Retexturing

[kayttaja]

@KMA / kayttaja: I'm guessing most units and items can be done, flags for sure, I tried the ones on the soldiers back that works, one could probably do the interface element ones too. Environmental textures look weird though, no idea what to do with those.

Dammit, I'll have to check on this, thanks for the info!

[VonSalza1179]

@Kolt16

I cannot find the file for the flags in the barracks only the one for the flags in the back, are they the same?

 

 

I'm already changing some flags around, I believe it's not possible to repack yet...

And please don't get offended if I removed your country's flag, it's just an exercise...

 

Edited October 20, 2012 by Von Salza

[kolt16]

As far as I know you can't repack yet, as you said, but you can change anything you can see, with the tool I linked earlier.

 

The picture you uploaded is for the flags on the backs of the soldiers, this is the one I changed to for testing, and it works just fine in game too. The flags that show in the barracks are different, you can probably find them with the interface elements (not that it'd do you much good with no repack ability :D). You can change them too with TexMod though, but it'd be tiresome as you'd have to get one soldier of each nation, and export the nations flags one by one from ingame, than do the modding and add them to a package in TexMod to be changed on start.

 

 

The workflow is like this:

 

 

1. Getting stuff out:

 

Start TexMod

Select XCOM executable as the target application

Set TexMod to Logging Mode

Choose output folder, set output to dds, set a key you want to use thats not mapped ingame (like F9)

Click Run

 

Game will start as normal (you'll see red text on top left corner with instructions how to use TexMod while the game is running)

Use filtering (*) when you can see what you want to get, so you don't have to wade trough every single texture loaded in memory.

Export the textures you want to change.

Quit the game.

 

Go to the directory you selected as output. You will see .dds files with names like XCOMGAME.EXE_0x415B9DE1.dds and a .log file containing the ID to each texture and pairs them with the actual file, you may rename the files to something that makes sense to you, and move them around to other folders, just be sure to move and change the .log file accordingly.

Example:

 

rename file:

XCOMGAME.EXE_0x2A10D1FB.dds --> Raven_dif.dds

move file and TexMod.log to Interceptors folder..

 

change log:

0x2A10D1FB|C:\Whatever\Modding\XCOMGAME.EXE_0x2A10D1FB.dds

to

0x2A10D1FB|C:\Whatever\Modding\Interceptors\Raven_dif.dds

 

 

 

 

2. To get things back to game:

 

Run TexMod, go to Package Build. Select the .log file that contains the stuff you want in your package.

Click build. ( you will be informed of the outcome, will see how many textures were added to the package)

This will create a .tpf file, this contains your modified textures with the right addressing.

 

 

3. To play with your new textures.

 

Change TexMod to Package Mode, and select the package files you want added for the current session.

Click run.

The game will run as nothing happened, except the textures in the packages will replace the corresponding textures as the game runs.

 

 

Note:

As far as I understand TexMod doesn't actually change anything in the game files, or modifies the game in any way. If you don't run the game through TexMod with packages selected everything will be back to vanilla.

About the works, I think it's injecting stuff into the memory replacing the ones being loaded in there by the game, if there IDs match. This probably also means if you do retexture the whole game, it might have an impact on video or standard memory usage. But I couldn't pump out enough textures for any game to make a difference in performance so far :D:D.

 

 

About my texture pack, still on the works, I just don't like the camo patterns yet.

Edited October 21, 2012 by kolt16

[Caiman]

Deviantart is a nice source for all kinds of textures. ;)

 

I´m still looking very much forward to your mod- I hope you´ll be happy with it soon enough. :thumbsup:

[nailcuter]

I got a noob question about playing with the new texture

 

I still can't see the textures i downloaded... the military texture and tier one texture..

 

I downloaded the texture and extract it on texmod>packages (not sure if this is the right move)

 

Then ran the game through texmod, went to package mode, browse all the TPF file and added them all. (the thing is I can't multi select them, so I just click one file and Run it)

 

mmmm... nothing changed on my squad's armor texture, I'm sure I'm missing something... could anyone point out?

 

Thanks

 

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3. To play with your new textures.

 

Change TexMod to Package Mode, and select the package files you want added for the current session.
Click run.
The game will run as nothing happened, except the textures in the packages will replace the corresponding textures as the game runs.


Note:
As far as I understand TexMod doesn't actually change anything in the game files, or modifies the game in any way. If you don't run the game through TexMod with packages selected everything will be back to vanilla.