hello, please help me, I'm a beginner and I couldn't find where to paste this downloaded file.Also, do I need other programs? i don't know my computer has just been cleaned i don't have utilities
This may seem offtopic, but it is something many of you modding Victor Vran should know by now. If not, here goes.
Learn the internal directory structures of all of the HPK files, for replacer mod purposes.
You do NOT need to create an HPK file to make an audio replacer mod to work for Victor Vran. Texture replacer mods for Victor Vran are much more complicated and I have made a note below.
This is especially great for music track replacer modding. I extracted Music.hpk, reproduced the directory structure inside of \Victor Vran root directory, added a theme music track using the exact same name as the vanilla version, and dropped it into the proper directory, copied the entire directory into \Victror vran, launched the game, and sure enough, the main theme I had replaced, was indeed replaced.
Sounds also do not have any associated LUA scripting to them, so any sound replacer mods, will be super easy. I will look at the sounds in more detail, since I am going to be changing a good chunk of those myself.
As for textures, they are a more complex beast. Victor Vran uses a Texture Atlas for its textures associated to meshes. There is LUA script associated with every texture in the form of a BIN file inside of each directory, enumerating the actual DDS image according to the position it resides on the Texture Atlas itself. I have not tested trying to replace a single texture yet, but I will attempt to do so. Thankfully, Victor Vran does use DDS files. My simple test will be to select a random DDS texture, make note of the directory it sits in, change the texture, copy the texture with proper directory structure into \Victor Vran\, and see what happens. We may still be lucky to be able to alter vanilla textures and not have to add any LUA scripting to it. I only wonder about file size CRC issues.
That is all I have for you all for now. Have fun modding Victor Vran. It is an interesting platform to mod, with a lot of things not being as difficult as once thought.
Hey LukeH I've been following your utils since tropico 5 days, but I was never able to extract and unserialize(?) Victor Vran luas cleanly for editing without file corruption. I couldn't get "unluac" or "luadec" to work. Something in the file format changed after the Motorhead release. Could you show me how to do that now if you've worked more on it?
edit: I confused you with nickelc but the question still applies
I believe you are confusing me or something. I did not mod on tropico and didn't worked on unluac or luadec. To decompile the files look at https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1960624324 and use the unluac version from there. Look me up on discord if you interested in modding VV
downloaded the latest version of the archive from github with manager and mods the console does not appear and cavalier's outfit without changes gog game version
Can you send me the log? on steam version and probably gog too should be in C:\Users\[Your user]\AppData\Roaming\Victor Vran\Logs Also a screenshot maybe of the folder where you placed those files
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Drop the "lh_modmanager" into DLC folder. Path example (for my steam version):
\Steam\steamapps\common\Victor Vran\DLC
And you don't need nothing else.
Learn the internal directory structures of all of the HPK files, for replacer mod purposes.
You do NOT need to create an HPK file to make an audio replacer mod to work for Victor Vran. Texture replacer mods for Victor Vran are much more complicated and I have made a note below.
This is especially great for music track replacer modding. I extracted Music.hpk, reproduced the directory structure inside of \Victor Vran root directory, added a theme music track using the exact same name as the vanilla version, and dropped it into the proper directory, copied the entire directory into \Victror vran, launched the game, and sure enough, the main theme I had replaced, was indeed replaced.
Sounds also do not have any associated LUA scripting to them, so any sound replacer mods, will be super easy. I will look at the sounds in more detail, since I am going to be changing a good chunk of those myself.
As for textures, they are a more complex beast. Victor Vran uses a Texture Atlas for its textures associated to meshes. There is LUA script associated with every texture in the form of a BIN file inside of each directory, enumerating the actual DDS image according to the position it resides on the Texture Atlas itself. I have not tested trying to replace a single texture yet, but I will attempt to do so. Thankfully, Victor Vran does use DDS files. My simple test will be to select a random DDS texture, make note of the directory it sits in, change the texture, copy the texture with proper directory structure into \Victor Vran\, and see what happens. We may still be lucky to be able to alter vanilla textures and not have to add any LUA scripting to it. I only wonder about file size CRC issues.
That is all I have for you all for now. Have fun modding Victor Vran. It is an interesting platform to mod, with a lot of things not being as difficult as once thought.
edit: I confused you with nickelc but the question still applies
To decompile the files look at https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1960624324 and use the unluac version from there.
Look me up on discord if you interested in modding VV
the console does not appear and cavalier's outfit without changes
gog game version
Also a screenshot maybe of the folder where you placed those files