Hi folks!
Hoping to pick the general community's brains on a couple of things, modding for BDO.
I've been trying to learn how to do most of this myself – I have very little skill or knowledge using art tool, modelling, or reading the code structure (really, anything at all, if I'm honest), but I'm pretty decent at observing and extrapolating my way through things from what I can take examples from, so, I just started, but I'm learning ^.^
Currently, I'm making some edits to some of the lifeskill outfits (And maybe just some very slightly naughty tweaks to the Coco outfit to make it better suit the idea of breezy beach wear...), since they're what I wear the most; I pulled out the necessary textures, tweaked them with what rudimentary image editing skills I have, and edited the partcut file to not cut the now revealed body parts... or at least I did so as best I could – still working out what is what there. I feel like what I'm doing is probably very unsophisticated and messy, but.... it's a start. Most of what I've been doing is built out of what I've been able to learn looking at the wonderful Suzu's modding work, so many thanks to her(? I think, please correct me if I'm mistaken) for all the hard work ^.^
And, it all works perfectly well, which is the positive news. In particular, I found that simply removing the leggings of the lifeskill clothes, and shortening a skirt or two, just a little, was a very pleasing way to somewhat-tastefully crank up the cute factor to my liking:
And so on... So that's all great ^.^ Mostly... still having some issues with some new clipping around the feet and the small of the back, since those parts are not being cut now, and I've not worked out if there's a way to, say, cut just the feet but not the legs, etc., with particular outfits... (Actually, I think I have – I think I can add a line specific to the foot cut, I've just not fiddled with it yet... I'm learning), but that's not the problem I'm coming to you all with today!
The problem I have is that by blanking out, editing or removing some of these textures – in particular some of the texture files used for leggings... They are files shared and used by many other characters including, specifically, many NPCs.
Now, I know NPCs operate on different systems – they have their own models, and so on, compared to players... and these NPCs still have the parts that would be covered by their leggings cut... or possibly never had those parts at all; I don't know. So the result is that while my own character looks lovely... there are a lot of folks in a more dire situation:
It's less than ideal for my immersion, let's say ^.^
However... It seems as though the Partcut file that I can edit safely ONLY applies to PC characters... it doesn't appear to contain any partcut information for NPCs, at least as far as I can tell.
So, my question is: Is there something I'm missing in editing my partcut file that will allow me to stop cutting the leg parts of NPCs as well, and I've missed/not understood it? OR, is it the case that there is a separate file for partcuts for NPCs that I might be able to edit?
If not, is there any other way I could feasibly remove/edit/replace these textures – including the leggings texture files that are shared by PCs and NPCs – such that they're not used on my/player characters, but continue to be used for the NPCs that need them?
My worry is that maybe these NPCs don't have actual bodies beneath the textures, normally, and that there would be no way to use the texture for them, but not for PCs... I know that Suzu's excellent work shows a lot of skin on a lot of NPCs, but the files she's shared contain complete body models for those NPCs to use, which I'm guessing weren't there, or didn't exist before – and I personally do not have the skill or tools to create those from scratch like that.
Else-wise any other way... is there a solution to what I'm looking to do that anyone can suggest, or a quicker/cleaner/simpler way to do what I'm fumbling with here?
Any thoughts, answers or suggestions, folks?
Hoping to pick the general community's brains on a couple of things, modding for BDO.
I've been trying to learn how to do most of this myself – I have very little skill or knowledge using art tool, modelling, or reading the code structure (really, anything at all, if I'm honest), but I'm pretty decent at observing and extrapolating my way through things from what I can take examples from, so, I just started, but I'm learning ^.^
Currently, I'm making some edits to some of the lifeskill outfits (And maybe just some very slightly naughty tweaks to the Coco outfit to make it better suit the idea of breezy beach wear...), since they're what I wear the most; I pulled out the necessary textures, tweaked them with what rudimentary image editing skills I have, and edited the partcut file to not cut the now revealed body parts... or at least I did so as best I could – still working out what is what there. I feel like what I'm doing is probably very unsophisticated and messy, but.... it's a start. Most of what I've been doing is built out of what I've been able to learn looking at the wonderful Suzu's modding work, so many thanks to her(? I think, please correct me if I'm mistaken) for all the hard work ^.^
And, it all works perfectly well, which is the positive news. In particular, I found that simply removing the leggings of the lifeskill clothes, and shortening a skirt or two, just a little, was a very pleasing way to somewhat-tastefully crank up the cute factor to my liking:
And so on... So that's all great ^.^ Mostly... still having some issues with some new clipping around the feet and the small of the back, since those parts are not being cut now, and I've not worked out if there's a way to, say, cut just the feet but not the legs, etc., with particular outfits... (Actually, I think I have – I think I can add a line specific to the foot cut, I've just not fiddled with it yet... I'm learning), but that's not the problem I'm coming to you all with today!
The problem I have is that by blanking out, editing or removing some of these textures – in particular some of the texture files used for leggings... They are files shared and used by many other characters including, specifically, many NPCs.
Now, I know NPCs operate on different systems – they have their own models, and so on, compared to players... and these NPCs still have the parts that would be covered by their leggings cut... or possibly never had those parts at all; I don't know. So the result is that while my own character looks lovely... there are a lot of folks in a more dire situation:
It's less than ideal for my immersion, let's say ^.^
However... It seems as though the Partcut file that I can edit safely ONLY applies to PC characters... it doesn't appear to contain any partcut information for NPCs, at least as far as I can tell.
So, my question is: Is there something I'm missing in editing my partcut file that will allow me to stop cutting the leg parts of NPCs as well, and I've missed/not understood it? OR, is it the case that there is a separate file for partcuts for NPCs that I might be able to edit?
If not, is there any other way I could feasibly remove/edit/replace these textures – including the leggings texture files that are shared by PCs and NPCs – such that they're not used on my/player characters, but continue to be used for the NPCs that need them?
My worry is that maybe these NPCs don't have actual bodies beneath the textures, normally, and that there would be no way to use the texture for them, but not for PCs... I know that Suzu's excellent work shows a lot of skin on a lot of NPCs, but the files she's shared contain complete body models for those NPCs to use, which I'm guessing weren't there, or didn't exist before – and I personally do not have the skill or tools to create those from scratch like that.
Else-wise any other way... is there a solution to what I'm looking to do that anyone can suggest, or a quicker/cleaner/simpler way to do what I'm fumbling with here?
Any thoughts, answers or suggestions, folks?
