Editing .w2mi files?

[KiboCae]

Is it possible to access the .w2mi files (material files)? I'm trying to give Geralt a separate eye texture from all the other witchers and the quickest way would be to create a new texture file and a new material file linking it to that new texture and then alter Geralt's eye xml to use that new material file. However, in order for me to do this I'd have to access the eye__iris__witcher.w2mi and eye__iris__witcher__lod.w2mi files so I could make renamed copies and change the texture file being used in them.

 

Is this possible yet or can we not yet do that? I've looked basically everywhere but found nothing talking on how to go about accessing the .w2mi files.

 

Though this is the quickest route I can do a much longer, more tedious route of changing a common eye texture and then linking that to Geralt and then going in to every xml of every eye .w2mesh file and change any that use the file I altered to something else. I'd prefer the easier way though.

[sircaine]

I'm not sure, but: You could just change the path of the diffuse map in the xml file for the eye mesh of geralt and link it to your unique tga.

[KiboCae]

I have done that already. Unfortunately the game is very adamant about using the eye_iris_witcher.w2mi. I've tried different ones for only geralt's xml and every time I change it either geralt's eyes end up all white as if nothing is there, cross-eyed, or all the other witchers (whose files are unchanged) do. I was hoping if I could access the w2mi file I may be able to see how it's all set up.

[sircaine]

Oh okay yes I know modding seems very frustrating at some points.

 

Have you already asked on the forum of cdprojectred?

Edited August 7, 2016 by sircaine

[KiboCae]

Haha very frustrating, especially when it's something as simple (or apparently complex) as an eye texture lol. I've managed to edit so many other npc's but Geralt and the witchers just refuse to cooperate.

 

Not yet. Figured I'd see if someone here has figured it out or not first.