload the alpha 1.0 version tonight when I get home.

Ok, thanks.


Edit:
Just thought of a request which could be really useful:
Could you implement a command to combine two Meshes?
Or at least copy elements from one mesh to the other (if it's done right, adding NifAddChild should be enough).

The repository doesn't contain the VC++ project file (.vcproj) by the way.

Oh, that's important? Heh, OK, adding that.

Your project's build configurations and file list are stored in it.

Well it's there now. Still named obse_example_plugin.vcproj; not sure why, honestly.

Head's up: I'm going to be away from the computer where I've been working on NifSE for most of the next week and a half. I should have Internet access and I'll check here, but just letting you know.

I was going through OBSE's source and found that Command_Array.cpp had code related to NifSE. To be more precise, the hooks from Hooks_NifSE.cpp. Any idea why that might be ? (did you/scruggsy paste it there by mistake?)

Looks like it's for when it was still NifScript.

I can't say, that'd be Scruggsy's doing. The hooks shouldn't need to be there from my understanding, since the Hooks_NifSE.cpp should cover them, but I don't really know.

Hi DW,

How are things coming along toward an update to the alpha? Managed to sort out your machine/zlib issues yet? Trying to get my head around beta release timeframes for UVII, at least for a closed beta, but it kinda depends on sorting out the "one use" issue that NiSE has right now...

I've actually been away from home for the past several days, and am going home tonight only to head back out tomorrow morning. Therefore... nothing's happened recently. I still don't have the damn thing compiling yet...

Finally uploaded the α1.0 version that should not report incompatibility with the CS as the α1.1 does.

Bravo. Did you figure out what was casuing those linker errors ?

ill have to brave the documentation soon, pretty much with this new one I should be able to edit item meshes on the go to remove the body parts and i'll be able ot just have the single custom body mesh set up so that script can hide certain bits.

In total, this script extender cuts off a huge compatibility problem I had and saves me work, now I just have to figure out all the scripting for it (and I must say, thanks for the detailed documentation on the wiki, that stuff if priceless).

No. Like I said, I've been on the other side of the country for the past five days, and I'm leaving this afternoon for another four days. So I'll have had 10 days with less than 24 hours in front of the computer that has NifSE - and most (as in literally more than 50%) of that was spent catching up on much-needed sleep. So I haven't touched it.

Ah, forgive me - Seems I misread the version number :facepalm:

Just in case this was overlooked.



Unfortunately didn't have much luck with it.
obse(_editor).log only says

If I rename the *.dll to NifSe.dll nothing, but the file name changes.

Argh, OK, I'll fix that.

EDIT: Try it now.

@ your request: Yes, I intend to add that eventually. Not in v1.0 though, as that will be somewhat complicated.

Works, but I got an Error Message saying couldn't inject dll if I have too many OBSE-Plugins installed. This only occurs with the CS.
Maybe this happens because the NifSe.dll is too big, so my PC runs out of memory. :shrug:

Anyway, I'm able to use it (and to be honest: I don't need most of the OBSE-Plugins I deactivated), so there's no real problem.


Not able to test ingame, because my code has some errors in it. Maybe sometimes the next days.



:)


Don't hurry, this would just be sth. I'd use in another planed project, when I get bored (which won't happen in the near future I think ).

Looked into this today - I've gotten zlib linked correctly. NifLib, on the other hand, is putting up a fight.

im just going to pop in and say this.

if you ever manage to get a way to 'merge' two nifs or copy nodes from one nif to another, then it would be possible to get an effect of having more equipment. Would be another step towards fixing one of oblivion's biggest problems, limited slots.

The way i see, for example; you have a wings mod that equips in the cuirass slot (most dont but whatever) thne you could merge the wings and a cuirass together into a single mesh, with some fancy scripting you could could make it look like the 2 objects are equipped, with sthe same effects aas having both, but really having 1 item with the mesh, and the other as a dummy (takes up no slots, but those still give magic effects/armor bonus i believe). Cuirass breaks? then you'd split it again and only the original wings mesh would show again.

In my mind I have it mostly figured out, and I think it would work, would be pretty sweet too.I will keep it in mind for if you ever manage to merge nifs.


Anyway, with the current stuff, Im interested in testing the new functions, so Im sending an email off to you.

Weird. Maybe ask Scruggs about it?


Don't worry about it! Just let me know how it goes!


Odd. Niflib gave me no trouble. What'd you do to get zlib linked?


Yes, I realized this.