Modding:Creating Armor Mods

In order to create a custom outfit mesh you will need:

Guides

Start here.

How to find and extract virtual textures

Create and Export a Mesh in Blender

Making an Item's LSX codes to get it into the game as a standalone item

Create Outfit Textures

Create MSK maps

Texture Formatting

List of Shaders useable by modders

Use Outfit Builder To Refit Outfits

References

Tools

• Modder's Multitool page- be sure to read through its documentation as it has a great many overlooked features, such as atlas generation for icons.

Finding Models and textures in the game files

• Asset Prefix References - what each race and gender has as a file prefix.
• Body Models - where the nude body mesh is.

Texture resources

• Upscaled Clothing Textures- high quality larger versions of the base game textures. Free permissions to use in any mod.

3d References

• Past and Future Blender export plugin settings

Icon Creation

• Making armour icons by AnteMaxx
• Custom Backdrops for Character Creation and Level Up by AnteMaxx
• Chroma Key Droppable Object by SoggyBurrito and Hijimare
• BG3 Icons in downloadable format by Mirza

Dye and Colour Palette creation

• P4 Custom Dyes Including Template
• Notion Dye Template by danyasnexusaccount
• Colouring cheat sheet
• ColourMath Colour Converter Use sRGB 0-1 for the vec3 value.
• RGB Color Picker
• BG3 Mini Tool- convert values into the ones the game uses
• Examples of dyes on in game clothing/armor

Finding Items and stats in the game files

• Item spreadsheet and where they are found
• Creator's Cauldron- generative tool, somewhat old but comes with many useful txt files with armor.txt and passives from the game.