#me2 modding

[samsme2mods]

Giftfish's Textures for ME2 (GTFME2) is a small pack of lore-friendly textures that includes the following:

Better Asari and Liara

Better Asari and Liara are a ME3 backport. Asari face textures have been edited for compatibility with ME2's lighting and to incorporate some elements from the ME1/ME2-style asari. The goal was to create a bit of a hybrid look, with the improved skin texture and resolution seen in ME3, combined with the more distinctive face shading and makeup that appears in ME1/ME2. This TPF includes diff and normal maps, along with the asari makeup mask that's been edited to improve the position of the lip color.

Goals for Liara were similar to the asari. Blend her improved skin texture and heavier makeup in ME3 with her look from ME1/ME2 to create a hybrid. Also, included are squadmate hench icons and codex textures for LOTSB compatibility.

This set is distributed in a regular version and one for ME2Recalibrated (link coming soon).

Note: Screenshots of Liara depict her gray eyes for LOTSB content, which requires the installation of ME2Recalibrated.

Better Sol System

BioWare's textures for Sol System planets aren't bad -- they're 2K -- but they use some outdated and suboptimal planetary maps. I searched for the best NASA planetary maps I could find, then edited for use in ME2. All are *still* 2K, but they look significantly better since they are sourced from higher quality images.

Classy Dress

This texture was really the impetus for the entire pack: a full, 2K re-texture of FemShep's dress for Kasumi's DLC. This is a *retex*, only.

A couple other bits of info about the dress:

Cleaning up and correcting the area around the shoulders results in some shadowing artifacts due to the collar and armhole mesh. If you see light or dark patches on the skin, that's the cause. It's not fixable and will appear and disappear with changes in lighting.

There's some very minor misalignment to some of the white lining near the edges. 

Cabin Photos

Images of Kaidan, Ash, and Liara that are a significant improvement over vanilla.

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[ottemis]

Guide: Creating Texmod Package Files (TPF) for ME Series Games

What is Texmod? Texmod is a utility to browse, extract, save and modify textures in Direct3D 9 applications. In order to share and distri...

Texmod Guide Updated. 

[ottemis]

This variation’s diffuse is now also completed.

[ottemis]

I’m super pleased with how this turned out. No release yet until all variations are done.

[ottemis]

Sneak Peakish

[ottemis]

HR Liara Default armor for ME3 has been updated and is now also ported to ME2. Project pages for ME2 & ME3 on Nexus. 

[ottemis]

Important Me3explorer PSA

The ME3Explorer team has decided to switch Forums, due to the plethora of stability problems the FreeForums has displayed over the past months. They hope this will protect the longevity of the project, as ideally these forums survive for an indefinite amount of time. I thought I’d drop a line about it here to spread the news quicker. 

Here’s the official announcement Here are the details on the move

If you had mod development threads on the old forums, be sure to recreate them on the new Boards. If you’ve created useful tutorials/guides or resource posts in the past, please consider moving these to the wiki. Note that these should all apply to or be compatible with the current stable build of the Toolset. Wiki contributors are sorely needed.

If you link to the old forums from any websites or blogs you run or maintain, please update links to the new Boards where possible. Go sign up to the new Boards!  Hope to see you all there =)

[kiutotakulady]

soooo....will A Lot Of Textures (ALOT) solve my 7 mods only texmods problem? we will see....after 3 days! cause this country’s internet sucks!