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[GOBBLINKINGREATLEADER]

wow put him on the dev team chadz

you hurt my feelings

[Viriathus]

please add the white coat of plates

[Chosen1]

you hurt my feelings

IM SORRY DARUVIAN 

that was very rude of me

you did an A+ job. hell i dont even know how you do something like that, don't you edit it in like openbfr or something

[matt2507]

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Download link: (website icones included)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0DYP09uEO9OdHQwZUhtVFpZcWs/edit?usp=sharing

Item list:
-Luxurious Heavy Aketon
-Luxurious Hose
-Luxurious Kettle Hat
-Luxurious Iron Hat
-Luxurious Chapel de Fer


In game screenshots:

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[Ikarus]

I should really start to try out some stuff :>

[Viriathus]

It would be great if any of you guys could put up a tutorial on how to do this, a video maybe? i got photoshop skills but i dont know how to retexture a dds file.

[GOBBLINKINGREATLEADER]

It would be great if any of you guys could put up a tutorial on how to do this, a video maybe? i got photoshop skills but i dont know how to retexture a dds file.

You're going to want to torrent GIMP, at least that is the software I use to edit the textures in .DDS files (the file Warband uses for all of its textures). You could also use Photoshop, I just don't know anything about using it. I do not know if it can load/edit DDS files. Are you more curious about tips for actually editing the textures?

Gimp download link: http://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.8/windows/gimp-2.8.14-setup-1.exe.torrent

However, in order to work on .DDS files you are also going to need to install a plug-in for GIMP. You will want to install a different version of the plug-in for a x32 or a x64 bit OS. Figure out which you are running and then install the appropriate plug-in. I'll put links below. The readme in the .zip folder explains how to install the plug-in.

x32 DDS Plug-in for Gimp: https://gimp-dds.googlecode.com/files/gimp-dds-win32-3.0.1.zip
x64 DDS Plug-in for Gimp: https://gimp-dds.googlecode.com/files/gimp-dds-win64-3.0.1.zip

Once you've installed Gimp and the DDS plug-in, you can load and edit Warband texture files by locating your Warband folder in Program Files, and opening the folder named "Textures". If you want to load/edit files for cRPG specifically you will have to go to Warband/Modules/cRPG/Textures. Your PC may not initially know that you want Gimp to be the program for these texture files so when you double click your first one to open it, it may ask you to choose a program. You want to find and select Gimp for that.

As per using Gimp I recommend just going to Youtube and typing in "gimp tutorial".

If you have any questions don't hestitate to ask.

[Rico]

It would be great if any of you guys could put up a tutorial on how to do this, a video maybe? i got photoshop skills but i dont know how to retexture a dds file.

You need a dds plugin for whatever program you use. If it's photoshop, just google for the photoshop dds plugin. It will allow you to open dds files in photoshop and save them in high quality as well. For retexturing works, photoshop skills are all you need.

However, some of our projects require 3D remodeling previous to texture edits. Nobody of us seems to be extremely proficient in this area; with the exception of alex, everyone is trying around using the tutorial senni_ti posted here: http://forum.melee.org/suggestions-corner/%28item-suggestion%29-european-cavalry-sword/msg1063979/#msg1063979

If you are eager to help, we could use more 2D retexturing people without 3D skills nonetheless. If you want to join us, please message me.

Edit: typo, and also what Daruvian said if you want to switch to GIMP

[Senni__Ti]

It would be great if any of you guys could put up a tutorial on how to do this, a video maybe? i got photoshop skills but i dont know how to retexture a dds file.

Get the .DDS plugin as above

When you save as .DDS, use DXT 1 as compression. (You can't have multiple layers and save as .DDS; higher levels of compression are DXT 3 and 5, which allow use of the alpha mask.)
Also generate mipmaps (tick box on GIMP), similar to LODs, but for textures.

[matt2507]

Get the .DDS plugin as above

When you save as .DDS, use DXT 1 as compression. (You can't have multiple layers and save as .DDS; higher levels of compression are DXT 3 and 5, which allow use of the alpha mask.)
Also generate mipmaps (tick box on GIMP), similar to LODs, but for textures.

Personnaly, i always use the dxt5 now because i got somes troubles with dxt1 in the past 

Also, dxt3 and dxt5 files have the same weight so dxt3 is a bit useless in my opignon.

[Viriathus]

Great posts guys.

I was using some freeware program to convert a dds file into a jpeg, then i would edit it in photoshop. Works fine, only the program doesnt convert the jpeg back to dds haha.

[matt2507]

Great posts guys.

I was using some freeware program to convert a dds file into a jpeg, then i would edit it in photoshop. Works fine, only the program doesnt convert the jpeg back to dds haha.

The dds plugin for toshop is here: https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-texture-tools-adobe-photoshop

 

[Butan]

Also we need some new lighter armors (body armor between 30 - 40).

Half of server is running around in...

There is around 50 kind of armors just from 30-40 body armor range... Its player's fault if they only pick a small portion of those 

What is really in need is 55-60 range which is very used by a very large group of players who want the best protection possible, but only have 8 body armor options with half of them looking almost exactly the same!
We could have more kind of plate, but also something that isnt available today : non-plate very heavy armours.

[FleetFox]

Thanks a bunch guys for doing this, your time and effort is really appreciated!

[Sagar]

Very nice work.
I think that White Coat of Plates will be much better with some dirt on it - right now is too much clean.