Aliens: Colonial Marines – Graphics Mods & Add-ons

How to Remove the HUD in Multiplayer

How to use it:

• While in-game, press F10 to make the HUD disappear.
• Press F10 to make the HUD appear back.

Install Instructions:

1. Copy-paste all the content from the .rar file into the following folder: Steam/SteamApps/common/Aliens Colonial Marines
2. To uninstall, delete the file BaseInput.ini from your Steam/SteamApps/common/Aliens Colonial Marines/Engine/Config folder and verify your game cache files on Steam.

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To create this tweak manually:

1. Open the file BaseInput.ini with the note pad. You can find this file in Steam/SteamApps/common/Aliens Colonial Marines/Engine/Config.
2. Add Bindings=(Name=”F10″,Command=”togglehud”) under General bindings. (Don’t copy paste this string from here as WordPress messes up with the “)
3. Save the file, you’re done. This can also be used to to remove the HUD in any part of the game.
   

How to Remove the Film Grain Filter

Download this add-on in order to remove the film grain effect from the HUD. This is a temporary working solution for people who dislike this effect.

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How to Take High Res Screenshots

UE3 can generate screenshots at any size that are a multiple of the screen resolution (or window resolution if the game is running in window mode). The command Tiledshot does this by rendering the game frame multiple times, one tile at a time at full resolution and concatenating all tiles into a single image file.

To enable this function:

1. Open the file BaseInput.ini with the note pad. You can find this file in Steam/SteamApps/common/Aliens Colonial Marines/Engine/Config.
2. Add Bindings=(Name=”F6″,Command=”tiledshot 4 128″) under General bindings. (Don’t copy paste this string from here as WordPress messes up with the “)
3. Save the file, you’re done.
   

How to use it:

• While in-game, press F6 to take a screenshot.
• Wait until the high res image is rendered.
• Screenshots can be found in my games/Aliens Colonial Marines/PecanGame/ScreenShots

To increase the resolution of the screenshots, change the value after tiledshot to 6. This means the screenshot you take will be 6×6 times the screen resolution.

Example Screenshot (8640×5800)

How to Extract the Game Resources

Unreal Engine Resource Viewer also known as Umodel or Unreal Model Viewer is program for viewing and extracting resources from almost all games that use Unreal Engine. This isn’t strictly relevant for modding the game but can be useful at times. All game resources can be found at /Aliens Colonial Marines/PecanGame/CookedPCConsole.

1. Download Umodel at the official website.
2. Extract the content from the zip file.
3. Open a command prompt and go to wherever you extracted the files.
4. Use the following command to extract the files from your desired .upk package: umodel -export -lzo -all YourFile.upk.
5. All unpacked files can be found on the same folder as Umodel.exe.

Alternatively you create a short-cut to Umodel.exe and add these commands at the end of the Target line. This would help you to speed up the process if you wish to unpack several files quickly. To unpack sounds you can use this method.

 

Hight Quality Texture Pack

This add-on replaces a number of low quality textures from the game with custom made higher quality ones. For now only some of the most noticeable and low quality textures have been re-created. These include so far:

• Sulaco floor tiles and support structure.
• Various computer screens and interfaces.
• Lens flares.

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Example screenshots:

 Clean Alien HUD

This add-on removes all effects and noise from the Alien HUD in multiplayer, giving it a cleaner look. It only leaves an small reticle for reference when spitting or pouncing.

Example screenshot:

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Clean Marine HUD

This add-on removes all weapon pick-up icons from the marine HUD in both single player and multiplayer.

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