Virtual Chess 64 Hi-Res

[Iconoclast]

I have no idea how you all transform the game's textures so well using Photoshop, but, using Paint Shop Pro 7, I designed my own small retexturing for Virtual Chess 64.

Screenshots of before:

Screenshots of after:

A pretty small retexture, but worthy changes.

 

[A.I.]

I downloaded with Winrar but it came up file is corrupt or damaged and when I opened folder it was empty...

 

[Iconoclast]

I just tried it with WinRAR. You probably got a corrupt download. Try downloading it again or using WinZip or something like that to open it.

 

[A.I.]

Thanks! I downloaded it again and success! Chess board and pieces look nice and polished!

Just a thought, would it be possible to replace the chess pieces with textures from Super Mario 64? It would be cool having a Mario army! :drool:

 

[Ion Dune]

Though I've never played the game, that seems doubtable. The pieces are probably models, so replacing it with a texture from mario would just either not work because of aspect ratio issues, or if properly resized look like you took a picture of mario and stretched it across a mario piece. Also, it looks like some of the pieces share textures, so you could run into problems there.

 

[Iconoclast]

Actually, I think it is possible. Yeah, I could do that. Resize them down to 64x64 pixels, maybe take a screenshot of Mario, erase the background around him so it's transparent, turn a picture of him into a texture and the like. Still, I don't think it would look very good. I would need a "bird's eye" view of the characters to make valid chess character textures.

Plus, there's the question of which characters become which pieces.

• White
  • King: Mario?
  • Queen: Peach
  • Rook: ?
  • Bishop: ?
  • Pawn: Toad
• Black
  • King: Bowser
  • Queen: ?
  • Rook: ?
  • Bishop: Koopa the Quick?
  • Pawn: Gremlin

 

[A.I.]

What about the 2D board? The textures should work for that, right?

 

[Ion Dune]

Yes, the 2d board could be easily done, but I still have my doubts about the 3d pieces. Unless they are all 2d sprites, I just don't see it being easy to do. From what I've seen of in game textures, they probably just used a wood and a teal wood texture for the pieces, not separate ones for each piece. But then, still, I don't have this game and don't know how its done. Best of luck in whatever can be done!

 

[Iconoclast]

Oh, I see what you meant. I didn't know you were talking about 3-D. Yeah...trying to retexture the 3-D pieces would just not be possible to make them look like characters like Mario. It would just be wrong.

2-D, however, can easily be done. A.I., if you want find me images of 2-D versions of game characters like Mario, I'll try to make a Mario army. However, I can't right now, because I don't have enough info. I need to know which pieces would be which characters.

 

[A.I.]

Oh, I see what you meant. I didn't know you were talking about 3-D. Yeah...trying to retexture the 3-D pieces would just not be possible to make them look like characters like Mario. It would just be wrong.

2-D, however, can easily be done. A.I., if you want find me images of 2-D versions of game characters like Mario, I'll try to make a Mario army. However, I can't right now, because I don't have enough info. I need to know which pieces would be which characters.

O.K. That would be great! It might have to wait until after the new year, though, if it's alright with you. I got a stack load of DVDs to get through! Plus I don't know it its too much X-mas food but I'm feeling really lazy atm! Unless somebody more enthusiastic with a better idea than me wants to take on the task then go right ahead! Oh that reminds me when are you going to release your next config list?