Adding new textures?

[grappigegovert]

I managed to add a new chest texture!
How to do it:
Copy tu_chst.bmp to aa_chst.bmp in both GAMEDATACommon and MENUDATAPartDB folders
Open up BODYPART.MDB, BODYPART.PCB, BODYPART.TDB in MENUDATAPARTDB with origamiguy's binary editor
In those files, copy the entry for tu_chst to the bottom of the list (it has to be at the bottom otherwise all textures get switched),

replace 'tu_chst' with 'aa_chst', and increment the number of entries (number at the top of the list in between square brackets).
And that's it!

 

Edit:
Of course you can also use some other texture than tu_chst

[Jimbob]

I managed to add a new chest texture!

How to do it:

Copy tu_chst.bmp to aa_chst.bmp in both GAMEDATACommon and MENUDATAPartDB folders

Open up BODYPART.MDB, BODYPART.PCB, BODYPART.TDB in MENUDATAPARTDB with origamiguy's binary editor

In those files, copy the entry for tu_chst to the bottom of the list (it has to be at the bottom otherwise all textures get switched),

replace 'tu_chst' with 'aa_chst', and increment the number of entries (number at the top of the list in between square brackets).

And that's it!

 

Edit:

Of course you can also use some other texture than tu_chst

 

WA-WA-WAIT. ARE YOU SERIOUS.

 

So you mean we can now actually add new parts, along with all the current parts?

 

EDIT: Just had a look. I keep getting an error when I try this...

[LimeKiller]

If someone could write an in-depth tutorial about this, that'd be great.

[Jimbob]

If someone could write an in-depth tutorial about this, that'd be great.

 

If grappiegovert doesn't want to, I'd be happy to, assuming I can get it to work.

[Cyrem]

I can confirm that I added an extra chest texture, although I didn't do any file swapping, I just added new entries at the end of the chst texture lists.

[le717]

I managed to add a new chest texture!

How to do it:

Copy tu_chst.bmp to aa_chst.bmp in both GAMEDATACommon and MENUDATAPartDB folders

Open up BODYPART.MDB, BODYPART.PCB, BODYPART.TDB in MENUDATAPARTDB with origamiguy's binary editor

In those files, copy the entry for tu_chst to the bottom of the list (it has to be at the bottom otherwise all textures get switched),

replace 'tu_chst' with 'aa_chst', and increment the number of entries (number at the top of the list in between square brackets).

And that's it!

 

Edit:

Of course you can also use some other texture than tu_chst

 

WA-WA-WAIT. ARE YOU SERIOUS.

 

So you mean we can now actually add new parts, along with all the current parts?

 

EDIT: Just had a look. I keep getting an error when I try this...

 

While I am surprised that grappigegovert is the only one who can add new textures (I haven't tried yet, just woke up an hour ago ), I'm not too suprised that we can add new textures. Once someone really starting looking at the files, I knew it was only a matter of time before someone found the texture list and number of textures, added a new slot and bumped that number, and we could add new textures.

 

Cyrem ninja'd me.

 

So it is confirmed? Hooray! Now, someone write a tutorial on how to do it before RobExplorien does

[Jimbob]

 

 

I managed to add a new chest texture!

How to do it:

Copy tu_chst.bmp to aa_chst.bmp in both GAMEDATACommon and MENUDATAPartDB folders

Open up BODYPART.MDB, BODYPART.PCB, BODYPART.TDB in MENUDATAPARTDB with origamiguy's binary editor

In those files, copy the entry for tu_chst to the bottom of the list (it has to be at the bottom otherwise all textures get switched),

replace 'tu_chst' with 'aa_chst', and increment the number of entries (number at the top of the list in between square brackets).

And that's it!

 

Edit:

Of course you can also use some other texture than tu_chst

 

WA-WA-WAIT. ARE YOU SERIOUS.

 

So you mean we can now actually add new parts, along with all the current parts?

 

EDIT: Just had a look. I keep getting an error when I try this...

 

 

While I am surprised that grappigegovert is the only one who can add new textures (I haven't tried yet, just woke up an hour ago  ), I'm not too suprised that we can add new textures. Once someone really starting looking at the files, I knew it was only a matter of time before someone found the texture list and number of textures, added a new slot and bumped that number, and we could add new textures.

 

Cyrem ninja'd me. 

 

So it is confirmed? Hooray!   Now, someone write a tutorial on how to do it before RobExplorien does 

 

 

 

I said I'd like to do one if grappigeovert didn't, but I don't see what's wrong with Rob doing one?

 

Anyway, what am I doing wrong then? I'm only getting errors on the PCB file. I just added "aa_chst" followed by 0 and 0 at the end of that segment, and changed the value in brackets to 30.

 

EDIT: Don't worry. Got it.

[Nitegeist]

i see it's pretty easy to make new skins and increase the resolution.

i scanned my Basil minifig and got a pretty good result with the chest texture. guess this will be my new hobby for a while!

 

new guy here btw.

[RobExplorien]

So it is confirmed? Hooray! Now, someone write a tutorial on how to do it before RobExplorien does

 

Me? I just got into texturing aside from some IGD_MAP.BMP revamping. I'll just stick to the .RRB, .SPB and .PWB files.

[Jimbob]

Unfortunately, after a fair bit of testing, I think there's a limit of 30 parts of any type. The exception is the headgear, but I haven't tried that yet properly.

 

i see it's pretty easy to make new skins and increase the resolution.

i scanned my Basil minifig and got a pretty good result with the chest texture. guess this will be my new hobby for a while!

 

new guy here btw.

 

Welcome to RRU! If you want to introduce yourself properly you can make a topic in the New Members section. If your scans are coming through nicely, it would be great to have an HD rework of the original figures

[grappigegovert]

Unfortunately, after a fair bit of testing, I think there's a limit of 30 parts of any type.

 

I also got a 'Too many torsos' error when going over 30.

 

I'm not sure if I'm making a tutorial because I don't exactly know how it works, I was just trying.

[alan]

Unfortunately, after a fair bit of testing, I think there's a limit of 30 parts of any type.

 

I also got a 'Too many torsos' error when going over 30.

 

I can confirm that in the car building section: I tried to add the bricks in all possible colors. I didn't get any error but there were not more than 30 entries in each brick theme, some just didn't appear.

[Jimbob]

It makes sense really, seeing as an infinite amount could cause issues. But it's a shame they chose 30, hopefully it can be changed. Still, nice find grappigegovert!

[Cyrem]

I split this off the tutorial topic so that it can be discusses separately.

[grappigegovert]

Thanks Cyrem for splitting off the thread,

I tried to hex-edit the exe to remove the 30 parts limit and the 'too many torsos' error disappeared,

but then an 'expected right curly' error appeared.

It crashed with error code C0000005 (Access Violation) :(

[Cyrem]

Thanks Cyrem for splitting off the thread,

I tried to hex-edit the exe to remove the 30 parts limit and the 'too many torsos' error disappeared,

but then an 'expected right curly' error appeared.

What address did you change? There are tonnes of '30' values.

[grappigegovert]

I searched the exe with Ollydbg for 'too many torsos' and changed the nearby 'jump if less or equal' instruction to a 'jump' instruction. (That would be changing '7E' to 'EB' at 0x98BD5 (1999 exe).)