black eyes

[spicky007]

hey i have some trouble with the sharingan mod from skingrad24. when i use it for a custom race the eyes turn black when i activate it. what do i have to do to fix/solve the problem?

 

edit: i have the problem with The Synx race

Edited May 28, 2011 by spicky007

[fg109]

From the mod description:

 

The Sharingan can be gained in two different ways:

The first needs you to choose Uchiha Clan as race at the beginning, with the Character Generate Amulet or with the showracemenu cheat, with this the Sharingan will ver slowly use your magicka points.

The second, instead can be done with any race from vanilla or from mods but you have to find the last Uchiha and use his eyes, and the Sharingan will damage much more your magicka

He's hiding in a secret room in the Cloud Ruler Temple.

 

I'm guessing that there's 2 different sets of the eyes. One only comes with the Uchiha Clan race, and the other is an item that you have to find in the game. So you can't start with the eyes unless you are from the Uchiha Clan race. The mod author did not want you to do this, so no textures were made for it, which is why you're getting black eyes.

[spicky007]

ok i understand, but isnt there a way to made the eyes compatible with tools or something like that??

[fg109]

There obviously is, but I just don't know how you would go about doing that. I have a guess on how you might be able to do it, but since I've never done it before I have no idea if it'll work.

 

First, I would look at the default eyes for the synx race, and then the eyes for the uchiha clan race. I'd note the file paths for their textures (the dds files) and then open up an image editing program such as GIMP. Then I'd open up the texture for the synx eyes and the texture for the sharingan eyes. I'll open up a new file, and then copy the textures from the synx eyes and the sharingan eyes to different layers of the new file.

 

Now I would try to line up the sharingan eyes so that they perfectly cover up the synx eyes (having the sharingan eyes semi-transparent would obviously make this a lot easier). If needed, I would re-size the sharingan eyes. Then I would delete the layer with the synx eyes, leaving me with the layer of the modified sharingan eyes. I merge down the layer, so I have only 1 layer. Save these modified eyes as a new texture file. Open up TES CS and then choose "Eyes" from the character menu. Then just create a new pair of eyes and set it to playable, and the texture should be that new texture file you created.

 

Obviously you know how to add eyes to a race, or else you wouldn't have been able to select the sharingan eyes for the uchiha race and then see this black eyes problem. But as I said, I have no idea if this would work...