Mod articles
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Let's talk about the raft (or how I learned to do many interesting things with my nifs)
Rafts should be flat
A bit of ancient history: when I was first creating this mod, I made a nice raft mesh using Caliente's
Outfit Studio (yes, really) to combine several planks and crates. It looked good, but when I put it in the game, the following happened:
On try one, I jumped on the raft and went right through it. Apparently, objects' collision doesn't carry over into new nif (more precisely, only one does, so chose carefully;).
Well, I found a static (piece of a floor) with a simple collision object that more or less fit the raft dimensions, managed to copy it into the file using nifskope, and tried again.
On the second try, I jumped on the raft and stood on it. Great! Then I set it to sail and... the raft sailed away, leaving...