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Oiled skin textures anyone?

Ok so I know that there was someone who came up with come nice oily skin textures for New Vegas but I am wondering if there is one for Oblivion. I realize that this is probably a much bigger feat of engineering since there are many more races in Oblivion. If there isn't already a mod that makes the skin textures oily is there a way to easily make one? I know how to alter the meshes so that they are 100% glossy and that does help things a bit in game but from my somewhat basic understanding of things I would still need a normal map that would make them appear to be super oily. When I say super oily I mean my character should look like she just-jumped-in-a-vat-of-oil oily. Any thoughts anyone?

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You tried this mod?
/>http://oblivion.nexusmods.com/mods/20022

Changes vanilla race and some mod ones.

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No I haven't seen this mod. It looks great. I will have to take a look at it. I do still have one thing on my mind. Assuming that I have a normal map that would add some degree of oily sheen to the skin how does one go about making changes to that normal map. I suppose there is always trial and error but I remember from texture work that I did for Mass Effect 3 the more pink the normal map got the glossier the appearance of the texture in game. Thoughts anyone?

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For maximum glossiness a normal map's alpha channel just has to be a flat white - for that characteristic 'mirror shine'.

I got this wrong some time ago in a rather embarrassing post, but in the meantime I have made a few normal maps so I can guarantee this is the way to go about. Sometimes when using the normal map filter, I forget the original colour map's white alpha channel. As soon as I check this new texture in-game, it's very obvious what I screwed up due to the extreme reflectiveness. Can't get more glossy than that.

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You tried this mod?
/>http://oblivion.nexusmods.com/mods/20022

Changes vanilla race and some mod ones.

Perfect! Exactly what I was looking for! Oooo I could hug you through cyberspace.

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Please don't :P and your welcome! :P

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