Ekmek, I'm having problems with adding shaders. First of all, there is a problem with LHs you shadered for me. Both Henry and Vasa sometimes act weird. I once saw Henry with glowing red eyes! It doesn't happen every time, and it fixes itself if you load another LH and then come back to the one who had problems, but still- it is annoying. Now, I am trying to add shaders to some of The Capo LHs only to get a CTD when I load them- what's going on??? If you want to know what I'm talking about try adding shaders to, say Yaroslav or Charles.
How To: Make Leaderheads! Ekmek's Guide
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Methyl Orange
Warlord
I noticed the 'weird eye issue' on my Yu when I placed him into my CIV game as the third Chinese leader. I found that you need to attach the environment map to the mesh in the nif file, elseway the game uses enviromap from the previous loaded model.
Vortilex
Imperator Mundi
I'm not surprised that Henry had glowing eyes. I would check the .dds files or the .nif files. I once found Shaherezede's .dds file instead of her background (still dont' know how that happened). Check all the files and see if some have been swapped, either through bad naming, or if the computer was "helpful"
People, you all get it wrong- it is not just the eyes. I'll try and "hunt" for screencaps, so you can see what I'm talking about. I've seen this so far on three LHs: my Vasa and Henry and the Congolese leader found in one of The Capo's modpacks.
achilleszero
Emperor
No it wouldnt be anything like misnamed dds. Otherwise it wouldnt fix itself when reloading LH's. Besides theres nothing red in any of Henry's files. Also Igor made Henry, so I would think he would catch on to that fairly quickly.
Vortilex
Imperator Mundi
Oh, hm. I've seen the problem with the normal leaderheads, and swapping the nonshader for the shader fixed it, but if he made it, then it would be easier than that.
achilleszero
Emperor
Exactly, that means its most likely a problem with the shaders on the nif.
Please, take a look.
Ekmek, made the shaders for my two LHs. I'm not familiar with the story of the third LH, except that it was originally this: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=271131.
Ekmek, made the shaders for my two LHs. I'm not familiar with the story of the third LH, except that it was originally this: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=271131.
Vortilex
Imperator Mundi
I understand now. Check the .nif file. It seems like there's a spotlight shining on the third one. From that, I can guess that the same thing is happening on the other two, but it's on their eyes, whereas on the other one, it's just on one side. Also check the .dds files.
I just got it- look carefully: it's not a spotlight, it's an EYE! I guess the dds files need to be altered in some way, but how???
Vortilex
Imperator Mundi
It sort of looks like an eye...check the .dds and see what happened.
The Capo
godless Heathen
Thanks for doing that for me Igor, its really helpful. And in some good news I don't have much more flavoring to do in my mod before I get back to making LHs again. It should be a week or two (hopefully), but let's call it a month. In a month I will be back with a shitload of LHs. 
It's weird. I don't really get it. The files seem fine.
Thanks for doing that for me Igor, its really helpful. And in some good news I don't have much more flavoring to do in my mod before I get back to making LHs again. It should be a week or two (hopefully), but let's call it a month. In a month I will be back with a shitload of LHs.
Great you're here- maybe you can tell us more about the third LH, since it is your modpack I got it from.
Vortilex
Imperator Mundi
If you made Henry and, er...Henry, have you checked all the associated files? Not just the _diff.dds files but the noshader and norm, etc.
I don't understand a thing about them. And it was Ekmek who actually added the shaders to them, I don't really know what else did he change.
Meanwhile- here's another LH I made- Itzcoatl. I added shaders and look what happened to his eyes! Again, it doesn't happen all the time, just occasionally, but it's frustrating that I don't know why it happens!
Vortilex
Imperator Mundi
Take out the shaders and see what happens.
Nothing happens- I know because I added shaders just now and so far this LH didn't have shaders and this stuff never happened. So the problem is with the shaders definitely, for some reason the game doesn't read the LH correctly from time to time and we get red eyes and eyes on stomachs and stripes on sleeves and stuff...
Vortilex
Imperator Mundi
Hm. I honestly don't know about this problem myself then. Sorry 
Hm. I honestly don't know about this problem myself then. Sorry
Well, you tried. I added shaders to the rest of him- looks great! Now, if I only knew how to solve this problem... Hopefully Ekmek will know how to help.
