[HD Texture Project] Xenoblade Chronicles (v5.0U - May 17, 2014)

[poweredbykimchi]

(08-30-2012, 06:22 PM)DarkSharingan Wrote: Hey everyone
Please excuse my noobness but this is the first time i have tried to use custom textures with any game and i'm a bit in the dark about something:

1. I'm not quite sure which textures you are supposed to leave out when your choosing the textures you want to use. According to the installation instructions, you can just copy paste whatever textures you want, BUT when i go to ex. the portraits folder, there are several images that are completely identical, aside from a different filename. As far as i understand, this is because the game uses different ID's for the same textures depending on where in the game you are. If, so, then in order to use that particular custom texture in as many places as possible, i have to copy every single instance of that texture/picture? Is this correct or am i missing something?

2. Also, when i tried to use the textures that i had selected yesterday, the textures didn't work. I've followed the instructions carefully, so i don't think i've done anything wrong. Does this texture pack only work with certain builds? I'm using an old revision, 6856M, from Mylek if remember correctly. Could this the problem. This build has always worked perfectly for me, so i've never bothered to change to a newer revision. I will test with a recent build once i get home, but maybe someone can tell me now if this is infact the problem.

Thanks in advance

1. You are correct. This will also be the reason why some textures won't show up in the game. There are so many times one texture repeats that it's almost impossible to gather them all. One good example are the menu buttons when you press the - sign. They'll work sometimes, but the person who dumped these images didn't test out all possibilities such as day, night, rainy, thunderstorm, heat wave, star fall, etc.

2. That's a very old build. Try using one of the latest 3.0 revision with the HLE patch.

Fun Fact: You posted a posted with the key words "6856M from Mylek" exactly a year ago.

[DarkSharingan]

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1. You are correct. This will also be the reason why some textures won't show up in the game. There are so many times one texture repeats that it's almost impossible to gather them all. One good example are the menu buttons when you press the - sign. They'll work sometimes, but the person who dumped these images didn't test out all possibilities such as day, night, rainy, thunderstorm, heat wave, star fall, etc.

2. That's a very old build. Try using one of the latest 3.0 revision with the HLE patch.

Fun Fact: You posted a posted with the key words "6856M from Mylek" exactly a year ago.
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Thanks for confirming my thoughts regarding the textures. I figured this was the case, but i wasn't sure.

I shall try a recent build, probably 3.0 750 XB HLE, when i come home. Hopefully that'll work.

Regarding that post, that is indeed funny lol. Not only that, but i first started playing this game again about 6 days ago or so, and my last save was from 24-08-2011, so exactly a year ago, 2 days give or take XD.

UPDATE: I've tested the game with my selected custom textures with build 3.0 750. It works just fine. Guess the build i was using couldn't load the textures afterall. So i guess i'll just have to switch.

[XBC_player]

(08-30-2012, 11:14 AM)poweredbykimchi Wrote: Thanks for the Ether Mine picture. Also, do you mind if I put in your sky retexture in the next release?

Of course you can. That's the idea why I uploaded it here.

[etking]

The map crash also happens on Prison Island near the end of the game. Currently downloading / converting 4.0 pack. I'd prefer the packs to be more easy to use "unzip once and forget" versions because converting and choosing the right sub folders currently takes a very long time. I also prefer a single folder structure to not have the same texture twice in different versions and sub folders.

The user pack should only contain one single and preselected version of each texture.

Update: even with 4.0 pack, Dolphin still crashes at the map screen on Prison Island 2. It doesn't crash in Ether Mine anymore but the last two map images of Mechonis Core and Prison Island 2 do not display correctly when being there.

[kasumi1986]

I can't download Version 4.0U USER'S PACK - August 27, 2012 from 2shared
Can you upload it again on other host?
Thanks.

[poweredbykimchi]

(09-01-2012, 04:24 AM)etking Wrote: The map crash also happens on Prison Island near the end of the game. Currently downloading / converting 4.0 pack. I'd prefer the packs to be more easy to use "unzip once and forget" versions because converting and choosing the right sub folders currently takes a very long time. I also prefer a single folder structure to not have the same texture twice in different versions and sub folders.

The user pack should only contain one single and preselected version of each texture.

Update: even with 4.0 pack, Dolphin still crashes at the map screen on Prison Island 2. It doesn't crash in Ether Mine anymore but the last two map images of Mechonis Core and Prison Island 2 do not display correctly when being there.

The reason I have folders is so people can choose to put in what they like. Preselecting the textures would mean axing out options you may or may not like. While it's easy to get rid of my own batched sharpened version of the protagonist faces in favor of Red_Schism's version, it gets more difficult to choose if people like the brown version of the GUI vs the blue version, which Monado you want in the title screen, or which custom straploader fits you (or if you don't want any, why should it be in the pack then?). Furthermore, making a version for every possibility would require at least 48 packs because I wouldn't know what you like and what you use. So simply put, no, I won't make everything preselected, but that doesn't mean I'm 100% satisfied with the folder structure either. I'll keep what you said in mind and try to do something about it.

As for the map images, can you dump those maps and upload them. I'm going to report the bug soon. If you dump them, and then put them in your folder, it'll work. I have no idea why it doesn't work in the first place though.

(09-01-2012, 05:41 AM)kasumi1986 Wrote: I can't download Version 4.0U USER'S PACK - August 27, 2012 from 2shared
Can you upload it again on other host?
Thanks.

Yeah, but you'll have to wait unless someone does it for you. I need to do something away from the computer for awhile (I'll be in front of a computer again about 8 hours later).

[neobrain]

btw guys, why does the USERSREADME.txt say to set texcache accuracy to FASTEST? Enabling custom textures overrides that setting and forces it to be safe.

[kasumi1986]

(09-01-2012, 06:32 AM)poweredbykimchi Wrote: Yeah, but you'll have to wait unless someone does it for you. I need to do something away from the computer for awhile (I'll be in front of a computer again about 8 hours later).

OK. I'll be waiting.
This project is amazing

[poweredbykimchi]

(09-01-2012, 06:44 AM)neobrain Wrote: btw guys, why does the USERSREADME.txt say to set texcache accuracy to FASTEST? Enabling custom textures overrides that setting and forces it to be safe.

Some custom textures used to not display correctly if it wasn't at fastest. Maybe it got fixed in recent versions but I'm pretty sure it didn't work properly in the past. I`m going to leave it there because it doesn't hurt.

[neobrain]

hm alright, but it would be nice if that sort of issue would be reported on our issue tracker in the future. There's nothing worse for us than asking about some strange stuff and it turns out that everyone knew about it all along but the devs (.. and this is actually alarmingly often the case).

EDIT:
Nevermind, I was talking crap. Enabling "Load Custom Textures" doesn't change anything about texture cache accuracy