RatB0Y68 Posted October 25 Share Posted October 25 I want to change the colours of stars, both in the StarMap menu & in space, to look more realistic. Red stars aren't actually red, they're a bright orange. Yellow stars are actually off-white. Blue stars are not cyan as depicted in game. I'm in SF1edit, I've found the Star Category, I've even found the colour tab. All the stars listed do have different colours but in game they all look a bright blue-white. What do I actually do to change the colours in both the star system menu & in game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aurreth Posted October 25 Share Posted October 25 As far as I've been able to tell that is controlled by the houdini data, which we can't edit. xEdit won't touch it, and it's locked out in the CK. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aurreth Posted October 26 Share Posted October 26 Did some more searching for you. The mesh file for stars is houdiniplanet_star.nif. The color of the main body is controlled by a material swap, HoudiniPlanet_Oceanic2.mat. So apparently stars are planets covered in water? Ok, so it's a little more complicated than that. The "planet" is wrapped in a couple of other layers, an "atmosphere" and a "glow". Those have their own material swaps. I totally suck at material swaps. I get the idea in principle, allowing one mesh to have multiple textures, but I just can't figure them out. But it looks like, if you can sort it out, you might be able to edit star colors by editing the materials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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