Atom's Judgement material/texture files?

[piecheese10]

So, I'm trying to modify the textures for Atom's Judgement, but I can't find the material file or texture file for the green cracks on the front of the weapon. Does anyone know where that particular file is? Also, on a semi-related note, is there a way to convert material files to jpg or png?

[ehtyeci]

The glow is generated using "Textures\Effects\Gradients\BloodGlow02Grad.dds" fed into the mesh "GlowCracks001:1" as greyscale texture. When set as greyscale, the color comes from "Emissive Color" in the shader node.

Note that not all meshes use a material file - some meshes, like the "GlowCracks001:1" uses a texture directly in the BSLightingShaderProperty node, and does not reference to an external material file. You will know a material file is used when the shader node explicitly shows a material path in its name.

Material files do not contain textures themselves, but point to other texture files. You can view a material file using Material Editor by ousnius. https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/3635/

You can use Gimp, Photoshop, Paint.NET (with bc7 support), Compressonator, DirectXTex, NvTT, among others to convert to and from dds.