HOW TO: Custom Pilot models in Titanfall 2

In this tutorial I am going to show you how to take single player pilot assets, and use them for multiplayer.

Keep note

A) This is only client side and thus, only you can see it.

B) Some animations are wonky

C) Bosses do not work sorry viper fans. Unless someone manages to make the animations properly you can not rip those models and inject them into the game.

What you need:

Titanfall VPK tool

Steps:

    Go into your VPK folder in the titanfall 2 root folder. Make a copy of "englishclient_mp_common.bsp.pak000_dir" and "client_mp_common.bsp.pak000_000". This is in case something goes wrong, simply copypasta'ing these files back into the roo VPK folder will but everything back to normal.

    Open the VPK injector

    On the top left there is a folder with a + button. Click that.

    go back into you Titanfall 2 VPK folder (IT MUST BE IN THE ROOT FOLDER) and select englishclient_mp_common.bsp.pak000_dir. A plethora of folders will appear.

    Click on "extract all" second to last button on the right, it looks like a folder with a green arrow.

    Create a custom, easy to remember folder and place the contents in there

You now have edit access to all the titanfall 2 Multiplayer models, and you can now replace them with various models.

I will provide a download link to a folder, this contains assets from within the singleplayer gamefiles. I tried pilots, heroes, and bosses. The pack contains Bear from the 6-4 Droz from the 6-4 A custom female sonar pilot (with titanfall 1 colors) Jack Cooper, Jill works too (gates from 6-4)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5awefoatlxaqi9v/pilots.7z?dl=0

6 A)If you want to find your own skins here is how

Go back onto the VPK app, and baically select each VPK. you want to look for the models, humans, you can do robots and reapers. But I have not tried. Then basically overwrite the original files with the assets you selected from the files. You go into each VPK using the app, extract the assets, rename them, then replace them.

The files are organized as such

Pilot_(the size light,medium,heavy)Pilot Type Male/Female (represented by m/f)

Each pilot type in MP has their own custom name Pilots names Roog will replace a-wall Pilots named reaper will replace sonar Pilots names geist will replace grapple Pilots named stalker will replace holo pilot (for some reason phase or stim gets wonky for me) but another user managed to inject jack cooper into it but for future regrence its like "gib" or something. Drex is camo

So for example female grapple pilot = pilot_medium_geist_f

You can find these files in models >humans > Pilots

Some SP assets start with SP, these might work. just by replacing the name of the file with any pilot slot you want.

Some pilots like 6-4 like gates and davis (I think) dont have textures. Davis just lacks textures completely (he has the cool X visor from TF l 1) and gates' helmet is untextured.

7) With your files ready and renamed for replacement, go into the files you extracted (the original VPK). Go into Models > Humans > Pilots and replace the files you took with the original files.

8) Back to the VPK app, select the repack option. Last option on the option bar (blue + green box with an arrow) select the folder of the VPK you extracted and then click extract

9) Finally, you will get 2 files one ending in dir and 000.

Rename the Dir one to: englishclient_mp_common.bsp.pak000_dir.vpk

Rename the 000 one to: client_mp_common.bsp.pak000_000

10) Copy those files, go to the root TF l 2 VPK folder and replace the original files with your new files.

11) and done! You now have new customizables. Let's hope respawn adds actual customization soon.

The untextured assets i mentioned can work just fine in game, but they need proper textures. IF someone is willing to create that and re-put the textures on the pilots. DM me and i will include a new download link with the new skins. Same applies to heroes, if anyone wanted to make them work feel free to message me as well and ill do the same. Keep in mind that you can use bear's skin on any other class or any working model for that matter. As long as you rename it to whatever, so yes you can have a spider bear by renaming pilot_heavy_roog_f to pilot_medium_geist_m. From testing it seems to work
By u/SeventhSwell