How To: BANISH THE BLUE TINGE!!!! - Forums powered by UBBThreads™

is the tinge getting on your nerves? it got on mine, but I found how to get rid of it forever!!!!
this is not a setting you need to set, it's more of settings you need to set and things that need to be done...

I got a lil tired of having to redo the materials for all the objects I imported, so I am going to release my collection of hard won notes about imported objects, and how to export with many features and to fix many issues..

First, I will banish the blue tinge

1.) import your object
-note- now is a good time to save

2.) if included, hide the collision box
3.) select ALL of the objects, apply edit mesh
4.) select Edge sub mode, select all edges
5.) make all edges visible (at the bottom of the Edit Mesh modifier)
6.) select Vertex sub mode
7.) select all
8.) weld selected with an area of .01
-note- step 8 should have no visible effect, but if you watched the number of selected vertexes, it usually plumets, on the tree I went from 1407 to 659

less math for morrowind later
9.) deselect the sub mode and deselect the object
-note- now is another good time to save

10.) bring up the Material Editor
11.) select a free and click Standard
12.) under Browse From:, select Scene
13.) select the first item in the list, click OK
14.) INSTANCE it, do not copy, otherwise it wont change what's on the object
-note- SAVE!!!
15.) select the next slot and repeat the process 11 through 14 until all the UNIQUE materials are slotted, many materials are listed more than once, you only need once per material
-note- save after each and every material, for me, this is where max has the most tendency to crash
16.) for each new material you have, convert them 1 by 1 over to TES Shader, and select 2-Sided (something beth should have done)
17.) for each material, change the speculate from blue to BLACK (NOT WHITE!!)
18.) for each material, under Vertex Colors area, select the On checkbox
19.) Close the Material Editor
-note- SAVE!!!!
20.) select all the objects in the scene
21.) apply a Vertex Paint
22.) pick an object, go back to vertex paint modifier rollout
23.) pick the black swatch and very gently, paint just a bit of somewhere, all you need is part of it somewhere to have black applied
-note- SAVE!!!!
24.) repeat for each object
-note- heh, save

25.) Export, pick a file name
26.) Turn on include Vertex Weights, and turn OFF exclude Vertex Colors.
27.) All done