Thank you so much for this mod. Whereas most people don't care about minor details like this, it's nice knowing someone out there has taken time to do something like this. Would it be possible to make a similar mod for the base Far Cry 3 game, or even Far Cry 2?
I know this is like 4 years later but I am attempting to figure out how to do something like this for Far Cry 2. Just trying to figure out which files need to be edited to change the controller icons then I can begin on it.
EDIT: Looks like I found the controller icons in the files. I will begin working on this now.
So upon further inspection, trial and error, I came to the conclusion that this is not easily possible for Far Cry 2 unfortunately. I closely followed this guide on Far Cry 2 modding to edit everything until I hit a roadblock that couldn't be avoided. The reason is that the PC version still shows the prompts for keyboard controls even when a controller is connected. Even in the settings menu in the control settings it only shows the bindings for keyboard controls. With this said however, it does still recognize controller input as you can see from this guide I found, but you kinda just gotta guess and hope you have the right buttons. It's kind of hit or miss I guess.
Anyway while this is the case, I think maybe it could be possible to trick the game to think it's the controller edition to show the controller prompts, but I don't know and I feel this would involve reverse engineering and some other stuff that is beyond my abilities. WIth that said I am uploading what I came up with because I did the work so if someone can make it actually functional, more power to them.
These are the files I came up with they are **NOT FUNCTIONAL** as I believe I was editing the xbox 360 files but I don't know for sure. You can check them out here on mediafire
There are 2 zips, one has the raw dds files (converted using RunGUI from this post?). As well as the one that has the repacked common.dat and common.fat files with the xbt files that were converted back from dds after they were edited. To repack I used the tools in this mod here (which seemed to be hidden on nexus so I linked to moddb - hopefully not an issue). The xbt files that I edited are located in "repack" zip at the the extracted `common.dat` file folder structure at `common\ui\textures\360`
Anyway sorry for the bad news, but the good thing is this let me get familiar with Far Cry modding, and my next task is going to be to improve the existing Far Cry 3 Playstation Controller Mod with some better textures in my own mod (of course crediting the original author for the work they did though).
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EDIT: Looks like I found the controller icons in the files. I will begin working on this now.
Anyway while this is the case, I think maybe it could be possible to trick the game to think it's the controller edition to show the controller prompts, but I don't know and I feel this would involve reverse engineering and some other stuff that is beyond my abilities. WIth that said I am uploading what I came up with because I did the work so if someone can make it actually functional, more power to them.
These are the files I came up with they are **NOT FUNCTIONAL** as I believe I was editing the xbox 360 files but I don't know for sure. You can check them out here on mediafire
There are 2 zips, one has the raw dds files (converted using RunGUI from this post?). As well as the one that has the repacked common.dat and common.fat files with the xbt files that were converted back from dds after they were edited. To repack I used the tools in this mod here (which seemed to be hidden on nexus so I linked to moddb - hopefully not an issue). The xbt files that I edited are located in "repack" zip at the the extracted `common.dat` file folder structure at `common\ui\textures\360`
Anyway sorry for the bad news, but the good thing is this let me get familiar with Far Cry modding, and my next task is going to be to improve the existing Far Cry 3 Playstation Controller Mod with some better textures in my own mod (of course crediting the original author for the work they did though).
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