Can't Get Steam Allegiance Mods to Work

beeman · Post by **beeman** » Thu Jan 04, 2018 3:04 am

O.K. so I copied my old reticle "centeroutbmp.mdl" to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Allegiance\Artwork. I also copied the files for Thin Gauge that Paps showed me about halfway down the page here: index...80&start=80 to the same folder.

I went into a game I started on a server and the default HUD was there. Also, my reticle was wasn't showing up (o.k. dumb question, but I was targeting friendly miner, shouldn't it still show up?)

I'm wondering if the CORTUI integration changes the way the HUD files are accessed.

Any help would be ...well...helpful.
Thanks!

LANS · Post by **LANS** » Thu Jan 04, 2018 3:20 am

Did you try escape-o-h to cycle through the installed reticles?

Reticle won't show up for targeting friendly unless you have nan equipped and are in range.

beeman · Post by **beeman** » Fri Jan 05, 2018 12:29 am

LANS wrote:QUOTE (LANS @ Jan 3 2018, 09:20 PM) Did you try escape-o-h to cycle through the installed reticles?

Reticle won't show up for targeting friendly unless you have nan equipped and are in range.

escape-o-h cycled me through the installed HUDS. However, my "Thin Gauge" HUD is not there. I would think replacing the files to my artwork folder with "Thin Gague" files would have made the "Normal" HUD = "Thin Gauge" HUD.

Perhaps the "Normal" HUD files have been renamed or moved. The following is a list of files I replaced:
ammogauge2bmp.mdl
AmmoGaugebmp.mdl
centerhudleftbmp.mdl
centerhudrightbmp.mdl
energygauge2bmp.mdl
EnergyGaugebmp.mdl
fuelgauge2bmp.mdl
FuelGaugebmp.mdl
hudbracketleftbmp.mdl
hudbracketrightbmp.mdl
hullgauge2bmp.mdl
HullGaugebmp.mdl
shieldgauge2bmp.mdl
ShieldGaugebmp.mdl
thrustgauge2bmp.mdl
ThrustGaugebmp.mdl

Shouldn't replacing these in Artwork folder change the default HUD?

Also, I checked the nan training mission which I believe should display any mods made and my reticle is still the default.

Any thoughts?

Spinoza · Post by **Spinoza** » Fri Jan 05, 2018 1:19 pm

First, always put alternate textures in artwork/Textures/ (Capitalization matters), not overwriting /artwork/ files.
Secondly, ask again on the #Textures channels on Discord, nobody except me looks at the forum regularly.
I can't pay attention right now, I'll come by discord and help later.

TheRock · Post by **TheRock** » Fri Jan 05, 2018 6:36 pm

For the beta, the method of including textures has changed, though the old method still works.

index...showtopic=72637

beeman · Post by **beeman** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 10:21 pm

o.k. Beta Release worked! I like having the mod folder! Well done! I started messing with Thin Gauge but ended up liking Parci - never flew it before but it is nice! Only issue is Allegiance does not seem to remember it and defaults to "software" HUD when I start - but I can just set it in the lobby.

So now I am working on mapping my controls. BTW...I have always sucked, but when did they change the practice arena tutorial so that a bomber and bunch of scouts start dropping a @#(!load of prox and whore my a$$ rotten?! Well, I definitely need practice! Thanks again devs...nice work!

Oh, and I had one other issue that I thought was my old eyes, but am beginning to wonder...I have issues even at lower resolutions with the text in game. Loadout text is fine. Chat is so-so. But aleph names, ship names, and other text on the screen looks washed out and pixilated. May be my old Radeon graphics cards - but it should still be able to handle this old game. Am I really the only one that has this issue?