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Greetings and welcome to this Skyrim tutorial. My name is Tera, and I will be your hostess.
In this tutorial you will learn how to extract BSA files and modify the color and intensity of NIF files of the game.
For this, you will need the programs FO3 Archive Utility and NifSkope.
Check the video description for the download links.
Let's start by extracting the mod made by Xanshio in the Data folder.
See the procedure.
The Xanshio's mod presents NIF files in different folders.
One for the NIF files related to the Daedric Armor parts...
and other for NIF files related to its weapons.
In game, we can view the Daedric Armor parts with the new glow.
Let's now modify the color and intensity of the glow of the Daedric Armor male torso.
To do this, we will use the NifSkope.
The following steps are optional and are made to better visualize the tridimentional object.
To view the textures in the tridimentional object, is necessary that you have textures related to that object in subfolders of the Data folder.
Let's now find the block related to the glowing details in the Block List (a NiTriShape)...
and select the property BSEffectShaderProperty.
Locate and modify the Emissive Color and Emissive Multiple parameters in the Block Details.
The new glow color will be green and its intensity will be thrice stronger.
Finally, we save the changes.
Ingame, we can see the new changes.
But, what if we wanted to modify a NIF file that is not part of the Xanshio's mod? Like the Daedric Greatsword?
To get the NIF file related to the Daedric Greatsword, we use FO3 Archive Utility.
With the FO3 Archive Utility, we open the BSA file that stores all NIF files of the game.
Then, we locate and extract the NIF file of the Daedric Greatsword on the Desktop.
Note that the NIF file extracted does not appear directly on the Desktop.
But within a set of folders, identical to the folders of Xanshio's mod.
We put this set of folders on the Data folder of the game.
The NIF file of the Daedric Greatsword is together with NIF the files of Xanshio's mod related to weapons.
The procedure for changing the glow of the Daedric Greatsword is the same as seen before.
Ingame, we see the Daedric Greatsword with the new glow color and intensity.
Remember that some objects have two NIF files: one for each edge of the Weight.
The Daedric Armor male torso is an example.
With this, we end this tutorial.
I hope you have learned everything.
Thanks for watching and until next time! ;D