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The Lounge => Gaming Talk => Topic started by: Signore Buchelli on May 29, 2016, 01:33:01 AM
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Following the guidelines of Scott Bilas (http://www.postudios.com/blog/forum/index.php?topic=15186.msg363899#msg363899) and the examples of BradDaBug (http://gk3tools.sourceforge.net/myfirstmod.php), it is possible to change almost everything in Gabriel Knight 3: textures, 3D models, animations, scenes, lines of dialogue, music, ....
Right now I'm working on my first little MOD, wich I will publish soon in this thread.
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Is this your first mod for any game, or just your first mod for this game? Is it as easy as Brad's website makes it look?
I've never tried making a mod for anything before, aside from altering a shirt texture for The Sims 2 (that must have been 10 years ago at this point, jeez.)
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My first mod for any game. I usually make mods for my jeans and car: heat adhesive patches. :)
The textures (.BMP) are too easy (only MS Paint). The music/dialogues and subtitles are a little bit more difficult. I only missing a small detail to publish the MOD at Wednesday. :D
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My first MOD: A little homage to Dr. Bonny Ploeg (http://bonny.ploeg.ws) and Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast/Beak Within.
I've recorded a video with the MOD (https://youtu.be/9CV5hS4ny7o). Sorry about the low quality and the 'black' frames. The Screen Recorder, my old Windows Vista and GK3 work too bad together. :(
If you want to play the MOD in-game, download the .ZIP file from Google-Drive (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_nakSX0fVysLTlfQThtenkyS1E), extract the files to the GK3 folder and run the game. There's no need to make a security-copy because the MOD doesn't replace anything, it's only an add-in.
You can replace the resources that I've used with your own ones. The resources are in the 'BONNYGK2' subfolder and there are 4 types of resources:
- Textures (Paintings): *.BMP
- The music of the main menu: THEME.WAV (format: 64kbps, Mono, 44KHz, Lame MP3)
- Subtitles of the remarks/dialogues: E*.YAK (English) or S*.YAK (Spanish); they are 'camouflaged' .TXT files.
- Voices of the remarks/dialogues: A*.QR1/561; they are 'camouflaged' .WAV files (format: 64kbps, Mono, 44KHz, Lame MP3)
If you want to recover the original paintings/music/dialogues, rename or delete individual files or the 'BONNYGK2' subfolder.
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Next MOD: HI-RES Paintings with author, title and year in plaques near the paintings.
Tasks:
1.- Find the author, title and year of all paintings. Done by Dr. Bonny Ploeg (http://bonny.ploeg.ws/gabriel/gkgal1.html).
2.- Download Hi-Res images of the paintings from Internet. Done by me at 2015.
3.- Replace the original textures (.BMP) with the Hi-Res textures.
4.- Add plaques with the author, title and year. See the attached image (manipulated).
Big problem:
At this moment, I don't know how I could add the plaques to the .BSP files (room geometry). So, I'll start with the big problem. If I am unable to add the plaques, I'll put the author, title and year over the frames or paintings; see the 2nd attached image (true screenshot).
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There's a very nice MOD at https://www.gog.com/forum/gabriel_knight_series/little_high_res_texture_test_for_gabriel_knight_3 (https://www.gog.com/forum/gabriel_knight_series/little_high_res_texture_test_for_gabriel_knight_3) . It replaces the original textures with Hi-Res ones at Gabe/Gracie's bathroom (all the textures) and room (the ceiling and the dumpwaiter's door).
There was a more ambitious MOD project by Nico Sels (http://sidney.fwheel.net/GK3RP/ (http://sidney.fwheel.net/GK3RP/)), but unfortunately all the efforts came to nothing. Words of Nico himself at Pinkerton Road Forums:
""Too bad all those textures ended up on a hard drive that I dropped on the floor... fixing the broken hard drive would cost me about 2000 dollars or so.. they have to open it in a dustfree room, reassemble it.; and then they MIGHT be able to restore the data.. so 'nough said, unless I strike it rich.. I'm afraid all that data is lost..""
It's a crying shame! It looked too wonderful ... :( :(
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MOD: Hi-Res Bathrooms & Paintings (1st version)
This 1st version includes:
- New Hi-Res textures for all the surfaces of all the bathrooms, plus the ceiling at the Room 25 and the doors of the dumpwaiters. Thanks a lot to Tomint (https://www.gog.com/forum/gabriel_knight_series/little_high_res_texture_test_for_gabriel_knight_3) for these textures.
- New Hi-Res paintings of the whole ground-floor of the hotel and the Room 25 (Grabriel & Grace's room). Each painting also includes the author, title and year of the works of art. Thanks a lot to Bonny Ploeg (http://bonny.ploeg.ws/gabriel/gkgal1.html) for the information about the paintings.
If you want to play the MOD in-game, download the .ZIP file from Google-Drive (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_nakSX0fVysb0M5dnRJUEZuTTQ), extract the files to the GK3 folder and run the game. There's no need to make a security-copy because the MOD doesn't replace anything, it's only an add-in.
In this folder (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_nakSX0fVysVlRJU2FyTDBUTWc) there are several screenshots with the original textures (* Normal.jpg) and others with the new Hi-Res textures (* Hi-Res.jpg). Don't overlook the ceiling of the Room 25.
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MOD: Hi-Res Bathrooms & Paintings (2nd version)
Added the paintings of the kitchen and the rooms 21 (Buchelli), 23 (Wilkes), 27 (Emilio) & 33 (Mosely).
Zip file at Google-Drive (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_nakSX0fVysTlFYYWJxR3hpUkU): Install like the previous version.
Comparison screenshots in this folder (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_nakSX0fVysVlRJU2FyTDBUTWc).
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I'm working on Hi-Res paintings for GK3 (previous posts), but there are 5 unidentified images (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_nakSX0fVysNG5QdGtxR2N3NE0). See the attached image.
The Lady-Harp is an emblem of the Irish people and it is labeled as tapestry in the game.
The sword must be a famous/hitorical one, because the hilt is too peculiar and has an inscription on the blade.
Does anybody know anything about them?
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MOD: Hi-Res Bathrooms & Paintings (3rd version)
Added the paintings of the hallway and the rooms 29 (Madeleine) & 31 (Howard and Estelle).
Zip file at Google-Drive (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_nakSX0fVysb0M5dnRJUEZuTTQ): Install like the previous versions.
Comparison screenshots in this folder (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_nakSX0fVysVlRJU2FyTDBUTWc).
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MOD: Hi-Res Bathrooms & Paintings (4th version)
Added the paintings of Larry Chester, Villa Bethania, the Museum and Rennes-les-Bains. I've recorded a video with the changes of the four versions: https://youtu.be/bfBU93zUKek (https://youtu.be/bfBU93zUKek)
I've also added some HTMLs of the Mystica Encyclopedia that contained wrong links and other mistakes.
Zip file at Google-Drive: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_nakSX0fVysWHp3V09nVWtVSGs (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_nakSX0fVysWHp3V09nVWtVSGs)
Download the .ZIP, extract the files to the GK3 folder and run the game. There's no need to make a security-copy because the MOD doesn't replace anything, it's only an add-in.
Comparison screenshots in this folder (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_nakSX0fVysVlRJU2FyTDBUTWc).