[Guild Wars 2] A possible new way to mod Guild Wars 2 that is quite promising. (1 Viewer)

[Breadgloves]

This definitely looks promising. Hopefully there'll be Sylvari mods at some point, along with the rest of the races.

 

[Vergil]

Not on my side.

 

[ZelaXaleRo]

I hate to put the nail in the coffin on this one... Happened to come across someone who had been working on this in-game on a disposable account. They had it working, until they changed areas, IE load to different area/zone change where they were promptly disconnected and then could not log back in. Said accounts were closed and after several attempts their connecting IP was flagged and had a softban from that IP.

TL: DR of the conversation with them is A.Net is very agaisnt modding in a more hardliner response and keeps an eye on such things far more actively on anything that could potentially infringe gem sales.

Granted free to try and they didn't denote their methods for discussion over a private convo in-game, just be wary of the very high risk involved and not to test on anything other than a throw away account with an unrelated info to any of your other accounts. Said convo took place when I jumped in during the Halloween event, from a regular player that gave up around 3-4 months prior.

I do appreciate all who tried, seems a lost cause, shame given this has been a beautiful game with a large amount of cosmetic freedom on aesthetic as a whole, compared to other games.

 

[Silvist]

ZelaXaleRo Were they using something like Special-K as a hook? If not I could give it a go to see if it lets me do simple file replacement.

When I was looking into a texmod style replacer, Special-K was the one I came across. It seems to have been gaining support over the last year or so in games, so who know :D

Oh and one huge advantage of Special-K is it works for dx10&dx11, so you don't have to fumble around with dx9 anymore.

 

[Silvist]

Also apparently you can use this to upgrade directx9 to dx12, which has some very interesting addons:

GitHub - gw2-addon-loader/GW2-Addon-Manager: Installer and updater for Guild Wars 2 addons.

Installer and updater for Guild Wars 2 addons. Contribute to gw2-addon-loader/GW2-Addon-Manager development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

 

[Silvist]

And an update, looks like I got it to work at least software wise, let me see if i can mess with a body texture.

Spoiler: ui1

Update: Yup I'm able to see textures in game, woo. Now to find the juicy stuff:

Spoiler: ui2

Spoiler: found the body texture

 

[Silvist]

Sadly I'm still a novice at using Special-K so I'm trying to remember how to reinject textures lol. I actually stumbled across this program when trying to mod Kingdoms of Amalur Re-reckoning.

 

[Issianda]

No luck huh? :<

 

[JuicyNuggins]

I've been attempting to use modelmod for a while, and all the textures I use seem to have flipped/weird normals. I've tried using 'reverse normal components' and also tried it without. I'm at a loss.

I miss when uMod worked and all this was simpler, I just want my titty mods

 

[ibigfire]

With the game hitting Steam this week maybe this'll gain some interest on this, which would be great. Love being able to go nude in games if possible, definitely hate having to have clothes on *all* the time like most games force it.

 

[shnoobins]

I miss when uMod worked and all this was simpler, I just want my titty mods

Agreed. I haven't played in awhile, and fired up to try the new expansion. Can't seem to get anything to work now that it's DX11. ModelMod seems to be an abandon project now. SpecialK looked promising, but I can't get it to inject modified textures. Hm...

 

[shnoobins]

Some progress. So, Special K isn't injecting modified textures because it seems that Photoshop screws up the header on DDS exports.

 

[gmvixen]

Did anyone ever sort this out for 64bit / DX11?

Recently started playing the game again and there are some outfits that I would like to edit. Typically, just to remove some side cloth around the hips or the stupid ugly "tails" on almost every outfit. Not concerned with getting fully nude. Just remove some excess fabric. :P

 

[patches13]

Not having nude mods is what kept me from playing this game lol. The default armors etc. were just too bland.

 

[ibigfire]

Not having nude mods is what kept me from playing this game lol. The default armors etc. were just too bland.

Same, except regardless of the default armour looks I simply just like being naked. Being stuck in clothes 100% of the time would be awful.