Where the hell are the guides on Effect Shaders?

[Omny87]

I want to make my own Effect shaders and particle effects, but I don't know where to start. I can't find any tutorials or guides online anywhere! I would have thought this would have been better documented by now, but nope.

 

Membrane shaders seem somewhat straightforward; most of the controls and terminology are the same as New Vegas' GECK, but there's a bunch of stuff here that I'm not familiar with- what does "Ignore Base Geometry Texture Alpha" mean, for one thing?

 

Particle effects are completely different now too; instead of being able to control their appearance via the Effect Shader window, they're a separate NIF altogether. But I don't know the first thing about making particle emitters in Nifskope. Again, no tutorials anywhere.

 

But what really annoys me is that there is this window here on the right side of the Effectshader window that seems to be for previewing shaders, but aside from being able to spawn in different models, I can't get it to do anything useful.

 

 

 

Like sheesh, I knew modding for Fallout 4 was going to be more difficult than modding for New Vegas, but goddamn

 

 

[sen4mi]

There's https://wiki.bethesda.net/wiki/creationkit/Skyrim/EffectShader/ which has a few clues.

 

If you figure out how to get anything to work, I'd love to hear about it.

 

Edited December 8, 2023 by sen4mi