Rennn Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 (edited) If I was going to make parts of textures glow as if they were neon (but without any actual cast light, btw, I just need to make them really bright), what programs would I need, and how would I go about doing that? I have Gimp and Paint.NET already for texture work, but I suppose I'll probably need something else like the Gimp.dds plugin since Paint.NET won't convert with transparency. Would the Gimp.dds plugin work, and if so, can someone possibly tell me which site to check? When I Googled it I only found a sea of links leading to viruses and adware/malware installers with terrible grammar. I also need to know which texture to edit to make things very bright. Would it have a suffix like "genericdoortexture_msn.dds" rather than just "genericdoortexture.dds" or something? Edited April 29, 2012 by Rennn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perraine Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 First what exactly are you trying to do?A 'glow' effect such as on Daedric artifacts or the 'skin' of Flame Atronachs for instance, requires a separate part added to the mesh (a 'glow' mesh if you will)To just make a part of an armor really, really shiny, you can usually edit the *armorname*_m.dds file (mask file) to increase brightness/reflectivity on specific parts and you can ALSO adjust the properties of the BSLightingShaderProperties of the NiTriShape in Nifskope by adjusting things like "Environment Map Strength" and Glossiness" And Paint.net will quite happily save .dds files with transparency, you can either use a 'transparency' plugin (download ONLY from the Pain.net forums) or you can use 'layers' and set the transparency on that (use the 'lasso' tool to select the part you wish to modify -> copy it <CTRL + C> then hit 'delete' -> add another layer to your image and <CTRL+V> to paste the copied data -> click the layer properties button -> adjust the 'opacity' of the layer -> merge the layer down -> save the file as DXT 5 .dds -> Profit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rennn Posted April 30, 2012 Author Share Posted April 30, 2012 Thanks. I'm trying to get an effect like the glowing part of this blade.http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=11727 I'll try the Paint.NET plugin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perraine Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 I haven't used that mod, but from the looks of it, it uses a 'glow mesh' similar to Daedric Weapons/Armor and that, unfortunately, is WAY beyond my level of expertise sorry ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gebreth Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 Hi there, The glow map is an additional texture file with a "_g.dds" suffix. It adds a glow effect if you set it right in nifskope. Take a look there for a full tutorial: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=7069 and look at the textures of meridia's blade and volendrung (two ingam items that use such map) to see how it should look like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rennn Posted April 30, 2012 Author Share Posted April 30, 2012 Thanks! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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