Thank you! Ill give it a shot

XCOM 2 uses PBR materials, as such it is relatively easy to paint the textures. I'm not sure how the material painting tools work in blender, since I use substance for texturing, but blender seems to have most of the tools under the sun, so maybe?

The XCOM 2 SDK, comes with good documentation. If you already have it downloaded, take a peek in this folder "Steam\SteamApps\common\XCOM 2 War of the Chosen SDK\Documentation" There is are segments on soldier customizations, character props, as well as character shaders.

When starting, I recommend exporting the textures for some of the base game armors that have the look you want to replicate. That way you can see what color values give you the results you want. I'm not sure if I remember correctly, but the most important reference textures would be Albedo (base color map which are the RGB colors), Metallic (Grayscale texture), Specular (Grayscale texture).

I'm a bit rusty on the specifics, but hope this helps!

Hello sir. I would like to see more of the worn and matte textures on the tier 3 armors and helmets.

Can you provide me a direction where I can start to mod the original helmets and masks?

Do I need to paint the textures myself, or there is a workaround, using some procedure generated materials like in Blender?

BottomScorer this behavior is immature, everyone is tired of seeing you comment this on every post

How's this for a steam tag? .,|,, (-_-) ,,|,.

One Steam tag should be sufficient!

War of the Chosen

NOT war of the chosen!
NOT WotC!

Please add new Steam tag "War of the Chosen" here.

@Dragon32, Thank you, I appreciate it.

@Shoutmon-Grei
I wouldn't say it's necessary , but keep it mind if you run into problems with 2k's launcher and that game.

@Dragon32, Would it be a good idea to use an alternate launcher for Chimera Squad? I've only a few mods for the game and haven't played it yet.

@Shoutmon-Grei
No. I'm using two separate installs of the AML, one for XCOM 2 and one for Chimera Squad.

@Dragon32, It won't break Xcom Chimera Squad will it?

@Shoutmon-Grei
Don't use 2K's launcher, it's fundamentally broken. Use the excellent Alternate Mod Launcher [github.com] instead.

I've subbed, unsubbed, and resubbed and the helmets won't show up in the character pool =(

Is there something I can do to remedy this? I'd love to try the helmet and gasmask out.

Hello, thank you for this great mod.
I was wondering, if you are still modding... Is it possible to create matte T3 weapons to go with the armours? (Especially that annoying shiny heavy weapon on the W.A.R. suit.)

@WastedAlmond I'm glad you're a part of the Xcom 2 modding community! Your W.A.R. suit is phenomenal! Maybe (hopefully) all the various armor pieces will be available to me in my next playthrough. Great job!

The proto warsuit torso for females is unlikely, as I've changed my sculpting software (mudbox to zBrush). So I can't really easily get my hands on the sculpt anymore. There are ways around it but it's could turn out to be a lot of work, and I'd rather make new slightly higher quality stuff. I've been very busy lately and haven't had much time to mod, so can't make any promises on upcoming content.

All the other stuff in this pack should be usable on both genders.

I only have the male torso of this super-amazing mod...I NEED all of the pieces, both male and female, and especially that unbelievably gorgeous helmet (you know the one I'm talking about)! I'm going to be starting a new game very soon...what do I need to do to have this super-cool armor for my guys and gals?

Thanks

I used the trick you mentioned and was finally able to see all the helmets. The 'worn' variants are great!

I'm slowly investigating a fix, if it works I'll release a fix. For the immediate future I'm afraid you'll have to bear with the bug, as right now I don't have the time to really sit down and investigate.

As a workaround, you can force the alternate materials to load by mousing over a completely different helmet, then move the cursor to the right and then over the variant you want.

I really don't know what causes this, as the materials work but for some reason the game doesn't like to swap between variants after the "Tactical Legacy" pack. Something was changed in how variants are handled there.

I'm having the same problem that Hazard described on the previous page.

kudos to anyone making original stuff instead of cosplay bullshit

@WastedAlmond:
Not sure if torso pieces count as "smaller props" (actually they almost definitely don't) but I do feel that plated armour seems to get ignored. There're huge number of props for kevlar, a lot for powered, but next to none for poor old Predator armours.

If that's too much with all your other commitments then no worries. I absolutely love what you've provided already. It's permanently in my modlist.

I'll have to see what I feel like doing. The bigger projects are not mod related, and instead are related to uni stuff.

Nice. Are you gonna focus on head accessories, or will you do torso/leg stuff, too? As for larger projects: for this game, or others? Care to share?

Yeah, but right now I wont start such an undertaking. I'll do smaller props while I work on other larger projects of my own.

Holy shitsnacks! You're back! I'm a month late to the party, but I'm glad to see you back! Hey! I have an idea! Have you ever thought of modifying the alien ruler armors or helmets?

@Deadput: nice helm for Shock troopers and other firebug types.

Holy damn he's back!

Awesome update.

Love the items in the new update.

Hey, thanks for the update, Almond!

Yep, I haven't seen it with anything else.

I actually had that as well, once I update I'll compare the item manifest to the ones in game to see if there's something thats changed over the last few updates/DLC, thus causing the weirdness. It was limited to just the items from my pack right? At least thats what I experienced while playing the new DLC.

I'm seeing slight issues with some of the helmets in the customization screen. When I first hover over, for example, one of the four different Sparrow Recon Helmets, it shows up fine on the soldier, but if I then try to view/select a different Sparrow Recon Helmet, it doesn't load and instead whatever was selected first stays visible. Moving to a helmet from another set works fine, though.

If I quit the customization screen completely and then go back, the correct version shows up as the currently selected one, so all the different options still work, but browsing them is a bit annoying.

Sorry if I don't make any sense, this is quite difficult to describe. :D

Right now creating soldier and try mate version of helmets on WOTC. Works well, ty.

Well, not help...but vanilla version works good...and male and female got anarchy version of helmets(I guess armor too...just don't begin campaign there)

Huh. I wonder if I messed something up with the wotc version then, I'll take a look in the near future. As I'll be making some tiny additions to this.

Got hunters, shen legacy and anarhy... You know I try one thing... subscribe only vanilla mode an d see did it work on wotc... Because I use more nations mode on vanila but work on both versions

So matte styles aren't working for you at all? That's a bit odd since they worked for me when playing with the new tactical legacy stuff. Do you have all the DLC or just some of them?

Sooooo, when we can get matte style for WOTC?

By the way Jsleezys make hands for tier 3 gear(make shoulders more cube) and it's really good looking with your armor

Shoot. Hang in there, man. I can't imagine what you're going through, but I could sympathize. Hopefully things get better for you, WA. Best wishes.

I'd love to update the mod, but am currently experiencing some rather debilitating health problems and have to try to minimize the damage to my studies while waiting for treatment. I want to (at the very least!) create some small accesories still before calling it quits, but it'll have to wait until I'm getting better.

Guessing this isn't gonna get updated anymore?

Some of the helmets remind me of Mass Effect, neat stuff :D

Holy crap, the quality here is insane. Instant sub!

Quality over quantity... INSTANT SUBSCRIBE. I saw many mods with alot of things but god it was awfull ingame...

Oh yeah, and +1 for making a helmet that looks like the Skyranger. Looks pretty badass

Gave you a thumbs-up rating just for the neck cover being rendered as a lower face accessory, awesome idea.

But yeah, definitely a good effort on the helmets. Subscribed.

No worries :P There is a full set coming, albeit slowly due to university stuff. The helmet might be released earlier than the rest though!

Ah, I see. I suppose my dumb ass didn't read the torso part of the Apex Predator listing. Sorry.