Hi, I was wondering if anyone could give me an idea of how involved putting blinking or flashing lights on an npc is.

I can do the glow maps just fine, but I'm guessing I have to create some animations and add them in somehow?

thanks

there is one animation in nifskope, but it is kinda a pain, it changes the amount the glow map affects the object, just look for a branch that says glow

Perhaps SwapTextureOnRef would work for this...

scn BlinkingSCPTInt bBlinkInt rSelfBegin GameMode	Set bBlink to (bBlink == 0)	If rSelf		If bBlink			SwapTextureOnRef rSelf "Filepath\BlinkOff" "Filepath\BlinkOn"		Else			SwapTextureOnRef rSelf "Filepath\BlinkOn" "Filepath\BlinkOff"		EndIf	Else		Set rSelf to GetSelf ; function may work implicitly?	EndIfEnd

Not sure about the syntax and haven't used this new function yet, but here's a use of it in FalloutNV.ESM

SwapTexture player "##Screen:0" "weapons\1handpistol\EuclidScreenFailure"

If SwapTexture works like I'd think it would, blacklights could be possible which would http://bugguide.net/images/raw/6HLRNHFHNHFH6HBZ2HAZ8LFHUHZR5L9ZRL9Z5L1ZGL9ZNHZR9HHR6HVZUH1ZGLWZPHYH9HNZGLRRGL.jpg via refwalk texture swap.

Thanks for the replies, I knew it wasn't going to be simple. Man, it would be sweet if the radscorpions looked like that.
Time to start experimenting.