How to Make Your Character Glossy / Shiny (Skyrim)

[Jerbsinator]

For anyone wondering, this is how you get your character glossy in Skyrim. It's super easy. You don't need Glosstech to get the gloss effect, just do this.

 

EDIT: I apologize, for some fucking reason the image won't load anymore. Reuploaded a different one.

 

[Siouliusn]

Well that and a bright "_S.dds" will help; if it's still too dark/black like some of those coming with body textures mod you wont get much gloss

[Jerbsinator]

That's true, you can edit that in Photoshop if you want it brighter. Just need to download the .dds plugin from Nvidia to be able to save it. In this respect its the same as oblivion was so if you knew how to do it for that game its pretty much the same deal here.

 

Another factor is your Enb, my specular settings are quite high so my character looks really glossy. Mess around with your specular settings to find something you like.

[Stratovarius]

Also to add, in ENB the reflections setting changes the gloss level from regular wet-type gloss to a shiny reflective/mirror gloss the higher the setting is. Be careful though; at higher levels you'll lose a little bit of frames per second.

[Cheshire Cat]

Also to add, in ENB the reflections setting changes the gloss level from regular wet-type gloss to a shiny reflective/mirror gloss the higher the setting is. Be careful though; at higher levels you'll lose a little bit of frames per second.

Welcome new member! Be prepared for torture.

 

Also does this work with armor?

[Stratovarius]

 

Welcome new member! Be prepared for torture.

 

 

Thank you kindly!

[swagginthebag]

the image isn't loading fo me

 

[Jerbsinator]

 

the image isn't loading fo me

 

 

Not sure why not. The image file is working fine. It's hosted by LL so it should work. Probably a problem on your end.

[Zquad1]

If my assumption is correct, this would be better then an ENB edit. with an enb edit it makes everything glossy, body, clothing, ground, walls. this only effects the mesh you edit correct? so for an entire body you would need to edit body, head, hands and feet. and in doing the head it wouldn't effect the hair?

 

It shouldn't effect the hair since the hair mesh is totally separate .

[Jerbsinator]

If my assumption is correct, this would be better then an ENB edit. with an enb edit it makes everything glossy, body, clothing, ground, walls. this only effects the mesh you edit correct? so for an entire body you would need to edit body, head, hands and feet. and in doing the head it wouldn't effect the hair?

 

Yes but ENB can make it more glossy, though you are correct it will make everything more glossy. And yes it doesn't effect the hair. I also recommend not putting your face gloss too high, have it lower than what your body is otherwise too much light reflects and it hides your characters face.

[sikamikanico78]

so 1000 is a good setting to get the kind of glossiness u had in your screenshots??

 

very nice and simple

[sikamikanico78]

hmmm 1000 didnt do it neither 3000... to tell the truth i didnt notice any diference between 1000 and 3000... i wonder what valua are u using? 1 million?

[Jerbsinator]

hmmm 1000 didnt do it neither 3000... to tell the truth i didnt notice any diference between 1000 and 3000... i wonder what valua are u using? 1 million?

 

I am using 1000.

[gvman3670]

I've been looking for tutorials and haven't found the answer for what I need. It's like it's assumed I should know this or something. I have GIMP 2.8 and have the .dds plugin activated and working (I opened a couple texture .dds files to check). My problem is I don't know how to get it from GIMP to Nifskope!

Can someone help an old bastard out here? I must be missing something simple. That's usually the case.

Like a derpityderp I was being a derp. I figured it out eventually.

[azazil]

i found this tips from other forum

 

put this on your enbseries.ini

 

SpecularAmountMultiplierDay=4.0
SpecularAmountMultiplierNight=4.0
SpecularPowerMultiplierDay=5.0
SpecularPowerMultiplierNight=5.0
(KEEP THESE TWO AT 0)
SpecularFromLightDay=0.0
SpecularFromLightNight=0.0

 

 

[Dany114]

I've tried this method, and it works for the body, hands, feet and head of my character, but it doesn't work on the heads of NPCs. Is there a specific procedure for applying this to NPCs?

Female NPCs get a shine on everything except their Head/face. I can't seem to figure out why.

[superdog2008]

What the hell, :| in nifskope, on the top left, there's no drop-down menu.????

I loaded female body_1 (with your xl bust size version, with the massive tits?), can't drop down. Pls help ,_,

(No drop down meaning the black triangles on the left side)

[Shirobako]

Does this only work on armors or some specific mesh? Using it on actual cbbe files only broke it and made me get stuck on the loading screen.

[mirror mask2]

For anyone wondering, this is how you get your character glossy in Skyrim. It's super easy. You don't need Glosstech to get the gloss effect, just do this.

 

EDIT: I apologize, for some fucking reason the image won't load anymore. Reuploaded a different one.

 

glossiness.jpg

Still whenever i do that change glossiness to 600-1000 and specular strenght to 6-30 it looks more like plastic not the wet effect