Pluto Texture Modification

[AHadley]

There's one thing about BZ2's textures that really annoys me, and that is the textures that have PLUTO splashed across them in big letters. When you have some ISDF tunnels on Mire, it looks really out of place no matter how small it is. And for some reason, the baseplate on those tunnels are purple... :S

So I decided to remove the textures. I extracted the three textures I could find that have pluto written on them and put them in my addon folder, then removed the text. When I loaded the game... the text was still there. I know for a fact that I'm using the right textures, I've checked with the modder's data pack. But they still don't show up.

Why is this?

And what's making the baseplates purple?

[TheJamsh]

Baseplates being purple is caused by lighting (and they MAY have vertex colours)

As for the textures, you didnt DXT them did you?

[AHadley]

Baseplates being purple is caused by lighting (and they MAY have vertex colours)

Well, they're purple whatever the lighting (place one next to ibbasex and change the sky) so it must be the latter. How do I undo it?

I've already put a c0 and a0 on the road.pic texture (which im fairly sure it uses) and they didnt do any good.

As for the textures, you didnt DXT them did you?

Aah, damn it. what a stupid mistake. They work now.

[Nielk1]

Removing purple is a BA causing model change.

[AHadley]

Looks like that one's going in the AP main folder if it gets done then. And that it needs converting to XSI first. Damn it.

[mrtwosheds]

You should be able to find all the original tunnel xsi in the zsis.zip on bz2 scrap. changing the vertex color is simple, locate the          SI_MeshVertexColors { entry and change the 3 columns of values to something you like.
RENAME the .xsi and odf and include in your pak.

[TheJamsh]

Yeh its an easy task

[AHadley]

I spotted the tutorial on bzcommand just after asking

Is anybody other than OM able to demunge a MSH?

[TheJamsh]

You dont need to demunge a mesh do you? Just use the XSI's from the ones on BZscrap, and then any newer ones from modders_data.

[AHadley]

Aah, are they in there? that's good news.

[TheJamsh]

ALL of the stock XSI's are in the stock XSI .pak file found on bzscrap. However, IF there is one in modders_data, it means it has been changed, and you should use that one instead.

[Nielk1]

So now you are making a 2nd set of tunnels that don't say Pluto or have purple colors?

[AHadley]

I've made skins that remove the Pluto text only. They're an LMM addon.

The purple are asset changes, you said not to do that just now on msn.

[TheJamsh]

No point doing it via an LMM addon, just re-name them, and do the texture swapping in the XSI. Copy the ODF's and original XSI's and rename them.... then you have new tunnels. easy.

[Nielk1]

In the future TJ that will make a nice quick set of models. I would likely get a python script made that just swaps out all the textures smartly or something and clones all the ODFs with the slight change, but I don't see the need to do that yet. Pluto does fine, it is such a small thing.