Glow map added to skin textures isn't working

[Nagaoka]

What I've been trying to do, but so far have been rather unsuccessful, is see if I can get glow maps to work on the skin of NPCs. Specifically, I've been working on a mod that will turn Charon into a sort of glowing one (he so wishes he never did that project purity nonsense).

 

Well since I'm a newbie at geck (but not with textures and glow maps) I've been messing around with stuff making sure I know how to add glow maps and change textures and have them show up correctly in the game, just testing stuff.

 

First I changed ghoul upper body color to blue so I could confirm that was the texture they used. That worked. I used that to create a black and white glow map consisting of white squiggles on a black background, named it the same file name but with _g after it, and went into nifskope to added it to the upper body mesh that every male npc uses (again, because it was a test), adding it to the torso and arms/legs and setting their emissive to white.

 

 

What happened was that the torso (underwear mesh) had a correct glow map, the white squiggle glowed like crazy and the rest was normal. Legs and arms however, glowed all over and only seemed to take the diffuse map and emissive setting into account.

 

 

Later with charon specifically I duplicated the ghoul race into a new race "glowghoul", assigned it to him, and created a new nif for his head (duplicated old head with new name). Tried the same thing. New texture called glowghoulhead or something. This time I added a black mustache to the diffuse to be certain it worked. It did. Tried the same thing with the glow map (added it to the nif, set emissive to white, etc.) but no go. His head glows all over, but you can see things like his cartoon mustache not glowing.

 

I'm not sure why it doesn't take the glow map like it should. Any ideas?

 

Also, what is the texture that ends with "_sk"? It doesn't seem to contain anything in particular.

 

Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

 

 

 

tl;dr glow maps aren't working for NPC skin textures, can anyone help?

[Nagaoka]

Bump.

 

 

Anyone have any ideas? I'm wondering if the problem with the arms and legs has to do with the game replacing any default skin textures with the ghoul's, but I don't know how to check that.

 

 

It's also definitely using the diffuse map as a glow map instead of the actual glow map, but I have no clue why.