Glow Caps (Fungal Forest Glow Map)

Let's make The Fungal Forest Glow!

This is a tutorial on how to apply glow-maps to the mushroom caps of Spiffyskytrooper's The Fungal Forest and applying Pointythundra654's The Fungal Forest Retextures.

First, a big shout out to these guys for their amazing work in creating some of the coolest mods out there. Since I've downloaded their mods, they haven't left my load order and most likely never will. Just thought I'd spice it up a bit and share with ya'll how I did it. This is simply a tutorial on material manipulation and a simple greyscale glow-map .dds using one of the .dds files from The Fungal Forest Retexture. The glow-map .dds is in 4k.

Let's begin shall we..

Tools needed:

Material Editor

Archive2 (Found in the Creation Kit)

FO4LODGEN - All Resources found here as well as step-by-step instructions by the very talented luxor8071! Be sure to pay very close attention to the instructions as well as the pictures like little check boxes, values, blah blah blah all that good stuff.

Fallout 4 Texture Resizer by FiftyTify! Used to change from 2k to 4k. I've tested this tool relentlessly and I must say.. "It Just Works.."

B. A. E While Archive2 can both extract and pack Ba2 files, B. A. E is very handy when trying to extract quickly and/or just taking a look

inside the Ba2 without extracting in a clean user interface. Thank you Hexabit! I use this quite a bit.

Ok... Here we go..

- Download The Fungal Forest 4k manually and unzip. Drag the unzipped folder to desktop.

- Download The Fungal Forest Retextures manually and unzip. Drag unzipped folder to desktop.

-  Using Archive or B. A. E extract The Fungal Forest Ba2s into the same folder the Ba2s came from.

- The Retextures are loose files. The Hierarchy is as follows: Data/Textures/Landscape/FLORA/Shrooms Bam! Rainbow in your face!

- Let's trim away the fat:

Delete the ESP and fomod in the retexture folder. We don't need it.

Delete the ba2s from the FF4K folder. We will be making our own.

Open the Meshes folder inside the FF4K folder and delete the terrain folder. We will be building our own LOD. Leave the current LOD folder alone.

Open the Textures folder inside the FF4K folder and delete the terrain folder. Leave the current LOD folder alone.

- Now that we got the basic building blocks, open the retexture folder Data/Textures/Landscape/FLORA/Shrooms and pick 4 of your favorite .dds files.

Side note: I used 4 of the .dds files with the large circles (Mushroom caps) for the glow-map but I'm sure the other textures will work fine. I have not tested this so choose wisely.

My recommendations are choosing 4 from this list. Pick one for each type of Mushroom (Dark, Light, Normal & Radsoaked) and