Hello Empyrionans! Been playing Empyrion for the past week and I really enjoy it. But I really would love a texture mod, and since there is none around I thought to make one myself. Been searaching the forums and trying to find some good info on how to do it, but the results are either very old or not complete. So the questions is; What are the steps to mod textures for the game? And; Can I use the pack I will make and still play the vanilla game/story with it?
The texture atlas is full. For example for steel and combat steel no new ones can be added So it has no point in having it moddable atm. Would only be a benefit if that limitation gets lifted You would need to remove existing textures, what breaks all blueprints on the workshop and in game A whole new set of Armor Blocks need to be created if you dont want to break anything existing
I see, but I guess having that atlas being modable would be the only way then. Let's say a texture pack mod replaces the current atlas, in that case it shouldn't break the blueprints and so on. I work as an artist in a game dev studio myself, so it just felt like an interesting project to try to mod the textures a bit. I also love the game and have almsot 100h in it
If you replace the current atlast then all blueprints do not have anymore the textures it has So yes it still break all the blueprints since they are build with the current textures and they are gone Might not look good anymore, same for the default POIs Neither you can replace the atlas as this is part of the game and restricted by our ToS
I have played this game since first release and can say that with the various development and release versions that textures on some items have gone from OK to woeful, to so outright hideous that I stop playing for a while. Currently in game textures are a mix of ok, hiddeous, some woeful and some that just make me sick in the stomach to look at them. AND before you reply, I am ALSO a texture artist so don't start with the "Oh if you think you can do better". I Can do better, with one hand glued to the desk and one eye poked out. Access to the textures files would be appreciated, as has been asked countless times over the years and years.
If Eleon isn't interested in making Textures modable, maybe it would be open to community submissions of facelifted textures at this point. This isn't the first time someone has come in asking for modifiable stuff. If Eleon cannot do that, can it at least copy/paste the communities contributions to it's dated assets?
Not possible as already stated. Changing the current textures changes every single structure built using those structures. It would break everything in existence currently. The current textures can't be updated, or facelifted, etc without everything that depended on those old textures getting broken. Likewise as already stated the current texture atlas is full. Nothing new can be added to most blocks without removing a texture that is already there. Same end result, broken blueprints and POIs. So until such a time that the current texture limitation can be lifted then nothing at all can be done to update or change the current textures, nor add any new textures. It's just not possible without breaking everything. If that limitation gets lifted ever only then can they consider updating current textures, but even then the old textures still have to remain so as to not break every structure in existence.
Only thing I hope for is more texture options for xeno, and maybe a new "tech" block that has new tech-like textures for interior work.
