Help with glowmaps

[Dragonblade9630]

Hello! I'm looking for someone who's versed in creating/editing/recoloring glowmaps to help collaborate on a mod update I'm working on. If this sounds like you, please DM me!

[sayaheca]

glowmaps are really easy to use, if you know how to use gimp and a material editor

 

gimp,

usually glowmap are named xxxx_G.dds by convention

You have two ways of doing glow map :

first : use only white on black background texture file and choose the emittance color (red will glow as red) in the bgsm

second one : use a different colors on black background texture file and choose white as emittance color in the bgsm (the color will be the same as your color in texture), that the way to do if you want more than one color in emittance in the same texture.

 

you just have to configure your bgsm correctly. (exemples can be found in a lot of mods, it's the way I learned to do it, i've put one of my mods down if you need)

general : disable env mapping

materials :- add the path to your glowmap in the glow line

- check emittance enabled

- choose the color you want

- choose the emittance multiplier (depends on what you want, do test. more is more glow effect)

- check glowmap

 

you can find some exemples in one of my mod :

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/37598

 

monochrome glowmap is used on eswat version for shoulders

multichrome glowmap is used on akira version for torso.

 

Hope it will help.

 

I can't help you more, I'm working on my own projects actually.