Is it possible to Chanage graphic files (.tga) in Sh4 and not harm "ANY" MegaMod?

[morra707]

Is it possible to Chanage graphic files (.tga) in Sh4 and not harm "ANY" MegaMod?
I want to change the muzzle flash from the deck gun on american subs, hit flash from the same gun (same file I think), and sea color "back to stock" in TMO 2.5 with RSRDC 5XXX.

Is it really that simple?
Can someone point me to the right game files?
I think the cloud.tga file is for muzzle flash.

Thank you.

yes you can change tga and dds files and have no side effects to the game other then what the file makes it look like.

I cant say off hand which files are the ones you are looking for but its much easier and better to delete those files from TMO rather then have TMO replace them and you then you will need to replace those with stock copies again just to get back to where you started before TMO.

[morra707]

Thankyou very much.

I beleive I understand. Once I identify the files I want to change (or leave alone) I would delete them from TMO install directories so my stock files they don't get overwrtten when I apply TMO, right?

Thanks.

Originally Posted by morra707

Thankyou very much.

I beleive I understand. Once I identify the files I want to change (or leave alone) I would delete them from TMO install directories so my stock files they don't get overwrtten when I apply TMO, right?

Thanks.

that is correct.

its always best to set things up so you reduce the number of changes you need to make and this reduces the chances of having conflicts and issues

[TorpX]

You might want to comment out the files, instead of deleting them. Put a ";" in front of the files, so the program ignores it. Then if you change your mind, just remove the ";" to restore the file.

[morra707]

Originally Posted by TorpX

You might want to comment out the files, instead of deleting them. Put a ";" in front of the files, so the program ignores it. Then if you change your mind, just remove the ";" to restore the file.

I have to do some research because I do not know which file to open to comment out the item. I have edited various config files in other games to customise them such as this, but i have never had to decompress and recompress files to get this to work.

It would be great if you could tell me which groups or threads I can search to learn which files I need to work with or if you could tell me would be great. If not no prob. I will just search the forums.

Thanks.

[Armistead]

If you want the sea colors in stock for TMO, you basically have two choices, either accept all the colors of stock and use the stock env file or go into TMO's env. file and adjust the sea colors to stock values. There is no way to seperate just the sea colors out of the env. file.

Have you tried Improved Stock Env. mod by caustic, the sea colors are closer to stock. If you want stock colors, simply make a copy of the stock Env files and make a mod out of it. This will change the colors, but you'll still have all of TMO's shaders, filters, scene dat. settings, etc.

I think I may already have a mod for stock env colors for TMO, be glad to email it to you.