You can also recover those color and depth information, plus add the custom variations like timers and critical states. You could take the textures from the shader code, apply them, and change the color codes.
This includes shading language and transcompiler, which is known as Reshade FX. The depth information is usually switched off while the multiplayer mode is on. Reshade in Sims 4 has many automatic and standard updated features like colour correction and depth information. The Sims 4 Reshade is a general post-processing injector for video games and similar software, which is formally developed by Crosire.