Wrong in-game shadow casting on my meshes

[Torja]

Hello guys.

I have some troubles with my new head mesh and eye mesh. I've copied shaders from vanilla meshes, but my own ones look very weird with it.

The eyes have no "hotspots" - only some gloss in the right eye, in the shape of the line. They receive some light from the bottom-right, constantly. Not only in the CK, but in the game too.

The face have reverse light - from the right. Just compare the original NPC head with my meshes:

I need your help.

[Hanaisse]

It would be difficult to troubleshoot by just looking at a picture. The issue could be anywhere in your meshes or your textures. I suggest uploading the files somewhere where someone can take a closer look.

[Torja]

Indeed.

The link to my resources: http://www.mediafire.com/download/7mfk2hsbvqb8vkw/meshes.rar

I'll create new normal map, this one is just for test. But the normal map is definitely not the reason of my trouble. Vanilla maps work the same way.

Edited June 14, 2013 by Torja

[Hanaisse]

The meshes look fine, except maleeyes.nif. Remove the SLSF_2_DoubleSided option in BSLightingShaderProperties.

 

The problem is with your textures. All of them, except HumanEyes9.dds, have a white alpha channel that is unnecessary. I don't know if you did this on purpose or if whatever program you're using is adding them, but they need to be deleted and re-saved as DXT1 - no alpha. Leave HumanEyes9.dds as is, since it's masking transparency.

 

Hopefully this should help solve the issues.

[Torja]

About SLSF_2_DoubleSided - I've added it on purpose to make eyelashes shown when the eyes are closed.

Edited the textures. Unfortunately, nothing changed. But thank you anyway.

I suppose there is something wrong with the meshes, but I don't know what exactly.

[Hanaisse]

Oh, there was one other thing I forgot to mention.

 

malehead_s.dds has quite a lot of white highlights in it compared to the vanilla malehead_s.dds which is all black. So you might want to redo this texture, see if that makes a difference.

[Torja]

The problem is partly solved. Face seems to be ok now (it was wrong channel casting in the normal map), but there is still some problem with the hotspots in the eyes.

Any ideas?

[Hanaisse]

Ah, good, good. The normal map did look a little off to me but I had no advice for it.

 

For the eyes, I would play with the coordinates of the Left Eye Reflection Center and Right Eye Reflection Center. Try to find the center of your eyes (you can do that by going through the list of vertices in the NiTriShapeData) and start from those coordinates, adjusting if you'd like.

[Torja]

Solved.

It was...wrong normal map channel casting again Now I just need to adjust eyes reflection center.

Thank you for your help, Hanaisse. It's so good to receive a support when you have a bump.

You're the best

[Hanaisse]

You're welcome, glad I could help in a small way.

 

Also, your new man is pretty hot, you did a very good job on him.

[Torja]

Thanks!

It is very possible you'll meet him in the world of TES. Again

If I'll release the mod