This modkit no longer works as of JWE 1.8

JWEM

Jurassic World Evolution Modkit

Update dinosaur textures at runtime.

This is a proof of concept built on ReShade for replacing textures in DirectX games by hashing them at creation.

How to use

• Click on "Releases" near the top of this page and download Release02.zip.

• Extract the files and move them into your Jurassic World Evolution directory.

• Open the game.

• Once in game, Hold SHIFT and press F2 to open the menu.

• After releasing a dinosaur, or loading a save with dinosaurs, they should show up under the Dinosaur tab.

  • For increased compatability, uncheck "Enabled" before you load a save and enabled it again before you load a dinosaur with a texure you want to change.

  

Also

• Any Dinosaurs you add should be detected automatically and added to the list. If you have a skin for that species, you should see a dropdown box that will let you select a new one.
• Currently, any changes to a skin will affect every dinosaur with that skin.
• Add JWEMS skins to the skins folder.
  • Included is a basic skin for Ankylosaurus called Ankylosaurus Blue. After loading it, you should see a blue Ankylosaurus.

Creating Skins

For Sharing

• If you plan on making a skin pack (that can include albedo, normalmap, and other textures), use the Skin Builder.
• Click "Add" and select your modified albedo texture.
• Select the target species in the top right.
• Click "Save".
• Leave "Use GPU" Selected as using the CPU to compress DDS textures is very slow.
• Thats it, drop it in the skins folder!

For Testing

• This method is better if you plan on repeatedly loading a texture. Supports several formats like DDS and PNG
• Open SKIN_IDS.txt and find the species you want, name your file in the following format "You_skin_name_here_ID-RESOLUTION-TEXTURETYPE.png"
• If you're loading an Albedo texture for an Allosaurus, it might look like: Test1_ALLO-0-1024-A.PNG
• Or: RedTyranno_TYRA-0-1024-A.DDS
• Place the texture in the Skins folder and click "Reload Skins" in the UI.
• Higher resolutions are only found on a few dinosaurs, I think the large sauropods, so only use a higher resolution if your target resolution requires it.
• This method compresses the image on the GPU so it may take a few moments each time you load it.

Also

• JWEM may lower your framerate. If you adjust your graphics settings, you may need to keep Shader and Texture settings on medium or high.
• If you find loading a save with many dinosaurs takes too long, or crashes, uncheck "Enabled" until after you load the save, then recheck it before you release a dinosaur.

Questions

• My game quits/crashes right after I open it.
  • Try renaming dxgi.dll to d3d11.dll
• Texture looks odd?
  • Try flipping it vertically.
• Where do I find textures for a dino?
  • Search Google, theres a few methods.
• Can I use ReShade with this?
  • I dunno, probably not.

Copyright stuff

• copyright stuff here
• If you plan on sharing a texture, please use the skin builder to make a .JWEMS file, this lets it load faster and adds a small layer of protection to their intellectual property

TODO

Clean up the code, its a complete mess. The naming conventions aren't even consistent.