Retexture question

[ivenoname]

How would I go about retextureing the laser beam to another color, never been to fond of Red lasers...I want Blue damnit.

 

Thanks.

 

 

{EDIT}

 

maybe I ought to clarify, I know what I need to do to get the texture and edit it then place it back in the game. What I am looking for are what textures I need to edit to change the lasers from Red to Blue. I have extracted all the texture files (I mean all, even the ones I knew I didn't need) but I can not find the ones I am loking for.

[ivenoname]

Seriously, nobody knows what I need to edit to make lasers Blue?

[SpeedyB64]

This type of thing has been done so it is possible I would think the beam texture would be in the effects folder. You could find the effect model and open it in niffscope and look at the texture paths, although the laser effect is likely in a matching directory as the texture. You could use FOMM to find the laser then find the effect and trace it back from there.

[ivenoname]

Hmm I didn't think to open the mesh in Nifskope to find the texture, I think I will try that, thanks.

 

Any idea what the mesh for the laser beam might be called?

 

P.S. I scoured the effects folder, and couldn't find anything that matched...at least that was obviously was what I was looking for.

[SpeedyB64]

There might be a projectile folder somewhere (I am using a school computer right now so I can't check)

 

If it is not in the effects folder than I have no idea where it could be. It may have an odd name, you could find out what the model is called using FOMM, other than that you might just have to keep opening .nif files until you find it. In FOMM you could find the laser rifle in the WEAP record then find the effect it uses (probubly the id #) then find the effect in FOMM and check it's model path.

[ivenoname]

Ok I will have to look into FOMM, I am assumeing that is Fallout Mod Manager. Sounds like it does a bit more that OBMM did.

 

Anyways thanks, I will go see what I can find.

 

{EDIT}

P.S. I had also looked in the projectile folder, no luck there. I know it's in one of these folders, it's just not obvious.

[ivenoname]

Ok sorry about this but I am not sure what I am looking for here. I have Col. Autmn's Laser Pistol up and it is giving me a lot of info, I am not too sure what it is I am looking for here.

 

[EDIT]

 

I think I found it, but the texture I am looking at is white. So I think there is something else that changes the color of lasers, in which case it's back to square one.

 

Well thanks anyways.

[SpeedyB64]

If the texture is white than the colour setting is probably in the effect data somewhere FOMM is kind of tricky to use but if you experiment with it a bit (make shure you don't edit the Fallout3.esm use a blank plugin file) There are lots of great tutorials for adding weapons that are good for learning how to work with FOMM.

[ivenoname]

Actually now that you mention it I remember seeing something that said laser red something. Well, I'll have a look at some tuts and see if I can figure FOMM out a little bit.

 

Thanks for all the help

 

{EDIT}

 

Here this is what it said

Light Form ID: 0001E879: LIGH (MuzzleLaserRed300)

 

Any idea what that means...I mean aside from the obvious, that lasers are red.

[asonofashadow]

Well usually 255 is a RGB scale for Red Blue and Green. Perhaps changing the number or even replacing the word Red with Blue may be useful tinkering x).