a possible way to change map textures in bf2 ?

[sgtsev3n]

hello,

recently i tried to retexture a vanilla bf2 map (dalian plants) by turning it into a desert map, but i failed (the editor kinda sucks and is very complicated and very unsupported for newer systems), now my question is: is there a way to change the ground textures with the texteditor ?

i mean, is it somewhere in the mapfiles written which texture and ground materials it uses ? because it would be alot easier to replace the lines where the ground textures and materials are defined to change from example grass.dds to >desert.dds

[rPoXoTauJIo]

Yeah, just grab this, and put stuff from <mapfolder>/colormaps to PS properly.
Not sure how change materials through, they're probably coded in binaries.

the editor kinda sucks and is very complicated and very unsupported for newer systems

Not kinda, but it's sucks
Mostly because if you're gonna do mapping, you'll have to touch that poop.

[Ason]

Need hexeditor for materials (?). Or you can go into editor and paint a small area with new materials and resave textures + terraindata(not sure if it's necessary to paint, might work by just changing materials and resaving).

[sgtsev3n]

thanks guys, i will try painting it again before going to this step. my problem was that when i painted the desert textures, it didnt overdyed the grass texture, but it mixed it with the grass texture, so at the end it looked like grass with a mix of stone and desert color lol. i will go through the tutorials again

[Amok@ndy]

make sure you have selected Color + Detail on your brush settings