First things first, you'll need these two apps to do this.

UABE [github.com] and AssetStudio [github.com], you'll need to download both apps in their respective githubs, if you have any problem with the downloading of both of these, I've made just a lil' guide for you!


In their Github, you'll find two possible downloads, the 32bits one and the 64bits one, just select one of them depending on your System, you can easily check this with just pressing the Windows key, and selecting Settings > System > About.

I'll be using the version 2.2 stable d version for this guide

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After checking it, download the one that's for your System. After that, you'll have a zip file, just extract it and try running the program, Windows might not like it and will probally put a warning, just select the "run anyways" button and there you'll have it!

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In their Github you'll have three zips this time, select the top one, don't worry as it is compatible with both 32 and 64bits systems (I think).

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Extract the file and open the app to make sure it works! It should look something like this:

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This is fairly simple, as you only need to go to your games library and find in there ZNT.

Just right click the game and select administer > see local files, it should look something like this in the file explorer:

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Enter the ZNT_data file, there you will have the data.unity3d file (the one we need for this whole thing!

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With all these preparations, now we can ACTUALLY start the guide! :D

Now it's time to use AssetStudio !
In the app, select the file > load file button, in there, copy and paste the dataunity.3d file's location, after we open it (it takes a while), you should have something like this:

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Congrats! Now you have access to every single sprite of the game! Now, we aren't here to just use those for artworks, are we? We are here to modify and mess them up!

Well, now that we have to select the "Asset List" button, where all the sprites are stored as 2D textures. If you were doing this while reading the tutorial at the same time, you'll probally be thinking "Wait, why are most of the sprites red and not in a greyscale? wth?!" That's because the game later modifies them for the colorblind mode, mostly to just save resources and the sanity of the artists so they didn't have to make like 40 variations of each sprite.

Now back to the guide. after selecting all the sprites you want to modify, use the left click and an option to export the selected files will appear, click it and decide where to place them. NOTE: Wherever you chose the location, a file called "Textures 2D" will be created storing said sprites. .

Oh yeah, remember the Path ID of the sprite! Here's where you can find it:

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Now that we have said sprites, it's time to modify them at our choice! For this any image editor could work, but it's recommended to use any pixel art app to do so, personally I'd recommend using Aseprite or Pro Motion to do it. Fun fact time! Did you know that Pro Motion was the tool the ZNT devs used for the sprite-making? Help I've been like 1 hour just writing and my fingers hurt. .

Well, anyways, uh...I would like I dunno, place here a video about like a tutorial to do pixel art or like the Mathias' video of using the ZNT's artstyle but it didn't release yet so-

Woo-hoo! We are already at the half of this, so now we need to open UABE ( the 2.2 VERSION STABLE D one) and touch the next buttons: File > Open File > Select the data.unity3d of the game (yeah...again) and we decompress it (select where to place the uncompressed copy!), you should have something like this:

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Now we click the "Info" button and now good luck finding the sprite you firstly changed! :D
Now seriously talking this is where we need to use the Path ID! We just type it in the Path ID square (duh) and there you have it, the original file you messed up! (Or you could just search it by it's name...), well, now that you found the file, touch the "Plugins" button, which will open another window where you need to touch the button "edit" and "ok", now ANOTHER window should open, there you need to press the "load" button, this is where you need now to find the sprite you modified! Whenever you placed it in the first place and hit the "ok" button, now press it again! Now another window yet again will appear asking if you want to save your changes, just press yes. Now close the app and window should open asking if you want to save the changes, yet again, press yes. Now, select whenever you wanna save the modified data.unity3d file.

Now you have to replace the game's data.unity3d file with the one you just modified! After doing so, just run the game and check there are no problems...and there you have it! Fully customizable ZNT sprites for ya! :D

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I've got to say that, after like 2 hours of smashing my fingers agaisnt the keyboard, the guide is completed! :D

I wanna give full credit to block1987 for the tutorial that I totally didn't rip-off and google translated from their Bilibili video.
This has been the best year BY FAR of the whole ZNT community! And with this guide and the more editor options I doubt there's any other time where it's that's great to be a ZNT player than now! :D

Without anything else to say (I think), I hope this guide worked for y'all and happy modding messing up the game's sprites!