Armour 'skins'?

Northcott

Has anybody tried mucking with the armour textures/skins? Is such a thing even possible with the way the game is set up? I'd love to monkey with this kind of thing, but I've no idea where to start or if the game's even capable of handling that level of customization/modding.

I've done work with more advanced graphics (some re-texturing and armour making for Mount & Blade), but I 've no clue how to go about it for BGEE.

Mikkel

BG:EE is sprite-based, that is: no textures, and no 3D models to put them on. The sprites are individual images, in huge numbers - modding the looks is practically impossible. 3D models were used to create those sprites of course, but that's beside the point.

MurrayConfederacy

Just to add on a bit here, the 3D sprites are not included in the game files - I don't even think Bioware still have them.

Syntia13

They don't. That's why they had to make a BG:EE, instead of BG:HD, which they initially wanted to do.

Northcott

Ah, what a shame. Thanks for clarifying that, folks.

Wierzba

http://www.shsforums.net/files/file/1006-1ppv410/
http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/1823/1pp-in-bgee

The closest you can get to "reskinning".
(it was supposed to be incorporated to BG:EE as I recall, but it seems only some components made it)

Northcott

Whoa. Thanks, Wierzba! That's an insane amount of work done by one person.