if i bought a hand scanner and a standing model of it would tha twork to makea 3d version cus they sell statues of it online at palladiumbooks

You're remarkably dedicated to putting no effort whatsoever into this, aren't you?
Making meshes is an art. It requires skills. You will have to learn these skills, and create the mesh yourself.

actually im just asking questions cus i have no artistic skills what so ever

Then let's tackle your scanner question...I've no idea whether it would work or not, since that depends on the data output format of the scanner- but the cheapest 3D scanner I found with about 5 minutes of Google work was one bragging about having "cheap" 3D scanners starting at $18,800 US. Or then there's the ZScanner 800 handheld, for $49,900 US.

Could just be me, but I think you could hire an existing modding team to do it for less.

Or use a 2D scanner...which would produce a 2D image and leave you at the same "How to make 2D image into 3D model" stage you're at now.

yea i saw that as well

So basically, unless you have fifty thousand dollars to burn on making a 3d model and something physical to actually scan in, you're better off just learning how to sculpt in blender yourself then convert it to a nif with nifskope.

:chaos:

http://www.david-laserscanner.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Laserscanner

http://www.david-laserscanner.com/wiki/user_manual/getting_started

(I would not recommend a 3d scanner for low poly game meshes though)

True on the parenthetical comment- but aye, those prices are a lot better than what I managed to turn up.

:foodndrink:

Wasn't really fair though... I found this years ago. :whisper:

ok found a 3d mesh someone already made and downloaded it from them to work with now how do i install the zip into blender to work with it

Let's back up a few steps. Like I said above, start with a Blender tutorial first, so you know how to use the program. THEN worry about importing stuff.

I am going to move this to.. GECK? Mods? I'll try it in mods I guess.

Just having the GECK is not the hardest part, it helps but to get anything like an armor ingame its going to take months of people like MySelf and the rest of the People over at NifTools to decode all of the file format changes from FO3 to FONV there is also the fact quite a few of us who decoded multiple parts of the FO3.nif format are no longer around or just not planning to Buy FONV because of the Steam Requirement garbage leaving the task of updating the our knowledge or FONV .nifs and .kfs to new people who have to spend forever and 2 years just to catch up to where we are at now.

Its unrealistic to believe everything FO3 will just plug into FONV -> the mods that always come out first are gameplay changes, scripting, re-textures, Very basic Model Alterations for existing stuff (NifSKope Copy/Paste), then there are people like myself who Hex Edit Update who can update FO3 assets to FONV and far far into the future we get people like Amorilia and Tazpn who update the Exporters for all the rest of you people to use.

If you wanted to make a plan for when you can expenct to even be able to alter Textures that alone will take at least 1 month if Alphax works almost non-stop updating NifSkope for FONV (I would not hold my breath) it took something like 3-4 more months just to get NifSkope stable with opening FO3.nifs and all of the updated blocks and it still took another few months to even have a working exportable BSDismemberSkinPartition (something I personally helped decode, and will most likely not be doing for FONV) another stumbling block to making armors :/

Also I fully expect Max users to be left out of the FONV party as Tazpn has not been around for quite some time so the Max party will most likely not move over to do any serious work until a new Max Exporter Coder steps up, the Blenderites should be ok though as Amorilia and Aplhax are still around.

NV will more then likely have all the same capabilities as Fallout 3, as the engine was only slightly changed to add in the new features, so if anything all modders have to worry about is easier ways of making their mods. XD


Since you are new to modeling, I STRONGLY suggest not trying to start with armor. A simple sword is good for starters, and progressivly working on more difficult things. Blender can do a lot, but jumping in is a sure-fire way to get frustrated, lost, and quickly hating what you are trying to do.

This all reminds me of the part of The Sopranos series when Chris decided to write a screenplay for a movie about vampire wise guys, so he bought a computer and writing software and then sat back to watch the computer do its thing.

If it were only so easy.

I am sorry, but there is no way to quickly and easily create working assets in a computer game with the expertise of the people here who have done that sort of thing for months and years. Sadly, it will require that you put in a great deal of time to master the tools, just like they did.

God, I miss Short Attention Span Theatre.

actually im trying to learn blender as i go to make mods even if icna only get the basics down of the mods nad post them on nexus for others to tweak into something good it will be worth it issue im having at moment tho is for some reason blender 2.49 and yes i have the right version of python for it every time i try loading my backround image to build my model off of like it says in the tutorials it changes the image to the blank 3d map instead of loading it as a backround

When I Model From Reference -> instead of setting the backround as the Reference I use a Plane that way I have complete control over its diminsions and angles in Max you can also run the image through multiple different Materials that can filter out unwanted sections crop paste and blend multiple images together, the best method is two planes bisecting each other one of top view one of side if you can find both that way you can almost get a 3D view of the object.

This method was used by Michelangelo when carving figures from blocks of marble. I'd call that a good endorsemant.

does blender have an interactive walk thru tutorial like as i do each step it says ok now do this etc

Try http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro, it might help. TBH, you have set me on the path towards wanting to learn blender as well...

ok need blender help i saw when loading blender the dos box that opend said no version of python found so i uninstalled python 2.5.6 i have blender 2.49 and im ready to re install python question just install as normal program or is therea specific location i need to install it to for it to work with blender i really need an answer on thsi as any and all learning is on hold cus of this

I use Blender 2.49b, and that works fine with Python 2.6.2

Do you have a version compiled for the previous python version?

http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/

***Are you running Blender on MAC OSX ?


Otherwise just install Python 2.6.5

my question was where do i install python to to work with the blender program i had it installed but blender didnt recognize it so i had to uninstall it my question is do i have to install python to a certain location for blender or not

Install python with the installer, and it should be something Blender can find.

***Possibly, you might want to try installing Python to the root of the C: drive. ( C:\Python26 )

I just upgraded to Python 2.6.5, and Blender seems to work fine.

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