Do you need special meshes or textures to make things glow like the enemies that Boone spots?

I'm working on a companion. I would like to have him offer a useful perk (so he could be competetive with the vanilla companions -- for those of us who do not like having a small army follow them), and I was thinking of something similar to what Boone does, except for traps like tripwires and hidden landmines.

Look at Boone's perk in the GECK. It's a hardcoded effect.