How to load and dump textures (rice video plugin up to 6.14) (noob friendly)

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heRosSHaDE
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I wanted to be useful on this site, and I made this a long time ago, so I decided to recycle it.

This is for people that really have no idea on what to do.

Loading the textures

Step 1
First you should download the setup for rice's video , which can be found 

Step 2
Once you have it installed, go to Options>graphical Settings>general options tab> un-check Hide Advance Settings. This will allow you to optimize the plugin to use your graphics card fully and will allow you to turn on the hires textures. (It usually runs fine when you leave the settings as it is on most computers, but all computers are different.) Also turn on display tooltips, which will give you tips on which settings to use for each graphics card, but usually you won't have to worry about this.

Step 3
Then go to the texture enhancement tab and check off the load hi-res texture if available check box. You're halfdone!

Step 4
Now lets say that you downloaded one of the retexture packs. First you would open the archive file, then you have a whole bunch of these random pictures with weird names. Well, these are the textures from the game, the name is what the plugin looks for to replace the texture.

Step 5
So now that you have extracted them, you have to make a folder for it , as for a MM retexture would be ZELDA MAJORA'S MASK, or a Oot retexture would be THE LEGEND OF ZELDA, or A Super Mario 64 retexture would be SUPER MARIO 64. Note that the folders name has to be the same name as it says on the window caption, like if you were playing super smash bros the folder name and the window caption would = SMASH BROTHERS. After you make the folder, just copy the textures in there , and copy this folder to Plugin > hires texture> corresponding game.

Dumping the textures

Now that you have seen how much fun it is, and would like to take a crack at making your own textures, you have to dump the textures. It is just basically taking the textures as they are in use in the game and just saving them outside the game. To dump textures, just go  Options>graphical Settings>texture enhancement tab> then check the dump textures to files box. The folder will just make itself and the folder is in Plugin >texture_dump> corresponding game.

Tips when retexturing
-Interact with everything you can find, this is how you can dump textures that you haven't dumped yet.
-Yes you do have to play out the whole game to get all the textures, unless someone has already done a compelete pack of the game that you are retexturing, then you can use their pack (For example Dipji's Oot cell shaded pack).
-Do NOT use ms paint, it doesn't support transparency and just is not fit for proper retextures. I would suggest Paint.net or The Gimp or another free program if you can't get Photoshop (which I would recommend getting).
-Do not use someones textures and call it your own, give them credit. Lets just say, if you don't, your bound to get flamed or ripped apart.

Links
Paint.net=http://www.getpaint.net/download.html
The Gimp=http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

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ReplayTy13
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Of course, instructions can

Of course, instructions can also be found at

http://www.freewebs.com/jantarctica/texturepacks.htm

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mode7
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 This is a nice tutorial, I

 This is a nice tutorial, I will add it in the tutorials section, of course with proper credit