Horizon Forbidden West - request

[Son of the Sun]

2 hours ago, JustCurious10 said:

 

It is sadly very unlikely to see a nude mod in the future, because even with the source code for the PS version it seems impossible to create the necessary tool for the PC version and a mod which replaces the body seems neither possible for some reason.

that’s unfortunate 

[Demonwise]

It is unfortunate indeed. The game has no replayability for me other than to do the adventure all over again looking at tight ass, a toned, athletic body and at a couple of at least grapefruit-sized firm tities. Cantalopes, are a bit too big but also my acceptable limit. Watermellon and beach ball are right out. Anything larger... what the hell is wrong with you. 

[JustCurious10]

4 hours ago, Demonwise said:

It is unfortunate indeed. The game has no replayability for me other than to do the adventure all over again looking at tight ass, a toned, athletic body and at a couple of at least grapefruit-sized firm tities. Cantalopes, are a bit too big but also my acceptable limit. Watermellon and beach ball are right out. Anything larger... what the hell is wrong with you. 

 

Yeah, i am in the same boat and it is weird that there is no body replacer available while many games get one within a couple of months, but now is the perfect time to get a fruit salad

Edited February 8, 2025 by JustCurious10

[Vechernyaya]

It is likely that the devs didn't appreciate the nude mod for the first game and made it impossible to mod in this one.

[James39]

2 hours ago, Vechernyaya said:

It is likely that the devs didn't appreciate the nude mod for the first game and made it impossible to mod in this one.

90% and even more no. One example is Code Violet, a Dino Crisis-like will be released only for PS5 because the devs themselves said that the game would not be released on PC because of the Mods

Edited February 8, 2025 by James39

[Demonwise]

6 minutes ago, James39 said:

90% and even more no. One example is Code Violet, a Dino Crisis-like will be released only for PS5 because the devs themselves said that the game would not be released on PC because of the Mods

 

Well if that is the case then they are a bunch of assholes. Bunch of prudish fucks.

[bonifide]

48 minutes ago, Demonwise said:

 

Well if that is the case then they are a bunch of assholes. Bunch of prudish fucks.

Then if the game flops they will find someway to blame pc. Instead of the mod argument they will say it will just be pirated on PC.

 

I guess I'm not going to play this game. I uninstalled it last week for ff7rebirth. Hopefully sometime this year we get a nude mod.

[Algene]

8 hours ago, James39 said:

90% and even more no. One example is Code Violet, a Dino Crisis-like will be released only for PS5 because the devs themselves said that the game would not be released on PC because of the Mods

Ya... that sounds more like "the PC port is shite, let's just come with an excuse... yeah lewd gamers that's it"

[James39]

12 hours ago, bonifide said:

I guess I'm not going to play this game. I uninstalled it last week for ff7rebirth. Hopefully sometime this year we get a nude mod.

This year ?! It will happen very fast. Mods already exists. I won't say the same for Forbidden West, shame..

[haruz]

I really liked zero dawn. And I am interested in playing forbidden west. Hopefully one day mods will come and make the scenery alot better. I'm still holding onto hope we get some one day.

[Zaselim]

I finally started the game yesterday, couldn't wait any longer for the mods.

[watcherwings]

Yea seems like it'll be awhile before modding tools are available.

[chuckdm]

9 hours ago, Zaselim said:

I finally started the game yesterday, couldn't wait any longer for the mods.

 

I bought it 3 weeks ago.  Finished one playthrough, started a second.  FYI, NG+ gives you the option to skip half of the intro questline.  I recommend that, as others have said the game gains a lot of replay value after you unlock the base but it's very very linear until then.  You might even want to just grab someone's existing save on the Nexus and then make your own NG+ from that.

 

Best we've got right now is the blue tit Tenakth armors, but even with the pointless censorship of the nipple textures, they're not bad.  Logically, if the blue paint was opaque enough, then you might not see the areolas anyway.

 

Personally I still want her to have some abs and at least a heavy C cup, but this is way better than nothing.

 

One quick question for the more tech-minded here: is there any way that Aloy's boob shape can me manipulated with something like Cheat Engine?  Is there a Y-axis/depth value somewhere we could tweak with a memory editor like that?  I assume not but just figured I'd throw it out there.

 

Alternatively, is there a way to inject an alternative mesh at runtime?  IIRC there have been mods for other games that did that.  Doesn't ENB offer that capability?  (I don't use ENB so idk.)

 

Of course neither of these would offer a lot of flexibility but I would rather have 3 or 4 good topless/nude meshes than wait another 2-3 years and never get anything on the hope that we get full mod tools which appear very unlikely at this point.

Edited March 3, 2025 by chuckdm

[General_Jeno]

On 3/3/2025 at 8:55 AM, chuckdm said:

 

I bought it 3 weeks ago.  Finished one playthrough, started a second.  FYI, NG+ gives you the option to skip half of the intro questline.  I recommend that, as others have said the game gains a lot of replay value after you unlock the base but it's very very linear until then.  You might even want to just grab someone's existing save on the Nexus and then make your own NG+ from that.

 

Best we've got right now is the blue tit Tenakth armors, but even with the pointless censorship of the nipple textures, they're not bad.  Logically, if the blue paint was opaque enough, then you might not see the areolas anyway.

 

Personally I still want her to have some abs and at least a heavy C cup, but this is way better than nothing.

 

One quick question for the more tech-minded here: is there any way that Aloy's boob shape can me manipulated with something like Cheat Engine?  Is there a Y-axis/depth value somewhere we could tweak with a memory editor like that?  I assume not but just figured I'd throw it out there.

 

Alternatively, is there a way to inject an alternative mesh at runtime?  IIRC there have been mods for other games that did that.  Doesn't ENB offer that capability?  (I don't use ENB so idk.)

 

Of course neither of these would offer a lot of flexibility but I would rather have 3 or 4 good topless/nude meshes than wait another 2-3 years and never get anything on the hope that we get full mod tools which appear very unlikely at this point.

Cheat Engine only touches memory values. This means stuff with values. Values like money, XP, etc. Maybe in a game with a character creator you could in theory pull it off as your slider data is saved somewhere. Would do it in a save editor instead of a memory editor though. So no, not there.

ENB series is a shader injector, similar to ReShade. It affects color grade, lighting and postprocessing FX like bloom and the like.

 

Neither of which would help us with the real 3D model or textures that we would want to change, unfortunately.

The situation is that someone needs to figure out a way to extract the game's models and textures, mod them (that is the easy part, relatively) and then, get them loaded in the game again.

There are such tools for other games, yes. Things like Resorep and Forger come to mind. But not even the tools that were made for Zero Dawn work on this game... That's why, in this thread some people have tried to reach out to the guy who made those tools. But so far, no luck...

 

But, good looking out

[JustCurious10]

15 hours ago, General_Jeno said:

Neither of which would help us with the real 3D model or textures that we would want to change, unfortunately.

The situation is that someone needs to figure out a way to extract the game's models and textures, mod them (that is the easy part, relatively) and then, get them loaded in the game again.

There are such tools for other games, yes. Things like Resorep and Forger come to mind. But not even the tools that were made for Zero Dawn work on this game... That's why, in this thread some people have tried to reach out to the guy who made those tools. But so far, no luck...

 

I have no modding experience, but since those tools exist for the PS5 version, would it be possible to convert them to the PC version?

 

https://github.com/iddaemon/h2_extr/releases/tag/v1.0-PS5

Edited March 11, 2025 by JustCurious10

[General_Jeno]

On 3/11/2025 at 11:24 AM, JustCurious10 said:

 

I have no modding experience, but since those tools exist for the PS5 version, would it be possible to convert them to the PC version?

 

https://github.com/iddaemon/h2_extr/releases/tag/v1.0-PS5

From my very limited knowledge, I'd say it depends on how the port was done. I'd say at the very least it should be a step up... But idk.

All it takes is one person with the skills, to have a go, but it doesn't look like anyone is really interested

[Lillithcometh]

I’m holding out hope. I remember Shadow of the Tomb Raider seemed impossible to nude mod properly, took years but someone cracked the code. Until then they can drag me to my padded cell xD 

[Layle4123]

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[kingcody]

I just started Forbidden West yesterday. Holy fuck visually this game is amazing. I love playing Aloy again, after the first game. We absolutely NEED some explicit mods for her, when the tools become available I'll happily throw money at modders for this, DONT GIVE UP GAMERS 

[James39]

15 minutes ago, kingcody said:

I just started Forbidden West yesterday. Holy fuck visually this game is amazing. I love playing Aloy again, after the first game. We absolutely NEED some explicit mods for her, when the tools become available I'll happily throw money at modders for this, DONT GIVE UP GAMERS 

As for myself, I'm waiting mods since centuries for FW.

Problem ; the game is as hard to mod as hell.

I made a break until something happens

[chuckdm]

On 3/10/2025 at 1:31 PM, General_Jeno said:

Cheat Engine only touches memory values. This means stuff with values. Values like money, XP, etc. Maybe in a game with a character creator you could in theory pull it off as your slider data is saved somewhere. Would do it in a save editor instead of a memory editor though. So no, not there.

ENB series is a shader injector, similar to ReShade. It affects color grade, lighting and postprocessing FX like bloom and the like.

 

Neither of which would help us with the real 3D model or textures that we would want to change, unfortunately.

The situation is that someone needs to figure out a way to extract the game's models and textures, mod them (that is the easy part, relatively) and then, get them loaded in the game again.

There are such tools for other games, yes. Things like Resorep and Forger come to mind. But not even the tools that were made for Zero Dawn work on this game... That's why, in this thread some people have tried to reach out to the guy who made those tools. But so far, no luck...

 

But, good looking out

 

Thanks for the response.  Yeah I'm just trying to think up an alternative strategy to "wait on the guy who has been silent for years to suddenly drop a modding tool for the sequel" because that plan does not instill much hope.

 

So, just another wild stab in the dark here, but why can't something like this be done for HFW?  https://www.nexusmods.com/remnant2/mods/82

 

This was kinda what I was trying to get at before but my examples were bad I guess.  Seems like replacing Aloy's model at runtime has a better shot at success than waiting on mod tools that can unpack and repack the engine's files.

[StuRedman]

On 3/28/2025 at 4:54 AM, chuckdm said:

Seems like replacing Aloy's model at runtime has a better shot at success

We have that, https://www.nexusmods.com/horizonforbiddenwest/mods/94

They tested all the NPC girls until they found one with a body under the clothes, removed the clothes with reshade and swapped the model with Aloy's.

[rafal112]

On 4/5/2025 at 11:59 PM, StuRedman said:

We have that, https://www.nexusmods.com/horizonforbiddenwest/mods/94

They tested all the NPC girls until they found one with a body under the clothes, removed the clothes with reshade and swapped the model with Aloy's.

 

[JustCurious10]

On 4/5/2025 at 11:59 PM, StuRedman said:

We have that, https://www.nexusmods.com/horizonforbiddenwest/mods/94

They tested all the NPC girls until they found one with a body under the clothes, removed the clothes with reshade and swapped the model with Aloy's.

 

Thank you very much for the link! I was not aware of this mod, but it is amazing!

 

 

Edited April 8, 2025 by JustCurious10

[hornycopter]

Speaking of runtime replacements - I've tried this ReShade addon for textures replacement several month ago, but had no luck with it, sadly.

For the test I wanted to remove part of body paint and restore skin detail and nipples for this Aloy outfit:
 

Long story short: Textures dump is working, but no mater what I've tried - I couldn't insert textures back ingame. Textures simply stay the same as before.
I think this addon was just proof of concept and unfinished, so I had low hopes for it in first place, but sad anyway.

If anyone knows how to use this addon correctly, or other ways to insert textures in runtime for DX12 games - let me know.

Edited April 11, 2025 by hornycopter