Sonic Heroes Retexture Project of sorts.

Yep, I went there. I started a project that retextures Sonic Heroes of sorts. Well, mostly the characters anyhow - my tool tends to corrupt most of the other files. I'll show some screenshots and comment on what's different now.

Team Sonic #1
What do we have here? Well, their colors are a little different and somehow, the texture responsible for the already overemphasised glossyness looks weird. And, even if you can't see it on Sonic, the eyes have been replaced with more detailed textures created by Kojichan on DeviantArt.
... I really need to rework their glossyness.

Team Dark #1
Same deal, basically - Shadow went from dark-gray and red to black and red (as he should be), Rouge's eye-color has been fixed, Shadow's and Rouge's eyes have been improved, Omega now looks far less pink-ish due to glossyness, and speaking of which, their glossyness seems to look okay.

Chaos Inferno #1
Oh, and they now have the purple Chaos Emerald in all it's glowiness with them.

Chaos Inferno #2
Oh, and Omega now fires a yellow-greenish laser blast instead.

Team Chaotix #1
Some more color changes, glossyness on Espio needs more work, Vector's belly is a lil' more detailed, I guess... And the eyes were upgraded again 8D

Team Rose #1
Amy seems a lil' bright. Oh well. Glossyness can probably be considered okay, considering the source-material. Eyes on Cream and Amy were improved, too. : D ... oh, and Big has his stripes back (for all those who don't know, a mistake in Big's texture in the PC-Version at least causes him to only have one-colored, purple fur instead of his two-colored, striped fur).

And now, for my proudest accomplishment so far... : D

And if any of the staff thinks this should be somewhere else on the board, be my guest and move it.

... also, keep "nothing's changed!" comments low, please. Take a look, compare to a regular, "no no-gloss-patch" version and... I dunno.

EDIT: First release. http://h.imagehost.org/download/0904/playmodel

 

I am not so sure if I wanna go for a no-gloss version just yet - they tend to look kinda jello-y to me that way. I'll just keep experimenting, I guess.

 

Partially, it is possible. I can make it so Omega looks like an actually metallic robot there by now, I guess. Espio's metal plates shouldn't be that much of a problem, either, I guess. But most characters just have either one universal gloss texture file (basically a shiny ball of light) that goes all over the place, OR the file isn't clearly identified in what it changes. ... course, maybe if I just colored them strongly so to have a hint at what they make glossy, I may be able to at least REDUCE the glossyness to some parts, like Big's belt's ring thingy.
tl;dr: It's very difficult, prolly impossible.

Thanks, I thought so, too. : D

Yeah... I still am experimenting with that. I kinda wish I could just get my hands on Shadow the Hedgehog's texture files - the models seem to be straightly ported, with modifications to the gloss, among other things, and it looks kinda toned down there.

Hey, do you think you could kindly find that one for me? I may have some ideas I may be getting from there (of course I wouldn't wanna steal or anything - just lookin' for ideas, mostly. ^^; )

Hey, say. Does anybody here know of a program that can correctly decompress the stage- and some other misc. textures? Whenever I try to do that, something is either missing or I get an Expansion Memory something error. D:

 

Hm, the general gloss looks interesting to say the least - gotta wait till I can access the "Heroes"-PC tomorrow, but, thanks already. That mighta given me an idea.

 

Now, if only they coulda ported and prettified the models from there. D: That'd make stuff look so much cooler, probably. Eh, whatever, gotta work with what I got.

Speaking of which, new screenshots tomorrow.

 

So, like, did the fur disappear in SA:DX, or what? Because I cannot remember an instance of non-glossy fur in there, and there just aren't good screenshots of SA on the net (at least not when I try to find them) to prove what ya say, Blanche.

 

To be honest, I don't see anything but a heavily compressed JPG that causes blocks to appear where the fur MAY be visible. And, as far as I can recall from the Tutorial-screens on SA:DX (Can't be assed to play the game now), they were just very plain textures there, too.