CreatureHumans

How to create creaturehuman meshes using gmax
Steps for creating creaturehuman meshes with gmax
Requires:

• gmax (plus nif plugin)
• stuff to fuse

Settings to import with:
(flags to check)

• Import: collision
• Animation: Import Animation
• Animation: Add Key Notes
• Animation: Add Time Tags
• Skeleton: Import Skeleton
• Geometry: Vertex Colors
• Geometry: Skin Modifier
• Miscellaneous: Vertex Colors
• Miscellaneous: Render Textures in View

Steps:

• 1. Import a human tail(make sure directory for skeleton is currect preferably latest)
  Example for player skeleton directory(recommended to use):
  C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion\Data\meshes\characters\_male\skeleton.nif
  or
  C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion\Data\meshes\characters\_male\skeletonbeast.nif
  (depends on tail)
• 2. Import creature mesh(also make sure is currect/lastest skeleton)
• 3. export settings

Settings to export with:
(flags to check-or at least the the ones I checked)

• Export: hidden nodes
• Export: collision
• Mesh: Generate Strips
• Mesh: Extra Nodes on Mesh
• Mesh: Vertex Colors
• Mesh: Update Tangent Space
• Mesh: Collapse Transforms
• Mesh: Zero Transforms
• Animation: Nif with Animation
• Skin Modifier: Export Skin Modifier
• Miscellaneous: Add User Prop Buffer
• Miscellaneous: Sort Nodes
• Miscellaneous: Add Accum Nodes

P.S. You can also make hybrids like a (demonhuman-gargolyle-daedroth-clannfear) creaturehuman

Note: this method doesn't seem to add the required nodes for the creaturehuman mesh (and as a tail mesh doesn't display correctly) so it may still be better to try to fuse the skeletons together with 3ds max or better yet both (in the past I have successfully fused a gargolye skeleton with a playerbeast one-that enables support of using gargolyle mesh as armor)