Changing where a model looks for its skin

(TNR360) #1

How can I change the path of a models skin?

as in where it looks for its texture because I’ve noticed no matter what folder I change the model to it always checks for the skin in its original folder…

thanks

(|WF|Doofy) #2

u can use Npherno’s md3compile, there u can just write the path to texture that u need

(DerSaidin) #3

Or just make a pk3 to replace the shader/textures the model is pointing at.

(MrLego) #4

I’ve always had mixed results with Npherno’s md3compile.

If your feeling brave you can edit the md3 file with a binary editor - once you are in there it is pretty simple to edit the path strings for new filenames - just make sure that you are working with a copy.

Every path entry I have seen so far is 64 bytes long, if you don’t use all 64 bytes you can pad it with null characters.

(TNR360) #5

thanks all
everything worked fine using md3 compiler

I found this tutorial for doing just that http://www.tabun.nl/tutorials/md3skinpath_tutorial/

(-SSF-Sage) #6

[QUOTE=MrLego;177512]
If your feeling brave you can edit the md3 file with a binary editor - once you are in there it is pretty simple to edit the path strings for new filenames - just make sure that you are working with a copy.[/QUOTE]

I’ve tried to edit the path straightly from md3 with a text editor, however it always resulted crashing the game, even tho I couldn’t find what mistake I made. Anyway the nph3rno works very good so that’s the way to go.

(TNR360) #7

funny, the first thing I tried was notepad I changed the path, saved and it turned out there was a bunch of errors

(MrLego) #8

You can’t use notepad or other text editor, they will always try to save it as text.

I’ve never had any problems using a binary editor, some of the models that shipped with ET were from RTCW and were missing textures. In that case you have a few choices - grab the missing textures from RTCW which violates the EULA from RTCW or replace them with something else.

Here’s a screenshot of a modified model I made about 4 years ago - I only edited the paths and names of the textures to point to my new ones so I would not disrupt the original model in case someone else was making a doc-carry map.