New to modding and a question

[bigcdub1017]

I'm new to modding for No Mercy and think it's gonna be over my head. A quick summary - me and about 5 of my friends used to play the game when it first came out. Now we are all like 32ish, married with kids and over the last few weeks we've been playing it again during the weekend. I want to take a current Mod that exists and just edit me and my friends over some of the lamer guys but whenever I swap out edited photos in the hi-res folder it never shows up on the game. Is this even allowable?

Does anyone have a good tutorial they can refer me to that will teach me to edit the game from scratch? Sorry I'm such a noob at this.

 

[The NekoMancer]

Can you show the names of the files? and the folder name they're in?

 

[bigcdub1017]

WWF no mercy 2k16\WWF no mercy 2k16\Plugin\hires_texture\WWF No Mercy\03 - Roster\Chris Jericho\Alt Parts <---- is the directory where I see like two hires pictures of Jericho's face.

One of the filenames for the picture of the face is ---- WWF No Mercy#1921A0FE#2#1#AD87D838_ciByRGBA (it's a PNG file)

In photoshop I edited a picture of my friends face & just gave it an identical filename and then put it in that directory where jericho's faces were. Now when I reload the game it shows it loading all the hires pictures, but when I get to Jericho's wrestler in the game all I see is a picture of one of the original face options in the game instead of my edited picture or the chris jericho face.

Is there a step I'm missing in being able to get the face I edited into the game, I figured it would work if I just did it this way.

Thanks for your help.

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Figured it out on my own....I was analyzing the PNG files that worked in the game and the one I was using and they were identical in dimension, similar file sizes...but the bit level was off by like a value of 8. So I changed it to 32 bit and it worked great.