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I went in to hex-edit a material to have glow. The value I was going to edit is highlighted in the screenshot above.

[color=#FF8040]AceMastermind[/color] wrote: 0B = Emissive, Glow, Doublesided

The weird things was that the object didn't really glow all the strongly. Then I remembered what AQT wrote on my WIP thread. (Although posted by AQT the original post was made by AceMastermind again)

AQT wrote:

[color=#FF8040]AceMastermind[/color] wrote:List of unknown hex found 5 places after ATRB in various msh files:

Hex/My best guess
...
49 = ?
...

That value combines transparency with glow. It's found in the stock CTF vortex model. Or you can do 48; it works either way.

So then I looked up what 49 meant.

[color=#FF8040]AceMastermind[/color] wrote:49 = Emissive, Doublesided, Additive

So I though, okay, well we want to find a hex edit value with both properties, right? We need a value which is Emissive, Doublesided, Additive, and provides Glow, as well. So I looked up the value for that, which turned out to be 4B. So I went into a hex editor, changed the value to 4B, which lead to this:
I then saved file as an msh, and munged. However, when I munged, I got the error "ModelMunge.exe has stopped working." and then an error box with a bunch of stuff. From that point I figured, "Well, I guess I did something wrong." and tried again with just 49 instead of 4B. However, that also resulted in a crash. I then changed the value back to 0B, and munged, and everything worked out. I must be doing something, wrong but I can't figure out what. Am I using the wrong values, or is there a step in the process I am missing? Please help.

Thanks in advance.

You need to enter it one byte to the left of where you have it now.
It should look like this: Those first 8 bytes are just the chunk header[4] and chunk length[4].

EDIT
It looks like you were just getting 5th and 6th place flags mixed up.

It works now.



Thanks a bunch, AceMastermind!

Isn't that Rend's wife in the image? I think he requested no one use that image since it was left in the released assets by accident.

Yep
http://www.gametoast.com/forums/viewtop ... 29#p109029

If you could paint her out of the image I think that would be fine.

Oh my. I wasn't aware. I'll take care of that right away! Thanks for the heads up.