Hello. Your mod is great! I used it in my maksimum kenshi mod set, I hope you won't mind. I will definitely indicate your mod in the list of used mods. Thank you in advance.

The meitou weapons are made by an ancient space skeleton (probably) and yet a guy in the comments says things about it's realism? Uhh it's probably a metal that looks like gold or something. Just enjoy the retexture!

yeah the weapons were also made by an extremely ancient skeleton who lived in a space empire so its obviously not realistic

Why such stats lol, gold weapons should be slightly better than rusty ones, but expensive since gold is a brittle and light metal. Not realistic

@TheyCallMeVincenzo HAH! I'd hope so too. Happy New Year!

Thank you for putting that help in your description. I hope to see great mods like this in Kenshi 2 if that releases before WWIII. Happy New Year!

@Gman, late reply sorry, that would be one of LunaticFox's weapons found here on the workship. I can't quite remember which pack I used (because I use many of LunaticFox's weapons), but it shouldn't be too hard to find.

@TheyCallMeVincenzo That's not a bad idea. It'll probably help others or people that didn't even know they could do that.

Please put in your mod description what icons I have to delete to fix the inventory icons. I don't like have to go through past comments to search for it. Please.

The look is awesome :)

whats the naginata ya have for the thumbnail? It looks neat.

Thats a shame, im not too bothered by it though since the gold and black looks amazing anyways.

@Comet-chan is cute today too!

Yeah unfortunately there's one texture path that this overrides, if I remember right.

So how this mod works is it just says "Anything made by Cross and at the Meitou Grade, use this texture".

There isn't quite any simple way to add certain weapons to an exception list.

Sorry about that.

Does this change other modded weapons too? i DLed a Kodachi mod and the meitou weapon in that mod is black and gold, unlike the image shown for it. Is there a way to revert this or am i stuck with that? It looks great either way but i kind of wanted the purple and black the weapon was supposed to have.

@~Starfruitz~ Glad you like it!

If it helps for your faction colours, the colours I used translate to either
211 184 133 or 196 155 100

This is amazing btw, i'm tryna make my faction colors the colors of the meitou weapons, they're so cool and fit in with the world. Thank you for the amazing mod

@Karalinhos Glad to hear that its still cool! Thanks!!!!!!!!

@Talonn Never had the chance to say thanks for the feedback before, it worked out pretty well, your mod looks rly cool, still using by now

@kenji1104 Yep, and every other mod with a Meitou, it overwrites the Meitou texture (there's only one).

Question, does this retexture also affect the Meitou appearance of the new weapons in New Weapon Dissemination Mod?

@Slay_it Not without making edits to the texture itself unfortunately. I don't think it would be very simple to do.

Hey, anyway to keep the blade the same as here but make the sheath also with yellow as in this mod?:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1928003364&searchtext=meitou+recolor

@Garden Goblin Probably "Cute stuff". Screenshots were taken years ago so that would be my best guess, but I'm not sure.

what mod is that for the glasses?

@S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Thanks! I'm glad to hear it! :)

I use only 3 mods UI transparent this mod and WLM

Top mod

@Karalinhos I usually delete all of them and haven't run into any problems BUT, you can always backup the 5229 files in a new folder there just in case.

@Talonn it appers a lot of weapons, not a problem if i delete the wrong ones?

@Karalinhos Oh I think I get it. Yeah Delete those.

Something like "52290-rebirth.mod.52293-rebirth.mod.png". Usually with white-ish or silvery looking weapon icons.

They won't have "Meitou" in their file name, but most of them are meitou icons. They'll regenerate with my textures when you launch/encounter them in game as Meitous.

@Talonn ''1. Go to Wherever your kenshi install is, Mine looks like this;
steamapps> common > Kenshi > Data > Icons
(This folder holds all the games non UI icons)

2. Search "5229"
(All the icons with 5229X are generally game generated meitou icons)

3. Highlight all 5229s and delete.''

I tried doin that but the meitou weapons icons doesn't show up to me, only ''rebirth weapons'' appears. anyway to resolve?

@Karalinhos Sorry, I'm a bit too daft for videos and probably don't have the software/hardware for it. But If you tell me what your issue is maybe I can help?

@Talonn could you do a vid about generating your icons with metalic weapons mods installed? i am having trouble with that despite your instructions below

Thanks!

@Frozium I don't quite remember, the pic was taken a few years ago. But if I had to guess, I would guess it was from "Cute Stuff".

Maybe someone has asked you before, but what are those goggles the character is wearing in the thumbnail?

@Rotting Pretty odd, but I'm glad its working again! Thanks for the update

Hey thanks for the quick response, I ended up playing with the load order to no avail, decided to just uninstall weapons retex, the compatibility patch for improved smithing, your mod, then reinstalled all three and did the texture swap form dust gold to improved smithing again and it worked. No clue what changed but maybe the name was wrong or something when I changed the texture over on my latest install. Just to be clear uninstalling, and reinstalling/transfering your texture worked. Thanks again for the time.

@Rotting Hey , has your load order changed since then? None of the previously mentioned mods have been updated since last September, so nothing should've changed unless you have something else overwriting the 15_HI.dds file.

I'm not super aware of the new stuff coming out right now, but if you sent me your load order again maybe I can take a peek.

(also moving the mod that had the 15_HI.dds file back to the top of the load order might just fix the problem anyway if something has changed).

Hey Talon sorry to bother you, and this might just be me being dumb, but has something broken the ability to have Meitou Dust Gold player crafted weapons again? I'm using NWMD, Weapons Look Metallic, Your mod, and Improved Smithing. I copied the Dust gold file and renamed it to 15_Hl.dds and after skimming the comments I haven't seen anyone else reporting this problem after doing that. Any thoughts? And thanks for the time/mod again, it really is the best looking Meitou texture on here.

@NS^ The icons are generated then saved in one of your folders, so Items already generated wont have the new representative icon. This can be fixed by deleting the old icons.

Here are the instructions, it looks like a few steps but it only takes a second or two.

1. Go to Wherever your kenshi install is, Mine looks like this;
steamapps> common > Kenshi > Data > Icons
(This folder holds all the games non UI icons)

2. Search "5229"
(All the icons with 5229X are generally game generated meitou icons)

3. Highlight all 5229s and delete.


(This is completely safe, as the game generates the icons based on the texture for these weapons, and will just regenerate them with the new textures, so if you do uninstall my mod and want them to go back to vanilla, just do this again)

Amazing work!

One slight issue for me though, whether it's my mistake or not idk, is that the inventory icon still remains vanilla unless I create a copy of the item in the FCS. This happens regardless if the mod is placed at the top or bottom of my load order.

For example I create a custom start mod, add a Meitou Katana and your texture is applied but not the inventory icon. I then replace the Katan in the FCS with a copy and rename it, and the icon is then applied.


Other than that, perfect!

@Talonn I hope to hear more about your amazing mods in the future, I know there are more like me who are closely following this mod and future additions that may or may not come, and I understand about college, that's life, but I'm sure you'll have a great road ahead, success in everything you do Talon, greetings!

@TheAshby Thanks for the update! I'm glad things worked out, I've been there with the load order too haha.

Thanks for the encouragement too, but I'm done with the textures for a while. I really wanted to do more but university has kept me fairly busy. I did prototype a few skin textures and edit one of the strength limbs a while back, but they weren't very good. Eventually when I get the time to do some classes on proper texture work I will though, this mod was mostly me messing around trying to figure things out (i think the handles are actually a compressed picture of my aunt's table mat).

@Talonn There was a mod bothering me on the load, what a fool I was not realizing before, thank you so much Talonn for your quick and kind response, I know I already said it, but I will say it again, I love your mod, these textures are simply beautiful and together with the metallic texture mod it's just wonderful, thanks for your work Talonn

PS: Have you thought about doing this same mod but in the textures of prosthetic limbs, samurai armor or even in the skeletons themselves? It would be a great integration!

Hi @TheAshby , I believe that would be New Weapon Dissemination Mod, I've been using it for years, I could be wrong, but I don't believe it touches the vanilla meitou holders (so for example if you searched up who holds what on the kenshi wiki, it should be the same).

It does add new weapons to existing and new NPCs though. The list is on their page here:
https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=1552374986 The weapons list should be the first pinned discussion post.

Maybe there is another mod in your load order that might be overriding vanilla meitou holders?

I know none of this fixed your issue, but I hope this helps some.
I'm not super in the know right now when it comes to the current mods, but If you post your load order maybe I can figure something out?

I have a doubt, the mod is incredible, but in the description it recommends another mod that adds more weapons, my doubt is, I have only added the recolor mod, but in my game all the weapons appear from the recommended mod that adds more weapons, really It doesn't bother me, but it replaces the weapons of some Meitou grade NPCs that I want to collect, so I don't know where those Meitou from the base game appear now that the NPCs don't have them. Could you help me regarding this please?

Oh I see lol! Thanks for explaining!

@besthsq lol no, no updates broke metallic mod, my update just broke texture support for people who use mods that allow them to create their own Meitou through crafting. All issues there are on my end and kind of niche. Weapons look metallic still functions perfectly and supports both; I use it still.

My reccomendations for overwriting were mostly based on load order for the highest priority 15_Hl.dds file as a workaround for the few people that have issues.

Wait so an update broke the metallic mod? Why hasn't anyone told me in the comments yet. 😂
Gonna look into it shortly. Is there something I can do to make it work better with your mod? Haven't launched the game in ages.