I am agree with you, i think that armor would be great with a reflectant surface. Yes, i have to to it, definitely. First of all i will upload the steel armor.
How did you make your Glass and Steel armor shine like that? I know it requires some tweaking in Nifskope, could you please tell us how you did/got it?
The glass armor has already a reflective surface, but i don´t remember what mod had done that look, maybe the unofficial patch, maybe the body replacer like HGEC and Robert´s, that are the ones i have. The steel armor is a modification of anilla steel armor i have done, for that i have used NifSkope to edit the meshes properties: in the NiTriStrips / NiMaterialProperty i have changed the emissive color to something near the withe, and left the specular to black. Then in the NiTexturingTexture i have changed to "APPLY_HILIGHT" the value of the "Apply Mode". This way the material of the object can reflect the light. The other thing that has to be done is to modify the normal map of the texture, i have done this in photoshop with Nvidia photoshop pugins that you can download in the nvidia web, to edit the *.dds files. In the normal map in order to apply the specularity of the objet you have to add and alpha layer on the layer channels this layer in black and white is the map that make some parts to shine and others to be opaque. Oh and i have done the difuse texture darker.
I will upload it as soon as i can. I only did it with the steel armor because i like the other ones the way there are, maybe the Dwaren, the blades, the imperial or the elven armors will be good this way, i dont know.
Thansk! As long as the texture replaces don´t have their own enviromental map yes, they can work toghether. I dont find many replaces that have it, as i said before the RealSword Bretons have their own enviromental map. The other common replacers that i have used like qarls, UOP´s, AWLS don´t have it.
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I tweaked it so the trees were more blurry so it didn't look out of place indoors. If you'd like, I can send it to you to upload as an optional file?
I can upload the steel armor i have done.