Mod:Data/models/environment

Modifying PC Dead Rising 2

Dead Rising 2 PC Mods Forum Performance guide Index of all mods on forum Tutorials Opening files to edit (Gibbed's) Debug mode Swap characters (model swap) Import models   Dead Rising 1 models Placing characters   Enlarging/resizing characters Create reskins Adding & removing items   Coordinates/rotation   Resize/enlarge items Changing text Weapon modifications Remove missing prop box List of what each file does All game items (items.txt)   Item animations (PyroEffect)     Bigfile.xml All game text All missions and cases (missions.txt)   Times of all missions   Mission breakdown All major packed files (big files)   datafile.big   Character models (npcs.big) Sgraph - animations HUD (game player's interface) Camera.txt (camera view) Lighting Zombie models Game rules (frontend) Cutscenes (cinematics.big) Environment   Royal Flush Plaza   Safe House   Americana Casino   Fortune City Arena Collision - controls solid surfaces Excel coordinates of all areas Tools Gibbed's tools Hex editor Other Ubtri's Mod Infinity Mode mod Zombie mode mod

Dead Rising 2
Cases and Missions • Characters • Weapons • Stores • Endings

The data/environment folder, has .big files which control all areas in the game, including the floors, ceilings, and walls, and all items which do not move and which the player cannot interact with. All the items which the player can interact and moves in game play can be found in items.txt

Files

• Americana Casino
• Arena (arena_backstage and arena_stadium)
• atlantica_casino
• boss_battle_KCOT
• boss_battle_train
• food_barn
• fortune_exterior
• laboratory
• main_menu
• palisades_mall
• Royal Flush
• Safe house
• skybox.big
• south_plaza
• tape_die
• underground
• yucatan_casino

How to crop sections of the environment

See Removing most files from royal_flush_z01.big Bigfile.xml

How to reskin environment files

To the right is a video of how this is done.

Example, editing data/models/environment/safehouse/safehouse.big

In the safehouse.big file:

sa_posterA_01.big

sa_posterA_01.tex

In sa_posterA_01.tex:

bigfile.xml

LM_sa_posterA_01_NE

poster_01_CM

poster_02_CM

poster_04_CM

poster_05_CM

Open poster_01_CM with a hex editor.

Highlight header in the original _CM file

Replace the original _CM header with:

44 44 53 20 7C 00 00 00 07 10 02 00 00 02 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 44 58 54 31 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 10 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Save with the .dds extension.

You can now open this file with photoshop.

Make edits in photoshop and save file.

Open file again in text editor.

Highlight the modified header area.

Replace with original header and save.

Remove the .dds from the file.

Pack sa_poster_01_tex folder.

Rename new sa_poster_01_tex.big to sa_poster_01.tex

Pack safehouse.big

Rename safehouse_big.big to safehouse.big

Successful reskin.

Unsuccessful reskin. Caused by not returning the .dds file's header back to the original.

See also

• See Cropping sections off of characters on how to crop sections of a player.

External links

• DDS Tools, The Elder Scrolls Construction Wiki.