modder resource LET IT DIE - Texture modifications

[NiliniliN]

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5 years late to the party

Here is a folder with the dump of a few textures from the game if you wish to modify them: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BBSKYwc5o3DCBzfwTeoYjpkXjE21x16z/view

 

How to inject textures:

1. Download Special K: https://discourse.differentk.fyi/t/download-special-k/1461

2. From C:\Users\%userprofile%\Documents\My Mods\SpecialK\ Take the SpecialK64.dll, paste it into \steamapps\common\LET IT DIE\Binaries\Win64\

3. Rename the pasted .dll to d3d9.dll

4. Copy this folder to C:\Users\%userprofile%\Documents\My Mods\SpecialK\

 

The folder has a few textures I was messing with, primarily the underwear all fighters have equipped by default.

I just replaced the texture and all its mipmap/lower res versions with a transparent equivalent.

Keep in mind the textures need to match the formats; most of the game has textures in DXT1 format with no transparency and the underwear was one of the few in DXT5 format with transparency hence I was able to do this.

 

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After editing any texture, keep the same CRC32 filename it had when it was dumped, then copy it to the inject/streaming folder

Edited July 16, 2023 by NiliniliN

[NiliniliN]

One of the issues with injecting textures correctly is that the game will sometimes try to load the lowest resolution version of a texture, then replace it with increasingly higher resolution texture until all textures are loaded in the level. If you did not edit all variations of a texture, then you might not see the changes you made. 

For example: I had been wondering why my changes randomly appeared and disappeared throughout gameplay. That was because I had only edited the 2048x2048 texture of the underwear and never dumped/edited the lower resolutions of the texture until now.

 

By the way, you can dump textures by editing the d3d9.ini

 

[Render.D3D9]
ForceD3D9Ex=false

 

[Textures.General]
ResourceRoot=SK_Res
DumpOnFirstLoad=false

 

Change DumpOnFirstLoad and ForceD3D9Ex to true.

ForceD3D9Ex will make the game unstable and you will be dropping fps quite a lot, but D3D9Ex is the only way to reliably activate DumpOnFirstLoad.

When you do not want to edit or dump textures, just set those back to false.