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Title: FFVIII Retexturing
Post by: FeliX Leonhart on 2011-06-28 14:12:58
Hehe  ::)
(http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/2954/ifrit.png)
(http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/3593/ifrit2.png)
Title: Re: Just another project
Post by: DLPB_ on 2011-06-28 14:15:49
 :-o
Title: Re: Just another project
Post by: obesebear on 2011-06-28 14:31:51
Ahhh but can you get it back into the game? That is the real question.
Title: Re: Just another project
Post by: FeliX Leonhart on 2011-06-28 14:39:53
Nope, so patiently waiting for Aali ^_^
Title: Re: Just another project
Post by: Timu Sumisu on 2011-06-28 14:40:54
lol, was lookin at this the other day. ff8 models have a lot of potential simply with a texture bump. good stuff.
Title: Re: Just another project
Post by: Aali on 2011-06-28 15:21:19
The old external texture feature would probably work here, just put those magic numbers in the TIM files, hopefully they will show up on the other side.
Title: Re: Just another project
Post by: Timu Sumisu on 2011-06-28 15:23:37
cross the streams....
Title: Re: Just another project
Post by: FeliX Leonhart on 2011-06-28 16:23:27
Can someone explain this method? :P
Title: Re: Just another project
Post by: sl1982 on 2011-06-28 16:28:16
I know how to do it. Ill look into it later.
Title: Re: Just another project
Post by: pyrozen on 2011-06-28 22:52:52
Can someone explain this method? :P
If im right, he's refering to the EXT method of injection before he had added the fancy mod folder. Its a matter of hex editing a few bytes in the header of your images. Download the TA overhaul and extract some of the .tex files and open them in any hex editor. You should see "EXT XXXXX" in the header, with the XXXs referring to the name of the new external texture, which i cannot recall where it needs to be placed :P
Title: Re: Just another project
Post by: Vgr on 2011-06-29 15:53:54
Thanks to sithlord and *cough* me *cough*, this will be possible without Aali. ^^
Title: Re: Just another project
Post by: Nightmarish on 2011-06-29 17:54:45
I guess this Ifrit won't be usable in FF7, right?  :-\
Title: Re: Just another project
Post by: Hellbringer616 on 2011-06-29 18:21:27
Since technically it's a rip from FF8, No :(
Title: Re: Just another project
Post by: Vgr on 2011-06-29 19:52:21
Technically... yes it is.
Title: Re: Just another project
Post by: FeliX Leonhart on 2011-06-29 21:23:57
But FFVII doesn't use mesh deformation, and converting to bone... it will not look like this=(
Title: Re: Just another project
Post by: Timu Sumisu on 2011-06-30 00:54:39
you /could/ technically import it... but why bother?
Title: Re: FFVIII Retexturing
Post by: FeliX Leonhart on 2011-06-30 12:15:25
(http://img864.imageshack.us/img864/6987/squall.png)
Title: Re: FFVIII Retexturing
Post by: Bosola on 2011-06-30 12:30:03
(Image of squall)

Nice work, though that Squall does look a little feminine.
Title: Re: FFVIII Retexturing
Post by: Slash on 2011-06-30 19:59:00
Just registered to say this is fantastic. Those models look completely revitalized.

It's hard to believe it's from the same game. Looking forward to see this project continue, and hopefully make it ingame some time.
Title: Re: FFVIII Retexturing
Post by: Timu Sumisu on 2011-06-30 20:25:10
I no  like yer texture... i will be doing my own version :P
Title: Re: FFVIII Retexturing
Post by: Nightmarish on 2011-07-01 00:27:03
Noes, we've lost Felix to FF8 D:
Title: Re: FFVIII Retexturing
Post by: Vgr on 2011-07-01 00:27:56
Actually, that's a good thing ;D
Title: Re: FFVIII Retexturing
Post by: Touph Guy on 2011-07-05 17:37:45
Ifrit looks good, but Squall is amazing.
Looking back on how ugly the original was, you've really done a great job to make it look this good without even changing the geometry.
Title: Re: FFVIII Retexturing
Post by: juststat on 2011-07-17 20:18:41
Great work FeliX. I have been wanting to find a way to re texture the world map and all the 2D background images and battle screens basically everything but the 3D models as you are obviously working on that. I have no experience doing this stuff but I do have Adobe CS5 Master Collection if that would help doing the 2D stuff or would I need something completely different. Let me know what kind of programs I would need to extract the images of the 2D stuff and what I would need to edit them besides photoshop. Can't wait to see more of your 3D models
Title: Re: FFVIII Retexturing
Post by: FeliX Leonhart on 2011-07-18 17:03:15
To extract any textures from FFVIII you need Noesis (noesisv283) and you can edit with photoshop cs5 the textures on a 3d model directly (open the .obj file with photoshop, open a texture slot inside a photoshop and drag and drop the original texture there so you can edit it). But the project is pending cause the way now we tryed to inject textures didn't work right, so I pray for that Aali can make the modpath workin with this textures
Title: Re: FFVIII Retexturing
Post by: juststat on 2011-07-18 17:08:43
Okay thanks for the info I will mess around with it a bit and see what I can do. If I can get anything good to come out of it I will post some images here

edit:

I could not find version the version you suggested but I did find version 332 and I managed to extract some .obj files but when I try to open them in photoshop I just get an error that it wasn't parsed right or that I don't have enough ram when I have 4gigs and only about 54% of it is in use plus a ATI HD Radeon 6970 with 2Gigs of ddr5 ram so I don't know why it's giving me the not enough ram error could you explain a little better how to extract the files properly and how to insert them properly into photoshop. Thanks in advance

Please do not double post. Edit your last post like this instead.  - sl1982
Title: Re: FFVIII Retexturing
Post by: falkTX on 2011-07-28 12:08:04
Nice work, though that Squall does look a little feminine.

hahaha, totally!

Still, very nice work  :D
Title: Re: FFVIII Retexturing
Post by: TheNathanParable on 2011-08-03 19:01:03
Nice work, though that Squall does look a little feminine.

Well, Squall was based off Gackt, so it seems appropriate.
Title: Re: FFVIII Retexturing
Post by: FeliX Leonhart on 2011-08-04 01:02:40
Nice work, though that Squall does look a little feminine.

Yeah^^ if you look on the videos he looks quite feminine=) Especialy with his light blue eyes (always thought before, that they are dark blue)
Title: Re: FFVIII Retexturing
Post by: TrC450 on 2011-08-06 11:18:26
Squall looks great :)

Title: Re: FFVIII Retexturing
Post by: Jaadoo on 2011-08-16 17:42:54
Really nice work, great to see more people working on FF8.

Any chance of seeing Shiva any time soon? Was always my favorite GF.
Title: Re: FFVIII Retexturing
Post by: Vgr on 2011-08-16 18:29:47
Sadly, we can only use battle models, which Shiva isn't, so it isn't gonna happen soon...

But if you really want, I can find a way to extract the textures from the game (I'm the one providing FeliX with textures and models).
Title: Re: FFVIII Retexturing
Post by: FeliX Leonhart on 2011-08-16 19:26:10
The problem is now how to inject the textures. We can inject one texture per model, but a lot of models (including Squall and Ifrit) have two textures. So the only thing we can do is to wait for aali. And only after it will be possible to inject the textures, I'll start to make them
Title: Re: FFVIII Retexturing
Post by: kela51 on 2011-08-16 21:17:43
that doesn't if you make a picture with include 2 textures?
Title: Re: FFVIII Retexturing
Post by: FeliX Leonhart on 2011-08-16 21:32:50
that doesn't if you make a picture with include 2 textures?

Yep, but for that we have to change the models UV's, but the problem is that we can't import them back also -_-
Title: Re: FFVIII Retexturing
Post by: kela51 on 2011-08-16 21:35:11
ok i understand   :(
oh and good work for your textures ;)
Title: Re: FFVIII Retexturing
Post by: LeonhartGR on 2012-02-14 19:20:57
(http://img864.imageshack.us/img864/6987/squall.png)

Any chance reaching this detail level?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qEBq8vRACXo/TqDYiyRimvI/AAAAAAAAAwE/GI4d2gmkQLg/s1600/8-squall-c2.jpg (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qEBq8vRACXo/TqDYiyRimvI/AAAAAAAAAwE/GI4d2gmkQLg/s1600/8-squall-c2.jpg)

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQeTvzOYJ50QCsqvseSOAuUy1KsVTHcikjQhlMJuT8-YatQKWI1g-XdBCqlgQ (http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQeTvzOYJ50QCsqvseSOAuUy1KsVTHcikjQhlMJuT8-YatQKWI1g-XdBCqlgQ)

I wish... really! I'll donate such project if it's possible.

Title: Re: FFVIII Retexturing
Post by: Hellbringer616 on 2012-02-15 00:32:10
since it's just a re texture, No. someone remodeled everything, then yes, it'd be possible.

Felix, squalls jacket is supposed to look leathery :P
Title: Re: FFVIII Retexturing
Post by: Alkor on 2012-02-15 14:26:58
Will w8 for that rly  :-P
Title: Re: FFVIII Retexturing
Post by: sdahlbe on 2012-02-29 06:26:02
What is the status on this project?  Has anyone found a way to successfully import re-textures back into the game?
Title: Re: FFVIII Retexturing
Post by: Tekkie.X on 2012-02-29 19:44:19
I think Aali was looking into it but little has been said on that.