Obtaining the Ficsite texture
I would really love to use the Widmanstätten pattern of the ficsite ingots and ficsite trigons to make a wicked destop background with just the repeating texture. However, I have no idea how to find the texture in the game files (I looked into it with FModel) and the best I can do is an ingame photo but its not just the texture and its hard to get the repeating pattern from it. If anyone has some solutions or ideas please let me know.
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the item descriptor name is
Desc_FicsiteMesh_C according to the wiki, you should be able to locate it via fmodel search and then see what the mesh asset is, then see what texture asset the mesh is pointing to
>docsearch fmodelThis is the best result I got from the SMD :
https://docs.ficsit.app/satisfactory-modding/latest/Development/ExtractGameFiles.html#FModel
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this page should cover how to use the fmodel search
Ok I was kind of looking through but maybe I missed the specific one, I will check in a bit and get back
The search can't find Desc_FicsiteMesh_C just a Desc_FicsiteMesh
the _C is for class default object, you found it
ah ok, how do I see what texture asset the mesh is pointing to
not sure offhand but you can see it either in the json or probably as a details field in the mesh viewer
or if you're lucky it's in a folder very close in the hierarchy to the mesh
So its pointing to this texture but its...porple
that's the normal map, there are 3 that form the final texture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_mapping
Normal mapping
In 3D computer graphics, normal mapping, or Dot3 bump mapping, is a texture mapping technique used for faking the lighting of bumps and dents – an implementation of bump mapping. It is used to add details without using more polygons. A common use of this technique is to greatly enhance the appearance and details of a low polygon model by gener...
ohh, how do I find the other ones
they are there too
same folder
hmm I only see the one
is a search limiting what it displays?
shouldn't be, I just relaunched the app
oh, you got unlucky, the chain of files for this one is really something else
I have no idea what all that means d=
check this folder
oo wait that's progress
found this!
and one in orange, is there a way to merge them?
that is a long story but the short answer is not without doing a bunch of unreal engine stuff
here is more info https://docs.ficsit.app/satisfactory-modding/latest/Development/BeginnersGuide/SimpleMod/item.html#_assign_the_textures_to_the_material_instance
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the orange one is probably as good as you'll get
send a screenshot of it here? not sure if you found the reflection map or the base color
well the orange one doesn't have the depth/detail as this porple one
ah
well, that is because the purple one is literally the depth and detail
makes sense xD
I may be able to hugh shift the purple one to get a close to desired effect but worst case i'll have to dig into that long story
I have made red
Solution
@Robb (Busy) Cheers! Thanks for the help
I put this together as a test but I don't think the material likes being applied on something this large. my texture quality is already set to Ultra
