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[someone else]

thanks - I am going to ask church about this - its a two step process - installing the mesh mod involves replacing 5 *.pcc files in CookedPCConsole, PCConsoleTOC.bin and PCConsoleTOC.txt, plus running the tpf...

Modifié par someone else, 16 mars 2013 - 04:36 .

[MACharlie1]

saltisgood wrote...

Alright, you guys have convinced me. I'll throw in Jean-Luc's alt appearance for Miranda at no extra cost!

But seriously that's the limit then. I think this next patch is already over 600MB uncompressed...

@MACharlie1: I double checked and Ottemis' mod is 2K whereas smarteck's is 4K. So it's not a bug but rather an issue of 2 mods with different resolutions. As I said before, you can use the remove top texture function to fix your problem.

Yay for more textures.  

Thats what I assumed regarding the two textures. But I've already did a Repair Installation for another issue so I'll just wait for the next release before I go and play around with the textures again.  

[Chala]

I love you, saltisgood.

[someone else]

I am totally stuck trying to figure out how to use texplorer - I wanted to make a mod file out of church071's ashleybun.tpf, extracted the textures using tpf_extract tool but can't find the files to replace - i tried following the liara example (which i once did successfully) in Salts tutorial but cant find the ash files I need - any help would be appreciated...

[llllshadowllll]

I want to understand why the dlc clothes and armors gets messed up with black textures when i replace textures(non-dlc) in ME2?

EDIT: I think i know what the problem is, when you replace textures with the texplorer on ME2 those lines are added to the GamerSettings.ini
TEXTUREGROUP_Character_Diff=(MinLODSize=32,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)texturegroup_character_1024=(MinLODSize=32,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)TEXTUREGROUP_Character_Spec=(MinLODSize=32,MaxLODSize=1024,LODBias=0)TEXTUREGROUP_Character_Norm=(MinLODSize=32,MaxLODSize=1024,LODBias=0)

That what's causing the dlc textures to not show properly, however if i remove those lines, the replaced textures stay on low-res, any way around this?

Modifié par llllshadowllll, 18 mars 2013 - 10:35 .

[PSUHammer]

Mr. Saltisgood,

IF you release an update to your latest patch release, do you have to reinstall the game to apply it?

Also, should I install on a vanilla Coalesced.bin file? Or would the update work installing on one I tweaked the FOV and scanning speeds?

[PSUHammer]

Need an Atlas texture and Cerberus trooper mod added in there, as well. Atlas is plain ugly, up close.

[Jezehbell]

PSUHammer wrote...

Mr. Saltisgood,

IF you release an update to your latest patch release, do you have to reinstall the game to apply it?

Also, should I install on a vanilla Coalesced.bin file? Or would the update work installing on one I tweaked the FOV and scanning speeds?

I have a modified Coalesced.bin and it's works perfectly.

[saltisgood]

PSUHammer wrote...
Mr. Saltisgood,

IF you release an update to your latest patch release, do you have to reinstall the game to apply it?

Also, should I install on a vanilla Coalesced.bin file? Or would the update work installing on one I tweaked the FOV and scanning speeds?

No reinstalls are necessary. The Coalesced file doesn't matter anymore, as Jezehbell said you can use whatever you want.

llllshadowllll wrote...

I want to understand why the dlc clothes and armors gets messed up with black textures when i replace textures(non-dlc) in ME2?

EDIT: I think i know what the problem is, when you replace textures with the texplorer on ME2 those lines are added to the GamerSettings.ini
TEXTUREGROUP_Character_Diff=(MinLODSize=32,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)texturegroup_character_1024=(MinLODSize=32,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)TEXTUREGROUP_Character_Spec=(MinLODSize=32,MaxLODSize=1024,LODBias=0)TEXTUREGROUP_Character_Norm=(MinLODSize=32,MaxLODSize=1024,LODBias=0)

That what's causing the dlc textures to not show properly, however if i remove those lines, the replaced textures stay on low-res, any way around this?

You're correct, that is indeed what causes the black textures. And no, as far as I'm aware there's no way around it. When I started doing some ME2 modding I did a lot of testing with LODGroups and unlike ME1 and ME3 you can't change the LODGroup without causing errors. So unfortunately we're stuck with this method. The solution is that once DLC editing is properly working in ME2, I can just remove all the null pointers in there, much like what happens in the stock game. I know I promised this a while ago, but it's kind of tough to work on all 3 games at once by myself. *shrugs* It'll get done when it gets done.
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On the HR mod front, it's going to be delayed for a few days. Long story short, I've been rewriting the installer a few times to try out some things. First of all it was too slow so I put in a bunch of multi-threading to make it faster. Then it was okay but caused a rare crash in-game, then the textures I wanted to replace weren't being replaced.... typical kind of deal. 

[Ottemis]

Salt! So cool next version will be featuring some of my stuff
I don't code myself but my boyfriend does (well I do do markup but that's hardly comparable), I remember him getting frustrated plenty times over how much grief a logical system can give you =P Especially when you think you'll just try something quick, haha.

Thanks so much for all the effort

[peggster]

Have to second Ottemis with the thanking ye for the effort you're putting into this. My little brother especially (who at 17 has no patience and won't wait for texmod) is really enjoying is NG+ play through with all the pretty.

As a side note has the 2GB limit in Texplorer been resolved? I totally realise it's unlikely to be your top priority what with HR installer and all.

[saltisgood]

peggster wrote...
As a side note has the 2GB limit in Texplorer been resolved? I totally realise it's unlikely to be your top priority what with HR installer and all.

Unfortunately yes, I've done some testing with the 2GB limit and I've found a problem. As soon as the size of a texture cache gets above 2GB you'll run into this problem on startup:



So I'm just working on a system that will detect if the cache is too big and move the data, either to one of the other existing caches or create a new one.

[peggster]

I knew about that particular problem, have in fact ran into it and it's awesome that there's something in the works, to, heh, workaround the problem.

[saltisgood]

The latest update (now released) should solve the 2GB problem. If you try and add a texture to a cache the program will figure out whether there's enough space left before it hits 2GB. If there isn't then it will try and find another that will fit it, rip the data from the old one and put it in the new one, add the new texture, and finally update the relevant properties. I've tested it with a CharTextures file that was a few bytes below 2GB and it worked perfectly for me.

The 4 cache files that it checks are: "CharTextures", "Textures", "Lighting" and "Movies" in that order. If all 4 are almost 2GB then it throws an error. By my rough math, that means a new maximum of around 6.5GB worth of user added textures. After that we're going to have to resort to making our own cache.

[Tarkov33]

6.5GB? Woah, that's a lot of salt!

Modifié par Tarkov33, 22 mars 2013 - 05:27 .

[SiriusXI]

6.5? All the filesI have are only 266MB... Where can I get the newest Version from?

OK I'm confuses. Which data do I have to download? TextureiNput 1 & 2? And also V4a, b and c? But that is not 6,5 gb either. Need help pls.

Modifié par SiriusXI, 22 mars 2013 - 06:46 .

[peggster]

*happy dance*
Thanks Salt!

@ Sirius, we're referring not to Salt's HD mod but to Texplorer itself where we make and install our own mods. If you're only using Salt's installer you don't have to worry.

[SiriusXI]

Hmm I've installed Mass Effect 3 2 times, one for modding and one without. I tried to change the install path, but ist seems it didn't work, since in the log it shows the textures being installed to the "official" path. 2 Questions:

1. How can I uninstall the mod from my official Install

2. How can I change the path to my second me3 installation, so I can mod that one?

[PowerMetal500]

how long is the loading times with this mod:) is it has long has with texmod or faster;)

[llllshadowllll]

PowerMetal500 wrote...

how long is the loading times with this mod:) is it has long has with texmod or faster;)

Is the same time as the original without texmod!

[PowerMetal500]

that sounds really good  no more black loading screen!

Modifié par PowerMetal500, 23 mars 2013 - 03:23 .

[PolBear]

saltisgood wrote...

The latest update (now released) should solve the 2GB problem. If you try and add a texture to a cache the program will figure out whether there's enough space left before it hits 2GB. If there isn't then it will try and find another that will fit it, rip the data from the old one and put it in the new one, add the new texture, and finally update the relevant properties. I've tested it with a CharTextures file that was a few bytes below 2GB and it worked perfectly for me.

The 4 cache files that it checks are: "CharTextures", "Textures", "Lighting" and "Movies" in that order. If all 4 are almost 2GB then it throws an error. By my rough math, that means a new maximum of around 6.5GB worth of user added textures. After that we're going to have to resort to making our own cache.

Do I need to use this update even if it already works for me ? I guess I can just wait until you release a new version with the extra textures, can't I ? Hope it will be soon, already started a new ME3 playthrough ;D

[THEE_DEATHMASTER]

Hey sorry if it's been answered but is there a mod like this for ME1 and/or 2? I found this: http://social.biowar...index/5314761/1

But it's only for characters, and I know some maps that could use a similar treatment.

[Didact2401]

Is there anyone else that's run into issues using modmaker / texplorer where the game will start correctly but get stuck indefinitely at load screens?

[llllshadowllll]

THEE_DEATHMASTER wrote...

Hey sorry if it's been answered but is there a mod like this for ME1 and/or 2? I found this: http://social.biowar...index/5314761/1

But it's only for characters, and I know some maps that could use a similar treatment.

http://www.moddb.com...mprovements-mod