Ok, sounds good. I'll just play meanwhile, such a good game.^^

Here is little experiment/example with Mayas gear.

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5493/10363662254_b49d2d4ee5_o.png

If you look at the textures, there is original one in bottom right for comparison. You can see I upscaled them to double size, added quick camo-overlay. Bottom left you can see the "pants_m" texture that is included in the files with the "pants_d", and normal-map "pants_ddn". The jacket doesn't have this "_m" texture.

So here is how it looks in-game:

http://cloud-3.steampowered.com/ugc/1046251891093035127/1EB0CDB3346C3416D8B73533BA818621E68D085A/

http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/1046251891093011216/6D07DF82EE070F00355CE88D0A85F5CA2D4FC98D/

You can see the jacket is way more bright than the pants, this happens with the human-skins too if I edit the textures. What is funny is how the pants don't have this problem.

Any toughts/advice?

I didn't touch the meshes, so UV-map is untouched. It seems to me if you take f.ex. jacket texture 256x256, and upscale it to 512x512, the textures will still show properly, so the UV-map scales with it. So making better quality textures for the game seems possible without touching meshes at all. But only problem is the matter we discussed how they show up too "light".

I need to take some screenies to show up what I mean as you stated.

About alpha-channels, when I open dds-file from SoD in my PS, it doesn't have them. Is this the same case with others? Earlier game-engine I was modding with regular texture alpha governed the transparency of the texture, and with normal-maps it governed how much reflection it had. I just found it interesting if they are not used at all here, or if they actually are for texture overlays.

But yeah, I'll take some pics and explain in detail what I did.

Thanks for the reply, so I'm not only one having this problem? That's not good.

Hmmm, f.ex. I edited the skin texture for female characters. Only thing I did was upscaling it, doubled the size just for testing purposes. This resulted every female character to have ultra pale skin, even the ones who are dark skin colored, with the exception of faces anturally which stayed the way they were.

Did you have info about the "_m" variants that some textures have? Also I noticed none of the dds-files have alpha-channels, are they irrelevant with DoD?

When I edit textures, they come up way lighter than they should, even if I don't change anything. I do scale them higher, doubling the size of them, might this cause it? With clothes this is ok, since I can just make them darker, but with human-skins it is a problem.

Also anyone can advice what are the "_m" variants of the textures?

Thank you for the quick answer. Yeah it is weird, never had the problem opening dds files before, altought I use PS 7.0, which is really old, with the dds-add on, so maybe that is it. It's only those ones with this game I can't open. Also Irfanview, program I use to view DDS files can't see them either, gives error when I try to open them, not sure what is different about them?

Have to check the 3dsmax thing, thanks for the tip.

EDIT: I try again with the Crytek-plugin for Photoshop.

EDIT2: Yup, installing Cryteks PS-plug-ins worked, apparently you need those to open the normal maps. Thanks a lot, now to test some skinning. :P

New to cry-engine, so couple questions:

I haven't noticed normal-maps or such anywhere, is there a reason they are missing, or am I just missing something?

Also I'm very curious about one thing, for example when I open skin_d.dds with PS, no problem, but anything with _ddn in the end will give error, why is that? And what are those _ddn versions of the textures?

Also is Milkshape viable option for Cry-engine, or more preciselly for DoD?