Relto Bookshelf books texture swap?

[Quintus]

Hey guys, I wanted to know if there was any way to use my own custom book cover texture for my age book on my relto bookshelf? I don't like that all imported ages get the same generic 'hood book cover texture. Any idea how to change these and if so, will other people be able to view it if/when they download my age?

[Shoggoth]

I would be interested to know this as well. Anybody?

[diafero]

In theory, it is possible - basically, everything which is in the prps can be changed. However, you would have to change Relto and manually re-texture the books, which would of course mean it conflicts with every other Relto PRP change (like the ones contained in my Offline KI or everyone else changing book textures). I have no clue how one would actually start doing it, and it is for sure much more complicated than writing an age.

[Trylon]

Actually, you'd need to swap a single relto texture file.....

[diafero]

Well, if you wanted to use that file, you'd have to change the UV mapping, which might be harder than to completely retexture stuff, but that's just a guess.

[Quintus]

my question was more about making other people who download my age see the special book texture in THEIR relto. If not then it isnt worth it.

[Trylon]

Ah, yeah that would be hard - you see, there is one texture file in relto for all books - I can't recall it's name right now - and all books used by ULM or UAM are mapped to the same texture as the neighborhood.
Technically, you could use libPlasma and the prc tools to make one or more of those books link to another texture file in which the neighborhood books have a different texture.
That was planned for ULM 2.0, but that project never really got off the ground, and is a bit obsolete with MOUL open source coming now.

Sorry. It'd be a great idea if it'd been easily possible though.

[Lontahv]

If I were going to have it custom I'd have the texture for the books be a dynamic texture and have it hooked up to a image stored in the vault.

[GPNMilano]

If I were going to have it custom I'd have the texture for the books be a dynamic texture and have it hooked up to a image stored in the vault.

Funny you should mention that Lontahv, earlier when this subject came up i wrestled with the idea of doing just that. Since my branch of PyPRP has DynamicTextureMap functionality I may experiment with this to see how feasible it would be with starting from scratch, then work may way to seeing if we can't edit the relto bookshelf to do the same.

[diafero]

I also thought about that, it would be the best solution - no more manual texture swapping . Perhaps Dustin can help here as he already created the DynamicTextureMap for the linking panels in the Offline KI.