Replacing a Texture

Kitsune86 · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 03 Oct 2008

Greetings,

After discovering the basics of the SDK 'extended' (aka JonWil's) tools, I've been poking around, and discovered the KW "Nod Milita Man" Texture, and thought, "Cool! I should be able to simply insert this texture and it work!"

Well, it hasn't. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I don't get errors when I compile my mod, but the change never shows up.

Any tips on how to replace this texture? I know a little bit, as I replaced the texture the "GDI Composite Armor" upgrade uses, but I have no idea how to change the base skin.

Golan · Flamethrower **Joined**: 21 Nov 2007

The KW texture uses the same name as the TW one, if you want to add it to TW you must rename it.

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Kitsune86 · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 03 Oct 2008

All right. I figured as much.

Now, what file do I need to edit to change that base skin to my 'new' one? I though it would be the SKN.w3x file, but that did not seem to work.

Or I edited the wrong one, heh. Any other tips?

Golan · Flamethrower **Joined**: 21 Nov 2007

Edit NODMilitant.xml, specifically use a <Texture\>-element on the militant´s ModelConditionState. It should look like this:

Code:

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Kitsune86 · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 03 Oct 2008

Works like a charm.

I'd actually thought of that from the GDI Rifleman armor update, but thought it wouldn't work since I didn't have a conditionyes. I feel silly now.

Thanks. Smile

Guest · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:42 pm Post subject:

Ok that did not work like a charm. The compiler comes up with an warning
unknown asset 'texture:NUMiltnB_KW referenced from 'game object:NODMilitant' in mod sdk\mods\mymod\data\NODMilitant.xml'
In game the militants are pink! (no texture)
What am I doing wrong?

Madin · Guest

Critical: XmlFormattingError:
XML formatting error encountered in file:///d:/program files/electronic arts/command & conquer 3/mod sdk/art/nu/numiltnb_kw.tga (line 1, position 1):
'.', hexadecimal value 0x00, is an invalid character. Line 1, position 1.

This is the error I'm now getting since 'including' a reference to the texture in my 'nodmilitant.xml'