tales of vesperia

[zaiaku]

8 minutes ago, haruz said:

Anything for rita?

I doubt it with her being 15 to 16, during the events of the game.p but then again they did it for Droite and Gauche so hey never know

[Maccias]

38 minutes ago, zaiaku said:

I doubt it with her being 15 to 16, during the events of the game.p but then again they did it for Droite and Gauche so hey never know

The tales of arise thread had mods for rinwell so i don't know tbh

[zaiaku]

4 minutes ago, Maccias said:

The tales of arise thread had mods for rinwell so i don't know tbh

But that's them not blacknight411. 

[cookiethief20]

So I actually removed the textures for Droite and Gauche (Do we know their age?) and wasn't planning on doing anything for Rita do to her age.

[haruz]

Is it possible to share the textures thru dms? I hate when good work disappears 

[zaiaku]

On 10/5/2025 at 3:02 PM, cookiethief20 said:

So I actually removed the textures for Droite and Gauche (Do we know their age?) and wasn't planning on doing anything for Rita do to her age.

First offer me apologize for misattributing the mod someone else other than you and no there's nothing from the wiki that says how old they are. Although I would assume they're around Rita's age or even slightly older maybe 17 at oldest but at the same time they could be younger.

[cookiethief20]

Regardless of any personal opinions in regard to the age of fictional characters there are site rules explicitly prohibiting sexual depictions of underage characters. Since Droite & Gauche have a visually ambiguous age (to my eyes anyway), and we don't have a canonical age to fall back on for them, I will not be posting mods for them. 

[zaiaku]

And before anyone says anything about Estelle, she herself says in the skit in Aspio nar the beginning of the game that she turned 18 earlier that year. 

[Exhausted]

19 hours ago, Murbor said:

Who cares? Stop making a fuss about the fictional ages of fictional characters who are fictional and also don't exist.

Rather, it's people like you who need to stop making a fuss about this, because the ban on underage mods is done to avoid actual legal trouble. You want underaged mods to be unbanned? Write your congressmen, I guess. Don't try and pick fights with the moderators or mod makers. They're just doing what they have to under the laws we currently have.

[cookiethief20]

 

So I might update the mod one last time when I actually finish my play through, but until then I wanted to write up a simple guide for how to do these edits for anyone who wants to read it. This guide is focused on Vesperia but it should work as a jumping of point for any Tales game that works with Special_K
I use Krita for Texture editing because it's free, and I can separate out the transparency into a different layer. If you use a different program you may have to change/skip some of these steps.

LOCATE AND DUMP TEXTURE

Spoiler

 - With TVFix/Special_K running launch the game
 - Locate the texture in the game world
 - Press ctrl+shift+backspace to open the menu, then open 'Render Mod Tools'
 - Under 'Live Texture View' is a list of all currently loaded textures, you will have to go through them to find the one you wish to edit. The currently selected texture will be highlighted in the game world, and displayed to the right of the list (you may want to expand this window)
 - Select 'Export Texture' to export the texture to 'Tales of Vesperia Definitive Edition\SK_Res\dump\textures\TOV_DE.exe'

 

RENAME AND EDIT FILES

Spoiler

By default your exported files will be named something like 'Compressed_49F6CF44.dds' and 'Compressed_49F6CF44.dds.txt', you will have to rename them so they can be injected as well as to make it easier to find them if you are working with a lot of textures.
The dds file is your texture image and the dds.txt file seems to be instructions for the game to load it properly.
 - Remove anything in the name before the hash (the random sequence of numbers/letters), you can have whatever you want after the hash.
 - both files must have the same name (don't change their file extensions)
 - Open the dds.txt file, and on the first line change the filepath to 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Tales of Vesperia Definitive Edition\SK_Res/inject/textures/YOUR_TEXTURE_NAME.dds'
I'm not sure of the specific requirements for this line, but this should work (by the way this is NOT the filepath for my computer but it works with it anyways ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

 

CONVERT TO PNG
    you need some kind of art program that can load dds files and export png files (like Paint.net), or some other file conversion program (like XnConvert)

 

EDIT TEXTURE

Spoiler

 - Mouseright the background and select 'Split Alpha' -> 'Alpha into Mask'
 - Mouseright the Transparency Mask and select 'Convert' -> 'Convert to Paint Layer'
 - Select both the background and transparency Mask, then ctrl+g
 - Mouseright the transparency mask and select 'Convert' -> 'Convert to Transparency Mask'
 - select the portion of the texture you want to "remove" and replace with that characters skin tone

 

 TEXTURE EDITING NOTES

Spoiler

 - For color matching skin you might have to dump the face texture
 - for additional skin details i just darkened the skin color slightly or added a bit of red
 - I used the 'Contiguous Selection Tool' a lot with 'grow' set to zero/one, and tweaking 'threshold' as needed
 
 Unrelated to nsfw edits, if you want to do a pallet swap
 - use the 'Similar color selection tool' to select your chosen color
 - desaturate with ctrl+shift+u
 - do a HSV adjustment with ctrl+u and select 'colorize'
 - repeat for all colors you want to swap
 - you might want to save your HSV adjustment setting for each color

 

EXPORT TEXTURE

Spoiler

 - Mouseright the 'Transparency Mask' and select 'Split Alpha' -> 'Save Merged'
 - Set compression to 0, and select 'Store alpha channel(transparency)'. Everything else should be disabled

 

INJECT TEXTURE
 - Convert back to DDS and place it in the inject folder alongside its corresponding dds.txt file.

 

 OTHER NOTES

Spoiler

 - after adding a texture to the inject folder you will have to relaunch the game for it to load
 - when locating body parts in a texture it may help to have the game running so you can refresh the texture
 - For locating body parts I used a shape tool to cover half the image, then refreshed the texture, adjust the shape, repeat until you locate the correct part of the texture.
 - when locating body parts you might want to lower your game's graphics so your computer doesn't hate you for having both Krita and tales launched at the same time.
 - If you have a lot of injected textures don't use the 'reload injected textures' button as it may cause all injected textures to fail
 - you may have to relaunch the game periodically if you have been refreshing a texture a lot

 

PS: I will no longer be sharing the textures I made for Droite or Gauche, but if you really want those textures this guide should be enough to recreate them.

[zaiaku]

True Knight - Didn't expect that, but if Cumore can have one (which I have removed), then why not Yuri.

 

Kellas - Who?

[Layle4123]

Any updates

[amorrow28]

On 2/21/2026 at 11:56 PM, Layle4123 said:

Any updates

 

I've released a modding tool for this game (2 months ago actually) so directly modifying models and textures is possible now.  It's not the easiest game to mod, but it's possible.

[jmedia7]

Estelle and judith nude.

 

TOVnudeV1.rar

 

Install: 

Download amorrow28's svo exporter. https://github.com/eArmada8/vesperia_model_tool/releases/download/v1.1.0/vesperia_extract_svo.exe

Then extract just the chara.svo file with this tool.

Then place the 2 dat files from this mod into the newly extracted chara folder. 

Then delete or rename the chara.svo file. 

-Should work for nintendo switch with this process as well. 

-Replaces their default outfits. 

 

Huge thanks to amorrow28 for his hard work in making the modding tools!

 

Edited March 4 by jmedia7

[amorrow28]

15 hours ago, jmedia7 said:

Estelle and judith nude.

 

TOVnudeV1.rar 24.24 MB · 1 download

 

Install: 

Download amorrow28's svo exporter. https://github.com/eArmada8/vesperia_model_tool/releases/download/v1.1.0/vesperia_extract_svo.exe

Then extract just the chara.svo file with this tool.

Then place the 2 dat files from this mod into the newly extracted chara folder. 

Then delete or rename the chara.svo file. 

-Should work for nintendo switch with this process as well. 

-Replaces their default outfits. 

 

Huge thanks to amorrow28 for his hard work in making the modding tools!

 

 

Amazing work!  It's so difficult to make anything look good while matching the look of the game.

[rolandsdrktower]

Seems like for the Switch the chara folder needs to be repacked into chara.svo in order to work on Atmosphere since the original chara.svo file can't be deleted.  Unless I'm missing something.  Does anyone know of a way to do that?  Awesome work though, @jmedia7

[jmedia7]

2 hours ago, cringhe83 said:

game wont start with the svo file deleted. im guessing im doing something wrong?

on pc, it should look like this. Should be fine to delete the chara svo.

[amorrow28]

4 hours ago, rolandsdrktower said:

Seems like for the Switch the chara folder needs to be repacked into chara.svo in order to work on Atmosphere since the original chara.svo file can't be deleted.  Unless I'm missing something.  Does anyone know of a way to do that?  Awesome work though, @jmedia7

HyoutaTools can pack svo, but mostly in theory. Even PS3 and PC have very slight differences in their svo format so when I tried packing earlier, it crashed the game because it was using PS3 format. (The author updated it to work on PC but then the discord folks told me that the game loads loose files, so I went that route instead.) So yeah… dunno if it’ll work.

[Cutepatatas]

On 3/4/2026 at 2:39 PM, jmedia7 said:

Estelle and judith nude.

 

TOVnudeV1.rar 24.24 MB · 28 downloads

 

Install: 

Download amorrow28's svo exporter. https://github.com/eArmada8/vesperia_model_tool/releases/download/v1.1.0/vesperia_extract_svo.exe

Then extract just the chara.svo file with this tool.

Then place the 2 dat files from this mod into the newly extracted chara folder. 

Then delete or rename the chara.svo file. 

-Should work for nintendo switch with this process as well. 

-Replaces their default outfits. 

 

Huge thanks to amorrow28 for his hard work in making the modding tools!

 

First of all I really love Jmedia and all his work. I've been trying to make almost all of his mods work on my switch for a long time! Most of them are switch compatible.

Tried to have it working on the switch (hardware) I've been at it for almost 5 hours

Unfortunately,. there might be something wrong with the textures..  idk.. I'm not really a modder or the way I did things.. probably when I repacked it?

What I did:
I dumped the chara.svo file using nxdump tool
Extracted it using the tool provided on the link
replaced the 2 files on the folder
Unfortunately there is no way to delete the chara.svo on the installed nsp itself but atmosphere layered fs just makes the mods work if it has the exact path and filename
so instead of deleting I repacked the edited chara folder (I asked chatgpt to reverse engineer the svo extractor and make it compress instead)
so now I have a new chara.svo file repacked with the mods.. then did lots of trials and errors (goddamn game wont run unless in airplane mode spent 2 hours because of it)
Long story short.. I then ended up with 2 green lovely aliens. lol


With Mods

No Mods

Edited April 19 by Cutepatatas

[rolandsdrktower]

1 hour ago, Cutepatatas said:

First of all I really love Jmedia and all his work. I've been trying to make almost all of his mods work on my switch for a long time! Most of them are switch compatible.

Tried to have it working on the switch (hardware) I've been at it for almost 5 hours

Unfortunately,. there might be something wrong with the textures..  idk.. I'm not really a modder or the way I did things.. probably when I repacked it?

What I did:
I dumped the chara.svo file using nxdump tool
Extracted it using the tool provided on the link
replaced the 2 files on the folder
Unfortunately there is no way to delete the chara.svo on the installed nsp itself but atmosphere layered fs just makes the mods work if it has the exact path and filename
so instead of deleting I repacked the edited chara folder (I asked chatgpt to reverse engineer the svo extractor and make it compress instead)
so now I have a new chara.svo file repacked with the mods.. then did lots of trials and errors (goddamn game wont run unless in airplane mode spent 2 hours because of it)
Long story short.. I then ended up with 2 green lovely aliens. lol


With Mods

No Mods

 

Oh wow - that's some actual progress!  My guess is that the modded .dds texture files can't be read by the Switch.  Now that I know it's possible to repack the .svo file (great work!), then hopefully it's just a matter updating the texture.  Can you upload the original "JUD_C000.DAT" and "EST_C000.DAT" Switch files so I can take a look?

[rolandsdrktower]

Hit a roadblock.  I can export the model and textures from the original switch .DAT file, but re-importing requires the textures be BC7 to work which is an issue for the Switch since they're BC3.

 

 

Even just exporting and importing without making any changes shows a drastic file reduction, which I presume are because of the textures.

 

 

I'm attaching the original .DAT files from the Switch if anyone else wants to take a crack at it.

 

https://github.com/eArmada8/vesperia_model_tool - for exporting the .DAT files

https://github.com/KillzXGaming/Switch-Toolbox - for opening Switch texture files

Switch JUD and EST files.zip

[Cutepatatas]

17 hours ago, rolandsdrktower said:

 

Oh wow - that's some actual progress!  My guess is that the modded .dds texture files can't be read by the Switch.  Now that I know it's possible to repack the .svo file (great work!), then hopefully it's just a matter updating the texture.  Can you upload the original "JUD_C000.DAT" and "EST_C000.DAT" Switch files so I can take a look?

EDIT: I'm a few minutes too late. lol

Here's the EST_CS00.DAT (655kb) and JUDC000.DAT (793KB) freshly dumped from my switch (I had to redo it since I've overwritten it previously)

I don't know if it will help but noting the modded file size are EST_C000.DAT (2500kb) and JUDC000.DAT (4992kb)

Hope this helps make future progress for the switch version of the mod 

dumped 2 files.rar

Edited April 20 by Cutepatatas

[amorrow28]

2 hours ago, rolandsdrktower said:

Hit a roadblock.  I can export the model and textures from the original switch .DAT file, but re-importing requires the textures be BC7 to work which is an issue for the Switch since they're BC3.

 

 

Even just exporting and importing without making any changes shows a drastic file reduction, which I presume are because of the textures.

 

 

I'm attaching the original .DAT files from the Switch if anyone else wants to take a crack at it.

 

https://github.com/eArmada8/vesperia_model_tool - for exporting the .DAT files

https://github.com/KillzXGaming/Switch-Toolbox - for opening Switch texture files

Switch JUD and EST files.zip 1.39 MB · 1 download

My tool is written specifically to accept only PC textures using the Microsoft DirectX header format (DDS). It will not work with switch unless the script is extended to read switch textures. The file size is smaller most likely because it is not packing any textures back in.

[Ryuuga4774]

On 3/4/2026 at 3:39 PM, jmedia7 said:

Estelle and judith nude.

 

TOVnudeV1.rar 24.24 MB · 29 downloads

 

Install: 

Download amorrow28's svo exporter. https://github.com/eArmada8/vesperia_model_tool/releases/download/v1.1.0/vesperia_extract_svo.exe

Then extract just the chara.svo file with this tool.

Then place the 2 dat files from this mod into the newly extracted chara folder. 

Then delete or rename the chara.svo file. 

-Should work for nintendo switch with this process as well. 

-Replaces their default outfits. 

 

Huge thanks to amorrow28 for his hard work in making the modding tools!

 

Thank you so much, I finally got my most favorite and love Judith nude.  This is also my favorite Tales of game so thank you very much.

[amorrow28]

@rolandsdrktower @Cutepatatas

 

So the textures that the switch files you provided use .bntx format, which is a new one for me... I've mostly gotten support working for it, and I am willing to try to convert @jmedia7's mods to switch (assuming he is ok with it).  Those models use more than the original EST_C000.DAT and JUD_C000.DAT though.  I need the switch versions of EST_C101.DAT and JUD_C101.DAT as well, can you please share those files?