Texture Assistant

Texture Assistant

Texture Assistant is a modder's tool (utility plugin) that helps you inspect materials and textures used by detecting and providing information about which scene assets are live around the player. It has a crosshair HUD for raycast hit object with configurable distance and chosen overlay information, can dump the full PBR texture set you are currently looking at (or all of them, not sure it is safe to do so but the button DOES exist), and more importantly- can dump logs of nearby or all scene object mats/textures/other info that should be useful for making other mods.

This is an Open Source Mod Under MIT, so feel free to fork it. However suggestions or use case modifications are welcome.

Installation Instructions

1. Install BepInEx for The Planet Crafter.

2. Place the Texture Assistant plugin DLL into your BepInEx plugins folder.

3. Launch the game once so the config file and output folders are created.

4. Use the default hotkeys in-game, or change them in the generated config if needed.

F8 shares a game hotkey with 'report issue' so if you use it, and the message pops up in game, just press esc to close it, nothing has errored.

Default Hotkeys

F6 - Scan nearby renderers

F7 - Scan all loaded scene renderers

F8 - Dump textures from the object currently being looked at

Shift + F8 - Dump all unique readable textures found on loaded scene renderers. Will likely stall your game and isn't recommended to test for normal use cases.

Main Features

• Hud String Overlay

Shows a configurable live on-screen readout for the object under your crosshair/camera ray. You can display the hit object name, material name, texture name, distance, and more.

• Nearby renderer scan

Scans renderers near the player/camera and writes a dump file listing materials, shader names, texture properties, texture names, and texture sizes, then exports them to The Planet Crafter\BepInEx\plugins\ Texture Assistant\DebugDumps

• Full scene renderer scan

Scans all loaded live scene renderers and creates a detailed texture and material dump for broader investigation.

• Dump textures from the object you are looking at

Exports readable textures from the currently targeted renderer.

• Dump all seen textures

Exports one copy of each unique readable texture discovered on loaded live scene renderers.

• Configurable overlay fields

Enable or disable individual overlay details such as hit name, collider type, layer, tag, distance, renderer type, renderer object name, material slot, shader name, texture property, texture size, and status output.

What This Mod Is For

• trying to figure out which material or texture an object uses

• creating texture replacement mods

• tracing shader texture slots like _MainTex or _BaseMap

• inspecting live scene assets instead of guessing from asset names alone

• building modding workflows around exported texture references

Requirements

• The Planet Crafter

Notes

• Texture export only works for textures that can be made readable at runtime.

• Some objects may not return a HUD hit or out of renderer /material depending on how they are set up in the scene. This mod searches parent-child trees pretty well but it's just another tool in the toolbox made so I could investigate the blurry texture issue the game has a little more closely, that I