A Very Basic Guide to Azur lane Modding

[PrinzEugen69]

As there is little to no information outside of Mainland China,

I decided to make a very bare-bones guide, in the hope that i can guide people in the right direction,

As I'm by no means an expert on this subject.

 

 

 

 

Before we begin Modding is Technically against Yostar Tos use at your own risk

 

To get you started here is the first mod pack 

 

The rest (along with other peoples excellent mods) are the replies

AL mod pack 1 v2.zip

 

 

1.) Mods & Installation

2.) Tools

3.) Extracting

4.) Making Textures

5.) Importing

 

1.) Installation

 

Spoiler

 

 

 2.) Tools

 

Spoiler

You will need an image editor like gimp or photoshop,

 

-https://www.gimp.org/

 

 

AssetStudio to view and extract textures,

 

-https://github.com/Perfare/AssetStudio

 

 

UABEA for importing and file editing,

 

-https://github.com/nesrak1/UABEA

 

 general guide for UABEA, ⤵️

 

 

3.) Extracting

 

Spoiler

 

 

this part is a bit of a pain in the ass as all of the sprite names are in chinese, so you'll have go through each one and find the girl you want to mod,

thankfully some are simple, "Tirpitz" is "tierbici" "Aigr" is "aijier"

the first thing is to copy the texture files off your phone/emulator, just put them in a folder somewhere on your pc,

the file path is android/data/yostar.azurlane/files/assetbundles/painting

you're looking for "_tex "and "_rw_tex" files, as these are usually textures for the girls, usually

 "_tex_n " files are the shiprgirl's "rigging"

 

 

 

once the files are on your pc open them in AssetStudio, you will usually see something like this, if you don't see it, make sure you're in "Asset List"

 

 

there is someway to not have the texture cutup like this, but i haven't figured that out yet,

 

next is to extract texture2D to a .png as you need a transparent background,

don't worry about the sprite you don't need it,

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.) Making Textures

 

Spoiler

you should now have the texture as a .png

 

 

now open it in your image editor and make whatever changes you want,

if you have problems with transparency make sure you add an alpha channel,

 

for changing the girl appearance or making them nude, I will overlay the new texture on top and cutoff the extra bits.

 

 

once you're done, export it as .png,

 

 

5.) Importing

 

Spoiler

next open your _tex file in UABEA,

 

 

 

now go to info and find texture2D,

 

 

 

select Texture2D and go to plugins>edit texture

 

 

 

load and grab that texture you edited before,

 

 

 

save _tex file,

 

 

 

now copy the edited  _tex file to the Painting folder in your game files, as per the first part of this guide,

 

 

your shipgirl should now be nude or have whatever changes you made.

 

P.S if i make or find anymore mods i'll post them here.

 

P.P.S fill free to use any of my work for your own mods,

thanks to @Meekurukuru making me realize that people might want to be sure they have my permission before they use my stuff.

 

Happy Modding Shikikan!

 

Edited January 12 by PrinzEugen69
updated mod pack

[PrinzEugen69]

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A few more mods.

unico refit alt.zipnew Jersey d.zip roon muse.zip

 

 

 

Edited December 31, 2024 by PrinzEugen69

[孫悟空]

more mods,please

[孫悟空]

Where should put the files

.xcf?

[PrinzEugen69]

11 hours ago, 孫悟空 said:

Where should put the files

.xcf?

 

.xcf is just a gimp image file you can Ignore It.

[孫悟空]

3 hours ago, PrinzEugen69 said:

 

.xcf 只是一个 gimp 图像文件，您可以忽略它。

On the Internet also see a lot of Azur lane MOD, where can I find?

[spotmark8]

So question

 

https://twitter.com/Als_QAQ/status/1673924643286286337?s=20

 

This user for example seems to have made an entire edit of the Live2d is that possible or wouild it require changing each frame of said said girls animation?

[PrinzEugen69]

On 7/17/2023 at 11:59 AM, spotmark8 said:

So question

 

https://twitter.com/Als_QAQ/status/1673924643286286337?s=20

 

This user for example seems to have made an entire edit of the Live2d is that possible or wouild it require changing each frame of said said girls animation?

Yes, but I believe it requires extra software to edit a live2d model, which i have zero experience in.

 

I also found cheeseonly111 & mofumochii on twitter but there mods are paywalled. 

[19370]

Thank you for your work! I have been playing Azure Lane for a long time and I am worried that using mod will result in a ban. Is it possible?

[IOWAsniper]

Hello, I am wondering if you could please explain where to find the Azur Lane files on Windows 10 Bluestacks version? Thank you.

[PrinzEugen69]

On 8/20/2023 at 6:44 AM, IOWAsniper said:

Hello, I am wondering if you could please explain where to find the Azur Lane files on Windows 10 Bluestacks version? Thank you.

/storage/emulated/0/androrid/data/com.yostaren.azurlane/files/assetbundles/painting

[PrinzEugen69]

On 8/19/2023 at 5:39 AM, 19370 said:

Thank you for your work! I have been playing Azure Lane for a long time and I am worried that using mod will result in a ban. Is it possible?

Possible, but probably not, i haven't heard any reports of bans for cosmetic mods. i have seen some mod authors get banned from chinese websites, but that seems to only be problem in china as modders on twitter and patreon haven't.

 

[PrinzEugen69]

Here are some of als_qaq's edits as he deleted his twitter, if you wish to make your own mods. als's edits.zip

[PrinzEugen69]

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Some PR ships

Kearsarge.zipAugust von Parseval Default alt.zipshimanto.zip

Edited December 31, 2024 by PrinzEugen69

[Guest]

Legend, thank you for this. DO you know of any repositories/discord servers/whatever with more skin changes?

[dpdl6]

wow,finally i found a foreigne azur edit education topic,i do it in Chinese web and X,less peoplo follow me

[dpdl6]

On 8/29/2023 at 9:29 AM, PrinzEugen69 said:

Here are some of als_qaq's edits as he deleted his twitter, if you wish to make your own mods. als's edits.zip

eh,i can't unzip it in my computer,what matter

[PrinzEugen69]

On 9/9/2023 at 9:56 PM, JForest said:

Legend, thank you for this. DO you know of any repositories/discord servers/whatever with more skin changes?

you're welcome!

mofumochi has a discord server but most of he's mods are pay walled, you can find them out there if you know where to look, *cough* * cough*  Kemono *cough* * cough* i of course don't condone piracy ? but i'm not going tell you what not to do.

 

 

On 9/12/2023 at 2:14 PM, dpdl6 said:

eh,i can't unzip it in my computer,what matter

i tested it on my end and it worked fine, you could try 7-zip.

[dpdl6]

On 2023/9/17 at PM1点04分, PrinzEugen69 said:

不客气！

mofumochi 有一个不和谐服务器，但他的大多数模组都是付费的，如果您知道在哪里寻找，您可以在那里找到它们，*咳嗽* *咳嗽* Kemono *咳嗽* *咳嗽* 我当然不容忍盗版 ? 但是 我不会告诉你什么不该做。

 

 

我测试了一下，效果很好，你可以试试7-zip。

thanks,last i try to unzip it on computer and i have success.by the way,our Chinese azur editor have some tools to change piecemeal picture into complete one,i think it's more convince

than edit the picture in pieces.can i share it?

[PrinzEugen69]

On 9/18/2023 at 12:23 PM, dpdl6 said:

thanks,last i try to unzip it on computer and i have success.by the way,our Chinese azur editor have some tools to change piecemeal picture into complete one,i think it's more convince

than edit the picture in pieces.can i share it?

sure it might help

[PrinzEugen69]

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Unzen mod 

 

unzen d.zip

Edited December 31, 2024 by PrinzEugen69

[Backtrac]

Do you have any leads on editing L2D skins? I'll like to look into it but information on it is non existent in English.

[PepsiDonwer]

On 9/20/2023 at 9:49 PM, PrinzEugen69 said:

Unzen mod 

 

unzen d.zip 18.4 MB · 30 downloads

Did you get your hands on any mods for the new l2d skins?

[morisuq]

On 9/23/2023 at 6:50 AM, Backtrac said:

Do you have any leads on editing L2D skins? I'll like to look into it but information on it is non existent in English.

You will need Spine and learn how to use the software to edit L2D animations.

[AlBryn]

On 9/18/2023 at 11:23 PM, dpdl6 said:

thanks,last i try to unzip it on computer and i have success.by the way,our Chinese azur editor have some tools to change piecemeal picture into complete one,i think it's more convince

than edit the picture in pieces.can i share it?

Can you share it bro?