[QUESTION / HELP] Security Room Camera Screen Textures

[Celery]

I am looking to make my own mod that changes the security monitor screens to things like facebook, reddit, or whatever else I see fit. But the main thing I've noticed is that when I open the .dds files the pictures we see in game are actually part of a transparent top layer followed by nine mipmap layers (which were toggled to not display by default)

What is the reason for the transparency? Could I slap my images into the frame, appropriately sized, and not dial them down with some transparency or do I need to give the images that somewhat transparent look for an actual reason?

I checked through as many pages of the Mod Forums as I could to make sure I wasn't making a duplicate topic, but this proved rather difficult to locate if there was one.

[Blanche Neige ❄]

I think you used Gimp right ?
With Gimp there is always 9 mipmap and transparancy.

Go to Photoshop (cs2 is free !), it's easier =)

[Celery]

引用自 Blanche Neige：

I think you used Gimp right ?
With Gimp there is always 9 mipmap and transparancy.

Go to Photoshop (cs2 is free !), it's easier =)

Yeah I used Gimp, I guess I'll go download Photoshop, I've been using Gimp because of how it's "Photoshop, but free"

Thanks for the info!

[Celery]

引用自 Blanche Neige：

Go to Photoshop (cs2 is free !), it's easier =)

Okay so I dl'd Photoshop CS2, I got the NVidia Plugin that enables opening .dds files, but it won't open the .dds file. I got an .exe from NVidia that I'm assuming did the work I needed it to, but clearly it didn't since Photoshop is telling me "Could not complete your request because it is not the right kind of document"

Did I miss a step?

[Blanche Neige ❄]

I installed it a long time ago.
You need both of files, I mean the 32b & 64b version.

[Celery]

引用自 Blanche Neige：

I installed it a long time ago.
You need both of files, I mean the 32b & 64b version.

That did it, would never have thought to dl and install the 32-bit file, Gimp was much easier to set up.

[Shane]

I know this isn't supposed to be helpful, but I'm trying to make a mod to change the camera screens, and I was wondering, where is the actual image directory?

[Celery]

引用自 VRP Shane #FreeHoxton：

I know this isn't supposed to be helpful, but I'm trying to make a mod to change the camera screens, and I was wondering, where is the actual image directory?

First you have to use the bundle extractor in your assets folder and you'll get all the files pulled out (make sure you use it with command prompt or you won't get all the files)

Then you'll find the files at this address in the extracted files folder:
/units/payday2/props/gen_prop_security_monitors/

You'll be looking for apartment_screen_df.texture, forest_screen_df.texture, office_screen_df.dds, and street_screen_df.texture.

Follow this guide for what to do with all that and how to do all that:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=231568439

[Shane]

Oh yeah I already have my workspace and stuff, I was just looking for the directory in the extracted folder where these where stored at.