Recolours and Refits
How do I change this item?
Summary
Created by @manavortex Published August 20 2023
Assumed level of skill:
The steps in this guide teach you how to recolour or refit almost every item in Cyberpunk. Keep reading!
Time to complete:
Setup:
If Wolvenkit is already set up: ~ 5 - 30 minutes for MLSB
Full setup: 30 minutes to ~2 hours (most of which you can spend afk)
Recolouring: 5 minutes once you know how it works, < 1h to get there
Refits:
Import Export: 5 minutes once you know how it works, < 1h to get there
Actual refitting: as long as you fucking want >.<
If you are editing modded items, you should seek permission first. For your personal use, you can (legally) do what you want, but making mods takes time and effort.
Please respect mod creators' wishes in that regard.
You can check find the standard permissions on a mod's Nexus page, Description
tab, under the Permissions and Credit header right next to the requirements.
Tools and versions used
Skipping and skimming
TL;DR
The sections are annotated with a rough estimate of how long a total newbie would need. They're guesses, so if you're slightly off, don't worry. If you're wildly off, you might want to get in touch.
If you skip or skim in these guides, you will get in trouble. Unless a section's first paragraph offers you to read on somewhere else, do not skip. Don't skim and do ok it was something like this. You're supposed to stick to the road, where you won't run into monsters, and the guide will not tell you what to do if you encounter any.
The bright side of this approach is that you don't need to understand what you're doing as long as you do what the guide says.
Links
You will find two kinds of links. It's usually clearly annotated which is which.1
The first will help you do something, leading to other guides on this wiki. They usually link the specific section that you need to complete. Please be thorough here as well, as the rules above apply.
The second contains background information and references (like "here's how this can look"). They are optional, you can browse or ignore them, and skim all you want.
Overview
This guide will walk you through the following steps
R&R Step 0: Setup
This section will link you to guides for installing Wolvenkit and MLSetupBuilder, which allows you to use the cool preview of which parts of an item you're colouring.
Make a decision if you want to use these features independently of the Netrunner suit:
No: You have to options now. Please pick one.
Netrunner Suit Preview
In this step, we'll enable custom previews by downloading the files I've prepared and extracting them into MLSB's depot. It should take you no more than five minutes.
The Netrunner suit uses custom multilayer masks. To get an accurate preview in MLSetupBuilder, you need to complete this section.
MLSB's Uncook Folder
This is where MLSB (and Wolvenkit) store the files they extracted.
Download the archive with the modded mlsetup
Extract the entire archive into MLSB's uncook folder, or drag and drop the
base
folder from inside the archive there. You can find the path in MLSB's settings:
Open the Model Library and search for
t0_005_pwa_body__t_bug
.
Click on the entry. If a 3d model shows up, you're done here and can go on.
If no model shows up, select View -> Logs from the taskbar. It will complain about files being in the wrong spot. You need to make sure that the files you downloaded in Step 1 end up in exactly these folders and none other. If the file paths are ending in .dds, open MLSB's preferences and configure it to use pngs instead.
Install the mod
The tutorial assumes that the mod is installed manually rather than via Vortex. If you have already done that, no sweat — it means that a few files might be in different places, and all this is annotated.
If you don't want the extra complication, simply deactivate the mod in Vortex and follow the steps below.
TL;DR
Detailed instructions
Open the downloaded .zip file. You will see something like this:
Extract or copy them to that folder. If you're asked to overwrite existing files, click
Yes
. I can't tell you exactly how to do that, because each program works slightly differently. I'll include instructions for 7zip, just in case:Make sure that either nothing or everything is selected
Click the
Extract
button in the taskbar (it looks like a blue minus)Find the
Copy To
field and do either of these things:Click OK
If you get a
Confirm File Replace
popup, clickYes to All
.
Optional, but recommended: Launch the game and make sure that the mod works:
Equip a suit in the Atelier Store's preview OR
Spawn one via Cyber Engine Tweaks and equip it (e.g.
Game.AddToInventory("Items.mana_netrunner_suit_nylon_black_gold")
)
OK, what now?
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