Old Classic Skellies

[Silwyn]

The RoF2 client has this race hardcoded to texture 0 for whatever reason. You can get the brown texture working without the head looking weird by NOP’ing the instructions out in the exe with a hex editor and using texture 1.

[Huppy]

Originally Posted by Silwyn

NOP’ing the instructions out in the exe with a hex editor

Thanks, but I'm not interested in going that far just for a brown skellie, lol.

[Silwyn]

Originally Posted by Huppy

Thanks, but I'm not interested in going that far just for a brown skellie, lol.

You had asked if anyone had any ideas so I figured I'd just share the reason why it is the way it is and the "right" way to fix it.

I don't have as much of a grasp on editing the S3D files as I do with EQGs but I believe with the way you're doing it you can also edit the DDS files in GIMP or Photoshop with the NVIDIA plugin and actually change the colors of this or pretty much any other model. Zaela and a few others were messing with this years ago and got some pretty interesting results. There's a lot of information in this thread about it.

If you get the head/jaw thing figured out you should be able to stick it into your own S3D or EQG file and load it with globalload_chr.txt or the regular globalload, respectively. You would have to just then distribute the modded model file as well as the globalload versus just having to distribute the modded exe.

[Huppy]

Originally Posted by Silwyn

You had asked if anyone had any ideas so I figured I'd just share the reason why it is the way it is and the "right" way to fix it.

Myself, I don't care for the looks of the brown skellie, I like the white texture better, but I like helping the "little people", which is why I like piddling around and start threads like this (and others) then hopefully come up with something to "share" for those that don't have the knowledge or resources.

But many of those people "little people" wouldn't have a clue what one is talking about with hex editors, etc., so I'm just going to slowly get this hashed out and then "share" the end game of it all.