The idea:
Create your own in-city industrie based on a copy
fe. you want to use the hospital building as a new industrie (let's say military basis, based on the transcontinental scenario)
- We want to create a whole new building, not overwriting the hospital!
- To keep it simple, the building will behave (grow) as the hospital building, it will use the same model, but we will change the texture(color), so we can see the difference between the military basis and a hospital building(=white) and so we will not change the original building
Follow these steps:
STEP 1 - Get all the files of the hospital building
- You will need to unpack the fpk file wich contain the hospital building
- Use a fpk-unpacker tool (Dragon UnPACKer 5)
- Load the package Industries0.FPK from \Sid Meier's Railroads!\Assets
- Unpack the files starting with the name hospital.* hospital_*.*
to a local dir
STEP 2 - Change the filenames
- Change all the filenames by replacing hospital by "your choice name"
- Be carefull, use a name that has the same length as the one you are replacing
in this case hospital (= 8 characters) SO fe milbasis (= 8 characters)
(this is important)
STEP 3 - Open the NIF-file and change references
- Use a NIF-viewer-editor program, use NIFSKOPE
- Open your nif-file "milbasis.nif"
- You will see the milbasis-model (=hospital model) (without a texture)
- Go to NiTexturingProperty (see screenshot)
- Change the references to the texture, specular etc files to your file-names
this is: milbasis_DIFF.dds, milbasis_NORM, milbasis_SPEC, milbasis_EMSK.dds
- For more information on those files, have a look at the tutorial textures
- Those references are all the references you will need to change in Nifskope
- Save
STEP 4 - Changing the references in the kfm file
- Use a Hexeditor (fe. WinHex)
- Open the milbasis.kfm file
- Change (overwrite) all the occurrences of "hospital" by "milbasis"
- Here's why the 8 character-length of your building name is important, do not press del but replace the characters by milbasis!
- Save
- All references are set!
STEP 5 - Changing the texture (color)
- Use a photo-program that can handle DDS files (use the photoshop dds plug-in)
- Open the milbasis_DIFF.dds file
- Change the color (or do more if you like)
- Save as DXT3 DDS File
STEP 6 - Check your result with nifskope
- Open your milbasis.nif file with nifskope to see the result
- Your model is ready, so let's use it!
STEP 7 - Place all your milbasis*.* files in the My Games\Sid Meier's Railroads!\CustomAssets dir
STEP 8 - Use xml Code so that your building will be used
<RRTIndustry>
<szName>MY_INDUSTRY</szName>
<szModel>milbasis.kfm</szModel>
<szGrowKFM>milbasis_BuildUp.kfm</szGrowKFM>
<fScale>1</fScale>
<bIsCoastal>0</bIsCoastal>
<bIsMountainous>0</bIsMountainous>
<bInCity>1</bInCity>
...
</RRTIndustry>
STEP 9 - Let's check the result in game
- Be sure that you've got already your industrie in a city, or add your industry by using the terrain editor ...
- Start your scenario and have a look
- HAPPY? (if it doesn't work, you probably forgot somewhere to change a reference to your milbasis or a typo, check that first)
- oef!, it works!!!
i did every step, while writing the tutorial, and yes i even had a typo on a filename
ps: yes, maybe it's not needed to copy all the files, but in this way you've got a complete building with all the files included
I just did it, I unpacked Industries0.FPK. I pointed it to My Games and it made a folder called ...Industries0...
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