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Partial invisibility AND refraction chameleon effect


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I have looked everywhere and have not been able to find what I want. I have found a couple of mods that give a varying degree of transparency for the charecter based on the % chameleon which is what I want, however they also remove the refraction effect. I guess I'm weird, but I want to have both effects at the same time. Or is that not possible for the game engine to do?

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I have looked everywhere and have not been able to find what I want. I have found a couple of mods that give a varying degree of transparency for the character based on the % chameleon which is what I want, however they also remove the refraction effect. I guess I'm weird, but I want to have both effects at the same time. Or is that not possible for the game engine to do?

Thanks!

I don't think it's possible. The Chameleon effect is a membrane shader, which is rendered directly onto the mesh. The transparency effect you mentioned is also a membrane shader. Unfortunately, Oblivion's engine only allows one membrane shader at a time to play on a mesh. That means you can have refraction or transparency, but not both. This particular issue shot down some of the plans I had for my Detect Life Shaders mod.

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I have looked everywhere and have not been able to find what I want. I have found a couple of mods that give a varying degree of transparency for the character based on the % chameleon which is what I want, however they also remove the refraction effect. I guess I'm weird, but I want to have both effects at the same time. Or is that not possible for the game engine to do?

Thanks!

I don't think it's possible. The Chameleon effect is a membrane shader, which is rendered directly onto the mesh. The transparency effect you mentioned is also a membrane shader. Unfortunately, Oblivion's engine only allows one membrane shader at a time to play on a mesh. That means you can have refraction or transparency, but not both. This particular issue shot down some of the plans I had for my Detect Life Shaders mod.

 

That's a shame. Do you think there might be a work around? I could even settle for the refraction effect scaling with your % chameleon. The higher the % the lower the refraction, bottoming out at maybe 10% refraction so that you can still see your character.

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