Hi all,

Very new to graphical stuff, but I've been spending a lot of time in Nifscope and Photoshop, and with your help here I was able to finally get my custom campfire nif to be any color I want. Pretty cool!

The problem is now I want it to be black but Skyrim seems to show black as transparent for me. So if I did pure black, there would be no flames. I'd still see the heat, but no flames.

I'm using the nif "campfire01landburning.nif" and then changing the dds files for the flame gradients. By default they're orangeish, and if I swapped it out with a blue, I'd see really bright blue flames. If I made it pure black, nothing. If the gradient was black with a small bit of white in the middle, then I'd just see the white.

Would anyone have any idea why this would be? I thought perhaps I was saving the nif or dds wrong, but I even found another modder who did all fire retexture swap-outs for black flames and temporarily using his dds didn't seem to make any difference (the black is still invisible).

Is there a special approach to using black with dds in Skyrim that i'm not aware of? Am I saving something wrong? I have little knowledge in this area

Thanks!