NO LONGER CANCELLED: Shenmue500K Mod

[Kenny]

I had no idea this was a thing.

[Axm]

Hope you do finish it sometime.

[nagates]

Interesting idea. If it is possible to replace textures then that would be great to make some high res videos, i mean some textures are ultra low res, replacing them with professional high res textures would prolly make the game look so much better. I take it the video tutorial for replacing textures is not online yet?

I've often wondered this too, could the Shenmue textures be replaced with higher res textures? I want to say no for sure playing on the actual hardware, but could nulldc hand this? I still think no, because the game engine wouldn't know how to load them, that or the hardware emulation would be too accurate it would suffer from performance issues? perhaps someone else can give some input on this, I would love to know.

[Master Kyodai]

Interesting idea. If it is possible to replace textures then that would be great to make some high res videos, i mean some textures are ultra low res, replacing them with professional high res textures would prolly make the game look so much better. I take it the video tutorial for replacing textures is not online yet?

I've often wondered this too, could the Shenmue textures be replaced with higher res textures? I want to say no for sure playing on the actual hardware, but could nulldc hand this? I still think no, because the game engine wouldn't know how to load them, that or the hardware emulation would be too accurate it would suffer from performance issues? perhaps someone else can give some input on this, I would love to know.

Well the engine can handle high res textures since some are actually high res. On a real Dreamcast it depends. If you swap one or two textures for high res versions then no problem, but if you do it for all textures then it would prolly lag or even run out of memory. In nullDC this should be less of a problem.

[NeoShredder]

Interesting idea. If it is possible to replace textures then that would be great to make some high res videos, i mean some textures are ultra low res, replacing them with professional high res textures would prolly make the game look so much better. I take it the video tutorial for replacing textures is not online yet?

I've often wondered this too, could the Shenmue textures be replaced with higher res textures? I want to say no for sure playing on the actual hardware, but could nulldc hand this? I still think no, because the game engine wouldn't know how to load them, that or the hardware emulation would be too accurate it would suffer from performance issues? perhaps someone else can give some input on this, I would love to know.

Well the engine can handle high res textures since some are actually high res. On a real Dreamcast it depends. If you swap one or two textures for high res versions then no problem, but if you do it for all textures then it would prolly lag or even run out of memory. In nullDC this should be less of a problem.

Quite a bump here, but i've been wanting to try this since I saw these posts!

NullDC can support higher-resolution textures, with TxtMod anyway. I think it can go any size/resolution really, but at the end of the day it has to obey the model/game engine rendering method itself to actually look good.

But, that aside, the engine can support high res...

Here are some notes I made as I went along:

Supports Alpha Channel Transparency on textures too!

But it would be a very time-consuming process to keep the art and the style (the starbucks "mod" is obviously crap) not to mention there's hundreds of textures in a given 'scene'.

[shengoro86]

Currently, I was only doing same resolution sized stuff. This was to make it compatible with DC hardware. I would go into High Res textures but I dont have the time to make them sadly.

[shengoro86]

update:

IM BACK IN ACTION.

The mod continues.

[Locke_cole]

Godspeed and feel free to put my face all over Toms hotdog truck

[NeoShredder]

Great to see the mod picking up again! I think it's just right considering where the community is with Shenmue III

Currently, I was only doing same resolution sized stuff. This was to make it compatible with DC hardware. I would go into High Res textures but I dont have the time to make them sadly.

Yes that makes sense. Sorry I bumped your topic, I was responding to discussion above about seeing if high-res textures were simply possible at all with the Shenmue game engine. Perhaps I should have made a new topic. Although I found talk about texmod and Shenmue here on the forums (I think it was MiTT3Ns) but I hadn't seen any pics/videos done with it and wanted to try it myself and contribute. Strictly speaking txtmod, without knowing the exact ins and outs of engine rendering, 'supervises' the directx output I think, and replaces textures at the given defined offset? Method I tried could never run on Dreamcast, because it requires running NullDC (only works with 100b, not 1.04 unfortunately) through the texmod program on PC. New textures are 'packaged' as a distributable '.tpf' file, which can be run through the program. The Guild Wars community do their mods like this. Together it becomes like a 'patch' really. But, ergo, it wouldn't be a complete game package/ISO to just download/burn to disk, and not compatible with DC anyway, as a software method let alone hardward limitations. If this was all common knowledge already then I apologize for n00bishness.

Before texmod, I did try the various ShenTrad tools and other derivatives and the PKF ripping/MT5 modifying and follow that video tutorial but I simply couldn't get some of the programs to work, for one reason or another and couldn't find a way to fix them (crashing or not responding and the like, probably just my PC). Since I couldn't try this method myself, I found txtmod with NullDC and wanted to contribute to this disscussion, to see if high-res would run and if so, how it would look and operate in the game, hopefully as a prelude to direct texture replacement compatible with the DC. Hardware issues aside, can you actually replace the texture files directly with larger file sizes in the game files using the PKF tools and conversion? Or do they have to be a certain size?

[Himuro]

Can't wait for you to mod Shenmue III!

[shengoro86]

Can't wait for you to mod Shenmue III!

Thanks! I have some big plans But I wont know if they are possible until I tear apart the game when it comes out.

[shengoro86]

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