Body Tattoo Templates

These are editable templates to help you create your own custom body tattoos for Unique Tav.

Requirements

The files in this mod don't require anything.

But assuming you want to create custom tattoos for Unique Tav, here's what you'd need:

• []Unique Tav

  []Magic Mirror Menu

  Other

  • []Intel Texture Works Plugin for Photoshop to import/export DDS files

    Body Models

    The models in . DAE format, which any 3D program can open.

    You can use a 3D program like Blender to paint directly on the model, if you want to.

    Body Tattoo Templates

    Templates to create individual tattoos.

    These are TIF image files, each with two layers:

    • []The wireframe (explained below)

      []Surface details, based on the normal maps

      Body Wireframes

      The unwrapped UV maps of the models. The game uses these in order to "wrap" tattoos onto the models.

      Tattoos are shared for all body models. The UV maps are very similar across all bodies, but your tattoo may still get wrapped a little differently on different bodies, especially in the chest area.

      Example of female vs. male UV map

      Body Tattoo Pack Template

      In the game, multiple tattoos are packed into one file, in a 4x5 grid, with each tattoo being 2048x2048 pixels.

      This file helps place your tattoos into the grid so they'll apply to the correct areas of the body when the game wraps onto a model. It's a TIF file (openable in any 2D program) with snap-able rectangles, hide-able templates, and cross-reference-able grid numbers for convenience with the Magic Mirror Menu.

      How To Export

      []Open the tattoo pack template (Body Tattoo Pack Template.tif)

      []Place your tattoo onto one of the squares. You can make it exact by snapping it to the rectangle or template. (In Photoshop you can do this by enabling View > Snap)

      []Recolor your tattoo to make it red. Depending on how you made your tattoo, you can right click on your layer and do Select Pixels, then create a solid red layer and add a mask.

      []Hide everything except the red tattoo and the black background. Temporarily merge all layers so that there is only one layer in the whole file. (In Photoshop this is necessary in order to save as DDS.)

      []File > Save As; select the DDS file type, and save the file as Skin_Atlas_Body_UNI_Tattoo_A_MSK. DDS

      [*]Move this file into your BG3 installation, in thi