CoD2 Shaders - Custom weapon "camos" DX9 For my Mod.

[BrandonDR]

Hello, i am developing a singleplayer mod for Call of Duty 2, and I have come with an idea, I made a Pack-a-Punch script that works flawlessly for CoD2, and i was wondering if I could do some cool camos for the upgraded weapons and i stumbled upon with this amazing texture techinique, look how the upgraded weapon texture looks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tro2mdhwxyw

It is important to mention that i did not make this shader, the thing is, I would like to add some custom camos for my mod but i do not know how to work with them, i do not understand how they work since i discovered them just today, if anyone could help me or collaborate with some cool shaders that would be amazing.

You can check my mod here: https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-mexican-revolution-mod

[0RBohRgwLk]

the skin on the video is beautiful

reminds me this: https://vcodmods.com/view/animated-skin-neonwave

i don't use those because i think that distracts me and then i get less efficient to hit players :'(

[0RBohRgwLk]

ah but i realize now, you can switch skin without changing file/restart game?!

[0RBohRgwLk]

do you need another model file and somehow set the weapon model via gsc something like that?
I would really appreciate if you could explain

[BrandonDR]

I would liken to have a variety of skins, i mean a set of several cool shaders ready to be appliead to whatever viewmodel_weapon, i tried to create my own shader but i failed since i do not understand at all how hlsl works.

[0RBohRgwLk]

brandon why don't u reply? u want to keep the solution only for you?

[BrandonDR]

what do you mean? i replyed just up above

[0RBohRgwLk]

i meant i didn't know u can change skin without restarting game, was wondering how, is it done using gsc? could you please show an example?

[BrandonDR]

of course, and yes indeed it is using gsc.

level.player takeallweapons();
level.player giveWeapon("super_ppsh");
level.player switchToWeapon("super_ppsh"); //notice that the super_ppsh is a new weapon. I mean you really will not swap the skin, you will swap to an entire new weapon.

[IzNoGoD]

I guess the question he's (trying to) ask is "how do you make such skins to begin with"