Cavalorn on 6/3/2017 at 20:24
I have a problem loading certain texture families into my mission.
I have been going around in other FM directories in search of certain textures, and I wanted to take a look at them in my mission to see how they would look. The problem is that I cannot load them into the mission. I simply copy-pasted a folder from an FM directory - for example "swamp" from Godbreaker - and when I tried to load it I got the "family not added (no textures)" error message. I have already been using custom textures in my mission, so this wouldn't be the first time. Everything seems to be in order, yet this problem occurs. Maybe I missed something obvious, but I cannot get it to work. Any guesses what might be the problem?
john9818a on 6/3/2017 at 21:03
Did you verify that the textures are in the fam\swamp folder? If you use WinZip try dragging the swamp folder from the zip to your fam folder.
Cavalorn on 6/3/2017 at 21:59
Quote Posted by john9818a
Did you verify that the textures are in the fam\swamp folder? If you use WinZip try dragging the swamp folder from the zip to your fam folder.
That's exactly what I did, but to no avail. Is it possible that the problem is caused because the files are not in .gif or .pcx? But then again, they had no problem working in their respective FM so I'm not really sure.
Yandros on 7/3/2017 at 00:07
You aren't limited to GIF and PCX with NewDark anyway, PNG, DDS and TGA (which was also supported in OldDark) can also be used. Not to sound daft, but are you sure you're spelling the family name correctly and that they're in the right folder? Have you tried renaming the folder to perhaps swamp2 and see if it loads that way? Have you tried adding a single texture from the family?
Cavalorn on 7/3/2017 at 00:16
Quote Posted by Yandros
You aren't limited to GIF and PCX with NewDark anyway, PNG, DDS and TGA (which was also supported in OldDark) can also be used. Not to sound daft, but are you sure you're spelling the family name correctly and that they're in the right folder? Have you tried renaming the folder to perhaps swamp2 and see if it loads that way? Have you tried adding a single texture from the family?
Yes, I tried everything but nothing seemed to fix it. I had some other texture families which I didn't use, and I have no problem loading them into the mission. The files and folders are all correct, so I've got no clue what's wrong it.
Unna Oertdottir on 7/3/2017 at 13:14
Maybe to many textures/familes? Compress the textures and try again.
Cavalorn on 7/3/2017 at 13:22
Quote Posted by Unna Oertdottir
Maybe to many textures/familes? Compress the textures and try again.
I have like 10 textures or so in use at this point, and I am compressing all the time.
This is a very weird problem. I can use most of the custom textures I previously had, but not the ones I would like to get right now. And I am doing everything in the same way I always did. I was beginning to think maybe a reinstall would solve this problem, but I have no desire to do that bothersome process all over again when I am halfway through building this mission. Maybe I will have to stick to those textures that I already have...
john9818a on 7/3/2017 at 14:21
I know this might be a silly question but do you have more than one installation of Thief? Are you copying them to the same fam folder in the installation you are using?
Unna Oertdottir on 7/3/2017 at 14:55
Maybe it's already in the archtetypes and you forgot about it
type
purge_missing_objs
and reload your texture family (swamp or whatever)
press F5-->Textures
in the DromEd search field type
*mytexturename
and search for it
Cavalorn on 7/3/2017 at 16:54
Quote Posted by john9818a
I know this might be a silly question but do you have more than one installation of Thief? Are you copying them to the same fam folder in the installation you are using?
I actually have 3 installations. One on Steam, one separate Thief2, and one for Dromed. I went to double check the thing with different installations, and I found the problem. Dromed was taking the textures from the /fam folder found in the Steam directory, and not the one in Thief2Drom.
I haven't been Dromeding for almost like 2 years, and it seems I completely forgot what was case with all these different installations. It seemed obvious to me that I've been using the textures from the Dromed installations, but apparently that wasn't the case. Both installations contained the same custom textures, so that's why I could use some of the textures that I already had. I feel really stupid right now, but at least the problem was found.
Thank you every one for trying to help me. Much appreciated!
