How can i change the textures ?

[eloxia]

Hello everyone. 1st i've already got the new textures for building furniture or wall etc. but i dont know how can change these? so i wait your helps 
For example i attached the picture, for new brew table. i want change this one with orginal.

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[joaonunes]

Hello everyone. 1st i've already got the new textures for building furniture or wall etc. but i dont know how can change these? so i wait your helps 
For example i attached the picture, for new brew table. i want change this one with orginal.

Somewhere in this forum there is a zip with all the basic texture directories, and I think it includes the table textures too.

Try to find that file and look inside it for the directory of the table you want to replace, then you just need to copy the directory of the file and create a mod that adds a texture with the same name and directory.

This may not be the prettiest way of replacing a texture but it works...


The said file should be somewhere in the Help thread or somewhere else related to game's resources, it should be pinned anyways

EDIT: yeah, literally the first pinned post in this thread...
https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=2325.0

[1000101]

Yes, all you need to do is have the proper /Textures/ directory structure and the game will use loose files in preference over the assets files.

[Silerra]

I also tried to change the texture. But it doesn't work for me somehow.
These things have already done:
- A new mod folder named as MyMod
- In this folder contains a folder "About" with file About.xml
- And a another folder "Textures"
I tried to change the picture PassionMajorGray and PassionMinorGray. I placed the PNGs in /Textures/UI/Icons/ with appropriate filenames.

What I doing wrong?

[Master Bucketsmith]

I also tried to change the texture. But it doesn't work for me somehow.
These things have already done:
- A new mod folder named as MyMod
- In this folder contains a folder "About" with file About.xml
- And a another folder "Textures"
I tried to change the picture PassionMajorGray and PassionMinorGray. I placed the PNGs in /Textures/UI/Icons/ with appropriate filenames.

What I doing wrong?

Copy the part with the texPath and we might see something.

[Silerra]

What's meant by "texPath"?
Where the file is stored? Here the full path "F:\Spiele\RimWorld1249Win\Mods\Silerra\Textures\UI\Icons\PassionMajorGray.png"

By the way, I have found that my changes in "Textures\UI\Designators" are accepted.

[Master Bucketsmith]

No, you need an XML file to tell the game to use your alternative texture in the ThingDef for the brewery.
It's inside <texPath></texPath> tags, which are inside <graphicData></graphicData> tags.

EDIT: Sorry, seems I was reading over some bits in the thread. The brewery texture is not all that you want to change, I get?
And E said as long as you have the right folder structure and the exact filenames it should pick up, so if your only goal is to replace vanilla textures, you don't need to edit any XMLs, I guess.

[Silerra]

Well, I just want only to replace the vanilla textures. But probably I don't know all current paths. And I don't know how to integrate textures via XML. So far, I not yet discover how to this XML files works.

[Master Bucketsmith]

You weren't asking, but perhaps the autodocumentation can help you with the filepaths.

[Silerra]

I couldn't find an entry about "PassionMajorGray" in autodocumentation. But nevertheless, I already know the matching texture path.
Well, this doesn't work via XML file like this:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<ThingDefs>
  <ThingDef Name="" ParentName="">
    <graphicData>
      <texPath>UI/Icons/PassionMajorGray</texPath>
      <graphicClass>Graphic_Single</graphicClass>
    </graphicData>
  </ThingDef>
</ThingDefs>


I think that not all images can be replaced on this way. Because some images are loaded before mod indexing.

[nccvoyager]

I don't know how it works, but I found this post that may help find the path to specific textures:
https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=2325.msg255769#msg255769

Edit: Not pretty, but I opened the file in Notepad++, and found the paths.
Again, not pretty, nor easy to read, but it is there.

textures/ui/icons/passionminorgray
See attachment for a simple direct replacement mod example.
(It may not work as intended; don't have access to a computer I can test it with.)

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[Silerra]

...
textures/ui/icons/passionminorgray
See attachment for a simple direct replacement mod example.
(It may not work as intended; don't have access to a computer I can test it with.)

Oh, why suggest to me what I tried in August as a second? :-P

What's meant by "texPath"?
Where the file is stored? Here the full path "F:\Spiele\RimWorld1249Win\Mods\Silerra\Textures\UI\Icons\PassionMajorGray.png"

By the way, I have found that my changes in "Textures\UI\Designators" are accepted.

My first solution I had there already. However, this was to edit the "resources.assets" file for each update. Not pretty and especially too elaborate.

Currently I have a second solution. Here an existing class is simply integrated as a mod. Also not so pretty. But this way was easier to make this mod. (Look in my following zip.)
;-)

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[nccvoyager]

Ah, yeah, sorry. Didn't realize you had already tried it.
Also, doesn't work, I realize now that I actually tested it.
It does seem that there is no particularly "easy" method to changing the UI icons.

Though, perhaps you are on to something.
(I am unsure; haven't been doing too much modding in RimWorld at this time.)