So I tried out nifskope for some stuff, um help?

[circ]

I have no idea what I'm doing.

I finally got around to doing the quest where you can get Frost (the horse) with a character, and was instantly disappointed by the boring texture. So I looked up replacements and found a few. Problem; none of the horses except Slof's actually had a sheath for their cock. I'm not using any bestiality mods at the moment but for consistency's sake I figured I'd try to keep the horse looking like the other horses. So I tried out nifskope and strangely after some fiddling managed to do the following:

Used an .esp from another Frost replacer. Copied some horse mesh with the proper parts, as none except Slof's again had them, but Slof's .esp has some useless addons I don't need.

Rerouted the Slof textures to Slof's meshes. I guess I could have just edited the .esp but um no, why get too complicated.

Replaced Slof's eye and mane textures with stuff from some other mod. Slof's Frost eyes were downright creepy, and Slof included the wrong mane textures so it ended up brownish/black.

I had to use Slof's textures because the others had no sheath texture so it ended up looking gray, which would be fine on a white horse but it's nice to have some detail even there.

 

Well anyway, the problem with most of Slof's textures, not just the Frost replacer is that they're way too luminous.

 

 

Like so - pretty bad:

 

 

 

 

Are you kidding me?

 

 

 

 

 

Is there any way to tone down the luminosity through nifskope, or do I have to open this stuff up with GIMP and relearn stuff I haven't bothered with for 20 years?

[myuhinny]

Open the nif click the body parts/parts one at a time look under the highlighted line for BSLightingShaderProperty click the arrow to the left to get the drop down look at glossiness float and see what it's set at there is also other ones to fiddle with as well like Specular Color make sure to make back ups before changing anything so you can undo or revert back if need be and make sure what you do to one nif you do to the other one as well or it will not show up in game. 

[circ]

Ok. I played around with both settings, didn't notice a difference so went further. Can't tell if anything's changed even now, horse looks as fluorescent as ever.

[myuhinny]

You can probably try and see if you can tone down the brightness with gimp you will need the .dds plugin for it. Load it into gimp and adjust brightness then overwrite .dds go into game check to see how it looks if it looks good close gimp if not undo and a different setting repeat till you find what you like.