How to mod and/or change costumes?.?.?

[Tahl]

I downloaded a few mods many with SUPER simple instals which is normaly great.

I have a skin mod that tells you to simply drop its 'materials and models' folders into the vampire folder in game files.
That is stupidly simple.. I mean theres no way on this earth Iv done ti wrong...
But somehow ingame I -do- get the shape/outline for my chatracters but they are colored in black and pink checkerd mat.

So what this tells me is its doing something but not doing its full job.

Anyway Iv used a cupple differant mods all with the same result doing the described instal.
With one exeption being a mod that required a folder that isnt there. I did do steam file check to make sure it didnt get lost or somethign but game runs and steam found nothign so.. idk.
So if anyone knows how this is realy suposed to work some help would be awsome.

Alternately, if someone knows how to use CC cheats/codes to edit the costum tables for a race. I dont mind cheating for the costums but I play... I suck with names... I play one of the two social clans and I would more like to use the malkavian skins.
Just wondering if theres a way to attatch the malkavian costum tables to the other races.

Note: I dont mind alt game files but dont have any spcl programs for editting spcl files like .dll's.

Hope you can helps, thx for reading.

[Touch of Oblivion]

The pink and black checkers means you're missing textures for the model.

Easiest thing to do is dig deeper into the mod's files and find the materials folder. Inside that should be another folder called models. Inside that should be character, then pc, then male or female(depending on the mod). Take that male/female folder and drop it into Vampire/materials/models/character/pc/(gender applicable).

Then inside the mod's folder should be another separate mod called models(NOT the one inside materials). Repeat the same process except this time put it into Vampire/models/character/pc/(gender).

That's why it's never good to just drag and drop like that. If whoever made the mod didn't make the folders right, your mod's files aren't going to go where they need to be.

[Tahl]

Originally posted by Touch Of Oblivion:

The pink and black checkers means you're missing textures for the model.

Easiest thing to do is dig deeper into the mod's files and find the materials folder. Inside that should be another folder called models. Inside that should be character, then pc, then male or female(depending on the mod). Take that male/female folder and drop it into Vampire/materials/models/character/pc/(gender applicable).

Then inside the mod's folder should be another separate mod called models(NOT the one inside materials). Repeat the same process except this time put it into Vampire/models/character/pc/(gender).

That's why it's never good to just drag and drop like that. If whoever made the mod didn't make the folders right, your mod's files aren't going to go where they need to be.

Thx for reply.

////Vampire/materials///

Thats the folder that wasnt there and steam check didnt bother adding. I created this and the only thing in it is a mod.
If I remove the 'models' folder from the 'vampire' folder the models ingame go defualt and the gaem runs fine.

[R.I.P]

Model swapping the good old fashioned way from the Mod Dev Guide.

Note: you may or may not have to re-name all four original model files.
If you need a set of raw model files, I have some that are already extracted.

VII.3 Changing the Default Player Models
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The instructions below assume you have extracted the contents of all the
.vpk files somewhere accessible.

This is hands down the most common scenario and the most commonly asked
question on the forums.

Player models are "special" because you can wear 4 different sets of
armor throughout the game. So, to support 1 clan/gender requires 4
different model files. For example, the male Brujah uses the models:

models\character\pc\male\brujah\armor0\brujah_male_armor_0.mdl
models\character\pc\male\brujah\armor1\brujah_male_armor_1.mdl
models\character\pc\male\brujah\armor2\brujah_male_armor_2.mdl
models\character\pc\male\brujah\armor3\brujah_male_armor_3.mdl

** Armor/Model pairs are setup in Vampire/vdata/system/clandoc000.txt

Without changing clandoc000.txt (do that at your own risk), the game
engine will look for these 4 files when dealing with male Brujahs. So, in
order to replace the Brujah with a different model, you must clobber not
one, but all four of these model files (and their support files).

So for example, lets say I want to replace Female Malkavian with
Jeanette's Model:

1) I go to Jeanettes directory:

models\character\npc\unique\santa_monica\jeanette\

and grab all the model files: (copy)

jeanette.dx7_2bone.vtx
jeanette.dx80.vtx
jeanette.mdl
jeanette.phy

2) I go to the PC female malkavian directory:

models\character\pc\female\malkavian\

And under each armor sub-directory, I paste jeanettes files. Finally,
I rename Jeanettes files so that they match the file names of the
original models/support files.

armor0\jeanette.phy -> armor0\malkavian_female_armor_0.phy
armor0\jeanette.mdl -> armor0\malkavian_female_armor_0.mdl
...
armor1\jeanette.phy -> armor1\malk_girl_armor_1.phy
armor1\jeanette.mdl -> armor1\malk_girl_armor_1.mdl
...
armor2\jeanette.phy -> armor2\malk_girl_armor_2.phy
armor2\jeanette.mdl -> armor2\malk_girl_armor_2.mdl
...
armor3\jeanette.phy -> armor3\malk_girl_armor_3.phy
armor3\jeanette.mdl -> armor3\malk_girl_armor_3.mdl

NOTES:

You can only play the game with HUMAN LIKE characters (2 hands, 2 legs,
torsoe and a head). Other models may look cool, but they can't execute
the skelton animations thus preventing you from attacking, jumping,
running, etc...


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Initial Guide Creation: Dheu

General Advice: Wesp5
Model Editing Tips: MooCHa2
WorldMap Clarification ZylonBane
Fact Checker: Offkorn

[Tahl]

I realy appreciate you getting back to me but something is off here.

These are the only things listed under vampire(folder) in VtM:B.

-cfg
-cl_dlls
-dlls
-maps
-media
-python
-SAVE
-Sound

Theres some .jpg's from mods as well as a load of .vpk files im not sure if I installed there or not. Then theres 2 readme files(read) and a vidcfg.bin file.
Oh and one hl2.tmp file.

I have no blocked or hidden file settings on and have dubble checked that.

Note: Game runs fine(without mods) so I dont know what I could be missing.

[R.I.P]

If you want to "track down" the modded files that you added,and you still have the mod archive files, or are willing to re-download the mod/s to get the archive once again, you can extract the mod archive to a new folder on your desktop, which will give you something to refer to (a list of sorts) in order to find and remove said files.

If said (modded) files overwrote anything that you failed to back-up (which should always be done) I suppose you could verify the cache again if you have not applied an unofficial patch, or if it's just a skin for the character, I already have most all of that stuff extracted from vanilla.

Almost everything that the game needs (so to speak) is packed up in the .vpk archive files; the stuff in the folders, (at least models and textures) is usually fixes added later and gets loaded last and just overides the archived versions Bethesda style

If you need to know what to re-name the models we can tell you that, but you would have to reveal which clan that you are/ want to play, so we can tell you how to rename the model files that you want to exchange which you have downloaded or the vanilla files that we will upload for you, or if you want to,supply a link to the mod that you want/tried to use and i'll test it.

[Tahl]

materials\character\npc\unique\santa_monica\REDJeanette :Filled with tons of unreadable files Im sure are the actual meat of the mod. I believe part of its named after the creator username 'REDJeanette'.

models\character\pc\female\toreador :Contains 4 armor folders each with 4 game files with 3 differant file types. 2 .vtx 1 .mdl 1 .phy Exept the last one which contains 3 .vtx files and an extra .vt file. Just .vt .
Not inside the armor folders theres a 5th item thats a .vtx1 file.

The materials file and the models file are part of the mod and where not in game files befor I added them.
This is all part of a mod built to use custom models for the 'toreador' clan.

Originally posted by Touch Of Oblivion:

...
Easiest thing to do is dig deeper into the mod's files and find the materials folder. Inside that should be another folder called models. Inside that should be character, then pc, then male or female(depending on the mod). Take that male/female folder and drop it into Vampire/materials/models/character/pc/(gender applicable).

Then inside the mod's folder should be another separate mod called models(NOT the one inside materials). Repeat the same process except this time put it into Vampire/models/character/pc/(gender).
...

[Tahl]

NVM FIXED IT!!!!!! WAHAHAHAHA!!!!!



Found out that mod was packed wrong and how to renaim given folder to make it work. Alls good thx for posting guys.