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GammaLeak - - 1 comments @ VTMB A.I. HD Textures

For those who would like to use this mod together with other mods, I think I've cooked up a bit of a solution. As is now known, the materials folder cannot exceed around 8.6GB or the game will almost certainly crash when you load into a new zone. For the time being, no one has produced a solution for this, so it means there has to be a bit of tradeoff in texture quality in order to reduce the size of the materials folder. I think I've found an easily achievable and mostly happy medium.

Many of the textures in the AI HD pack require a .vmt file that tells the engine the textures are 4x the expected size. Making such textures smaller would be extremely time-consuming and prone to human error as you'd have to regenerate a bunch of .vmt files. However, the textures used on modeled game objects rather than level geometry don't use a .vmt file. This is almost everything in the .\materials\models\scenery\* subfolders. As it happens, this is also one of the largest subfolders in the AI HD texture pack.

What I've done is used the tools in the Bloodlines SDK to take the 4x upscaled textures from this AI HD pack and reduced just the textures in the .\materials\models\scenery\* subfolders by half (still 2x the originals). Doing this takes the total size of the AI HD pack down to ~6GB and leaves plenty of room for several other texture mods.

I have NOT fully tested this with a complete playthrough of the game. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. However, early testing in the Santa Monica hub areas indicates that it's all working well.

So, without further ado, if you'd like to download it, here is (nearly) everything from the .\materials\models\scenery\* subfolders at 2x instead of 4x:
1drv.ms

Steps to use:
1. Install the Unofficial Patch
2. Install the VTMB A.I. HD Textures via its installer to your Unofficial_Patch folder
3. Download and unzip the file I've linked above
4. Copy the materials folder from my 2x pack on top of the materials folder in your Unofficial_Patch folder (overwrite all files when prompted)
5. Install other mods as you see fit.

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