Brutal's General Skyrim Thread

I think one of the programs that can open a .bsa archive is called "BSA Commander" if I'm not mistaken. Just do a search for "BSA" on tesnexus.

Pre-loaded games are heavily encrypted to prevent leaks\spoilers ... its quite reasonable to believe that the BSA's are encrypted as well.

Also the BSA file format changes from one game to another. Daggerfall's BSA's were different from Morrowind's BSA's and Morrowind's BSA's were different from Oblivion's BSA's.

For Oblivion, there is a BSA unpacker built into Oblivion Mod Manager (under utilities)
For Morrowind, there is this utility by Timeslip: Download
Skyrim would likely need a new program from the community ;)

So I reserved a copy of the game at gamestop. That probably means I can't preload it, right?

Brutal, keep us updated man!!!!

Hey, thanks for the help fallingforce, but Morroblivion dosn't support 'cracks' or illegal methods of getting elder scroll games. So please remove your link.

The Elderscrolls are just too well made to be stolen. They deserve our support!

Thanks

Iceburg

Brutal: I suspected as much. Bummer. ;p

EDIT: Looking at the link I think I may have misunderstood you. If the crack just lets you play early what you've already bought, that's different than just getting the game for free. If that's the case, excuse my impertanence.

I personally dont like giving my phone number to weird surveys like that.. i dont thrust them.. did you try it?? maybe semone can convince me that giving my phone number to weird survey is not bad??

anyway, i have another concern, i have 100s of games on steam and i dont want get my account some problems. do you think this thing can attract problems? also can you activate it on steam after the game release??

BTW again morroblivion modders i admire you :D  I am a musician and i know what is commiting on a project you love and its one of the best thing in the world ;)

@brutal: I've been told that Nifscope can't open Skyrim's NIFs currently.

Please don't fill any surverys that ask for personal information ... and be careful when follwing links by people on forums ... this one in particular seems to be spam\advertising.

No daedra except for the atroanchs? Don't tell me that Bethesda just tore out the last thing that made their gaming universe 'original\unique' :(

.... oh well at least the dwemer centurions made it ...

Having trouble with the screenshots? For some reason I have a screenshot issue in Oblivion; only a few programs open them, and those that do handle them poorly. Appears to be a messed up header. Would be interested in seeing one of the "corrupt" Skyrim screenshot files so I can compare them.

Dwarven creatures in Skyrim? Has Bethesda actually put Dwemer ruins in Skyrim? Anyway, good to see that the majority of the Bloodmoon creatures made a comeback with the slaughterfish and mudcrabs...

I have also noticed that in Skyrim the trees don`t move in the wind but grass does.

And most trees are morrowind leafless trees,it seems weird with moving grass and static trees imo.

I think that it would be great if it was in the oblivion graphics engine along with morrowind,as I prefer the oblivion user interface.

I didn't notice the non-swaying trees, but I have noticed a number of 'shortcuts' such as not getting fire damage when standing on a fire, dragon skeletons not having collision, grabbing being stronger but not being able to rotate (which seems to make it worse), etc. I guess they figured other things were higher priority?

I have unpacked all of the bsa`s and there are wierd audio vioce formats like .fuz but all of the .lod files are there,am trying to get a .nif viewer and editor sorted at this time.

Do not know wether to explain how to unpack them in here or not...I like my freedom! and don`t want to upset Beth.

I was able to unpack some of the bsa's without problem using the standard bsa unpacker that comes with OBMM. I can't edit/ view nifs, but the sounds in the sounds bsa I can listen to.

Ya, the music is in a wierd format, I wonder why that is.

To unpack them all use the FOMM the one that you can use for both FO3 and Vegas.

I can confirm that there are dremora in Skyrim. In part of the Azura's Shrine quest, I had to kill several dremora churl.

About suspension of disbelief, try looking at this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt5aUdijAN8

Problems related to the management of the artificial intelligence, become more relevant as the player is given the opportunity to perform complex interactions with the environment ! This is funny, anyway.

Basically the music is a mixture of both,and the intro and credits background music is a cool nord overlaid morrowind tune.

Is no-clip "tcl"? ,as a no-clip command does not work in the console.?

About the music, I know there is at least one Morrowind track when you explore, so I thought that was pretty cool.

@Brutal

Let us know how that goes. I can't try it myself since I only have it for console, but I've heard that the landmasses are not exactly the same as they appeared in Morrrowind and Oblivion. So the question is, how close is the Morrowind and Cyrodiil landmass compared to the originals?

Any idea what I put into the console for noclip Brutal.?Is it the same as tcl.

You can load the skyrim .nif files into nifscope with this:

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/latest.php?page=3

Second file down.

ya, its tcl like in oblivion.

Also, I found a way to convert music from .xwm to .wav here: http://www.thenexusforums.com/index.php?/topic/456412-xwm-audio-format/page__st__10

Hey Ironman, that list gets updated, so now unenchanted thalmar robes is second down. Could you give a direct link to the mod? Many thanks!

Is this the mod? http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1531

Yep! that`s it.

Cool! about the music,wav is better imo,any way to deal with the .fuz files in there though.?

I think the voice overs are .fuz files.

Thanks Ironman! I can now open most nif files, though I'm having trouble getting their textures to show up, right now anyhow. Any ideas on how to get the textures to work in nifskope?

If you go to the next page in the article, he came up with another bat file / tutorial that turns the voice files from fuz to xwm, then you can convert those to wav. :D

Step by step I'm getting set up to mod :D

WOW! Thanks Iceburg,but all of this is only good for getting skyrim into the oblivion engine.?

If we decide to go the other way we might have to convert the oblivion and morro sounds to the skyrim formats,but either way,imo the tools to do it are there now.:)

 I think that you have to make sure that the path to each texture is correct in nifscope or something like that.

No problem Ironman, I found a bat either there or somewhere else that reverses the process.

I'm having trouble with the nifskope showing skyrim models with textures. They show up without them. " make sure that the path to each texture is correct in nifscope" Ironman, that's what I was  thinking. The paths seem to be correct, and I've had that sort of problem in oblivion and fixed it, but going to render -> add folder and adding the skyrim folder does nothing. Is anyone having success here?

I have not used nifscope for a while,but I dont think you can just add a texture to a mesh,because the mesh needs to have a basic skin type first [a surface for the texture].

So is there a section to bring in a skin before the texture.?Not sure wether you have to add a basic skin or import one from somewhere.?

Hmm. I don't know. I open the files in nifskope and I can find the texture path and it all looks groovy.

The problem is that the texture itself doesn't show up on the nif model's skin. I've changed the file path, like I had to do when I moved oblivion to a games folder so that morroblivion worked, but that made no difference.

Anyone have any ideas?

Will mess with it and get back to you in a few days,there has got to be a way.

Am busy trying to get morrowind_ob.esm to be dependent on skyrim.esm so we might be able to move the whole thing over when we get a CK.It should work as they both use the TES4 format.

I have got all of the sound files converted to .wav now so that`s another thing in the bag.:)

Will the silent lipsync mod for oblivion work with skyrim.?

At this point I read that nifskope just can't do textures, lol. So that explains it.

That would be cool if the mod hopped on over.

Ya, I converted all the voice files to mp3. Now I'm trying to go back and delete the wav files to conserve some space.

Good question. I just have so many questions pertaining to skyrim. I can't wait for it to come out!

Fixed nif viewer with textures. Thank you abadman!

http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1297287-nifskope-110-rc1-out/