Change color of particle NIF

[Lutefisk Mafia]

Hello all -

Has anyone had success figuring out how to alter the color of a particle based NIF?

I am trying to change the fx_unit_promotion_01.nif file as found in the assets/art/effects/ folders. I think the specific sub-folder is "unit_promotion."

Anyway, this NIF creates the bluish glow and upward drifting sparks that indicate a unit that can be promoted.

I want to change the color to red. Yellow and green versions would be nice, too.

I use SceneViewer to fiddle with NIFs, but cannot find a way to change particle colors with this program.

Any advice?

 

[GarretSidzaka]

get GIMP 2.2 or photoshop. find "dds plugins" for either of these.

open the folder containing the glow and see if there are dds files there related to the nif. if not, it might also be in the "shared" art folder. edit them in the texture programs i mentioned before, then reload the nif and see you changes!

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[Lutefisk Mafia]

Okay, I checked.

The nif does not have a dds file with it in the "unit_promotion" folder. I also could not find which specific dds file would be associated with it in the "shared" folder. I checked as many values as I could in the nif file, but didn't see where it was pointing to a specific dds file for texture.

This seems to be different than retexturing a regular NIF. Done that plenty of times. I use GIMP, too! Gotta love GIMP!

My goal is to have at least three different glow colors for this effect. If I can't generate differently named nifs that are either differently colored or associating with different dds files, it won't work.

Anyone have ideas about to which dds file this nif associates -- or if it even does associate to a dds?

 

[GarretSidzaka]

one sec...

 

[GarretSidzaka]

look in the shared folder for this file:

 

[Lutefisk Mafia]

Found it, but it is just a pure white star shape, which implies that the color shading is being done by something else.

Huh. I'm stumped.

 

[GarretSidzaka]

fx_radials000white.dds
fx_radials006white.dds
fx_radials005white.dds

see what you can do with these files