Why, hello.

I just miraculously got my first complete mesh and texture into the ck.

A large part due to Neomonkeus and especially ThrottleKitty over and NifTools forum and irc. god i love those people

anyways, I making these to go into my new arena and guild mod, but i'm shipping over everything i do to the TESA's Skyrim Resource Kit here http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/topic/5440-about-the-tesa-skyrim-resource-kit-project/

Before I do that, I need some help and advice on how they look and how to package them.

Here is my cedar log .nif file

https://www.dropbox.com/s/p0dj5oycnh7vpkc/FinalCedar00.nif

And here are the textures that do along with it.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/iunqclts6jp9nqk/FinalCedar.dds
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5ai3k9mkkx08l0q/FinalCedar_n.dds

Here is my Pillar:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nuns64wcxeu8u2c/FinalPillar.nif

And the textures:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/s3fyq0myntfx5ra/FinalPillar.dds
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1ogrknps8gvj9cl/FinalPillar_n.dds

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The Pillar isnt quite done, there's a fairly annoying seam that i can't quite get rid of, but when i load up the mesh in ck, its almost completely black. I'm assuming it's the alpha channel in the normal map. if i use just the diffuse map in nifskope, it comes out great, it still looks good in nifskope if i apply the normal, but it makes it a wee bit darker.

any tips or tricks or tutorial links to texture multiple objects on one UVW Unwrap would be super.


And if you wanna, tell me if they svck; you wouldn't dare use them for x,y,z reasons. Please no false encouragement that has me thinking im really cool. Unless of course they are really good, which they probably aren't, considering i made every mistake in the book.

I'll probably write a tutorial in pdf form about getting a static mesh and texture in the ck b/c there really aren't any that cover it well/exhaustively. I'm kinda slow on the uptake so things need to be explained in detail, maybe that's just me though
kthanks


Here's some pics too
http://imageshack.us/a/img708/1088/workingin3ds.png

And the pillar
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/9594/greekpill.jpg