Pre-war commonwealth reskin project (need volunteers)

[Schizophrenicsurs]

Okay so admittedly when I started fallout 4 and realized the modding capabilities, the first thing I was hyped for was trying to rewind time on the commonwealth to before the bombs dropped, making animals look healthy again, removing rust and damage from models, giving stuff a new paint job, ect. However, when I went hunting around for reskins, everything was pretty much scattered. There's already someone doing a creature texture overhaul, so I'll leave that alone, and there's already great mods for the vegetation, but all the props architecture armor and clothes (and other stuff on that line) I really wanted to have a clean pre-war style bundle for them.

The setbacks I'm experiencing: the game doesn't come with the vanilla folders pre-packaged in its files, so it makes it hard to keep track of all the textures and near impossible to just try to clean the textures up because of this. Also, I'm working with an old laptop that doesn't have the strength to run fo4 anymore and won't run creation kit, until I have the money I need to get a far better pc so I can trust to do stuff like decoding for more advanced mods, I have to keep this one alive for as long as I can as it's also my work pc.

 

If someone has the full vanilla texture files and would be willing to share them with me, that would be a massive help towards this project, and if anyone else is willing to help revive the commonwealth by assisting in reskins and testing them, that would be another big help. If anyone has any clean/pre-war versions of the vanilla skins also and are willing to donate them to this project, that would also be appreciated and credit will be given for the mod.

 

I will give credit to everyone who helped in this project and where.

 

Thank you for reading, any help/support is welcomed.

Edited July 31, 2018 by Schizophrenicsurs

[Deleted49413338User]

I think the texture files are there. As well as DLC textures. if you don't have BA2 extractor installed, (a stand alone tool that comes with Creation Kit, I think) Try using a mod called BSA extractor.

 

Selects all the Texture.Ba2 files and extract them somewhere onto your hard drive. Then Use Gimp and its DDS plug-in to open and edit the DDS textures. This should be achievable on a low end lap top and all for free. The only cost would be Time.

 

Also, can you tell me of the creature overhaul for healthy creatures? I have been looking for something like that.

[Schizophrenicsurs]

I think the texture files are there. As well as DLC textures. if you don't have BA2 extractor installed, (a stand alone tool that comes with Creation Kit, I think) Try using a mod called BSA extractor.

 

Selects all the Texture.Ba2 files and extract them somewhere onto your hard drive. Then Use Gimp and its DDS plug-in to open and edit the DDS textures. This should be achievable on a low end lap top and all for free. The only cost would be Time.

 

Also, can you tell me of the creature overhaul for healthy creatures? I have been looking for something like that.

You may have made my job a whole lot easier, anyway the creature mod is Crows and Creatures by Xazomn, it's a work in progress but puts the fur and feathers back on animals to make them look like they recovered from the radiation (aside from the two-headed thing with some) I highly endorse it and support it and can't wait for its finish, but you can get some of the skins early.

Also for feral dogs/mongrels, Ven's feral dog replacer also fits the healthy animal scheme.

Edited August 1, 2018 by Schizophrenicsurs