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This is an upscaled 4k retexture of the alliance cat suit with red and white colours. It has three texture packages, one for the casual suit, one for the armour and one to make the shared specular map a bit shinier. Requires the original mods.
- Requirements
- Permissions and credits
- Changelogs
ME1LE version
After installing one of both of the prerequisite mods, install the files you want with Mass Effect Modder.
ME2LE version
After installing the prerequisite mod, install the files you want with Mass Effect Modder.
All textures were cleaned and upscaled to 4k with Chainner.
For the specular map, I separated the alpha channel in the upscale and then used Gimp's decompose and compose features to separate the channels into layers and edit them separately. I made the red layer (roughness) darker and the green layer (reflectiveness) lighter before recomposing and fixing the transparent bit again.
For the normal map, I rescaled it back down to 2k afterwards as apparently at least ME1 does not like larger normal maps. Either way, the result has fewer compression artifacts in it.
For the diff, since the rest of the texture is monochrome, it was enough to play with the Hue / Saturation adjustments.
Both were extracted as PNG and after all changes were done, saved once as BC3 / DXT5 with mipmaps in Paint.NET
Please read the Permissions and Credits, since this is just a retexture for two of MentalHygiene's mods.
This is my first released mod, be gentle with me :)
Mods used for Femshep
After installing one of both of the prerequisite mods, install the files you want with Mass Effect Modder.
- ME1LE-alliance-catsuit-armor-red-diff.mem - Applies the red retexture for "Cat Suit Armors for Fem Shep (LE1)" with cleaned up normal map.
- ME1LE-alliance-catsuit-casual-red-diff.mem - Applies the red retexture for "New Casual Outfits for Female Shepard (LE1)" with cleaned up normal map.
- ME1LE-alliance-catsuit-shinier-spec.mem - Applies the shinier specular map for both mods (they share the same specular map). You should probably not install this unless you really use both required mods.
ME2LE version
After installing the prerequisite mod, install the files you want with Mass Effect Modder.
- ME2LE-alliance-catsuit-red-diff.mem - Applies the red retexture for "Cat Suits for Female Shepard (LE2)" with cleaned up normal map.
- ME2LE-alliance-catsuit-shinier-spec.mem - Applies the shinier specular map.
All textures were cleaned and upscaled to 4k with Chainner.
For the specular map, I separated the alpha channel in the upscale and then used Gimp's decompose and compose features to separate the channels into layers and edit them separately. I made the red layer (roughness) darker and the green layer (reflectiveness) lighter before recomposing and fixing the transparent bit again.
For the normal map, I rescaled it back down to 2k afterwards as apparently at least ME1 does not like larger normal maps. Either way, the result has fewer compression artifacts in it.
For the diff, since the rest of the texture is monochrome, it was enough to play with the Hue / Saturation adjustments.
Both were extracted as PNG and after all changes were done, saved once as BC3 / DXT5 with mipmaps in Paint.NET
Please read the Permissions and Credits, since this is just a retexture for two of MentalHygiene's mods.
This is my first released mod, be gentle with me :)
Mods used for Femshep
- https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/1120
- https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/1520 (Angelina option)
- https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/942 (Thorns option)
- https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/234