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it's free of credit, but i talk about many software and mod who's made by other person. it's an obligation to credit them if you talk about them or their software and mods.
you can freely use all i wrote, and all picture i took, without crediting me ;)
File credits
there is so much research i've made to understand how glow map works, it's was hard because there is no "SKYRIM noob glow mapping guide". so i took informations in lot of diffrent "web" places.
-because i was realy interested about glow map and because it's real work who need tons of knowledge, i must absolutly thanks the overall web community who hardly works on different freeware, that help us to moddify this huge game.
-because i was realy noob, i must thanks the overall nexus community, from oblivion to skyrim. i've read so much of your post on forum's or so much desprition/read me in mods, that all helped me a lot to understand many side of the game.
especialy:
-all nifksope team / forum: where i'm not registered, but where i was able to find some explenation about nifskope (shader propertys, etc...)
-all ENB series team / forum: where i'm not registered, but where i was able to find some explenation about, impact of shaders on game visuals and their working.
-thewingedloke: a nexus community member, who makes cool glow textures and share it. thanks a lot for your explenation on nifskope. at this step of my learnage if you were not here to help me, i surely never understand at all.
-RedDaimYo: for his sweet daedric retexture. without his work i will surely not have motivation of doing a glow/normal/environement map. i've learn on his work.
-text enhancement (attempting to simplifying, or clarifying text comprehension)
-some correction/adding some credits
-enhanced layout (Work in progress)
-creating a french version -------------------------------------------------------------- CORRECTION UPDATE 1.1beta note: -------------------------------------------------------------- correcting some text, text linked to wrong pictures and language error. (maybe some error are still there)
adding a section in GIMP tuto. the "my gimp config" section that explain how to configure Gimp boxes.
adding "easy draconic rune guide" in tutorials parts.
adding a missing picture.
rewriting incomplete link related to several site, explaining what are the functions of several DDS files type: -texture_n, texture_s, texture_d, texture_g, etc... links to site are now complete, so you can copy/paste them directly to your browser and find those related site.
THE GOAL OF THIS TUTORIAL is to collect all sparely web information about glow mapping, and mapping(not implemented yet), and merge them into an easy step tutorial. i've made it because glow mapping isn't hard, but info was hard to collect,
-i think i've spend more time in researching how did different tools works, or wich version are goods. it was also hard to understand each files utility and their purpose.
-the last side who add difficulty was the interactions between different part of the game, concerning game visuals.
-and because all of those point are linked, i've tryed to clear this huge mess in this tutorial.
i've made it for fun, for sharing, and because i hope some pro will look and help me to enhance it. (and by side effect learn me more on mapping) :p
IT'S A NOVICE WORK, and i'm french (so my sentence, maybe the overall textes need real anglophone correction.) but i hope it will be usefull ;) for a full guide experience i suggest you to download my mod: http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=4343 that will give you editable example, of glow mapping. like this tutorial my mod is free of credit you can take it and do whatever you want with it. (**exept for every mods and software made by other member, that this guide is relative to.**)