If you are using photoshop, the nVidia website has a good free plugin for editing (importing and exporting). Ugh, why did it have to be DDS format?! Yuck! 😞 Pigg Viewer will save the texture into that folder and will generate the entire path for you, beginning with texture_library - copy this texture_library into your CoH install's Data folder to put your new textures into the game. Repeat this for each of your modded textures (you can put them all in the same folder).
It is always safest to make a new folder to save your modded textures into at first this makes sharing easier as well. You should now see a window titled "Browse For Folder" containing a file tree, to choose a location to save the converted textures. dds." You will receive a window similar to an Open dialogue - choose your altered version of Cape_Valkyrie_01 and click Open. This time, after clearing the error message, choose "Create texture from.
Begin with the diffuse texture (Cape_Valkyrie_01 the diffuse texture and grayscale map). pigg that contains the textures and navigate to them and right-click your first texture. The process here is similar to how you extracted the original textures: Open the. Without access to the game's code, we can only overwrite what is already there. Altered textures will not render unless they have the same pixel dimensions as the original.Īdd new effects, such as glowing or mirror-shine, to items that did not have them before.Īdd new costume parts or base items. Replace a graphic with a completely different one, if you don't mind it being replaced across the board - I remember that back on Live there were some people who replaced the female "Leather" top-with-skin with the Carnie corset this way, before players were given access to it as its own costume piece. Remove effects that you dislike from the game by replacing them with "blank" images. if you don't like the built-in lipstick on the female Steampunk and Sci-Fi faces you can remove it). Here is a little recap of what is possible and what isn't:Ĭhange some aspects of existing graphics that you find undesirable (e.g. Here is a document on how to modify textures in CoH.Įdit: There are links to tools on the page.