DS3 HD Icons Expanded for DS2LE

DS3 HD Icons Expanded for DS2LE

FEBRUARY 2025 - MAJOR UPDATE TO 2. 0:

NOW REPLACES 430 ICONS AT TWICE 1. 0'S ORIGINAL RESOLUTION!

What began as a project to port over the DS3 HD Item texture mod by EddyHg80 to make it compatible with DS2LightingEngine SotFS by Ganaboy has grown into a massive undertaking of countless hours spanning hundreds of items.

I began by datamining and exporting the 512x512 large icons from DS3 myself using Yabber and combed through thousands of textures dumped from DS2 to find and match the filenames of each item. From there, I spent an inordinate amount of time tweaking and recoloring many of them to get them to fit DS2's color scheme/style better. Over 140 of these were individually recolored by me in photoshop, and I kept finding new things I wanted to add to cover as much ground as possible. For example, I love the hexes in DS2, and only a few of them reappeared in DS3, so in at least 25-30 cases where there was no 1:1 icon equivalent, I utilized existing game assets and found HD images of the achievement icons along with my own artistic skills to fabricate new ones, including for hexes and other spells!

Icons replaced range from consumables, tools, multiplayer items, covenant items, upgrade materials, rings, sorceries, miracles, pyromancies, hexes, and all ammunition (arrows, bolts, and greatarrows).

HUGE Special thanks to Ganaboy/Ragevitamins, EddyHg80, and AronTheBaron!!!

Rage & Eddy for their feedback and amazing modding work. This would not have been possible without your encouragement and feedback/input.

Eddy's assistance with cropping/scaling down items in bulk was also a huge help so I only had to crop/scale 112 of them manually.

AronTheBaron is an extremely talented artist who kindly granted me permission to use a texture he made for the Red Eye Ring in the ultra impressive mod The Convergence for Dark Souls 3.

Installation instructions:

• []Install the latest version of DS2LightingEngine SotFS

  []Extract the rar you downloaded from this mod into your tex_override folder. Overwrite files when prompted to do so.

  To uninstall, simply delete the files from your tex_override folder.

  Note: While I tried to double-check to make sure I didn't replace icons that would contradict their corresponding item descriptions, I did replace "Ring of Resistance" (DS2) with the icon for the DS3 equivalent "Fleshbite Ring," and realized only afterwards that the former states it has 'four blessed gems' in it. If this discrepancy bothers you, simply delete h_13805519418384462842h_17910072934134333011.dds. If anyone notices any other issues like that, then please let me know, so that I can make note of them.

  I recommend pairing this mod with my other