I knew it wouldn't take me long to want to start interfering with the 3D modelling too. I think this is the point where gaming ceases to be relaxing.
Apart from having totally forgotten how I managed to get the NIF into the correct format for DKS (there was at least one point where it required hex editing) and also having to rewrite the Blender export script (quite a feat as I don't "do" Python... fortunately it was mostly a cut-and-paste job, which is probably why I needed the hex editor) I can't even get Blender to export any sort of NIF at present.
I suspect I may be better off finally doing the job properly, understanding the NIF file format and writing to it directly. That way I wouldn't require all this horrid little scriptlets, work-arounds and kludges to hammer them into a shape that DKS fortunately doesn't complain about.
Edit: I've also spent the past two hours trying to build NifSkope on both FreeBSD and Linux and think it's time I quit. I can probably run it under Wine if I must do my work on Unix, which I mainly want to do as there's half of bugger all chance of me discovering the various bugs and glitches that're making life so painful with Windows 10. But so far this isn't any less painful.
For that matter I'm also wondering if the DV2 format is described anywhere. I have the executables for the packer and unpacker but would rather not be totally reliant on exe-only stuff.
