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brienj wrote:If it ever downloads, I'll check them out.

Edit: That's right, the 2007 models have a TON of dds files, which makes it more of a pain to retexture and rebuild a new pac file, but it does make it better to modify them and make it look better. I don't have the time to rebuild a pac file with that many new offsets. Hopefully when I got time, I can make something to repack files. If someone can make a Yukes BPE compressor, that would work too. Also, I am almost positive the game can read ZLIB files, the problem is that I don't know how to properly make it read them correctly. I am almost certain that one of the pac files in the game had some ZLIB compressed data in them, if anybody finds those, then we could always recompress hacked textures with ZLIB (which compresses them more than BPE) and they should go into the PAC file with very little modification to the header.

A repacker wold be great. I've also done the same mod with low hogan and can upload that if it's easier to repack. There is only one dds texture for the character. The only downfall was that the hair wasnt accurate for that era and he doesnt have a bandanna. I can upload the texture if you can repack it.

If anyone else has got such a painttool.pt file for me, I need them to compare with what I got. The second one I have does look corrupted, to be honest.

Okay, so I confirmed at least where in the file the resolution of the images is stored.

At 0xD000 there is this:
Now, halfway through the file the image data (texture 11) is interrupted by some other stuff. This is 0x4000 (16K) in size. After that, the image data continues, until all 20 textures are stored. At the end of the image data, a part of 0x1ee0 is stored.
Now, the whole texture image part (savedata.dat section) starts at 0xc000 and is 0x148000 bytes big, excluding the interrupting part I mentioned before. Therefore, the last section of 1ee0 is merely filling up to a bank size of 16k (or perhaps a clustersize of 16k?). 0x148000 / 0x4000 = 52. The savedata.dat section in size is actually 0x146120, so the last part of the file is needed to get to 52 banks/reads for the data.
Okay, so far so good, but the second file I examined is misaligned from texture 2. The image data should be 0x10400 big, including 0x400 palette data, but it is in fact 0x103ec,there's 20 bytes lacking! Because of this, the rest of the file is out of phase too.
This is why I think the second file is corrupted somehow.

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Yes, that´s much better, now we are getting somewhere. I can whip up an extractor, replacer for this.

That would be so amazingly increadible lol. I can't wait to try it out when you get it done!

You probably get this alot but im naming my son after you lol. Thanks alot though for all the work It truly is appreciated I can honestly say between this and brienj's tutorial this is gonna be the most fun xmas ever lol

JBP wrote: Do you know what format the images are in, and if they look like they could easily be replaced?

Basically, the image are 256-colour bitmaps. Each byte is one pixel, so an image can be up to 256x256 (or 128x512) bytes big. There is a RGBA palette I think, each of the 256 colours is written in big endian (A B G R), but it could be ARGB (this should be tested). The alpha transparency value mostly is 255 or 0xFF (i.e. the pixel is not transparant).

Using a standard 8-bit .BMP header I can convert them to images you can edit.

Sounds a bit complicated, but maybe not to bad when I'm not as tired and can wrap my head around it. I look forward to the extractor/replacer. Do you have an eta?

(I'm not trying to rush you into making it right away or anything by asking that lol. I understand we all have life's to live, and if your answer is "I'll get it done when I get it done" Thats fine lol.)

Mr.Mouse wrote:Yes, that´s much better, now we are getting somewhere. I can whip up an extractor, replacer for this.

Awesome news. Really looking forward to the release of this tool.

Okay here's a preview. At the moment just a simple .PT explorer.
It just opens and saves .PT files. Not idiot-proof mind you and a pre-alpha version, will probably crash when corrupted files are attempted to be opened.

I've been thinking, perhaps these are textures were originally DDS files, you know, the 8-bit, palette + 256 colours + alpha type with uncompressed bitmap. Would make sense in terms of xbox ?

^--- new one!

I have an idea of what the DDS texture image consists of, but not nearly enough info on the exact settings when editing/replacing an actual DDS file from the game.

I'm using the NVIDIA plug-in for photoshop which has a multitude of options when saving DDS, instead of just auto saving any change it requires you to know the format settings, is there a more appropriate tool for editing these textures?

Oops, in my haste a forgot to include the bmp header....will upload tonight.

[EDIT] Ok, there's a new zip file, with bmp_header. Should work now.