with a slight delay I finally finished the new version
lnk_reshuffle v4
what's new:
- updated to work with all versions
- likewise rewritten & updated mod loader (dinput8.dll). "One dll to rule them all", should work on all versions.
- there is now a 'revert' button to undo swaps (note: this also deletes the swapped file from the mod/ directory)
- reads out and displays the actual slot & costume composition
! costume composition for DLC files might be wrong as that gets overwritten by the bcm files which lnk_reshuffle doesn't parse
- likewise reads out and displays stage assets (*still incomplete*)
- allows to change costume composition (ie which files used for tmc/tmcl/--p/... etc), including the ability to extend & customize the HairStyle/Details options (limited to 8 per costume though)
! these changes are only possible for costumes from the base game. You still need to use DlcTool to make your custom DLC costumes
! it is possible to assign different --p files (thumbnails) to non-dlc costumes, however that will only work with unlocked DLC_* or DLCU_* costumes.
The thumbnails of the COS_* costumes seem to ignore the --p file for mysterious reasons.
- possibility to change/extend the hair & face slot list used for DLC content
- added basic parsing of all installed DLC packages, meaning they will be displayed and data can be extracted from them.
! However it is not possible to swap/replace or otherwise modify DLC content.(you still need DlcTool for that)
- probably also features new and exciting bugs
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regarding updating from the old version
to point out the obvious: you need to copy the new dinput8.dll into your DOA5 game folder and replace the old version.
The new one is compatible with the old one and should work with your previous mod.config
On your first launch lnk_reshuffle v4 will convert the mod.config to the new format (it makes a backup beforehand).
In theory that should all work without a problem.
The only thing to watch out for is that
tricks like that won't work any longer for a character after you changed the number of the hair/face slots for dlcs.
Don't be surprised when you don't find a button to actually bring new files into game (instead of replacing existing ones).
There isn't one. We still can't do that. What we can do is finding some content that the game doesn't actually uses and modify that for our purpose.
So let's say you want to add a new Hairstyle(hair.tmc,hair.tmcl) for character X:
- First you go to the AssetBrowser tab, select 'obsolete' from the filter drop down menu. These 700-ish files listed there are unused by the game (as far as I understand things), and therefore safe for us to use. (while I haven't tested all of them, I haven't seen any problems yet with the ones I used)
- just select one random file from the list, go to the right side and click 'pick file' to select your hair.tmc file.
- important: now before you click swap, click on the dropdown box next to 'Typ' and select 'tmc hair'. Then click swap to perform the exchange.
- select another file from the list, and do the same for the hair.tmcl file (this time select the type 'tmcl hair' obviously)
- now the new files are available in the game, we can actually assign them to a costume/character
- go to the costume browser, select character X, go to the DLC slots tab and click on the + to add a hair slot.
Then scroll down to the newly added hair option, select the empty line and hit the set button. This brings up a list of all possible hair TMC files in the game.
Select the one you just added and click confirm. repeat with the next line and the hair.tmcl file.
(you can type the name of the file in the entry at the top to narrow down the list. Or change the filter to 'swapped')
Now you can use that new hair slot when making your DLC packages with DlcTool. If you want to add the hair to the base costumes you can do that in the 'HairStyles' list in the 'Costumes' tab. Don't try and change any of the DLC costumes (blue) here. That won't work.
The same process can be used to add new faces, thumbnails or h,hl files to the games (just remember to change to file typ accordingly when swapping)
random thought: it occured to me that the tools name doesn't make any sense anymore since it doesn't actually changes any lnk files ..
hmm, oh well. no need to make sense all the time
