Need help with adapting an outfit for my Servitron

[Zagzagel]

I'm trying to make an outfit for my Servitron to allow her to wear something besides the French maid's uniform the the mod comes with. I've been trying to use Outfit Studio to see if I could do something but I couldn't figure out to set it up so the Servitron could wear it. I don't know how to import the Servitron skeleton into Outfit Studio. There's CBBE body types aplenty, but I don't even know how to get the Servitron to wear anything else. Can anyone figure this out? The servitron won't wear anything else but the maid's outfit. It says that they can wear armour, but when I put it on her, it doesn't show up. I'll be the first to admit I'm way out of my element here.

[Zekiran]

Asking on the mod maker's comments section or their discord would be far more appropriate.

[Zagzagel]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

Asking on the mod maker's comments section or their discord would be far more appropriate.

Well, I'm sorry about that. I've always received good advice on this forum and I thought someone would have been in this situation before and I could benefit from their experience.

[Zekiran]

With specific mods that aren't 'all ages', your best bet will always be to check with the creator. It could be anything, including interactions with any of your other mods, so check your mods on their download sites for comments and bug reports.

[Death Approaches]

a NIF is a NIF, of course of course... try file/ new project/ reference from file/ your servitron NIF...

But I think you are misunderstanding what needs to be done, this is advanced modding, you will also likely need to use NIFSkope or CK to change some and maybe even Blender as well, since robots are, well, robotic, and without precise placement, I imagine clothes will clip when your Servitron is doing something... hmm, let's say "active".

It's not that difficult, but there are set steps you must perform in sequence, and you'll probably get good at weight painting. There are tutorials of course, but they are going to seem very long and very tedious with lots of steps if you've never made mod edits before.

And, since you're starting bare, you have to create and position each adjustment point and link what vertices/regions they control, and naming them is quite important if you want to use existing clothes as-is without having to fully convert them for her... but you might have to, anyway. The creator of said mod, or other fans of the mod, might have already done all this, there might exist presets you can just download and use... this is why they're telling you to go there. Not because they don't want to help you.

[Zagzagel]

I appreciate your help. I don't know why I didn't think of that in the first place. I guess it was because my system wasn't being very cooperative when I was installing Servitron in the first place. Once I finally got it to working correctly I supposed I was giddy with that small victory. I've never got any advice from a mod author before, so this was the first place I thought of to come to. It's the little things that always gets you...

[Death Approaches]

yep hyperfocusing always causes that forest/trees scenario. :-) you know you should get up and walk away for a minute, but it's GOT to be something simple, just one more attempt...

And if you think we're helpful, actually the <ahem> modding community is one of the nicest group of intelligent technical perverts you'll ever spend time with... always helpful, and usually entertaining.