Dark Souls 2 Gear Renewal Project

⭐ ⭐ (118 endorsements) 📥 11,727 downloads 📌 v0.51 📅 8/12/2025
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By AnemoiaWorks · Weapons and Armour

⬇ Download Mod Source: Nexus Mods ↗ 📅 Updated: 3/9/2026 📅 Created: 8/12/2025

🔍 Analysis

  • 👍 1.0% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
  • 🏆 #2 of 14 Weapons and Armour mods in this game by downloads

📋 About This Mod

Over 2000 Albedo, Normal and Specular map Textures upscaled to 4k for High Quality. Every piece of gear has been converted to DarkSouls2LightingEngine PBR Material Texture Pipeline fixing all and every rendering issue on Armor and Weapons

Complete Rework of vanilla Weapons and Armors, adding full PBR Material pipeline and making them fully compatible with DarkSouls2Lighting Engine Rendering features fixing all Specular inconsistencies on gear in the default DS2LE Preset. Vanilla Albedo, Normal, Gloss and Specular maps were upscaled to 4096x4096 resolution and Specular maps converted to Metallic map workflow for full PBR compatibility.

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The Renewal Project now features full ModOrganizer2 support.

Mod Organizer installation instructions:

  • []Install ModOrganizer2 and the Dark Souls 2 ModOrganizer2 Plugin

    []Follow the Dark Souls 2 ModOrganizer2 Plugin set up instructions to create a Portable instance for Dark Souls 2

    []install DS2LightingEngine SOFTS (This can be done through MO2, or manually. Try the manual install only if you are facing issues.)

    []Download this mod main files and install. (Textures AND Config files if provided)

    []Renewal Project features FOMOD installers for easy installation, pick the desired modules from the FOMOD menu.

    []Load Order should be as follows:

  UI Renewal

Renewal Project Textures

Renewal Project Normal

Renewal Project Specular

Renewal Project Update

Gear Renewal Textures

Gear Renewal Normal

Gear Renewal Specular

Gear Renewal Update

Config Files

Manual installation instructions:

  • []Download this mod main files and extract them. (Textures AND Config files if provided)

    []Look for the "tex_override" folders containing the texture . DDS and .cfg files inside the "fomod" folder you just extracted (Note: for All In One (aio) versions many different folders might be provided pick only one for each module category)

    []Copy all . DDS files inside your "Dark Souls II Scholar of the First Sin\Game\tex_override" folder, Override if prompted.

    []If Update downloads are provided this should be installed AFTER the main files.

    []If Config files are provided they NEED TO BE INSTALLED (.cfg files are installed in the tex_override folder)

    []For reference on installing order of all Renewal Project modules, check Step 6 (Load Order) of the ModOrganizer Installation Instructions.

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📊 Mod Details

Game
Dark Souls 2 Mods
Author
AnemoiaWorks
Version
0.51
Downloads
11,727
Endorsements
118
Category
Weapons and Armour
Created
8/12/2025
Updated
3/9/2026

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