Velious Textures

[Shurid]

Anyone else as excited as I am for Velious textures.... /drool

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/6439/darkelfxd.jpg

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/1207/monkb.jpg

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/6629/iksar.jpg

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/231/barbarian.jpg

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/9173/dwarfx.jpg

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/1051/erudite.jpg

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/5003/gnomeb.jpg

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/4931/halfelfv.jpg

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/9752/halfing.jpg

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/2705/highelf.jpg

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/2264/ogrey.jpg

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/7671/trollhi.jpg

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/9397/woodelf.jpg

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/4378/humann.jpg

[Omnimorph]

Nice post, velious textures were badass.

Although i believe we'll be waiting quite a while for them :p

[Shurid]

I remember having a pimp looking half-elf bard with the velious textures. Then one day post Luclin I logged in to see the UGLIEST son of a b*tch to walk Norrath... Good thing P99 will never push Luclin onto us.

[Zordana]

awesome post!!

[Tsuken]

wow that are some terrible looking plate helmets

[Omnimorph]

wow that are some terrible looking plate helmets

some are... custom human helms, custom dark elf helms were awesome.

I remember having a custom cowl of mortality just for my ench so he could look like spiderman :p

[Erasong]

always liked the plate wood elf female helm too. Helm of the tracker was awesome just for that graphic on a ranger.

[Elleve]

Helm of the tracker for half elves was awesome, banana helm ftw!

[Bones]

hehe gnome plate helm always makes me laugh.

[Zephys]

I remember having a pimp looking half-elf bard with the velious textures. Then one day post Luclin I logged in to see the UGLIEST son of a b*tch to walk Norrath... Good thing P99 will never push Luclin onto us.

Not adding luclin is what this server's all about.

[Shurid]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v682/Sullust/oldschool1.jpg

Banana helm lol :p

[Xumosa]

lol i forgot about these textures..sigh after seeing the female wood elf vr the male wood elf helm almost makes me want to reroll...why is the male one so ugly!!! QQ

[Zithax]

I have got these working on my EQemu client, but only seen them in action on the EZ server. I thought planar classic armor was velious textured?

[Skaff]

I have got these working on my EQemu client, but only seen them in action on the EZ server. I thought planar classic armor was velious textured?

Naw... they were all dyed based off the class they were for. However all the planer/dragon/giant type quest armor was unique within Velious. Some of that stuff was crazy sexy.

[taamas]

My half elf bard's Twilight set was the best looking set of gear I've ever had, on any MMO. Yes, even with the dildo helm hehe. Velious was such a great expansion!

[toddfx]

I forgot about these textures too. Personally, I will always prefer the good old originals. It's what I grew up with, so everything else just feels foreign.

[Nano]

It's possible to modify the client textures so velious textures appear on classic armor. There is a program called S3dspy that lets you extract/import files into the client .s3d files. The classic armors are stored in the file "global_chr.s3d", the velious armors are stored under "global17_amr.s3d" through "global23_amr.s3d". The textures are .bmps with indexed palettes.

I'm playing around with this a little bit right now. If I'm successful, I'll see if I can post a guide on the procedure.

[Spud]

I just like these textures because it adds more variety to the original models. I love the classic eq models.

some of the helms are questionable lol

[Shurid]

When Velious is released many moons from now I believe you can modify your eqclient.ini file with this info:

AllLuclinPcModelsOff=FALSE

LoadVeliousArmorsWithLuclin=TRUE

LoadArmor17=TRUE
LoadArmor18=TRUE
LoadArmor19=TRUE
LoadArmor20=TRUE
LoadArmor21=TRUE
LoadArmor22=TRUE
LoadArmor23=TRUE

[Nano]

Ok looks like this worked. I'm attaching a .bat file to help with renaming.

1) Backup your "global_chr.s3d" file
2) Download S3dspy from here (http://sourceforge.net/projects/eqemulator/files/OpenZone/S3DSpy%201.3/S3DSpy_1.3.zip/download)
3) Download the .bat file attached to this post
4) Create a temporary folder anywhere (your desktop), call it "vel2cls"
4) Run S3dspy, set your everquest folder in the program.
5) On the left side, select the file "global20_amr.s3d"
6) On the right side, select all the .bmp files
7) Click "extract"
8) Repeat steps 5-7 for the files "global21_amr.s3d" to "global23_amr.s3d"
9) The textures were dumped to your everquest folder, go there and set your windows explorer view to "details" and sort by date modified descending. This will place your most recently modified files at the top.
10) Select all the recently created .bmp files, there should be about 911 of them.
11) Move all the .bmp files to your temp "vel2cls" folder (Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V)
12) Extract the attached .bat file into the temp folder
13) Run the "vel2cls.bat" bat file
14) Switch back to S3dspy, select the file "global_chr.s3d" on the left
15) Click "Add", select all the bmps in your temp "vel2cls" folder
16) You will get a confirmation prompt to ovewrite each existing bmp file, hold down your Y key until the prompts all go away
17) Your done! All leather, mail, plate, and monk outfits now have velious textures.

If you want to revert back simply rename your existing "global_chr.s3d" file and restore your backup.

[Nano]

Just a little note, the procedure above did not seem to work on barbarians and iksar (not that there are iksar on here yet anyways). The reason being is there is an addition file with barbarian and iksar textures that needs to be changed, "global4_chr.s3d".

- Backup "global4_chr.s3d"
- Open S3dspy and select "global4_chr.s3d" on the left
- Click "Add"
- Select all bmps in your temp "vel2cls" folder that start with "ba" and "ik" (ba???????.bmp, ik???????.bmp)
- Hold Y down through the overwrite prompts
- That should get the barbarian and iksar textures

[BuzWeaver]

Those are pretty cool.

[nalkin]

Wow the velious armors look awful imo. The helmets are ridiculous.

[Hathes]

for sake of the simplicity or lazy people, could someone please just upload the finished file on rapidshare or something please?

thanks

*edit*
i did it myself, all velious models including iksar and babarian: just download and enjoy

http://rapidshare.com/files/378728928/VeliousTextures.zip.html

Thanks to Nano for his awesome guide!

[PearlJammzz]

Aren't the Velious textures only supposed to show up on Velious items? Or does it replace all the items? For example does my normal crafted banded armor show up as the better looking Velious texture when Velious is released or are only chain drops from Velious supposed to look different?

[grindle]

I already have this as the default textures for all my armors . I downloaded it ages ago on another forum and i love it . I have the old models turned on even on the servers that support the new models and these rock :)

[guineapig]

for sake of the simplicity or lazy people, could someone please just upload the finished file on rapidshare or something please?

thanks

*edit*
i did it myself, all velious models including iksar and babarian: just download and enjoy

http://rapidshare.com/files/378728928/VeliousTextures.zip.html

Thanks to Nano for his awesome guide!


Will give this a shot but first I would like to BUMP this question:


Aren't the Velious textures only supposed to show up on Velious items? Or does it replace all the items? For example does my normal crafted banded armor show up as the better looking Velious texture when Velious is released or are only chain drops from Velious supposed to look different?

It would be perfect if there would be a good mix of classic and Velious textures as opposed to all of one or the other.

[Omnimorph]

Aren't the Velious textures only supposed to show up on Velious items? Or does it replace all the items? For example does my normal crafted banded armor show up as the better looking Velious texture when Velious is released or are only chain drops from Velious supposed to look different?

Only on types of velious armour. Like ry'gorr, and the quest armours.

The human monk armour looks badass with white robe thingies... also summons shurikens on the bracers... <3

[Yoite]

this is awesome! thx nano and hathes

[Ghaz]

can you post the file on rapidshare again? It's saying the file can only be shared 10 times or some crap. Thanks

[Kuron]

I absolutely LOVE the custom Dwarf helm. Had me a Custom Champion's Crown on live back in the day. My Dwarf Warrior wore it proudly. Somehow the ludicrous model summed up the practical joke that was warriors nicely.

I went from "run of the mill tank" to "garbage can with fake beard stapled to it".

[Kainzo]

Can someone repost the file on Mediafire.com ? it doesnt have those sharing limitations.

[lumin]

I tried adding the textures the long way, using S3dspy following the instructions on page 2. I don't see any difference though. My cloth armor should look different now right?

A clearer tutorial should be posted on how to do this properly.

[Savok]

I updated the files and have uploaded them for anyone to download as needed:

Velious (http://home.comcast.net/~savok/project99/global_velious.zip) textures

Classic (http://home.comcast.net/~savok/project99/global_classic.zip) textures

Just unzip whichever you need (velious or revert back to classic) and place into your Everquest folder.

[Savok]

For some reason my upload stopped halfway through today. I just finished uploading both files again.

[Kainzo]

Thanks Savok.

[Kuron]

Oh baby!

http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/6788/78311562.jpg

[PearlJammzz]

Oh baby!

http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/6788/78311562.jpg

Mmmmm, puffy nipples = hotness! lol

http://www.funnyhype.com/files/funny-pictures/2010/spok-girl.jpg

[Zithax]

BUMP. Mods should sticky this thread.

[Desert]

or at least sticky the vulcan

[Shurid]

I updated the files and have uploaded them for anyone to download as needed:

Velious (http://home.comcast.net/~savok/project99/global_velious.zip) textures

Classic (http://home.comcast.net/~savok/project99/global_classic.zip) textures

Just unzip whichever you need (velious or revert back to classic) and place into your Everquest folder.


You've over simplified this transition to new textures.

You sir... are not classic.

[lumin]

I updated the files and have uploaded them for anyone to download as needed:

Velious (http://home.comcast.net/~savok/project99/global_velious.zip) textures

Classic (http://home.comcast.net/~savok/project99/global_classic.zip) textures

Just unzip whichever you need (velious or revert back to classic) and place into your Everquest folder.

I'm still not sure I get this. I copied the contents of the Velious zip into my EQ directory, but I still see the old textures. I have a level 6 Half Elf wearing cloth and I still see the crappy old green starting cloth on my character.

In other words, he still looks like this guy (http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/1992/1243672-race_halfelf2_super.jpg), not like this guy (on the bottom right) (http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/4931/halfelfv.jpg).

So what the heck am I doing wrong?

[guineapig]

or at least sticky the vulcan

I'll sticky that Vulcan.... just kidding :p

[Auvdar]

Curious, but is it possible to get the helmet graphics? Everything show with SoV textures, but helmets remain unchanged.

[Webwolf]

Is there a way to go one step further and make regular helms look like custom helms?

[Nocte]

I updated the files and have uploaded them for anyone to download as needed:

Velious (http://home.comcast.net/~savok/project99/global_velious.zip) textures

Classic (http://home.comcast.net/~savok/project99/global_classic.zip) textures

Just unzip whichever you need (velious or revert back to classic) and place into your Everquest folder.

I've done this about half a dozen times and I see no change in my armor appearances. I have yet to see a single velious texture on anyone.

Help?

[Bumamgar]

Make sure LoadVeliousArmor=TRUE in your eqclient.ini

[Nocte]

Make sure LoadVeliousArmor=TRUE in your eqclient.ini

Already done. Still no Velious textures. Other suggestions?

[Auvdar]

Bumping on seeing if helms can be changed to custom or not. (Kinda doubting it though)

[Shurid]

I've done this about half a dozen times and I see no change in my armor appearances. I have yet to see a single velious texture on anyone.

Help?

I know you said you tried loadvelious armors = true but did you do this whole thing?

AllLuclinPcModelsOff=FALSE

LoadVeliousArmorsWithLuclin=TRUE

LoadArmor17=TRUE
LoadArmor18=TRUE
LoadArmor19=TRUE
LoadArmor20=TRUE
LoadArmor21=TRUE
LoadArmor22=TRUE
LoadArmor23=TRUE

[Omnimorph]

Leave velious armours till velious!

[Alleusion]

I started playing originally in velious....but I don't remember seeing those graphics. I guess because I was still in my 20's when Luclin came out, those are what I'm most used to seeing.

I do remember getting a really cool multicoloured robe (pre-Luclin) during a Halloween GM event and people kept asking me to put it up in trade so they could see the stats, but it was no drop. One person on the boat didn't believe me and wanted to argue about it. Man I loved that robe.

[lumin]

I know you said you tried loadvelious armors = true but did you do this whole thing?

AllLuclinPcModelsOff=FALSE

LoadVeliousArmorsWithLuclin=TRUE

LoadArmor17=TRUE
LoadArmor18=TRUE
LoadArmor19=TRUE
LoadArmor20=TRUE
LoadArmor21=TRUE
LoadArmor22=TRUE
LoadArmor23=TRUE

I've done all of this. Still no Velious textures.

Everyone disregard this thread, it's completely bogus.

[Asmodean]

Works on my sk.

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/1753/skarmorz.th.jpg (http://img15.imageshack.us/i/skarmorz.jpg/)

Uploaded with ImageShack.us (http://imageshack.us)

[Omnimorph]

I remember velious armour textures only being visible for velious amour? Ie - netted kelp, ry'gorr etc etc

looking at that, maybe it did work with classic textures... never knew that.

[Dantes]

Leave velious armours till velious!

Agreed.

[Nocte]

I know you said you tried loadvelious armors = true but did you do this whole thing?

AllLuclinPcModelsOff=FALSE

LoadVeliousArmorsWithLuclin=TRUE

LoadArmor17=TRUE
LoadArmor18=TRUE
LoadArmor19=TRUE
LoadArmor20=TRUE
LoadArmor21=TRUE
LoadArmor22=TRUE
LoadArmor23=TRUE

Tried it both ways. Still nothing :(

[ShadowWulf]

Confirmed working, simply put if you haven't figured it out you're doing it wrong.
Took 3 minutes.
Now for character models......

http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/6109/cuddlesz.png

[Reiker]

Okay, this snippit here:

LoadVeliousArmorsWithLuclin=TRUE

This was sort of... I don't know what to call it, a "test" configuration. Once they implemented the new Luclin models, or maybe it was shortly after they went live, you could actually get the Velious armor textures with them. The only way to do this was to adjust this line in the config ini. Some time after though, this broke and you could never get Velious textures on the new player models again.

Oh man, I was going to link my favorite Velious armor textures, but it seems like the Allakhazam fashion table page finally went defunct? Unless I'm doing something wrong, that's very sad.

Woulda been the Iksar Velious Tizmak/Ulthork Hide armor btw. Looked like fucking baller platemail on Iksars.

[Reiker]

Also! Velious textures should only apply to armor obtained from Velious. Unless there's something wonky going on with P99.

Edit: Nm I read the topic, custom process to inject the velious graphics into classic armor.

[ShadowWulf]

Also! Velious textures should only apply to armor obtained from Velious. Unless there's something wonky going on with P99.

Im wearing the chain from Unrest in that pic.
Everything has nicer armor textures now, chain, plate, everything though im not sure about cloth. Im sitting in Sols Eye and its looks good to me.

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/5982/cuddles2.png

[Maldarian]

Since the download links didn't work anymore I did the manual setup except I left out the velious monk armor graphics (I mean really.. the classic looks better imho) anyway..

I uploaded it here for
you guys!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=K34DPFFA

[Harmonicdeth]

I am so hopping on this when I get home from work, that looks awesome.

I loved my Bards custom helm, and his Kael armor.

[fuji]

I remember having a pimp looking half-elf bard with the velious textures. Then one day post Luclin I logged in to see the UGLIEST son of a b*tch to walk Norrath... Good thing P99 will never push Luclin onto us.

Same. I had a manna robe for my wiz which had its own style and casters knew it was the shit. Then I logged into luclin and my robe looked like ugly piss.

[Savok]

In my effort to clean house I deleted too many files. Should be back up now!

[ScorchinBlaze]

Thought I'd bump this back up for viewing pleasure.

[godbox]

oh man shams better get the platemail helms I will literally die if my ogre sham cant get that craze totem pole helm going on I dont care if its an item with -100 to all stats and res I will never take it off

Also for got about the bone hockey mask for trolls now I know what race ima make my warrior alt.

[Alukit Vassago]

some look awesome, but i love my DE plate helm from classic, i don't know i love the skull helm xD

[MaksimMazor]

can this be done? i tried to paste the text into my .ini file and nothing happened. :(

[Ironboss]

yummy

[Reiker000]

I have got these working on my EQemu client, but only seen them in action on the EZ server. I thought planar classic armor was velious textured?

I remember having Velious armor textures on my elemental shaman armor. I know that contradicts what I posted here years ago but I was just re-reading and remembered that.

oh man shams better get the platemail helms I will literally die if my ogre sham cant get that craze totem pole helm going on I dont care if its an item with -100 to all stats and res I will never take it off

Also for got about the bone hockey mask for trolls now I know what race ima make my warrior alt.

Fortunately, you can get the velious helm on your Shaman.

Unfortunately, you need this (http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=2612) afaik. Drops from Zlandicar and it's fairly rare.

I don't think the "standard" class Velious quest chain helmets have the custom textures, but I could be wrong. Honestly never really messed with most of that armor amongst all my Velious raiding. I may have had some random PoG drops, but they were pretty bad and I mostly used dropped gear.

[Dantes]

some look awesome, but i love my DE plate helm from classic, i don't know i love the skull helm xD

Yup, skull helm ftw! The Velious DE helm is just awful.

[Hawala]

Can someone upload this? The download links are broken.

[Savok]

Can someone upload this? The download links are broken.


Sure:

Velious (http://savok.ueuo.com/vert/project99/global_velious.zip)
Classic (http://savok.ueuo.com/vert/project99/global_classic.zip)

[gortimer]

no links work =/

[Stinkum]

Something just isn't right about forcing Velious armor textures before Velious is even out.

[brybear]

Rebump, I'd like these as well

[brybear]

Did anyone figure out how to port over velious helmets? I found them within the gequip2.s3d for example it629crest.bmp resembles part of the velious human plate. I can't seem to find where the original human plate is coming from to replace it, or if it even has the same number of textures associated with it.

I also was able to figure out which file/name corresponded to which armor set. Each follows a simple pattern. For example: ragbotxnu. ra = the two letter race shorthand. g = the one letter gender shorthand, bo = the two letter body part shorthand, tx = the two digit corresponding texture ("sk" if just the base 'naked' skin for Luclin as opposed to a number), and nu = the two digit piece number. For example the female dark elf base chest texture for texture 13 would be dafch1303.dds. Each body part is as follows:

ch = chest
fa = forearm
ft = foot
he = head (Note this includes EVERY face texture for that race)
hn = hand
lg = leg
ua = upper arm

Last, here is the corresponding armor type:
global23_amr.s3d = monk
global22_amr.s3d = plate
global21_amr.s3d = chain
global20_amr.s3d = leather

Most info taken from link below and my own toying with it: http://www.peqtgc.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9313&p=60303&hilit=s3dspy#p60303