Discuss Valorant - How to extract PAK files for custom agent skin swapping?

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Seen a few people asking about these PAK file mods for Valorant skins recently. It is usually just people dumping assets or porting models from other engines like UE4/UE5 games. Basically, they are swapping the reference files in the game directory to load custom textures instead of the defaults.

1. Warning: Modifying game files like this is a massive risk. Vanguard is aggressive as hell, and even just messing with PAKs will likely trigger a ban or at least a HWID flag.
2. Safety: If you are actually going to mess with this, use a burner account. Don't touch your main unless you want to lose your skins.
3. Legitimacy: Most of these are just visual local-only swaps. They don't give you any real advantage, but they are definitely not UD.