Adventures across the 3rd dimension

Is either of you familiar with command prompts? I'm not though I have been able to use them when I've needed to, with a guide. However, I try to follow this guide and I just get error messages...



First I had the exe file in my Skyrim Tools folder but I was told that folder wasn't a valid command, program or batch file. I thought it might be because of the space in the folder name, so I moved it up one level. Now that level wasn't valid, and up one level and that one wasn't valid. And now C:/ isn't valid - and of course that's not the program.... the ck-cmd is. But I'm not sure what the heck I do wrong. The only difference I see if that in the example, it just says "Mike>" whereas my prompt says "charl>" only....



Every time I think I may be on to something I get rudely shoved back to square one.

What is CK-CMD? CD means current directory, so you use that to make whatever directory you state as the current one (you can do the same by right clicking in an explorer window and selecting open in terminal). You need to be in the correct directory with the exe to be able to run it if it's a program that does something.

CK-CMD is a program that can convert FBX-files (from blender) to NIF files, allegedly without screwing up complex collision shapes.

(I'm guessing it's Creation Kit - CoMmanD ? )

You need to open the directory that the command is in (the ck-cmd.exe) in the cmd terminal window then the third line is the bit that looks like it's running the command with the import fbx option and the location of the fbx file you are importing the -e would be some option for the command and then the next address is presumably the location where it's outputting the file after it's done whatever it does to it.

EDIT - And make sure your backslashes are backslashes and not forward slashes (if you copy and paste the address from an explorer window you will need to edit them or it wont work).

I do understand the whole running the input output line. It's the "opening the directory" that keeps failing. And yes I'm slashing things the right way

Is there a way to get to a lower line instead of typing directly after the user info thingy? Because the image looks like each command is ona new line but my prompt won't let me move the cursor anywhere...

You run each line one after the other 

Yeah, I just didn't see the difference between output lines and the following input lines in the example image...
It seems to have worked now, though I've yet to test the model first in nifskope then CK and then in-game, if it gets that far...

Edit: Yup that was totally messed up. It made the collision into the main mesh and the main mesh into collisions...  
I guess I'll have to start over tomorrow. At least I seem to finally have the right tools. And hopefully all of them.  

Edit2: actually it doesn't seem to have quite done what I said but I'm too tired to figure out what was done and what wasn't... 

There's basically just two lines in that screenshot. The first is the cd to take you into the (presumably creation kit) folder, the second is the command with the in/output. The line at the start and the one at the end that sandwich them are just the prompts... mmm sandwich 

Yeah well... When the image said "\> cd..." that's what I wrote. I should have left out the \

I'll get more practice soon, I suspect...