Texture editing

[Faby]

I have a few questions about modyfing the textures in Gothic 1.

1. I have downloaded GothicVDFS and unpacked "textures.vds". I have explored the directory, and have found a folder with many files, however, unable to open them. They are ".tex" files,and Photoshop can't open them. How can I open them?

2. Once I finish editing the textures, do I have to repack the directory? (to make it textures.vds again) - If so, how?

[oldflash]

Try to use this program (http://www.worldofgothic.de/dl/index.php?go=downloads&release_id=30) to convert tex=>tga then .tga=>.tex
This tool also give you a preview for texture files and can extract any file from .vdf's

[GothicFighter]

GoMan is used to convert textures one-by one. There is another tool,forgot it's name. Something with ZXXX. http://wiki.worldofgothic.com/ <--from there I have learn modding;-)

[Faby]

@playa,oldflash: Thx :D. GoMan works perfectly ;)
And to the second question?

Let's say,after I modified a tex file (in photoshop, and from TGA back to TEX), do I have to make the directory back in vdf format? If so, how?

[GothicFighter]

here is how I make:
I load goman export the texture as tga,edit it,convert it and then replace the original texture with the edited onw(make a backup!). That's all;)!

[Faby]

You don't get it :(

Let me give you an example,k?
So. I copy textures.vdf from the Data directory. I unpack it with GothicVDFS, and I obtain the following directory:

_WORK

+ DATA

--+TEXTURES

---_COMPILED
---DESKTOP

I open _COMPILED, take a TEX from there, convert it with GoMan,and edit it with Photoshop. I re-convert it, I put it in the folder. Now, how can I make the _WORK directory a vdf file again?


EDIT

Ok,scrap that..how do I overwrite a .TEX file with GoMan?



EDIT2

Ok, damn, I think I'm being hard to understand.

So, I have edited an armor tex file (light shadow armor (convert to tga, edit, then back to tex)). And I want the game to use that file, that version of the armor, not the default one. How can I do that?

EDIT1745983649834

Nevermind. Found it out myself :p.

[rockfest]

Iirc Gothic can start with raw files unpacked(i think you have a setting in Gothic Starter)

Here (http://wiki.worldofgothic.com/Tutorials/Modify+Armor+skins)'s a simple tutorial for modifying armor textures.

[Faby]

Yep,I've managed to edit the armors and use them ingame,but: How do I convert raw files to vdf again? Like oldflash's reskin mod or Freddies Texture Patch.

[GothicFighter]

That can be done with vdfs tool. Select the tab called build mod and then click add and add the texture.