Modding trees, is it possible afterall?

[Kieme(ITA)]

Hello,

I'd like to ask for help from fellow modders and people who know about the game and how it works.

So, I wanted to see what can be done with trees and mod them somehow.

There are two files out there:

tree-X-bb

tree-X-leaves

(and the bark one)

First, I tried to change color, saturation, brightness, and it worked well. The changes appear in game. The bark texture can be replaced easly and it works.

But then I tried to change the textures themselves (of the two above mentioned files), and I had no result whasoever showing in game, so... what's the deal with trees?

Do I have to match each and every pixel of the original tree respecting each and every pixel of the Alpha channel there's behind it? Do I have to change both "Leaves" and "bb" files?

Thanks in advance for any help-

[umlaut]

Does "no result whatsoever" mean that no trees were visible? If so, then you've probably had semitransparent pixels in the alpha channel. In that case, it helps (in my version of photoshop) to adjust the channel via image/adjustments/threshold. In my version threshold automatically removes semitransparent pixels.

Hope this helps - looking forward to see the trees.

Cheets

[Kieme(ITA)]

Oh, by no result I mean that the game loads the stock textures only.

I had a test with the branches that make up the "low bocage" and got the no-visible result, as the bracnhes disappeared, and the reason must be the one you nailed, bit with the trees I can't even get that result, the game just loads the stock one.

[wamphyri]

this may be a bit drastic.. but can you replace the stock ones? unpack the brz's that came with the game, replace, then repack. Or does the game fail to load if you mess with the main brz files?

[Kieme(ITA)]

I'll try repacking into brz, I didn't previously, because the changed trees I did (by only changing saturation) worked well, but I'll try repacking and let you know.

[MikeyD]

If so, then you've probably had semitransparent pixels in the alpha channel

There's good news in that regard. Tree leaves can handle greyscale dots in the alpha channels. DO NOT try that for 'hedges' and 'bocage' though. Hedges and bocage want a pure black & white alpha channel.

[Kieme(ITA)]

Thanks for the headsup MD