Hi. Nice to hear you again. Cool. 

Gotta check your archive. (never know you had one ). 

Is it just me or are a lot of the files are corrupted and black when you open them.

16 hours ago, demonv1 said:

Is it just me or are a lot of the files are corrupted and black when you open them.

PNGs that are less than 1 KB in size are dummy files necessary to load their DDS replacements.

6 minutes ago, Cold Irony said:

PNGs that are less than 1 KB in size are dummy files necessary to load their DDS replacements.

How does that work? Does Hook5 always look for dds replacement?

I'm mostly talking about some of the dds are full size but black when I open them.

Some them are fine but some are like this:

@demonv1 yes, it automatically renders the DSS texture instead of PNG if it has the same name and path (it doesn't have to be in PNG, could be anything the game loads, such as JP2). the catch is that DDS texture needs to be vertically flipped, because H5 flips it again when rendering. another way to load a DDS is to specify it as diffuse override (see Hook5 instructions for details) in the pass file – then the specular map needs to be flipped instead.

you may need Intel Texture Works plugin to properly open DDS textures that use modern compression methods. if it's actually corrupted, I can't do anything about it, I don't have the original files anymore.

58 minutes ago, Cold Irony said:

@demonv1 yes, it automatically renders the DSS texture instead of PNG if it has the same name and path (it doesn't have to be in PNG, could be anything the game loads, such as JP2). the catch is that DDS texture needs to be vertically flipped, because H5 flips it again when rendering. another way to load a DDS is to specify it as diffuse override (see Hook5 instructions for details) in the pass file – then the specular map needs to be flipped instead.

you may need Intel Texture Works plugin to properly open DDS textures that use modern compression methods. if it's actually corrupted, I can't do anything about it, I don't have the original files anymore.

Ah okay its working now I just needed that plugin. I only had nvidia plugin.

It is upside-down like you said. Very interesting. Thanks for the help.

Thanks a lot Cold Irony for sharing We have all a lot of unfinished projects

You made some impressive work! I hope life keeps going better and better for you, and hopefully someone skilled enough will carry on the work you leave behind! In the meantime, Godspeed!