Essa wrote:How do you use texmod to texture hack the game?
im using the latest version of texmod its free. the new version is more complicated in terms of mass editing but for the average user its pretty good.
you use "logging mode" tab to log the textures this is were we start.
Creating a Texmod Pack1. target your phantasy star universe offline or online exe. depending on which one you are trying to mod (im doing offline mode and i cant connect to essens server so for now offline is the only thing i can confirm)
2. once targeted it will be targeted for all tabs.
3. now in "logging mode" options the default is enter to save the texture you might want to change this before you go ahead and click run because enter is a common key in psu.
4. click run
5. now when you hit the + or - keys you will cycle textures +will end you up with the first loaded items so usually menus essential characters menu pictures and other sorts of icons and misc. textures. hitting - will take you to the things you last loaded. like when you finally enter game.
the guardians colony has around 600 textures or more at least. so its not an easy task ill tell u that. the benefit of texmod is that you can do pieces so that you can download and merge peoples texture packs (would test it out dont rely on it or blame me for crashing this is all experimental)
6. when you are done logging just exit the game and go to your specified output directory
7. in there will be the textures in whatever save format you chose (default .bmp)
8. as far as i know there are no texture limits but 4096x4096pixels lagged for a while. go make a snack laggy. so id stick to about 2048x2048pixels because there are a lot of textures in psu.
9. once texture editing is done with whatever tool image replacer whatever you chose is put back in you go back into texmod and open the package build tab.
10. once inside the packae build tab you are going to take the log file generated by your psu extract. it should be there automatically or you have to find it.. that part i had some issue with aswell.
11. once you build the package wait for it to end. it will ask you to save it. when building a large texture pack over 200mb it can take a long time (like i said go grab a snack... i did) come back.... "is it crashed wth it says not responding" DONT TOUCH IT! let it go through. dont play another game either it bugs out. i played a league of legends map and came back and the logger lost its mind and logged 17000 textures and wouldnt load the pack i had to rebuild.
12. once you save it remember where you put it because you are going to load it right away in the tab called package mode. load it in the left pannel and once its there run game and it should be customized
13. i was just trying to download what you have already made.... well i havent refined or finnished a single city or anything so it would be embarrasing to release a half done pack so if this generates enough buzz ill continue work but for now ill just enjoy the game and keep an eye out for places i want to redo and what i plan to do with it to keep the phantasy star feel aswell as update the look. ive been doing a lot of smoothing to jagged edges. not very noticeable but some textures are just plain bad and i clean them up with blur. the rocks though ill rough them up and make them photo realistic