New color system help

[MattC]

Hey

 

So I've been using Soriyumi's guide for armor tinting (https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/48) for most patches up to now and it was great

However with patch 8 it seems that Larian went with another system and I can't figure it out on my own. Does anyone know how it works and how to use it ?

Edited July 12, 2022 by MattC

[AnteMaxx]

VectorParameters were changed to Vector3Parameters. Prior to Patch 8 they were like this:

 

<node id="VectorParameters">

<attribute id="Color" type="bool" value="False" />

<attribute id="Custom" type="bool" value="False" />

<attribute id="Enabled" type="bool" value="True" />

<attribute id="Parameter" type="FixedString" value="Leather_Primary" />

<attribute id="Value" type="fvec4" value="0.3 0.3 0.3 1" />

</node>

After Patch 8:

<node id="Vector3Parameters">

<attribute id="Color" type="bool" value="False" />

<attribute id="Custom" type="bool" value="False" />

<attribute id="Enabled" type="bool" value="True" />

<attribute id="Parameter" type="FixedString" value="Leather_Primary" />

<attribute id="Value" type="fvec3" value="0.3 0.3 0.3" />

</node>

So add 3 between Vector and Parameters, change fvec4 to fvec3 and remove the 1.

[AnteMaxx]

If you are interested, you should check out my Sample Equipment Mod. Since you already know enough to change colors, you should have all the necessary skills to advance to making actual BG3 armor mods. BG3 could use some more of those.

[MattC]

Thank you very much for your answer

 

Unfortunately I broke my laptop in a motorcycle accident so I won't be able to try your solution or give armor modding a proper try anytime soon...

 

Any tips on weapons coloring ? It's been driving me crazy because I can change the texture for a +1 shortsword but I can't find any texture to edit for the +2 shortsword except for the glow iirc (I tried that with patch 7)

I'm guessing it should have a coloring system similar to the armors but I can't find the proper LSF file

Edited July 16, 2022 by MattC

[AnteMaxx]

Weapon colors are entirely determined by textures, and in Patch 6 Larian moved from DDS textures to VirtualTextures, which we cannot edit. The custom colored weapons in my Basket were made by importing Patch 5 assets and textures, but this is a bad way of doing this and 5 of my weapons broke in Patch 8, and I had to remove those.

 

So unfortunately weapon coloring will have to wait until after full release and the release of proper mod tools.

[MattC]

Ok so I got tired of waiting for my pc to get repaired so I subscribed to Shadow to try out what you suggested.

Weirdly enough, I managed to change colors for the halfplate +1 but I can't get it to work for breastplate +1 or +2

 

Any suggestions ?

[AnteMaxx]

If the armor has <node id="MaterialOverrides"> make sure the ForcePresetValues is set to False. Or just delete <node id="MaterialOverrides">.