I was hoping someone could give me some advice on how to edit UV maps in NifSkope. What I am trying to do is edit the undersides of the Emperor Mushrooms so that they use a single texture rather than repeat and stretch the tx_emperor_parasol_02 texture. Is this a matter of simply dragging some of the vertices around?

Remaking the UV in a graphical redactor would be much, MUCH faster and easier.

Do you mean editing it in Blender?

Blender, 3ds Max, Maya, whatever you're most comfortable with.

None of those, haha. I know how to hold a pen and work with layers, but rarely do any mesh editing. Still, learning how to change the uv map might well prove useful for other projects, too.

Well, I use Blender myself, and editing the UV of something relatively flat, like the mushroom tree underside, is not really a hard task. And Nifskope is pretty much required for the finishing touches anyway.

OK, thanks. Going to experiment a bit.

Left click on the underside of the mushroom (what you want to edit)

Right-Click on the associated NiTrishape, Select Texture, then select UV Map. Have fun.

Thank you for your comment seneca37. I am afraid it's not quite as simple as that. Well, not as far as I can tell. changing the vertices won't prevent the texture from repeating (when I tried all I managed to do was distort the texture further). Currently trying Blender.

I've done this for the mushrooms before in Blender. Best to set the viewport in blender to view from top- then Choose the project from view option when choosing UV layout. The final step is to flip the vertices so that it actually shows up. That all might sound complicated- but it's really not. The results are well worth it. There are probably tutorials that can guide you through. I'm going to see if I can dig up an old image of the results.

Since I couldn't post links with my new account. Oh well, I'm shocked imageshack still has my pictures after all this time. I presume this is similar to what you're trying to do? This is setting uv in Blender as Project from view as I described above.


https://imageshack.com/i/mrmorrowind20120330170738p


https://imageshack.com/i/0qmorrowind20120328161103p

Thank you! Yes, this is exactly what I am trying to do. The results look good, too!

Might you *cough* still have those meshes and could I please use them? If not, I understand - I just find the Blender interface very confusing!

EDIT - Hmmm.... I seem to be making progress. Perhaps it's not as difficult as I thought. Thanks again; will post pics in this thread if I succeed.