lazarus0707 Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Hello. i have a sword working in-game. my issue is that i don't know how to have the normal map and the base texture working together. i use nifscope to plug each texture in and they both work. any help would be awesome. thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hickory Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 The normal map is used automatically when it has the same name as the base texture with _n added. Eg: texture.dds texture_n.dds . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazarus0707 Posted January 20, 2011 Author Share Posted January 20, 2011 i have mysword.dds then also mysword_n.dds in the same folder. what shows up is the pink/purple that glows and has reflections. maybe make the normal map more transparent? thanks for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hickory Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 You need to understand normal maps properly. Read the links from this page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LHammonds Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Sounds like your NIF file is not pointing to the texture. Example texture path: textures\weapons\mymod\mysword.dds If the sword does not have any transparency, make sure it was saved in DDS format with DXT1 compression + mipmaps. The normal map should be DXT5 + mipmaps and the specularity map should be copied to the alpha channel of the normal map to keep the object from being extremely shiny. LHammonds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazarus0707 Posted January 21, 2011 Author Share Posted January 21, 2011 yeah i have it working. was updating the file on my desktop and not the one in the data folder... oops. thanks LHammonds for clarifying much for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LHammonds Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Yep. Been there...done that. :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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