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

[Bighead]

I was pessimistic about it because I made it really fast and when I spend so little time on something I can only think it must suck. Ok then, I'm assuming you like it so I'm keeping it.

And that sword icon looks great! You are on your way to being an image creating jedi warrior, and no I'm not a star wars fan . But really it looks good and is a huge leap from black boxes and arrows. And I have an interest in those icons if Echoes doesn't, I have the telethia and the mechon ones stored away. And I think you're on to something... That cloud has the exact same dimensions as the others. It may be one of those elementals that float around in places like makna forest and eryth sea. And it seems bosses may also have their own unique icon as well (I'll attach one I came across).

[frozenwings]

Cool, thanks. Yes. I'm starting to figure out the tools in photoshop a little better so it's less frustrating. I'm still a long way off from free handing stuff (though I might just lack the talent for that), but I can do the simple things. I managed all of the quest screen icons before (coin, gift, chest, landmark (different from the other ones, made my own), etc., so I knew I had it in me :p.

Yeah, I'll have to go through my dump backup folder to check out the other monster icons. I have Gadolt's for sure (as you saw in that screenshot), but yeah. I'm going to do a super fast new game + after this game to clean up colony 9 - makna forest (wasn't dumping certain stuff then) and then I'm playing a full clear game with no XP cheat this time. Should be able to get some vision quest stuff.

I'll be submitting my stuff for the pack between the new game + and full clear game (and be asking for your stuff as well). I'm hoping we'll put 5.0 (or at least I'll have it with your stuff and mine combined :p) so it'll be easy to watch out for new stuff on my full clear playthrough.

As for the sword and Echoes monster vision guy, should we make a new UI_Visions folder for that stuff? It will be nice to have them in separate place if / when we start working on it more.

[Echoes]

Well it's not like I called dibs on making them, so yeah, go ahead and do them. Besides, I'll be kinda slow for a while. I was thinking it would have been much easier to just take a screenshot of the enemy at an accurate angle, like what you did with Alcamoth for the Eryth Sea map. It doesn't even have to be the same angle, as long as its the same enemy.

And yeah Frozen, I'd like to at least give 'em a try. So keep collecting those please

Also, good job on the textures guys. I do prefer the dissolve effect, but it's still pretty good! You get my vote.

Edit: Well, if there really are that many of them, I'm sure it couldn't hurt.

[Bighead]

Maybe just create a "combat' folder of sorts for all that stuff like the skull, the vision icons, umm... w/e else I guess. Maybe group other stuff too like those sound/eye indicators for mobs, the fancy designs that go around their name plate when selected, anything that has to do with fighting or monsters or fighting monsters. Would help further categorize that ever growing folder that I originally created of "who knows" textures, when some of them at this point are actually known. And with how many textures you have, I wouldn't be surprised if your whole pack just swallows every texture that I have so far.

Also want to add I don't know how far you are in the game at this point, but you'll probably pass me soon. I always upload my maps immediately after they are finished, even when not all floors are done so you might just get lucky and catch one before I say "yay done with Agniratha" for instance. Although I'm not done yet, I just finished the 2nd floor. They always take longer than I hope, but I can't force myself to rush them as hard as I try lol.

[frozenwings]

Yeah I'm not doing side quests (or making maps) so it was only a matter of time before I passed you. Though dumping usually takes around 6-8 hours per zone, so that's my major time sink. I'm actually hoping I can get up to Makna again before you finish your game / maps.

Hmmm, if you decide to make that combat folder just make a zip of your folder and post a link. I'll sort through my stuff until it matches yours. I'm looking forward to the merge so that way all our stuff will be in the same spots.

I plan on finishing the Central Factory tonight. But we'll see how that goes. My kid stays up way too late (2am and he's still awake) so I'm pretty distracted atm. Don't worry about rushing the maps anyway, better you take your time now and save the regret of having to go back and fix them later.

Edit: Btw, I'm going to be sad to leave Central Factory. I love the music here.

[Bighead]

Ok here it is, but keep the gray arrows that I have (they are the enemy target arrow thingy). Those are "fixed-fixed" versions that I never uploaded. I did fix them before and uploaded those, but the white arrow was off centered. Not sure what else to put in there, but this is a good start.

Edit: Maybe even these 2 as well:
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They appear to make up the death bar that you made the sword for earlier: http://i58.tinypic.com/fuxb5.png

Edit: Oooh and this one:
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It seems to be the meter for that death bar. I wish I took more time to analyze these before sending. Ok only those 3 for now.

Edit: Ok I lied, MAAAYYBEEE
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But honestly I'm not sure. It's the same shape as the textures that make up the bar, but looks like some kind of glow for it (does it glow anywhere?).

[frozenwings]

Mmm just had my first BSOD since the new version. Shame.

Got everything matched up, replaced all of my stuff with yours.

Central Factory is a treasure trove of new textures. (:p). Think I might hit 70k files tonight.

Edit: Got all 4 of those as well. I was thinking the same thing with those trapezoids. To me it looks like the entire thing has a glow. I'll take it.

[Bighead]

Sorry Echoes I like completely overlooked your post at the time you posted it , but there are a few things you said I'm uncertain about.

(05-07-2014, 03:19 PM)Echoes Wrote: Well it's not like I called dibs on making them, so yeah, go ahead and do them. Besides, I'll be kinda slow for a while. I was thinking it would have been much easier to just take a screenshot of the enemy at an accurate angle, like what you did with Alcamoth for the Eryth Sea map. It doesn't even have to be the same angle, as long as its the same enemy.

What are we talking about here, the death icons like the Telethia and the Mechon? I definitely don't want to make them, so if that's what you were referring to then I'd much rather you made them if you wanted to and have the time . I was just keeping a hold of them in case in the end nobody else wanted to do them, they are the lowest priority for me, there's no shortage of textures. And thanks for remembering the Alcamoth thing, that was a long time ago already! (or, at least it feels like it was)

(05-07-2014, 03:19 PM)Echoes Wrote: And yeah Frozen, I'd like to at least give 'em a try. So keep collecting those please

I'm guessing you did mean the death icons. I'll also try to get together as many as possible. When I finish the maps and the game, I'm giving it another spin only on NG+ with my "reset everything to level 1" cheat, and I'm keeping every single texture that dumps this time.

(05-07-2014, 03:19 PM)Echoes Wrote: Also, good job on the textures guys. I do prefer the dissolve effect, but it's still pretty good! You get my vote.

I actually preferred it too, just... I had trouble trying to get it to look right. I tried all kinds of different brushes to try to melt away the sides to where I was happy with it, except nothing made me happy with it. Alternatively, I tried to texture the inside of the crown itself and nothing made me happy there either. So I finally gave up and just kept it as is.

frozenwings Wrote:Edit: Got all 4 of those as well. I was thinking the same thing with those trapezoids. To me it looks like the entire thing has a glow. I'll take it.

If you find anything else that should go in there let me know, and I'll do the same. I'm also thinking about a "cursors" folder that will knock out a few more of those "Misc" textures, since there are quite a few cursors in the game. But I'm not doing that tonight. There's a lot of cursors, and some of them are already spread out all over the place.

[frozenwings]

Yeah, it will be a good day when that misc. folder is gone :p. So many glows and boxes, who knows where some of that crap goes.

[Bighead]

Haha which reminds me, one more for the combat:
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It's the border texture for "normal" monsters. I dunno how I missed it before, I even knew it was supposed to be in there.

Edit: Meh, make that two:
This one goes to the gem crafting screen, so I put it in Gems_Crafting.
But it also appears on the inventory screen... which gets priority so I put it there instead.
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This is one of those textures that nobody really cares about and was low priority on my list, but I came across it so I figured I'd knock it out. I took two sets of shots, one without the stars and one with.

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I had to tweak it a bit to fit Echoes UI thingy, and adjusted the lines so they fit the outskirts of the inner line instead of the inside of it. It's an obvious improvement, but I didn't do the stars because honestly they already look good, and blink so fast you can't even tell they that they have any fuzz to them at all. Maybe I'll do the stars at a later time just for the sake of doing them (state saved). Another UI-Misc texture I guess.