SM2-WOS SUIT EDITOR

SM2/WOS Asset Editor is a custom suit and texture editing tool built mainly for Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, with a few Spider-Man 3 features sprinkled in as extras.

The goal of this tool is to make suit creation and texture editing easier by bringing a lot of useful features into one place. It includes layered texture editing, recoloring, custom image importing, model previews, tracing tools, built-in suit assets, and other editing features inspired by programs like Photoshop and GIMP.

This tool is not meant to completely replace Photoshop or GIMP. In fact, I recommend using them together. If the editor is lacking in a certain area, do part of the work in Photoshop or GIMP and then bring it back into the Asset Editor.

A lot of the workflow and UI inspiration came from those programs, but the focus here is specifically on making Spider-Man suit modding faster and easier.

The built-in SUIT KIT contains a collection of useful images, textures, suit pieces, UV references, and model files that can help you get started without having to hunt everything down yourself.

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SPIDER-MAN 3 SUPPORT

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There is also some Spider-Man 3 support, but SM3 was always more of an extra feature in this project.

I may come back later and add proper Spider-Man 3 . TEX support and expand that side of the editor, but for now the main focus is still Spider-Man 2 and Web of Shadows.

This tool actually predates xeSM3.

It was something I had been working on before xeSM3 became my main focus, and because of that it ended up sitting unfinished for longer than I originally planned.

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DEVELOPMENT / RELEASE HISTORY

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The Asset Editor was originally supposed to release back in August.

Out of almost everything I have worked on, I would argue this tool gave me some of the most trouble.

There were a lot of UI problems, model-viewing issues, texture problems, scaling bugs, release packaging problems, and features that had to be rebuilt multiple times before I was comfortable putting it out publicly.

I tried to give it one more major cleanup before release.

There may be one more update after this if something important comes up, but after that I plan to leave the tool alone for a while and focus on other projects.

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SM2 TRACE LAB

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I decided to leave the SM2 Trace Lab inside the release for people who want to experiment with it.

This feature was originally meant to help automatically trace and reconstruct Spider-Man 2 suit web patterns using suit textures and UV information.

SM2 TRACE LAB WAS NEVER FULLY COMPLETED.

It can still be fun to experiment with and some parts of it work, but do not expect perfect automatic web reconstruction.

Depending on the texture, it may create strange or inaccurate results.

Use SM2 Trace Lab for fun and experimentation, but beware that it is unfinished.

For serious suit work, manual cleanup in Photoshop or GIMP will still give you better control.

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MAIN FEATURES

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- Layer-based suit texture editing

- Custom image and texture importing

- Move, resize, rotate, duplicate, copy, and paste tools

- Recoloring and tinting

- Magic Wand selection

- Web Brush tools

- Layer visibility controls

- Undo / Redo and editing history

- Built-in suit assets and reference textures

- Spider-Man 2 model previews

- Web of Shadows model previews

- Some Spider-Man 3 model / texture support

- Experimental SM2 Trace Lab

- Exporting completed suit textures

- Multiple texture slots for different suit and character assets

- Built-in themes and UI customization

The tool is designed around suit creation, experimentation, and giving modders a faster way to preview how their textures may look on the actual models.

It is especially useful when combined with an external image editor.

A workflow could be:

SM2/WOS Asset Editor

Photoshop / GIMP

Asset Editor Model Preview

Game Testing

Instead of constantly editing files blindly and launching the game after every small change. <