Problem with changing the textures of a unit

[antares24]

hello guys , i have a problem (rep for everyone who help me of course) i wanted to change the textures of some of the Italian States units, so i first followed the tutorial on how to create a custom unit to add some new units to their roster, with the textures that i wanted.

The first new unit that i have created is one of line infantry, it work perfectly, it march, fight etc with no problems, except that the new texture that i give it have this problem:



in this case i have tried to use the very beautiful textures made by ToonTotalWar for one of his british units.

i tried a different way too, seeying that a modder, general cornwallis, have created an Italian States retexture file, i looked at it to see the file structure and noticed that he just putted in it new textures for the Italian states units, with no db files, so i tried that way too, changing the texture of the line infantry with the one that i wanted, but the result is the same as above. Units with "black" ghostly textures, while instead the units of general cornwallis seems to work fine.

What i'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

[Tobler75]

Look at the gloss.dds and make it completly black, then it would be ok...



First of all open up the gloss.dds



decode the alpha content



file the whole file black



Then decode the rgb channel

then save your dds as [unit]_gloss_map.dds

no changes to the normal needed just change the name to [unit]_normal.dds



Hope that helps you out, if you want the complete tut for unitcreation drop me a pn,

[antares24]

thanks for the answer, i'll try this asap

[Tobler75]

If it didn't work out, you can upload the file and i will take a look at it, have a nice and productive weekend

[T.C.]

Im having the same problem. I use photoshop. How can I fix it?

[Tobler75]

Im having the same problem. I use photoshop. How can I fix it?

Well, at least that's no problem related to any program like ps and gimp, in finishing my hannover pack for the ctw mod, my horse units similarly like yours shined in lovely red and it seems that it has resulted of
1) a not blackend gloss_map
2) the files like the blackened gloss_map was not in the unitmodels folder in the [unit].pack

It all comes together with the gloss_map.dds, if it doesn't fit the whole texture gets red or black, if your messing around with the diffuse the units will have white spots on their uniform, i'll often get requests of my own skinners at my mod and it always seems that too much or too less attention to normal and gloss_map could mess your work up

[T.C.]

fixed mine...wasnt a gloss map problem. seemed I was (due to a typo) telling the model to use a wrong skin.
Thanks for reply anyway

[Tobler75]

Confirm on that, same happened to me when i finished my work on the hannoverian units and some of the units wern't copied in the file, it seems that the red shining is the unskinned model, black is a unblackened gloss_map, and white spots have something to do with messing around with contrast and blend in the diffuse,

[Bladerunner]

To even get better results do not just black out the whole gloss.map. Just delete or black out the Alpha Channel (deleting it is even easier) this way you don't get into conflict with the faction Color.
Use the rd channel to sharpen highlights (i.e. metal darker) and the green to make highlights brighter (the lighter grey, the brighter in game). The blue channel is for the dirt on uniforms, but the effect is not very intensive, so you might go without it.

And take care also of the normal. This file adds a surface structure in the model and make the uniforms look more plastic and realistic. If add details in diffuse and don't add them in the normal, they very likely looking flat and jst painted on the uniform. If you remove details, and don't remove them in the normal, you still see shadows of those ereased details.

[gary]

Look at the gloss.dds and make it completly black, then it would be ok...



First of all open up the gloss.dds



decode the alpha content



file the whole file black



Then decode the rgb channel

then save your dds as [unit]_gloss_map.dds

no changes to the normal needed just change the name to [unit]_normal.dds



Hope that helps you out, if you want the complete tut for unitcreation drop me a pn,

t would have helped but the problem is your photoshop is all in german so i am having trouble copying what you did as not sure what bax to open and close.....

[Tobler75]

Well, i am aware of that problem that my "gimp" is on german, i tried to switch it on german but that is not possible, like i wrote here or in another thread I would write another tutorial for unit skinning, may be this weekend if I make a new unit, or in two weeks when I return from my vacations in Berlin. But at the moment i am researching the gloss maps and the normals and how to work with them, so it would be more reasonable to wait till i am finished with that...

Sorry that I couldn't help you

[LEMONAIDS]

Could someone tell me how to change the actual colors of a texture?

[erasmus777]

Could someone tell me how to change the actual colors of a texture?

You mean the faction colors? In that case, you need to edit the factions table from patch.pack and change the RGB values in columns R5 G5 and B5. If you're talking about how to edit a texture in general, you'll need an editor such Photoshop or GIMP.

[LEMONAIDS]

yeah i fiddle around with photoshop but I always get the mud people
(likewise above) what im trying to do is give boots (or paint black) the feet of
U.S. line infantry. Is this possible? because im feel retarded.

[Bladerunner]

Did you also check what was suggested above?

If you don't want the faction-colour on you unit, you need an extra ..._gloss_map.dds for the unit. In this Gloss-Map you need to make the alpha-channel all black (listed at channels in Photoshop, next to Layers). Otherwise you will get a mixture of faction-color and skin-color.

[Cheshire Cat]

Guys ive managed to redo the Russian line infantry to how i want them but im having problems with the ottoman_nizam_y_infantry_diffuse , ive changed the colours to what i want and added a gloss map blacked out, im saving it in gimp thx to Erasmus cant think of anything else other than the naming of the texture is wrong cos theres I and Y for Cedid infantry so i tried both of them still nothing pls help im stumped...

Edit sorry ment to put ottoman_nizam_y_cedid_infantry_diffuse instead of above just
mispell ..still having problems

Edit. getting a volume map error on saving aswell how do i solve that? thx in advance.