Modding:How To Find A Virtual Texture: Difference between revisions

===How to find the mesh===

First thing you need to find the item is its name -the exact item name it has. For example, 'The Deathstalker Mantle'.  

Put the name(or the NPC's name, to lead you to their CharacterVisuals entry) in the modder's multitool index search. This should lead you to its entry in the english.loca file.

Take the handle (a handle is h[string of numbers], similar to an UIID) and search that.

You can then find its mesh mapkey. Search that and you should find the meshes lsx entry.(You can skip the above if you know the mesh name.)

We like ''''HUM_M_ARM_Bandit_C_Body'''<nowiki/>' so we search this in the multitool.

It has an entry in '''Shared\Public\Shared\Content\Assets\Characters\Humans\[PAK]_Male_Armor\_merged.lsf''<nowiki/>' so we click '''convert & open''' for that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The material ID is what we need. We scroll back up to the start of the file and search that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So we search d53fa1a1-aa8e-2564-1077-42f6c36086c5. Luckily for us it is in the same file. (If it isn't you may need to search the multitool with it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

b049a62336641c449903f6ec8b4dae67 is the correct string. Now you can extract it from the virtual textures.

Alternately you can just unpack all the VT into one folder and just search with Windows Search, but this is extremely file heavy and not recommended.