elishacloud / Silent-Hill-2-Enhancements

A project designed to enhance Silent Hill 2 (SH2) graphics and audio for the PC. It also includes scripts to build or modify SH2 audio files (SFX, BGM and Dialog).
http://www.enhanced.townofsilenthill.com/SH2/
zlib License
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Texture pack support #518

Closed RainaAudron closed 2 years ago

RainaAudron commented 2 years ago

Hello!

Does this project support any custom texture replacements? I would be interested in modding this game. However, I am unsure as to if you can dump the original textures and if SH2EE can even support texture replacement. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

Polymega commented 2 years ago

Hello,

Our project doesn't have any texture swapping tools or features per se, but we do offer the ability for the game to not crash when using higher resolution textures and audio. Really, it depends on what textures you want to replace:

Again, we don't have any tools made for this except for what's already existed. In this case, you could use the SH Texture Explorer tool, but this tool is quite old and limited in its functionality.

RainaAudron commented 2 years ago

Thank you for your help, much appreciated!

Polymega commented 2 years ago

No problem. Sorry I couldn't help you further, but the availability of mod tools is very limited for SH games. The tools that are currently around are very old and many of them are limited in their functionality. Almost all tools available can be found on that site I linked. To give an example of what we had to do: When I upscaled the fullscreen image textures, I had to do this "by hand," so to speak, via hex editing each and every file. It wasn't the most fun thing to do!

RainaAudron commented 2 years ago

No worries, thank you for explaining! It was a bit of a long shot, tbh. I am not too skilled with Hex editor, so I do not think it would be viable for me to do this way, sadly. Kudos to you for doing the upscale like that, though, impressive but I imagine super tedious. Thanks again!