Where is Warscapes shader files (.hlsl) located?

[Slashas]

Hello! I'm digging around in Rome 2s data and experimenting with warscapes particle system (so far no luck at all ). But I found that in some files, in the data.pack's vfx folder, seems to share a shader library called particle_vfx_library.hlsl. But I can't locate that file. Only lead I got is the filepath in these files saying <shader_library file="fx/particle_vfx_library.hlsl"...>

So anyone got any idea about where to find it? Or how to open it if I find it?

[.Mitch.]

data_rome2.pack -> fxc folder

I wanted to edit some stuff a while back, however they are not in .hlsl format, I couldn't really be bothered to go much further after that.

[Slashas]

Thank you .Mitch! I was hoping to be able to find something to change the lifetime of particles (i.e arrows/rocks). I'll keep looking for something to open it with

[Kurisu Paifuaa]

Shogun included (non-compiled) hlsl routines in distinct shader packs. You could edit and pack those and the game would compile at run time. Then the compiled .fxc files would output to /fxcache in the user directory for future runs. I presume you could also pack up the compiled routines as a mod.

Like .Mitch said, the only familiar thing with Rome are the pre-compiled fxc files... no sign of shader packs with hlsl source. Best thing to do at this point would be to unpack everything and search the contents for non-compiled text. It looks a little different with Rome2... worst case scenario is that they've decided to only release pre-compiled routines.