A post over on silenthillcommunity made me remember that I meant to do a sort of listing/tutorial on skinning stuff in SH4. I’ve posted on which programs to use, but SH4 can be a pain because it’s hard to find the models you’re looking for. All the games have some issues like this, so SH4 will be the first one that I really address and try to explain here.

The problem with SH4 is that it’s less organized than the previous game files were. There’s just a bunch of *.bin files in a data folder. You can open these with the texture explorer.

Most people are most interested in the character skins, so I’ll start there:

Characters:

• AND… Files starting with “AND” are Andrew’s textures.
• CY… are Cynthia. Anything with “ZK” refers to bloody/dead textures.
• EI… is Eileen.
• EOS… is Eileen’s alternate costume.
• HS12 contains the big hospital head.
• CHI.,. little Walter
• JANK… Frank
• KL1/2… Walter
• KL3… Dead walter
• KMNK… Henry haunting
• RICH..Richard
• TW…. neighbors and people on the streets
• SNAP… All the still pictures of memos and stuff like that
• USABALLBIN… Robbie balloon
• PHE… hauntings

Levels:

• BD… building world
• FR… forest world
• HS… hospital
• ST… is all the spiral staircase stuff.
• SB… subway world
• IE.. apartment world
• LS.. end area
• RL… Henry’s room and Eileen’s bedroom and some stuff out the window