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I downloaded the asset for the Hyena Bomber (I plan on replacing General Grievous' Starfighter with it). It's an incredible model. But I want the sensors (eyes) to glow like the Vulture droid's sensors do. How can I accomplish this?

You might be able to get the eyes to glow by hex-editing them.

http://www.gametoast.com/forums/viewtop ... 27&t=24851

You'll need to find the fifth furthest from the ATRB line on the chunk you want to make glow. If the that number is 00, change it to 03. "03" stands for emissive, and glow. However, if the value is not 03, you'll need to have a value which retains the properties of the original AND add the values for emissive and glow. So let's say the fifth value is 04 (single-sided) . You would need to change it to 07 (single-sided, emissive, and glow). Here is a chart with all possible values so you can identify what possible values that fifth place value might be.
All of this being said, it may not even work. If the model's eyes aren't a separate ATRB chunk from the main model, it may be impossible to make the glow via hex editing.

You could likely just give it a glow map, but I've never created one and I don't know how.

The thing is, you have to be specific which model section you enable glow for. Any material with glow enabled won't be lit properly.

For example, if you edit wrong ATRB chunk, the entire droid might glow. (I think.)

This particular model is not set up to have those eyes use a seperate material and/or be its own MODL/SEGM. You also can't use a glow map to "mask" out the parts you don't want to glow. That's not how it works. So in this case, you will just have to do the seperation in XSI. Or you can turn the eyes on the stock Vulture Droid into an addon mesh positioned over the eyes of this model, and then you can hex edit the addon mesh onto this model.

yuke5 wrote:You'll need to find the fifth furthest from the ATRB line on the chunk you want to make glow. If the that number is 00, change it to 03. "03" stands for emissive, and glow.

I personally use 02, which is glow only. Having both emissive colors and glow at the same time is somewhat redunant.

Alright. Thanks everybody! I appreciate the help.