Glowmap Tutorial for Beginners V1.0 by Diranar

Glowmap Tutorial for Beginners V1. 0 by Diranar

- a Tutorial on adding Glow / a Glowmap to an Object in Fallout 4

Tools you need for this to do :

A Paint Programm like Photoshop or Gimp with installed .dds File import Plugin.

Links (Click on Name to open in your Browser with download Location):

Gimp   -   Gimp . DDS

Free Photoshop CS2   -   Nvidia . DDS Plugin for Photoshop

Bonuslink, not needed for Tutorial, but helpfull with Normal Maps:

Intel Textureworks for Photshop (use if editing Normal Maps,will NOT work with Photshop CS2)

Material Editor (by ousnius) for editing . BGSM Materials

Link :  Material Editor by Ousnius

3. Read this, do it step by step and it will work on most Objects.

I. Create a Glowmap or "..._g.dds instead of ..._d.ggs"

You need to create a Glowmap for the Object that you want to Glow with a Paint Program that Supports .dds Files (Gimp or Photoshop are capable)

- What is a Glowmap ? :

A Glowmap is a Copy of the xxxxx_d.dds Colormap, in which only the Parts that should Glow are to see , all

other Parts of the Texture get replaced with the Color Black (0,0,0). This File has a _g after the underscore at the end of the Filename instead of _d used in diffuse/colormap.

The Path is the same as the _d.dds, _n.dds and s_.dds of the Filen.

In this Example i used a Colormap of the Gasmask, its easy to find and edit.

For this Tutorial you need the Texture and Material files of the Gasmask. There are other Tutorials on how to extract the Fallout 4 Archives with the Besthesda Archive Extractor, so for this i think that you have extracted The Texture and Material Archives already.

You find the Textures in the Folder : Fallout 4/Data/Textures/Armor/Gasmask

You find the Material in the Folder : Fallout 4/Data/Materials/Armor/Gasmask

Make a New Folder and Name it Like Glowtest, you need to create the Folderstructure like This and copy the Files there for editing:

1.  Textures : create a Maindirectory with the Name: Textures,

1. 1 under that create a Subdirectory Named: Armor,

1. 2 under that create a Subdirectory Named: Gasmask, here you should :

1. 3 Copy the Texture Files of the Gasmask

(For this Tutorial you only need the "Gasmask_d.dds" File, copy that to the last Gasmask Diretory)

2.  Materials: create a Maindirectory with the Name: Materials,

2. 1 under that create a Subdirectory Named: Armor,

2. 2 under that create a Subdirectory Named: Gasmask, here you should :

2. 3 Copy the Material File of the Gasmask