Invisible Modded Tattoos

Uziel6545

Uziel6545

Alrighty, I have been having difficulty getting a customised tattoo to appear... literally.

I have edited the "Touch of Everything" tattoo in GIMP 2.8 from the following file;
tattoo_Rarm_8_.str2_pc
within
customize_player.vpp_pc

What was a coloured guru tattoo is now a black tribal pattern (if anybody has seen Black Lagoon - it is Revy's Tattoo) the problem is that when playing the game the tattoo is blank. No errors at any stage, no crashes either.

My thoughts from some very limited past experience is that the shade of black is not recognised by the game and appears blank, to try to get around this I copied the white shade off of the other tribal tattoo Rarm_3 and used that instead. Repacked and retried... and still blank, so now I am out of ideas.

I have tried to keep this brief so I will happily give further info/pics as needed.

Any assistance shall be gladly recieved. Thy reward, much good Karma.
 
Man oh man, must have fallen off the derp tree and hit all the branches on the way down...
Yep, that worked, thanks for being patient with teh n00b.

Just as an aside I will include my own batch code and explanation for step 3 as an additional example in case anybody else reading this wants it. I will admit it is an indulgence on my part but, when I read 3rd step on the guide I completely misinterpreted it, which led to temporary InSaNItY.

"3. Repack the str2_pc file and update the asm_pc file that relates to it.

To do this a batch file needs to be created in notepad, it is easiest to create and run this in the same folder as the gibbed tools and the edited files. I'm going to use tattoo_Rarm_8.str2_pc and customize_player.asm_pc as an example, both are located in customize_player.vpp_pc.
Your batch file (and notes for usage on the REM lines - very important) would look like this:
Code: 
REM **Gibbed.SaintsRow3.PackSTR2.exe indicates the executable, param 1 is the output file name, param 2 is the folder containing the edited files**
Gibbed.SaintsRow3.PackSTR2.exe tattoo_Rarm_8.str2_pc tattoo_Rarm_8
 
REM **param 1 is the existing asm_pc to be overwritten,
REM **param 2 is the folder containing the str2_pc files that the asm_pc is now going to be overwritten with**
REM **param 3 means location of param 1 and 2, the . indicates the folder this batch file is in**
Gibbed.SaintsRow3.UpdateASM.exe customize_player.asm_pc .
pause

Running the batch now will create tattoo_Rarm_8.str2_pc and will overwrite customize_player.asm_pc. It is reccomended to split these lines into two batch files and run line 1 first then 2 second, this can isolate any problems encountered."

Everything else was perfect... until I realised that the tattoo runs up the arm and onto the collarbone on the original design -_-
Off to edit the clothing now...
 
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