Dave, I did do all that, but ME3 just wasn’t launching when I tried to launch it from Texmod. Eventually I vanilla’ed everything, started from scratch, and decided not to do the texplorer scan on the DLC since I wasn’t really changing anything except Shep’s hair and casual outfit, and I was able to get it to work.

That was around the time that I also figured out that I could use ME3Explorer’s TPF tools on the TPF (which also hadn’t been working before when I tried it.)

So yeah, finally managed it. But doing the entire DLC folder with texplorer (yes, I was starting with a completely vanilla game there) p. much broke everything for me.

Thanks for replying.

TBH I don’t remember! Haha. It’s on my site somewhere :D Sorry!

Whoa this is way more advanced than anything I can do! Thanks for posting the solution!! :D

im not sure if u are aware but u have to do a few annoying steps to make me3 use the new textues from texmod. if you launch me3 from texmod with a few tpf files without doing anything else it will just launch me3 without popping in those new texture mods that your trying to use.

first of all you must disable the origin in game overlay, you can either do this in the user settings for all games or everytime you start me3. (I reccomend disabling it completely as its rubbish >:3 )

second make a copy of your texmod program and place it in the same file that has your MassEffect3.exe file which will be located here:
C:/program files (x86)/origin games/mass effect 3/binaries/win32

now download this batch file and follow its instructions, dont worry its safe. basically what it does is it renames the texmod and the me3.exe file so when u launch it from origin it thinks it is legit so all the texture mods that you have loaded in texmod will work. and after you launch texmod it will change the names back so that you can run me3 FROM texmod. you MUST run it as administrator though. and thats it! I hope it works :D soz for the bad grammar i was in a hurry :3

batch file link: https://www.mediafire.com/?2me6itx4d5ibe84

NOTE: dont be alarmed if me3 doesn’t launch right away it can take from 30 seconds to an hour to pop in the new textures depending on how many you have loaded into texmod, so you will just have to be patient and wait a minute for the black screen :3

if you dont trust the batch file and/or you want to make your own batch file here is the code for u to copy:
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@ECHO OFF
ECHO Run Mass Effect 3 with Texmod?
SET /P X=(Y)es or (N)o?
IF /I “%X%”==”Y” goto :Yes
IF /I “%X%”==”N” goto :No
GOTO END

:Yes
ren “C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Mass Effect 3\Binaries\Win32\MassEffect3.exe” “MassEffect3_tmp.exe
ren “C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Mass Effect 3\Binaries\Win32\Texmod.exe” “MassEffect3.exe”

ECHO Files renamed! Please start now your Mass Effect 3 in Origin.
PAUSE

ren “C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Mass Effect 3\Binaries\Win32\MassEffect3.exe” “Texmod.exe”
ren “C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Mass Effect 3\Binaries\Win32\MassEffect3_tmp.exe” “MassEffect3.exe”

ECHO Filenames restored! Now you can start Mass Effect 3 with use of TexMod.
PAUSE

GOTO END

:No

“C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Mass Effect 3\Binaries\Win32\MassEffect3.exe”

:END
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