Trying to make candles brighter in FO4Edit

[Omny]

I'm trying to make a mod for myself that makes the candles and candle sconces added by the Wasteland Workshop DLC a little bit brighter, but I can't seem to figure out how to do that. I've been pawing through the files in DLCWorkshop01.esm, but looking at the file for the candles (workshop_co_WaxCandles01, specifically), I can't seem to find any information about their light source.

Looking under the "Light" section in Fallout4.esm and DLCWorkshop01.esm, I've found a bunch of lights with prefixes like "DefaultLightCandle" and "DefaultLightFire", but after looking through each of them, it doesn't seem like any of them are referenced to any of the workshop candles. Am I missing something? Or looking in the wrong place?

Any help or insight would be most helpful. Better yet, if there's already a mod that does this on the Nexus, shoot me a link and save me some time.

[MissingMeshTV]

To do what you want you’ll need to look at the actual candle mesh in Nifskope. xEdit won’t be of any use for this.

 

The “Light” section contains light markers with are placed into a cell in the CK to serve as light sources. Constructable workshop objects have their light sources as part of the .nif file so that’s what you will need to look into editing.

 

The candle mesh from Wasteland Workshop you want is: Meshes\DLC02\SetDressing\Workshop\WorkshopWaxCandle01.nif

 

That's the mesh that workshop_co_WaxCandles01 uses for it's Constructable Object. FWIW, the CK is handy for figuring out what a CO creates and tracking down the appropriate meshes it uses.

[Omny]

Darn, I was hoping I wouldn't have to get Nifskope involved. I hate working in Nifskope.

 

Oh well. So, I've got it open now; and I'm looking at what I assume is the light source, labeled "BSEffectShaderProperty", and a bunch of values and stuff in the Block Details. Is there a way for me to preview how the light looks, so I don't have to keep going back and forth between the game and Nifskope?

 

Bear in mind I barely know how to use NIfskope, so please explain it to me as if I'm a five-year-old.

Edited July 25, 2018 by Omny

[Deleted49413338User]

hmm, its hard to explain without writing a novel. try look for a video that shows you doing something similar.

 

You could maybe do it just by selecting the light source and left clicking it, (click near the candle and see if it selects an invisible shape.. that would be the light source I think) scrolling down to edit and changing the size.. then use the same edit options to relocate it back to the centre of the candle. changing the size of thing usually makes the shape move location too, so you need to manually re-adjust it. using Page up/down will move it around faster than clicking the arrows.

 

That might work but might be a different effect from what you want. The other thing would be to edit the emmitence value is the BsShader property maybe. But make sure its the shader property of the light source not the candle itself.

 

Or editing the emmitence in whatever bgsm file it uses.. I just got into these programs and learned them myself. it takes a while but its helpful for simple things. I still have no idea what Im doing but know enough to experiment and sometimes get the results I want.

[Omny]

You could maybe do it just by selecting the light source and left clicking it, (click near the candle and see if it selects an invisible shape.. that would be the light source I think) scrolling down to edit and changing the size.. then use the same edit options to relocate it back to the centre of the candle. changing the size of thing usually makes the shape move location too, so you need to manually re-adjust it. using Page up/down will move it around faster than clicking the arrows.

 

I've selected just about everything around the candle and in the block list; it doesn't seem to have anything like that. I tried selecting the flames themselves; they seem to be made of several parts, the largest of which is a pair of invisible circles in an X shape over each little flame. I tried editing the "Emissive Multiple" to be a bigger number, but that didn't work.

 

Ugh, this is exactly why I hate Nifskope. Nothing is clearly written out for newbies and all the information on it is spread across the internet in a million little tutorials, many of which are outdated. I just want to make a candle brighter! Is that so much to ask?

Edited July 25, 2018 by Omny

[dipmonk]

Omny, did you ever figure it out? I'm interested in doing the same!