Transparent Face problem

[zafjr 50]

Hello. So i wanted to make custom faces. i used m_asian_01_co.paa as the template. So i have these:

 

manny2.paa   (yes it looks horrible oh well)

 

manny2_nohq.paa  (made using Crazybump)

 

For the RVMAT, i just copied the original (m_asian_01.rvmat) and renamed it to manny.rvmat (i dont know how to make the rvmat manually)

 

this is the config entry:

 

        class afp_manny5: AsianHead_A3_01
        {
            author="armaph";
            displayname="Manny5";
            head="AsianHead_A3";
            texture="afpheads\data\manny2.paa";
            material="afpheads\data\manny.rvmat";
            materialWounded1="A3\Characters_F\Heads\Data\m_Asian_03_injury.rvmat";
            materialWounded2="A3\Characters_F\Heads\Data\m_Asian_03_injury.rvmat";
        };

 

 

 

My problem is, ingame it shows up like this:

 

 

Its as if the edit i made only shows up as a transparent overlay on top of the original one. You can barely tell anything changed (especially noticeable in the bangs/forehead).

 

What may be causing this and how do i fix it? 

[UK_Apollo 476]

Open the rvmat using Notepad and edit it manually - you'll need to change the nohq entry to use your new version.

[zafjr 50]

28 minutes ago, UK_Apollo said:

Open the rvmat using Notepad and edit it manually - you'll need to change the nohq entry to use your new version.

 

Having trouble opening it:

 

 

[zafjr 50]

Ahh, edited the entries where it refered to the m_asian_01_nohq and m_asian_01_co and replaced them with the one i edited. Avoided the NUL ETX SOH parts. Looks like its working now:

 

 

Edited some more to reduce the shiny parts on the face, however its still really really Bright in front of the face for some reason:

 

 

 

In the other heads it isnt this shiny/bright. Which setting is that?

[lennard 447]

For the shininess you can lower the specular in the rvmat:

 

[zafjr 50]

Thanks lennard. It WAS the rvmat settings. I dont know that program that interface is from :o but i used notepad (after unrap'ing the vanilla rvmat) to edit the ambient, diffuse, and specular values.