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

[poweredbykimchi]

(10-02-2012, 06:33 AM)XBC_player Wrote: I'm pretty sure that game doesn't generate texture data on the fly real time. There must be one single 3,10kb copy of that particular file on DVD. It must be down to emulation engine who is not able to determine correctly if the same file is used. It probably takes snapshots from (video) memory after game engine is already done with loading it from disk to memory.

btw. I also tried to fix portraits for arts/skills and it turned out that there must be more than one set of file ID's. Weirdly enough it does not apply for Melia portrait/avatar however.

Note to myself so there is also Colony 5. I guess I have not reached it yet.

There is no Colony 5. It's just a typo.

(10-02-2012, 06:38 AM)neobrain Wrote: If the textures get dumped with different filenames, they are different each time. And there's nothing that would prevent the game from indeed generating randomized textures.

An exception of textures with different filenames not being different are palettized textures. Due to design flaws in Dolphin's custom texture code, this can't be avoided at this stage, however.

So just to clarify, since I'm slow, there are a great but not infinite amount of repeated textures? So it is "potentially" possible to dump everything. And what are palettized textures?

And is there a way to dump textures and custom textures at the same time without having to mess up the custom textures or is that a bug in Dolphin?

[XBC_player]

neobrain - I think we are miss-communicating here.
copy paste from windows my terminal:
C:\temp>fc /B SX4P01_0e0fc805_9.png SX4P01_0d73433a_9.png
Comparing files SX4P01_0e0fc805_9.png and SX4P01_0D73433A_9.PNG
FC: no differences encountered

Exact copy bit by bit...

[Echoes]

(10-02-2012, 06:33 AM)XBC_player Wrote: I'm pretty sure that game doesn't generate texture data on the fly real time. There must be one single 3,10kb copy of that particular file on DVD. It must be down to emulation engine who is not able to determine correctly if the same file is used. It probably takes snapshots from (video) memory after game engine is already done with loading it from disk to memory.

btw. I also tried to fix portraits for arts/skills and it turned out that there must be more than one set of file ID's. Weirdly enough it does not apply for Melia portrait/avatar however.

Note to myself so there is also Colony 5. I guess I have not reached it yet.

Whoops, I meant Colony 9. I knew there was something off in that post!

(10-02-2012, 06:38 AM)neobrain Wrote: If the textures get dumped with different filenames, they are different each time. And there's nothing that would prevent the game from indeed generating randomized textures.

An exception of textures with different filenames not being different are palettized textures. Due to design flaws in Dolphin's custom texture code, this can't be avoided at this stage, however.

So if I understand you correctly, this may be fixed at a later date then? The textures we get are the exact same, but with a different name.

[neobrain]

(10-02-2012, 07:26 AM)XBC_player Wrote: neobrain - I think we are miss-communicating here.
copy paste from windows my terminal:
C:\temp>fc /B SX4P01_0e0fc805_9.png SX4P01_0d73433a_9.png
Comparing files SX4P01_0e0fc805_9.png and SX4P01_0D73433A_9.PNG
FC: no differences encountered

Exact copy bit by bit...

The _9 tells you that the texture format is 9=GX_TF_C8, i.e. a paletted texture. That's what I was talking about before

(10-02-2012, 09:15 AM)Echoes Wrote: So if I understand you correctly, this may be fixed at a later date then? The textures we get are the exact same, but with a different name.

Unlikely to get fixed anytime soon since a) it's not a particular easy fix (breaks backwards compatibility with existing custom texture packs) b) I doubt there are many people who actually know wtf is wrong (ugly hacks ftw!) c) I personally don't have any time resources for working on it.

EDIT: For reference, http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/issues/detail?id=3376

[XBC_player]

Thanks for information neobrain. At least we know the reason now.

[Echoes]

After messing around with Photoshop today, I finally updated my HD Portraits pack.

Changes
- Made affinity orbs for the main characters. They're not perfect, but it's the best I can do with my Photoshop skills.
- Edited Sharla's portraits (including affinity group) so her mole is in the correct side.

Pictures

Affinity Group picture and small portraits (hyperlink because of spoilers)





Download

[poweredbykimchi]

A friend volunteered to help redraw the battle avatar. These may or may not be finished in the end, but here's a taste of the first one.

[Echoes]

That's looking very good. I hope he can at least do all of the "down" portraits.

[poweredbykimchi]

(10-07-2012, 06:05 AM)Echoes Wrote: That's looking very good. I hope he can at least do all of the "down" portraits.

She'll be attempting to do all of them, but if she will finish all of them, only time will tell.

She did a high tension one as well, but I'll wait on posting that one.

[slmpika]

Since we're on the topic of character portraits, will she be working on the guest character portraits (Mumkhar, Dickson, etc) as well? I know that they are very difficult to dump though, especially the high and low tension portraits. However, I can try to dump all of the guest character portraits if she wants to work on those.