Mod articles

• Tips for Making a Hologram

  31 Aug 2023

  deathfaces

  Here's some things I learned making a Holodog
  
  TEXTURE
  The .dds texture file needs an alpha channel to determine what will be transparent.
  For Blue, I made a 50% gray mask, and applied it in DXTBmp. The alpha channel can also
  determine how transparent something is. Black is completely transparent, white is opaque, 
  and all levels of gray in between determine the transpareny value
  
  MESH
  The transparency of the mesh needs to be changed in nifskope. 
  Here's what I did:
  Open the .nif in nifskope
  Expand 0 NiNode, Scene Root
  Expand the top node under 0 NiNode. For me it was 1 NiTriShape or 1 NiTriStrips
  Expand 3 NiAlphaProperty (if it's not under the top node, work your way down until you find it.
  It applie...

  • 0 Comments