Morroblivion

For me, it took a day (8 hours) to figure this out, and to solve all the problems that came in my way. Here's how I solved it.

I know I may be preaching to the choir but I want everyone to know that it's not really that difficult and if you want to work with 3ds max you can.


Needed:
3dsmax (duh)
Nifskope
ChunkMerge
3dsmax Nif Exporter 3,7,3(With 3dsmax 2012 X64)
A BSA extractor



Exporter Notes (of course other settings goes for meshes with animation or other special meshes):

Checked boxes:
*Flatten Hierarchy
*Updated Tangent Space
*Collapse Transforms
*Zero Tansforms
*Sort Nodes
*Remove Extra Bones

Root Node Type: BSFadeNode


(If for some reason, as it did with me the node still comes out as "NiNode" see the last step in the Nifskope notes)

ChunkMerge Notes:

http://niftools.sourceforge.net/wiki/Skyrim/Adding_Collision...

Nifskope Notes:
(Look in the description box of these nodes to find some of the settings)

Under BSLightingShaderProperty, if you are not using vertex color on your mesh, untick those settings in the dropdown menu for the two Shaderflags.

Unless you are using Vertex shading, turn it's value to 0 under NiTriShapeData.

Under BSLightingShaderProperty set TexClampMode's value to WRAP_S_WRAP_T

Under BSLightingShaderProperty set Alpha to 1

Under BSLightingShaderProperty set both values in UV Scale to 1

You can safely delete the NiMaterial property, it might even cause problems.

A common cause for black meshes is a setting called "Num UV Sets" under the node NiTriShapeData. The value for "Num UV Sets" should be set to 4097. This will most likely also solve other issues you may be having with normal maps.

If you are still having problem with a black mesh a something you could try is to right click the NiTriShape node and go to mesh->Face Normals

If the first node in the tree is not already named BSFadeNode, rename NiNode to BSFadeNode


Animated meshes with collision:
Will try that later.

Cheers!
Please move this topic as and if needed. I'm new to these forums. Thank you!