01-01-2011, 01:11 PM
Its not like its complicated, really just tedious since you have to go and pick out each individual texture. You'll probably want to dump directly from Dolphin since its more reliable.
Keep in mind though anyway you do this you'll have to have a decent computer since you'll have to play through the level you want to rip textures from in its entirety to make sure that every texture gets loaded and subsequently dumped. You'll also probably need a few GB of space on your HDD since you're dumping every texture that's loaded into the games memory, which is a lot as you might guess. The only big thing you want to watch out for are FMV's since Dolphin will try and dump every frame from them, wasting space and making things harder for you. To avoid that, you simply have to skip them.
To get this set up, all you'll have to do is go into your Graphics plugin settings in Dolphin, go to the advanced tab, and enable "Dump Textures". After that just play the game and they'll dump in .TGA format unless they've since changed it. Just make sure everything you can find in the level comes onscreen at least once so you can be sure to get the most complete rip possible. To find your textures after you've dumped them, just go to your Dolphin folder and then into \User\Dunp\Textures. From here, you'll find games sorted by their internal GameID. Obviously if you only ripped from one game it will be the only one here, but if you ever want to find that ID its rather simple. You just right click a game in Dolphin's Game List in the main window, select properties and then go to the info tab. The ID should be listed under, as you'd expect, Game ID.
Once you've dumped everything, you'll have to sort through by hand to find the textures you want and pick them out. I think its easier to delete old dumps and then make new ones so its easier to sort through, but its your choice really. And that's about it not much else to say here.
Keep in mind though anyway you do this you'll have to have a decent computer since you'll have to play through the level you want to rip textures from in its entirety to make sure that every texture gets loaded and subsequently dumped. You'll also probably need a few GB of space on your HDD since you're dumping every texture that's loaded into the games memory, which is a lot as you might guess. The only big thing you want to watch out for are FMV's since Dolphin will try and dump every frame from them, wasting space and making things harder for you. To avoid that, you simply have to skip them.
To get this set up, all you'll have to do is go into your Graphics plugin settings in Dolphin, go to the advanced tab, and enable "Dump Textures". After that just play the game and they'll dump in .TGA format unless they've since changed it. Just make sure everything you can find in the level comes onscreen at least once so you can be sure to get the most complete rip possible. To find your textures after you've dumped them, just go to your Dolphin folder and then into \User\Dunp\Textures. From here, you'll find games sorted by their internal GameID. Obviously if you only ripped from one game it will be the only one here, but if you ever want to find that ID its rather simple. You just right click a game in Dolphin's Game List in the main window, select properties and then go to the info tab. The ID should be listed under, as you'd expect, Game ID.
Once you've dumped everything, you'll have to sort through by hand to find the textures you want and pick them out. I think its easier to delete old dumps and then make new ones so its easier to sort through, but its your choice really. And that's about it not much else to say here.
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