Mods with item texture replacement

[xbx]

Hi!

Just passing to inform you that since MP3.1, you can mod custom item textures in addition to the enviro textures.

here is how:

Imagine you have the following layout:

• Items/MyCollection/Group1/Textures/image1.dds
• Items/MyCollection/Group1/Textures/imagex.dds
• Items/MyCollection/Group1/item1.item1.gbx
• Items/MyCollection/Group1/item3.item1.gbx
• Items/MyCollection/Group1/item12.item1.gbx
• Items/MyCollection/Group2/Textures/image.dds
• Items/MyCollection/Group2/item1.item1.gbx
• Items/OtherCollection/itemtest.item1.gbx
• Items/OtherCollection/itemtest.dds

then you can add folders to the mod zip

• Items/MyCollection!Group1!Textures/image1.dds
• Items/MyCollection!Group1!Textures/imagen.dds
• Items/MyCollection!Group2!Textures/image.dds
• Items/OtherCollection/imagetest.dds

notice how the hierarchy was flattenend out by replaceing path separators by '!'




In addition, it is also possible to do:

• Items/MyCollection/Textures/Wood/image1.dds
• Items/MyCollection/Textures/Wood/image2.dds
• Items/MyCollection/Textures/Stone/image1.dds
• Items/MyCollection/Textures/Stone/image2.dds
• Items/MyCollection/Group1/item1.item1.gbx
• Items/MyCollection/Group1/item3.item1.gbx
• Items/MyCollection/Group1/item12.item1.gbx
• Items/MyCollection/Group2/item1.item1.gbx

and have in the mod.zip

• Items/MyCollection!Textures/Wood/image1.dds
• Items/MyCollection!Textures/Stone/image1.dds

With the technical limitation that you can't have a hierarchy more than 2 folder deep..[/size]


An other thing is that while when you play a map and the P2P downloads the mod, it is applied at race restart as soon as it is downloaded. This will not work for items.
For items, the mod.zip must be on the disk when the map is loaded to be applied.

[spaii]

Nice

[spaii]

This works nice

I simply changed a texture to test, Start is green at origin and CP is blue, fastly modded for testing : http://scree.noscop.es/images/2014-07-06_18-25-12.jpg

[ziza]

An other thing is that while when you play a map and the P2P downloads the mod, it is applied at race restart as soon as it is downloaded. This will not work for items.
For items, the mod.zip must be on the disk when the map is loaded to be applied.

Is that in any way fixable?

[xbx]

An other thing is that while when you play a map and the P2P downloads the mod, it is applied at race restart as soon as it is downloaded. This will not work for items.
For items, the mod.zip must be on the disk when the map is loaded to be applied.

Is that in any way fixable?

the P2P still works. it's just that applying the textures is delayed till next loading.

[ziza]

i did get that, it's just a bad system in my view.

In our titlepack (RPG) tracks are built with 90% custom items, so loading the mod ingame would be quite important.
Our own selfmade system for having modable items is already capable of doing it(and already worked in MP2), so this is kind of a step backwards.

ZiZa

[tnc1976]

I use a item that uses StadiumRoadGridD.dds

If i use ModWork/Image/StadiumRoadGridD.dds with custom Texture it shows up on all Road & Loop Parts & the Item.

Is it possible to only mod the Item texture ?

I try´d ModWork/Items/Image/StadiumRoadGridD.dds

but this wont work ...

greets

[angry_duck]

No it's not possible. There is no other way than import the item again, using your custom texture directly instead of the game texture.