Custom skins and unitext + backup and restore in options now

[Lee]

Ok where to begin.

*Custom Item Skins.

To use custom weapon skins you have to first put them in an afs file (you should know how to do this anyway if you are attempting this), "ItemTextureEp4.afs".

Now take your ItemTextureEp4.afs and rename it to ItemTextureEp4.pat. Inside your data folder in the pso directory, you should find a folder called custom, place the ItemTextureEp4.pat in here.

once you've done that, start up the game via online.exe and select options. Under customisation you should see something called Texture with a drop down box, select custom and save your options. the launcher should now report in it's log that it has patched the custom texture file. After this you should be good to go.

Note using a custom texture file means it is your responsibility to keep it up to date to avoid crashs caused when new items are added to the client.

* Custom Item Text

To use custom item text you have to first edit or find a unitxt file (you should know how to do this anyway if you are attempting this), "unitxt_j.prs".

Now take your unitxt_j.prs and rename it to unitxt_j.pat. Inside your data folder in the pso directory, you should find a folder called custom, place the unitxt_j.pat in here.

once you've done that, start up the game via online.exe and select options. Under customisation you should see something called Language with a drop down box, select custom and save your options. the launcher should now report in it's log that it has patched the custom unitxt file. After this you should be good to go.

Note using a custom unitxt file means it is your responsibility to keep it up to date to avoid crashs caused when new items are added to the client.

*Backup and restore

These options have now been enabled and allow you to save your password as a file that you can reload using restore, they save as upw files with the username as the file name.

[chuk]

Good job Lee. Now the resolution check xD

Also worth mentioning : the passwords saved in the files are encrypted for those who worry about plain text password files in your directory.

[Revenge]

If you edit ItemTextureEp4.afs from its default location (Program Files) make sure you run AFSManager as an administrator; otherwise it won't have authorization to save over the file.

[Lee]

I'd like to add that you can swap between your custom skins and the default server ones by changing the options, neither will overwrite each other.

[Sylph777]

Niiiiice i can play with all my old skins weapons, thank you lee good stuff

[Shoutgu]

I tested everything, all seems good

[Larva]

Thanks for this customisations lee, user will thanks u a lot, i personally dont use custom skins .

Thanks

[Kevin]

Nice, thanks. Custom skins are too great!

[exsinner]

am I the one who can't change the language? I took my unitxt_j.prs file, renamed it to unitxt_j.pat and put it into custom folder. Then I changed language in options to custom. And nothing happened. Still in english...

[Lee]

am I the one who can't change the language? I took my unitxt_j.prs file, renamed it to unitxt_j.pat and put it into custom folder. Then I changed language in options to custom. And nothing happened. Still in english...

nm i found a typo in the loaders code;

        if FileExists(extractfilepath(application.ExeName) +
          '\data\custom\unitxt.pat') = True then
        begin

I missed the _j, should be fixed with the update patch i put up.

Edited August 18, 2013 by Lee