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Textures

SilverEzredes edited this page Jun 4, 2024 · 2 revisions

Alan Wake 2 textures are just plain DDS files, however they use .tex extension, to view and export textures easily you can use this Noesis Plugin

Once exported as .dds you can use either Intel Texture Works or Nvidia Texture Tools to edit the DDS files in Photoshop.

  • The DDS compression format must be the same as the original, you can see the format in Noesis' Debug Log when you open a .tex file.
  • After exporting from Photoshop just change the file extension back to .tex

Texture Guide:

_d = DIFFUSE_ALBEDO

_n = NORMAL

_s = SMOOTHNESS

_sa = SPECULAR_ALBEDO

_e = EMISSIVE

_dt = DETAIL

Warning

Some .tex files are actually video files, to be more specific Bink Video files. Noesis will throw the following error when trying to view these:

[ERROR: Invalid magic! This is a Bink video file.]

  • You can view and edit these video files by renaming the .tex extension to .bk2 and opening them with RAD Video Tools
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