Almostfaceman: good to hear about Tali.
I gave a shot to glwing eyes but, at least with irises and pupils it is hideous. Mentioned once it makes her look like she has cataracts or is a zombie, then I also couldn't reconcile biolumescence WITHIN an eye. They would have to be blind to the glow or they would be blind entirely cuz their vision would be washed out by visible internal light (if you had a glowing LED inside your eye you would only see that light and be blind to all outside your eyes, so you would be functionally blind). If they cannot see the light then it cannot serve a biological purpose, such as some form if signalling to other quarians so what would be the selective pressure to maintain such biolume?
Biolume is generally used for camouflage in the ocean, to confuse predators (bobtail squid), as a prey attractant (a glowing bauble near the mouth acting like a lure - angler fish), to provide illumination in the deep dark ocean - but the glow organ is close to the eyes, not in the eyes, to provide some light to see by (dragon fish), to attract mates (male fireflies)...never in any creature inside their eyes for obvious reasons. I cannot help but analyze things that way - I am a biochemist.
I suppose you could model off dragon fish and make the whites of the eyes glow but NOT the lens and interior of the eye but, like for the fish, the range for illumination would be very short and you'd want to make the eyes huge to permit lots of glowing whites and a huge lense to see in the low light in the dark. She would become quite ugly with giant eyes. What you would see is big glowy eyes with datk spots in the center where the big pupils are.
Just thought of something else...Riddick and his "shine job" eyes. A lot of nocturnal animals have a very reflective layer inside their eyes, allowing more ambient light to reach the photoreceptors. They don't glow but if you shine light their way the eyes LOOK like they're glowing cuz of the high reflectivity. Riddick got a "shine job" while in prison (Pitch Black) so he could see better in the dark. It gave him shiny looking eyes cuz his pupils showed a silvery eye interior. I could try to mimic that and make her pupils larger and "glow" (not the whole eye) to signify a reflective coating for night vision like Riddick, or a cat, opossum, racoon, owl, etc. I'll try that out to see how that looks (again, the whole eye glowing, at least with an iris and pupil looks creepy like a zombie when I tried it. NOT a good look.
Heh, I know better than to argue facts with a scientist (I am not). I was just referring to universe fidelity (glowing eyes on all other quarians, glowing eyes mentioned by several characters). I like your idea if you feel like trying it I'll try out whatever you produce. I am no modder, so I thought maybe the glowing eyes used in the other quarian models may be utilized somehow. Probably not, since you're having to use a different eye and I would give you the benefit of the doubt that you've already considered that possibility. You've obviously put a lot of thought into this.
Again I say all of this with respect and appreciation for the mod. I prefer to see her face and mouth moving.
With regards to opacity I think you've probably done all you can do. You can see more of her face depending on lighting conditions (quite a bit of it in certain spots on the geth destroyer). But that doesn't hurt immersion due to the fact that lighting can "realistically" have that effect.
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But, when I put in the Eva head available on the Nexus, I get this:
