luxwing0go Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 I've been talking a lot about MHE lately. (Probably because I've tried installing MBP for the 5th time and still can't get it to work. Reminds me of why I love MHE so much. But anyway...)Ever since I installed MHE a while back, the eyes with the _g.dds have never glowed. NEVER. They are there, looking like normal eyes with "glowing" in the name and everything, but never do they glow. Not one bit. :P It's never been a big deal to me, but this is more of a curiosity thing now. Why the hell are they not glowing? I installed it just like it said - put the data folder in my data folder. Never messed with the names or anything. It's actually beginning to frustrate me - like they're mocking me... o_O Any clues? (One thing I did notice, the eyes are listed like this: Argonian_bloom_g.dds, Argonian_bloom_gold.dds, Argonian_bloom_blue.dds, ect. Shouldn't each color have the _g.dds or should they work fine the way they are? And if so, WHY NOT FOR ME?) I have a sickening feeling that the answer to this is going to be a simple one and am going to kick myself if it is, but I'm tired of wondering at this point. xP P.S. = new patch changes nothing. :< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminiari Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 Could be the material in the .nif file. Or it could be the naming. Apparently glow maps play up if there's something else that ends in _g (with other stuff after it). For example, texture_green. Apparently. I haven't quite tested this theory out. Best to ask other users of MHE if their eyes can glow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Telyn Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 Sometimes depending on lighting it can be hard to see the glow also. Most glowing eyes don't glow like bright torches, they do more of a "shine." If you get the character in a dark room and can't see any color on their cheeks or right under the eyes then it's not working. I once made a character with glowing eyes without actually realizing that I had chosen a glowing type of eye. I didn't even notice until she was in a dark house. It may be because I use HDR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminiari Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 HDR can be a culprit, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luxwing0go Posted May 9, 2011 Author Share Posted May 9, 2011 It's definitely not HDR - I don't use HDR or Bloom at all. I've looked at the eyes in everything from sunny weather to pitch darkness. They don't even shine in a cave. They look exactly like the regular eyes. :/ Ptfuu. I'm gonna make my own glow eye texture real quick and try it with MHE disabled to see if one of the mods is causing the eyes not to glow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SavageArtistry Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 I've been talking a lot about MHE lately. (Probably because I've tried installing MBP for the 5th time and still can't get it to work. Reminds me of why I love MHE so much. But anyway...)Ever since I installed MHE a while back, the eyes with the _g.dds have never glowed. NEVER. They are there, looking like normal eyes with "glowing" in the name and everything, but never do they glow. Not one bit. :P It's never been a big deal to me, but this is more of a curiosity thing now. Why the hell are they not glowing? I installed it just like it said - put the data folder in my data folder. Never messed with the names or anything. It's actually beginning to frustrate me - like they're mocking me... o_O Any clues? (One thing I did notice, the eyes are listed like this: Argonian_bloom_g.dds, Argonian_bloom_gold.dds, Argonian_bloom_blue.dds, ect. Shouldn't each color have the _g.dds or should they work fine the way they are? And if so, WHY NOT FOR ME?) I have a sickening feeling that the answer to this is going to be a simple one and am going to kick myself if it is, but I'm tired of wondering at this point. xP P.S. = new patch changes nothing. :< The eyes are from numerous packs. Whether they glow or not has more to do with if they were able to glow in their original form, because all I did was put the mod together. I didn't do a lot of editing of individual resources save for those I created myself. I don't know why yours have never glowed though. I use the same mod in a more advanced/complicated form (personal version), and the eyes have always glowed when I expected. Have you tried making sure the eye meshes are overwritten properly by the ones in the pack? If so and if that still doesn't work, see if you can find the original mod that has the glowing eyes - Capucine's Character Expansion and use the eye meshes from that. I have found on installing new eyes to my own game that if I don't have any glow map at all, the entire eye will glow. The glow map just tells it which areas are to glow and which are not supposed to glow. I don't know if this info helps, but I'm not able to do anything to correct this problem at the moment. Too much real life to deal with and correcting this issue would take a lot of time and effort that I just can't put into it right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luxwing0go Posted May 10, 2011 Author Share Posted May 10, 2011 It's all good SA. :3 It's not really a big deal - more of a curiosity really. I'll try overwriting the maps again and see what happens. All else fails, I'll just get on with life. xD Thanks for the tips though. I'll poke around the maps and see what I can mess up-err, I mean fix. ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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