
I wanted to see if it was possible to get a reskin showing up in the 3D View so I quickly edited the DDS file to make the rider's clothing blue in Paint.NET.ĩ. That's about all I've figured out for now on that.Ĩ. You can also set the animation to loop using the Loop button at the top. Sound FX are also triggered as well (this should make syncing sound fx much easier than in Civ4 where you had to edit the KF file in NifSkope and then test in game). Now you can trigger the different animations in the left hand pane of the Animation Triggers view and you should see the unit in the 3D View moving. Switch the drop-down in the top left of the 3D View to EventCode rather than default. The only hotkeys I've figured out for the 3D View are:ĪLT + SHIFT + LMB-Drag can be used to rotate the camera You'll want to have them both side-by-side (widescreen monitors useful here): The only ones I've played with so far are the 3D View and Animation Triggers windows. A few windows open when you open an fxsxml file. You can see it has a list of the bones which is interesting.ħ. You can also explore the contents of the fxsxml in the Asset Viewer.

The fxsxml is an XML containing the details of the mesh, texture and animation files: To look at the 3D assets in Nexus go to Assets/Asset Viewer. Terrain and Cityset DDS files seem to open fine as well.Ħ. Some of the DDS files seem to use an unknown compression format that cannot be opened, but unit textures from the DX9 directory can be opened in Paint.NET.

The 3d art for units, leaders, terrain and buildings is all in together with no subdivision so you'll have to hunt through to find what you are interested in.ĥ. There are 3 directories Common, DX9 and dx9_low. This will unpack all the assets to the directories.

In the top menu select Nexus > Script Browser > Extract PAK Files. Open Nexus - set the asset directory to be C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\sid meier's civilization as well.Ĥ. Using Regedit set HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/FIRAXIS/Tools/ToolAssetPath to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\sid meier's civilization v (if using Vista/Windows 7) or C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\sid meier's civilization v if using XP.ģ. Install Sid Meier's Civilization V SDK via Steam.Ģ. This isn't really a tutorial or anything, just a walk-through of what I've done and discovered so far in the hope it might be useful to people.ġ.
