Jesterv01 Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Help!I've hit a bit of brick wall. I'm messing about texturing my rifle, but it's looking wrong in the game. It's very gloomy and blue. I want it to look much brighter. I think the problem is something to do with the amount of diffuse light, but I'm not sure how to fix it. In Nifskope it seems much more strongly affected by changing the diffuse light settings than other models. Is it in the .nif (don't think so) or is there something wrong with the normals? Or the normal map? (which is pretty simple right now). Any suggestions keenly accepted Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deliverance6 Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 can you up a copy of you're Normal map? and do you have any glow maps on the wep at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesterv01 Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share Posted January 10, 2009 Here's the normal map - sorry for the file format - it's actually There's no glow map - most of the weapons don't seem to have one (do I need one?) My suspicion is with the normals. I'm importing the .obj into nifskope, copying it across to the achillesrifle.nif and then updating the normals The attachment is .jpg. Most of the texture is mostly transparent (can't be done with .jpg) Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skree000 Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 normal maps shouldnt have any transparent parts on them... put it in photoshop and use the NVIDIA texture tools on it, that should process it again and make things the right colors. After that, again with NVIDIA Texture tools filter, set it to 'Normalize only' and hit ok. Then try it out. For fallout 3 texures, the normal map should also (in its alpha channel) contain the Specular map, which should be a Grayscale version of your diffuse inwhich Shiney-bits are brighter, and areas that you dont want to shine should look darker. (Specularity) Alternatively you could try only applying the diffuse map with nothing else, and see if its still blue, that way through the process of elimination you will be able to pinpoint atleast which texture map is your problematic one. Models being tinted blue sounds like a Specular Color function, inwhich im guessing you have the normal map accidentally in your specular color map slot and its reflecting purple y blue light. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brurpo Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 do you have an alpha channel on your normal map, for the game, the alpha channel on the normal map is the specular map. also you must save on dxt5 to keep the alpha channel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesterv01 Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share Posted January 10, 2009 Yes - I know about the specular map in the alpha of the normal map. Haven't tried normalising for the normal map- I'll give that a go. These are screen shots from Nifskope. Regular.jpg shows the rifle rendered using the 'sunny day' preset - looks fine, as does the unmodified assault rifle clip. Blue.jpg shows it with the ambient light set all the way blue - this affect the rifle very much, but the clip much less. I think this is significant. Also - I think the block display below shows I've got the textures in the right place. Help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesterv01 Posted January 11, 2009 Author Share Posted January 11, 2009 Fixed it - it was the normals - need to recalculate everything in Nifskope. Thanks for your help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weasel_Scourge Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 Awesome rifle. Release date? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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