ASH (Automatic Texture Hack) + Indexing ~ Guide

I wrote this guide to help someone on MeowMix forums and I thought I should post it here. You never know, it might help someone.

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You Will Need:

Revolution SDK ~ I can't give a direct link, but it might be useful to look around THIS page
ASH ~ Can be obtained HERE
Fit***0*.pac (Character costume file) ~ Can be obtained HERE
How to use either GIMP or Photoshop (duh! lol) ~ GIMP can be obtained HERE, I can't give a direct link to Photoshop, but you might be able to find something around


THIS

page

Setup:

On your desktop, create a folder named 'ASH' (this goes without saying from now on, never add in the ' unless i say so)

Inside that folder, put these things in there: The contents of the ASH .rar file, ntcompress and TexConv (ntcompress and TexConv are located inside the revolution SDK folder: X86 > bin ).

Guide:

1. Drag your Fit***0*.pac file into your earlier made ASH folder.

2. Double click on step1_extract.bat . When it asks you "Type the PAC file you want to modify", type your .pac file name (It gives you a list of what .pac files are in your ASH folder, just type one of those names, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE .pac ON THE END OF THE NAME!). Wait for it to finish extracting, it will close automatically.

3. There should now be multiple folders in your ASH folder now (all starting with 2 numbers at the start of the name), BACKUP THESE FOLDERS SOMEWHERE.

4. Edit the backed up folders.

5. Copy ALL of the backed up folders and paste them into your ASH folder (it will ask you if you want to replace/merge things, just click yes to all of it).

6. Double click "step2_create.bat"

7. If it asks to include indexed textures, refer to the end of this guide for that (the titles will be: INDEXING and ADVANCED INDEXING).

8. Wait for it to complete (when it is finished it will automatically close). You should have 2 new files now: _new.pac and _new.pcs . Rename those to whatever you want.

YOU'RE DONE!!!

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INDEXING:

When ASH asks to include indexed textures it will say:

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*** Adding palette textures ***

'folder name'

<maximum colors allowed: **>
<if your image has a bigger palette, it will corrupt the texture>

Do you want to include this texture <yes=y, no=otherwise> ->

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Open the tga inside the 'folder name' and go: image > mode > index . When it asks to limit colors, limit it with the amount said (<maximum colors allowed: **>, the **). Now save it. In the DOS box, press 'y' then hit enter. Do this for every texture it asks for.

ADVANCED INDEXING:

Files that require indexing ALWAYS have +* on the end of them. Any tga file that ends in +1 WONT have transparency and tgas that end in +2 WILL (usually) have transparency.

In +2 textures, to use this transparency you have to color what you want to be transparent in the color magenta (FF 00 FF or 255 0 255).

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If anything is confusing, just post here and I will try my best to answer your questions.

VILE~

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