#dbh modding

[wake-up-lieutenant]

good thing she didn't overreact

did i ever tell y'all about when i was test modding the relationship values and did this

[rk663]

Salutations, I apologize for my lapse in sharing, or a lack thereof. I've been ambitiously busy within the laboratory and to make up for my absence, here's a peek. More various updates and sharing to come. ft. 'Black Suit Connor' mod created by @geekazoidfreak (with a few of my own edits, I hope they don't mind.)

[kayla1507]

I’ve stumbled upon the texture files to Markus’ art and... just know I’m going to abuse this for future use and make Markus paint RK1000 fanart lol!

Edit: whoops, I missed one artwork. It’s now added.

Don’t remember this last painting, but 10/10 very pretty.

[wake-up-lieutenant]

so the urge to mod dbh has returned to me after like three years,,, if anyone has any ideas or requests please throw them my way!

[wake-up-lieutenant]

mod tutorial: Connor's android hands

some info: the visibility of Connor's android hands is controlled by "invokes", which can affect textures and certain submeshes and when/if they appear. some other notable uses include Connor's open collar and lack of tie vs closed collar with tie, and bullet wounds and blood that appear dynamically.

Step 1: Accessing the Lua bytecode

you can do this by using the texture tool from deadray. in the tool, under "Catalog", search for Connor. you will see multiple entries, but "CONNOR_INT02" is the Connor's most frequently used game model, so i'll use that one as an example.

select CONNOR_INT02, and click "Enable Editing".

(explanation: the texture tool decompresses the model's data and appends the more easily edited data to one of the game files, .d26.)

once you've enabled editing on the model, open up the .d26 file from the Detroit: Become Human folder in a hex editor such as HxD or 010.

you will be greeted with something like this:

search for (Ctrl+F, case sensitive) the text "LuaQ". if you find this string near the text CONNOR_INT02, you're in the right place.

Step 2: Finding the invokes

once you scroll down a bit, you'll find a lot of strings that "HIDE" or "SHOW" things, or turn things "ON" or "OFF".

for Connor's android hands, we are looking for "Evt_RETRACT_SKINHAND_LEFT_OFF" and "Evt_RETRACT_SKINHAND_RIGHT_OFF". Change the bytes 46 46 (the FF in OFF) to 4E 00 (N and a null character, resulting in ON). Repeatedly turn all the instances of OFF to ON in each occurrence of the RETRACT_SKINHAND phrases until you reach the end (signaled by the text MESHDATA).

make sure you have a clean backup of .d26 and .idx for uninstallation. save the new .d26, and place it in the DBH folder after you've moved the old one to a different location like your desktop.

Step 3: Removing the synth skin

open the .idx file (located in the same folder as .d26) in your hex editor. search for the hex-values 00 00 08 B5 00 00 00 01 00 00 7B 88. change the following four bytes (which are 22 1A 40 00) to 99 99 99 99. save it and replace the unedited .idx, like with .d26.

Start up the game!

the method explained in steps 1 and 2 of opening a model catalog, editing OFF to ON or HIDE to SHOW can work with a lot of other stuff.

for example, you can make Connor's android hands glow:

or give him a lot of bullet wounds, like i did in this post.

you can also have Kara showing up in A New Home covered in blood. or have Markus be literally on fire during the entirety of Crossroads. the possibilities are endless.

happy modding!

[rk663]

'RA9: Markus' The idea behind this mod design is Markus being the original 'RA9' model created and designed by Kamski with the intention of 'RA9' eventually spearheading the Android rebellion allowing Kamski to have full control, if successful. That is, until his close friend Carl Manfred becomes ill and unable to take care of himself thus 'RA9' is gifted to Carl, and 'RA9' becomes known as 'Markus'. (still a WIP - I'm extremely picky and the universe's worst self-critic. I'm at the ~75% point at being finished with it, I think.)

[rk663]

'Crimson Chloe' work in progress.

[rk663]

'RK9000 Connor' Still working on the hair, the goal is to have it fade up from Blonde into a dark shade of Silver.