A comprehensive asset archive containing everything decoded from an installed Tony Hawk's Underground 2 game: Neversoft .img.xbx images, .tex.xbx texture dictionaries and Bink video assets converted to H.264 MP4. Output files are preserved as PNGs with alpha where applicable. The collection totals 21,539 PNG images, 192 loading screens, 24 videos, and 1,053 asset folders. Loading screens are provided in English, French and German variants (French uses a different 512×512 composition), videos include intros, credits, pro bails and sponsor bumpers with four frame stills per video, and extras include cover art, icons and the manual.
Assets are organized by type and folder: fonts (several sheets and button/test/trick/dialog/timer fonts), UI and menu sprites (~1,513 images across CAGR, panel sprites, mainmenu, multiplayer, level select, tags, particles and faces) and an extensive levels section of 15,508 environment textures extracted from .tex.xbx dictionaries. Level folders are broken out by region codes (AP, AU, BA, BE, BO, CA, DJ, LA, NO, PH, SC, SE, SE2, ST, etc.) with separate sky texture sets. The archive is immediately usable for modding, texture research, archival reference or asset reuse.
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