ErrorS Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 (edited) If I hadn't off and on been searching for this for days I wouldn't even post, for some reason it keeps popping up. I know it's used in other engines so some of you have to know what's going on with it. Apparently it uses a nif to place a single color on top of objects? Ok, I gave up trying to retexture days ago when I realized it wasn't possible.. but I have a problem, I retextured my snow to be brighter (snow is fricken bright) and now the brightness of this snow accumulation doesn't match the rest of my textures. Does anyone know how to change simple brightness of the show shader/ snow overlay / whatever it's called? I mean this stuff: http://static.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/images/1382-4-1322841047.jpg thanks edit: I found it, it's ShaderBox.nif, now I just need to find how to extract it.. bleh Edited January 10, 2012 by ErrorS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErrorS Posted January 10, 2012 Author Share Posted January 10, 2012 So this file can't be extracted? Does anyone have any information on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntsman2310 Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 So what are you trying to do exactly? I'd think that if you want to change the brightness of the snow again, just go into GIMP, open it up and change the brightness and saturation a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErrorS Posted January 10, 2012 Author Share Posted January 10, 2012 I even included a screenshot.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntsman2310 Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 That screenshot doesn't tell much. Both comparisons look the same to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErrorS Posted January 11, 2012 Author Share Posted January 11, 2012 its just a shot to show the effect i grabbed off of a mod I use.. when snow is applied to an object like a rock, it uses some model to shade it. It ends up a flat white color.. me (and from what ive seen searching) and a few others can't figure out how to do anything with this dang snow shader. I finally found the model that was used but can't get to it, that shaderbox.nif .. but if no one knows then no one knows? Guessing it will be workable with construction set? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghogiel Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Where is this shaderbox.nif located? I was under the impression that the snow was a shader effect.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErrorS Posted January 11, 2012 Author Share Posted January 11, 2012 it's suppose to be in ShaderTests/ShaderBox.nif but I can't find it. For every snow layer, it's mentioned.. spent I dunno how long messing with \meshes\landscape\snowmatshader.nif but found out it's only used on some ice layers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErrorS Posted January 12, 2012 Author Share Posted January 12, 2012 every mention of it in the ESM points to a ShaderTests/ShaderBox.nif that doesn't exist, however the ESM keeps the properties of this nif inside itself. I tried two more things, renaming snowshader which is similar and placing it in meshes/shadertests/shaderbox.nif redoing properties such as names, didn't do anything. I then made a script pointing to a different model, again, no change. I dunno what's going on, I didn't spend time modding Oblivion or Fallout so I'm sorta lost now.There are unreadable data subsections for each object with snow in the master ESM and I'm guessing that these hold color, luminosity, etc if shaderbox.nif inside of the ESM doesn't do it itself. I might try editing properties internal to the master esm for shaderbox, though I doubt it will do anything. I just want some more fricken reflectivity off of snow layers on objects (wood, rocks, etc.. not the snow texture itself), it's pretty darn simple IN THEORY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psykrom Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 (edited) http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/10383/?tab=2&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Fskyrim%2Fajax%2Fmodfiles%2F%3Fid%3D10383&pUp=1 this mod may solve the problem... Edited December 22, 2014 by Psykrom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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