Borderlands 2 Skin generator

Utility to generate png files from Borderlands 2 in-game skin files.

How to use:

Installation via PyPi

This project is available on PyPi, however pre-compiled binaries only come for Python 3.8 64bit on Windows. If this meets your requirements, you can install it using pip install BL2_skingen, which will create the entry script bl2-skingen.

Manual installation

Should be handled by pip as long as you have a compiler and Cython set up, otherwise:

• Download and extract the repo somewhere.
• Make sure you have the following python packages installed: Cython, Pillow and numpy.
  • You can do so with: pip install -r requirements.txt
• Navigate a terminal to the project's root folder.
• Compile the .pyx files to binaries by running py setup.py build_ext --inplace.

Usage

• To extract the packets from Borderlands 2 use UE Viewer/umodel. The filepaths are hardcoded to locate the files the way UE Viewer extracts them.
• If you installed the PyPi package, the entry script will be placed in %PYTHONPATH%/Scripts and should be accessible with bl2-skingen anywhere if the location is in your system's path.
• If you installed the script manually, navigate a terminal to the directory, the script can be run there with py <Installationdir>/skingen.py
• For help on options, run the script without any arguments. Example : bl2-skingen C:\Skinfiles\CD_Assasin_OrangeD_SF -out C:\Skinfiles\GEN -exc-head

If a result did not conform to your expectations (and it's likely it won't), feel free to open up an issue.