Shader¶

The following section describes the available shader options and their settings.

There are three different kinds of shader nodes:

BS Shader PP Lighting Property

BS Lighting Shader Property

BS Effect Shader Property

BS Shader PP Lighting Property¶

This shader node is used for things.

Property	Description
Alpha Texture	Requires `NiAlphaProperty` to enable.
Decal Single Pass	Standard decal.
Dynamic Alpha
Dynamic Decal Single Pass
Empty	Unknown
Environment Mapping
External Emittance
Eye Environment Mapping	Does not use envmap light fade or scale
Face Gen
Fire Refraction	Enables refraction power/period
Hair
Local Map Hide Secret	Hides everything under this marker from view on the local map
Low Detail	Apparently uses standard diff/norm/spec shader
Multiple Textures	Nulls base diff/norm
Non Projective Shadows	Disables projected shadows (?)
Parallax Occlusion
Refraction	Enables refraction power
Remappable Textures	Typically seen with texture animations
Shadow Frustum
Shadow Map
Single Pass
Skinned	Required for skinned meshes
Specular	Enables specularity
Tree Billboard
Unknown 1	Unknown
Unknown 2	Unknown
Unknown 3	Causes crashes
Vertex Alpha
Window Environment Mapping
Z-Buffer Test

BS Lighting Shader Property¶

Skyrim PP shader for assigning material/shader/texture.

This shader node is used for things.

Property	Description
Anisotropic Lighting
Assume Shadow Mask
Back Lighting Map	Use the backlight map
Billboard
Cast Shadows	Enables shadow casting
Cloud LOD
Decal	Decal
Double Sided	Enables two-faced rendering
Dynamic Decal
Effect Lighting
Environment Mapping	Uses envmap scale
Envmap Light Fade
External Emittance
Eye Environment Mapping	Does not use envmap light fade or scale
Facegen Detail	Adds a face detail map to the 4th texture slot
Facegen RGB Tint	Tintmask for the face
Fit Scope
Glow Map	Adds a glow map to the 3rd texture slot
Greyscale to Palette Alpha
Greyscale to Palette Color
Hair Soft Lighting	Keeps hair shader from blowing out
HD LOD Objects
Hide on Local Map	Similar to Hide Secret
Landscape	Unknown
Local Map Hide Secret	Hides everything under this marker from view on the local map
LOD Landscape
LOD Objects
Model Space Normals	Use model space normals and an external specular map
Multi-Index Snow
Multi_layer Parallax	Uses the inner-layer map
Multiple Textures	Enables multiple textures
No Fade	Disables viewport fading for the mesh
No LOD Land Blend
No Transparency Multisampling
Non Projective Shadows	Unknown
Own Emit	Provides its own emittance color
Packed Tangent
Parallax Occlusion
Parallax
Premult Alpha
Projected UV	Used for decaling items
Receive Shadows	Enables this mesh to receive shadows
Refraction	Enables normal map to be used for refraction effects
Remappable Textures
Rim Light	Uses the rim light map
Screendoor Alpha Fade
Skinned	Required for skinned meshes
Soft Effect
Soft Lighting	Uses the soft lighting map

Specular	Enables specularity
Temp Refraction	Unknown
Tree Anim	Enables Vertex and Flutter animation
Uniform Scale
Unused01	Unused
Unused02	Unused
Use Falloff	Use the falloff value in `EffectShaderProperty`
Vertex Alpha	Enables alpha component for vertex colors
Vertex Colors
Vertex Lighting
Weapon Blood	Enables blood decals for weapons
Wireframe
Z-Buffer Test
Z-Buffer Write	Enables writing to the z-buffer

When importing a BS Lighting Shader Property, the UV scale, UV offset and the clamp mode are converted into shader nodes. When this happens, the UV Map input node is first split into X and Y, and later combined for a final output. This combining node is what the exporter looks for when trying to find the nodes that do the X and Y transform. Therefore, it has a standard name: ‘Combine UV0’. The label is also the same by default, but that can be anything. If you want to export UV Scale, UV Offset or the clamp mode, making sure it follows this format is the best way to do it. If there is no node with that name, the exporter will still try to find that node by tracing back from the UV map input of the ‘Base’ image texture node, but it will give you a warning. If none are found, the standard values are chosen.

BS Effect Shader Property¶

Skyrim non-PP shader model, used primarily for transparency effects, often as a decal.

Property	Description
Cast Shadows	Enables shadow casting
Decal
Dynamic Decal
Environment Mapping	Uses envmap scale
External Emittance
Eye Environment Mapping	Must use eye shader and model must be skinned
Facegen Detail	Face detail for the 4th texture slot
Facegen RGB Tint	Tinkmask for the face
Fire Refraction
Greyscale to Palette Alpha
Greyscale to Palette Color
Hair Soft Lighting	Keeps hair shader from blowing out
HD LOD Objects
Hide on Local Map	Similar to Hide Secret
Landscape	Unknown
Local Map Hide Secret	Hides everything under this marker from view on the local map
LOD Landscape
LOD Objects
Model Space Normals	Use model space normals and an external specular map
Multi-Index Snow
Multi_layer Parallax	Uses the inner-layer map
Multiple Textures	Enables multiple textures
No Fade	Disables viewport fading for the mesh
No LOD Land Blend
No Transparency Multisampling
Non Projective Shadows	Unknown
Own Emit	Provides its own emittance color
Packed Tangent
Parallax Occlusion
Parallax
Premult Alpha
Projected UV	Used for decaling items
Receive Shadows	Enables this mesh to receive shadows
Refraction	Enables normal map to be used for refraction
Remappable Textures
Rim Light	Uses the rim light map
Screendoor Alpha Fade
Skinned	Required for skinned meshes
Soft Effect
Soft Lighting	Uses the soft lighting map
Specular	Enables specularity
Temp Refraction	Unknown
Tree Anim	Enables Vertex and Flutter animation
Uniform Scale
Unused01	Unused
Unused02	Unused
Use Falloff	Use the falloff value in `EffectShaderProperty`
Vertex Alpha	Enables alpha component for vertex colors
Vertex Colors
Vertex Lighting
Weapon Blood	Enables blood decals for weapons
Wireframe
Z-Buffer Test
Z-Buffer Write	Enables writing to the z-buffer

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BS Shader PP Lighting Property¶

BS Lighting Shader Property¶

BS Effect Shader Property¶