stay intact, so that you can make changes to the skin later on.ī. This is to ensure that all the layers etc. When you're done, save a copy in whatever format is native to the editor of your choice (. Of course, it has to be able to handle the TGA file format.
Whip out your favourite photo editing suite (I use Corel's Paint Shop Pro X). A targa (.tga) file has now been created in the same folder:Ĥ. When the program asks whether to delete the original files or not, press N on your keyboard, and then press on the RETURN/ENTER key.ī. Extract your downloaded Vtf2tga archive and copy its files to where you extracted the orc files.Ī. Extract them wherever you want, just as long as you can easily find them:ģ. Right click on the selected files and choose "Extract". We will be working with the orc's body texture (skin) click and drag the mouse to select multiple files. Select it the right-hand file viewer is now filled with VTFs and VMTs.Ī. Expand all folders and make your way down to the one called "npc_orc". As you can see there is now a hierarchy of folders in the left-hand pane. Browse to where your "\mm" folder is (by default it's "\Dark Messiah of Might and Magic\mm") and open any of the aforementioned files.
So, make your way to the open file dialog ( File -> Open in layman terms).Ĭ. There are three different GCFs (game cache files) that I will focus on in this tutorial, these are also the files in which (most of the) textures are stored in mm_materials_ a_pub.gcf, mm_materials_ b_pub.gcf and mm_materials_ c_pub.gcf, respectively.ī. In this tutorial I have taken for granted that you are at least somewhat familiar with editing images and producing skins, thus I will focus on engine-related procedures rather than actual texture work.Ī. Any photo editing suite (such as Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop or The GIMP) Also, this is for the single-player portion of DM I haven't gotten around to the multi-player part yet (in fact I won't even play it until a patch comes out - I've heard about the numerous bugs and balancing issues).īefore we start, these are the tools you'll need (click links to download):
So anyway, I decided to make this little tutorial for people who'd like to get their own skin into the game. I did not find anything this lead me to experiment a bit on my own - granted, I did have a bit of knowledge from modding Half-Life 2 (and the HL2 mod community is huge!), so it wasn't very hard to figure it out.
I know that Ubi/Arkane will shortly release a modkit for DM, but I could not wait for this, so I started to search for alternative methods to making skins (or any kind of mod) for Dark Messiah on my own.
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