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NO LONGER CANCELLED: Shenmue500K Mod

Postby shengoro86 » Thu Apr 02, 2015 10:16 am

Hi Everyone,

I am here with yet another Shenmue mod coming.

A while back, I learned how to edit textures in Shenmue 1 and 2.

A big thanks to Ilducci for the lesson. He went out of his way to make a video tutorial for me, which will be uploaded to my youtube channel in the coming weeks. Thank you so much bro!

Anyway, out of respect for my Facebook group, Shenmue500K, I decided to make a version of Shenmue 1 disc 3 with modded textures showcasing key members of Shenmue500K and ShenmueDojo.

Its a nice nod to the community and a test of my hacking skills.

I hope to have it done soon.
Here is who is currently on task to be hacked into the game:
(Most people will just have their avatar in the game)
Myself as a poster and a NPC (Yup a NPC, hard to do but not impossible)
Corey Marshall
Lisle Wilkerson
Yama
LanDC
Kiyuu
A big tribute to Bysby :)
Kenny
South Carmain
Kiba
Mr Frozen
Ali Novin (He will be in the Arcade)
Adam Koralik (he will replace the Sega Batteries guy)
Norris (a fellow admin at 500K) (he will be on a poster in Fuku-san's room)
AXM
Ryudo/Bluecast (we had our beefs but I miss you bro)
Ziming
and many others from here and 500K

I'll also be working on incorporating the action of being able to sit, like in What's Shenmue.

Anyway, this is still in its hacking stage so I don't have much to show just yet.

Video Preview of a modded texture. Its upside down in this video, but I have since fixed that. This is Laura Elza Cosplay. She has a great Joy, Chunyan, and Nozomi cosplay.
https://www.facebook.com/LaraElizaCosplayer?fref=ts
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Re: Shenmue500K Mod

Postby ReeceKun » Thu Apr 02, 2015 8:56 pm

Is it possible to replace the textures with bigger texture sizes (eg swapping 256x256 with 512x512)?
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Re: Shenmue500K Mod

Postby south carmain » Thu Apr 02, 2015 9:12 pm

ReeceKun wrote: Is it possible to replace the textures with bigger texture sizes (eg swapping 256x256 with 512x512)?

I was told that it's possible using the shentrad tool
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Re: Shenmue500K Mod

Postby shengoro86 » Fri Apr 03, 2015 10:28 am

Right now, I am respecting the original file size of the textures to make it console friendly. But Ill be looking into this.
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Re: Shenmue500K Mod

Postby IlDucci » Fri Apr 03, 2015 3:54 pm

south carmain wrote:
ReeceKun wrote: Is it possible to replace the textures with bigger texture sizes (eg swapping 256x256 with 512x512)?

I was told that it's possible using the shentrad tool

ShenTrad tool's resizing capabilities only affect the MT5/MT7 formats. Map formats, such as PKF/PKS, are not having that luxury at this time.
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Re: Shenmue500K Mod

Postby ReeceKun » Sat Apr 04, 2015 5:02 pm

The overall problem (in my opinion) with Shenmue Textures is that:
Shenmue 1 textures are too dirty
Shenmue 2 textures are too clean

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Re: Shenmue500K Mod

Postby MiTT3NZ » Sun Apr 05, 2015 4:37 pm

I'd say Shenmue II textures were overdone with the sharpness tool.
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Re: Shenmue500K Mod

Postby shengoro86 » Mon Apr 06, 2015 10:16 am

Yeah I also noticed that S2 has some super sharp textures.
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Re: Shenmue500K Mod

Postby Master Kyodai » Tue Apr 21, 2015 9:18 am

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?
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Re: Shenmue500K Mod

Postby shengoro86 » Tue Apr 21, 2015 4:22 pm

Master Kyodai wrote: 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.


Yep! Some texture formats we can edit and some we can't. For those we can, I'm looking into it. I'm not much of a texturer but I can insert textures easily now.

Master Kyodai wrote:
I take it the video tutorial for replacing textures is not online yet?


Sorry for the delay.
Here it is! Thanks to IlduccI!
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Re: Shenmue500K Mod

Postby shengoro86 » Thu May 14, 2015 5:43 pm

Here is the first test video of the mod.

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Re: Shenmue500K Mod

Postby BlueMue » Fri May 15, 2015 4:41 am

The posters come out really good in this place! The cupboard looks a bit strange with photo textures.
You plan to cover other regular objects in the game like that aswell? Just takes some time to get used to that. :lol:
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Re: Shenmue500K Mod

Postby shengoro86 » Fri May 15, 2015 10:02 am

BlueMue wrote: The posters come out really good in this place!

Thanks!
BlueMue wrote:The cupboard looks a bit strange with photo textures.

Actually the cubboard is using the same texture as that door with the same poster on it. Change the door and it changes the cubboard too lol. I want to see if I can hack the map to give it its own unique texture.
BlueMue wrote:You plan to cover other regular objects in the game like that aswell? Just takes some time to get used to that. :lol:

Oh yes. I'm also redubbing the game a bit. But.... I'm thinking about just sticking to Shenmue 1 for this mod. This was just a test of the texture hacking technique given to me by Ilducci, which is on my YouTube channel.
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Re: Shenmue500K Mod

Postby shengoro86 » Sun May 17, 2015 8:50 pm

Here is a new test video showing some changes to Fukusan's posters.

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Re: Shenmue500K Mod

Postby shengoro86 » Mon Jun 08, 2015 12:33 pm

Update:
So.. Given my recent announcements, I am considering this project to be cancelled until further notice.
I just don't feel like working on this for all of this time is probably just a waste. I mean who would even play it? Noone tends to download my mods and im spending so much time on this.

Here is my final update until further notice.
A reskinned QTE Title featuring Alphaomegasin.
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