#texture modding

So, someone messaged me the other day asking how I changed the textures and changed the models in Psychonauts 2 and I thought I may as well write a guide to how I managed to achieve some of these changes.

I apologize in advance with how lengthy this will most likely be and if any of the wording might be a little confusing, feel free to ask me for any further explanation on areas where you might be confused.

Texture Changing Tutorial: Link

Model Replacement Tutorial: Link

07.13.2022 | Control | Remedy Entertainment

C3Anderson has been making great progress on the project, creating textures, and mesh modding :D. Our vision for these Blur-studios alternative appearance tributes has been getting better, and better as we strive to achieve greater accuracy with new techniques.

See em in action in this video!

How we have collaborated.

My role has been relatively simple. But no less essential... My job is to acquire resources, provide useful critique, and create necessary reference materials that aid in keeping the versions on track visually, and creatively! For example I have been making references like this to help this skilled artist find the best ways to get to our intended result :).

It involves a lot of careful observation, and note taking. Spotting things most normally miss. Then C3Anderon makes all the adjustments, tests, and sends back the results :) .

Mesh modding is a tricky endeavour, especially when you are going about changing the look of an established in-game character. Morphing it into a version seen in a higher fidelity CGI trailer. What I found helped, was drawing a simplified wireframe over an image of the more complex actor to assist the artist in emulating that look in the existing in-game mesh. After that... They make sure that the texture looks just right, so it perfectly resembles the look of this version.

We intend to achieve getting the other characters featured in the marketing campaign to look exactly like these alts too! You have seen the work on the textures for example, and now we are taking that a step further.

Seeing  C3Anderson work on these has been really inspiring!, he is a very skilled modder. I’m really honoured to have been able to work with them on such a cool looking texture project. I hope to share more details about it in the near future... But also check in on their platforms often to see the progress!

https://www.youtube.com/user/MrC23Anderson/videos

After nearly a year, I've finally gotten a comment on the Inquisition Battlemage Retextures I spent a solid two weeks learning how to make.

The comment?

"I feel like this would be a lot more popular if the colours weren't so highly saturated :("

Yeah. They could have like... requested less saturated versions. Because you know, I state that I take requests. But nah they had to do it like this.

So I spent the last bit of my night after a really shitty work day loading up the gimp files, making new dds files, making the mods, making new patch folders, and testing the mods in Inquisition and getting screenshots.

So now the mod has finally been updated with two new files-- the less saturated versions. And I'll watch as nobody continues to give a shit.

It's funny, because like... the green and purple files were a fucking afterthought. I was mostly focused on the tintable versions. Which aren't saturated because the player tints them at a crafting station. 5 out of the 7 originals were the tintable versions.

My first mod is released! 

A Tail Begone. Removes the tails of each gender and race with tails! 

Mix and match to your choice.