Speculars

[Akiihiko]

Hi guys, (first thread for me whoo)

 

I recently acquired photoshop, and sorry if this is in the wrong thread. I started fooling around in it a bit and got the .dds extension for it and started messing with some textures in skyrim. Anywho, I was wondering if anyone knew a guide, or could explain it to me as to how to amplify speculars? If that's possible on the texture itself. 

 

If what I'm saying doesn't explain it enough,

 

Like I have the Sporty Sexy Sweat map, and I want to make it much more noticeable. I've tried fiddling with my ENB and changing the gloss on meshes using NifSkope but I don't like the outcome it's giving me

 

tldr; guidetospecularsusingphotoshoplsty

[Anya]

Hello, I'll try my best to explain. I'm using GIMP, I apologize that I'm not using Photoshop. I used pictures to explain.

If you're going to download GIMP, make sure to get the DDS plugin.

 

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[myuhinny]

There is also a way to change speculars using nifskope to make skin more oily/shiny looking I haven't used it for skyrim but use it a lot for oblivion. You might be able to find a tutoial on how to do it or if someone here knows how to do it they can telly you how to do it.

 

In oblivion you just have to find the skin instances listed when you load the body/armor and click them to open them then go down to gloss float and change the number from 10.0000 to 1000.0000 and the skin in game will go from meh shiny to awesome shiny/oily. Just make sure to use the save as to overwrite the nif file and skyrim is a bit different then oblivion in oblivion you only have 1 nif file to change in skyrim each nif usually has 2 nifs to each part so what you do to one you have to do to the other one as well otherwise nothing will change in game.