Paper Mario

[Nelde]

after i collected thousands of pics, i started to change them. but even at the first picture, i have troubles.

this is what mario looks like after saving with photoshop. i didn't change a thing, i just saved him as a test. if i save or change him with paint, there's no problem. what's wrong???

 

[Im Bored]

are you editing bmps? i cant really help, but I had the same problem with Photoshop CS myself. I was doing everything correct, but still, it messed up much like that. This was using the older rice plug in, and bmps, however.

 

[j234]

Here are the textures, i must have cancelled the other one by accident.

Nelde, check that your mario texture has 32bit colour and is a _cibyrgba.png picture.

If you want sprites you could try ripping them from good screenshots of PM2.

 

[Nelde]

it isn't much, but it's good

:bouncy: :bouncy: and i finally found the sprites i was looking for :bouncy: :bouncy:

 

[alien{S}py]

Here are the textures, i must have cancelled the other one by accident.

Nelde, check that your mario texture has 32bit colour and is a _cibyrgba.png picture.

If you want sprites you could try ripping them from good screenshots of PM2.

The new textures look good. I've started to work on a few myself, but it seems like there are duplicate images in different formats (.png/.bmp) I'm not sure if I need to replace both with new ones.

BTW was anyone was able to dump the text?

 

[Mollymutt]

Here's my (nearly) finished title screen. Does anyone have a Yoshi that will fit here?

 

[Mollymutt]

Here's my (nearly) finished title screen. Does anybody have a Yoshi to fit here?

 

[Nelde]

try this

j234, how do i change a pic into a _cibyrgba.png ? do i only have to change the name? and what do i have to do that the texture has 32 bit colour?

 

[j234]

To get the _cibyRGBA.png pictures you have to use textures dumped in the ci_by_png folder. When you replace them, make sure your replacement has an alpha channel

 

[Nelde]

does anybody know, why bowser looks that ugly?

this happens in the us version, in the european version, they are entirely black. i cant get the sprites this way...

and btw: how's the paper mario font called?

 

[MuhMuh]

I like it mollymutt!

 

[Nelde]

i don't get it
i wanted to change the minister:

into toadsworth:

but it doesn't work. either it doesn't change or the texture crashes...
could someone please give me a step by step instruction how to do it?
what i can is getting the textures from the game, i also can change it, but i don't know what follows afterwards :bye3:

 

[alien{S}py]

i don't get it
i wanted to change the minister:

into toadsworth:

but it doesn't work. either it doesn't change or the texture crashes...
could someone please give me a step by step instruction how to do it?
what i can is getting the textures from the game, i also can change it, but i don't know what follows afterwards :bye3:

Did you make sure to change the alpha channel for the character (the black and white outline image) if there is one, that's usually the problem.

Edit: I changed PAPER MARIO#3BFDAE23#2#0#3D30883A_ciByRGBA.png (the image with the alpha found in the ci_by_png folder) and it worked. you might also want to change PAPER MARIO#0CE9ED19#2#0#3D30883A_ciByRGBA.png because it changes between the two quite often.


btw I just finished retexturing the intro logos (except for the intelegent systems). Here they are if anyone else wants them :View attachment 27708

 

[Nelde]

so that's the problem: i don't have a ci_by_png folder and i dont have an alpha files
do i have to create this folder by myself or should it create itself?

 

[alien{S}py]

so that's the problem: i don't have a ci_by_png folder and i dont have an alpha files
do i have to create this folder by myself or should it create itself?

It should be created on it's own. I get 5 folder created when I dump the textures:

ci_bmp
ci_bmp_with_pal_crc
ci_by_png
png_all
png_by_rgb_a

 

[j234]

Nelde, check you have the latest rice plugin.

Also, that toadsworth texture you are replacing the old one with is an 8bit indexed colour texture. Here is a 32bit colour version(see attachment)

Finnaly, the texture name is wrong, if that is the name of the texture you plan to replace then find the proper one.
it should be something like:
PAPER MARIO#68D446FD#2#0#74D1211B_ciByRGBA
and not
papermarioc41a488d20ci4tl

 

[Nelde]

thanks, but the name isn't my mistake, imageshack changes the name when you upload a file...
but it's very strange, i don't get one of the five folders created. i just download the plugin again

edit: downloaded the latest version, but i still don't get folders... but now i have some more files, but no alpha

 

[Mollymutt]

Did you enable texture dumping on the plugin? If so you will get the folders mentioned before. You have to add an alpha channel to any texture you edit. This means you have to add a transparent layer to your file.

 

[Nelde]

yes, of course i enabled the texture dumping... the main problem isn't to get the textures out from the game, the problem is to get them in!

i have this three textures:

(PAPER MARIO#C41A488D#2#0#3D30883A_ciByRGBA) (PAPER MARIO#3BFDAE23#2#0#3D30883A_ciByRGBA)( PAPER MARIO#0CE9ED19#2#0#3D30883A_ciByRGBA)

but the minister doesn't change into toadsworth
does someone know, what i could do wrong?

 

[j234]

You have to resize the pics to be 2x or 4x the original.

This is them all resized to 192x192:

BTW, there is still one more texture you need to do for him.