The Sims 2 (PS2) textures?

[frogz2007]

Supposedly this game has a boatload of unused stuff, and most of it is in the textures. I got somebody (aluigi) to extract the .ARC files, but the textures have no extension to them. I will attach a few textures that were extracted, and if anybody can make a program that can convert these to .PNG, or .JPG, then please do.

Link to zipped folder with 5 different textures:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/otu0pxpg7vpib ... s.zip?dl=1

[barti]

Check out Dageron's Console Texture Explorer. It'll help you extract textures from PS2 games:

[frogz2007]

Seems to me this program works, but not entirely. The textures which I tried didn't work, unfortunately. The program does display stuff, but it is mostly a pixelated mess.

[barti]

Can you send some more samples? Preferably larger ones, since it's somewhat difficult to make anything from the ones in the OP.

[frogz2007]

oops! Here are the biggest ones

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ngi3s7e7xb881 ... s.zip?dl=1

[shakotay2]

nice tool!

team_picture.JPG

[Dageron]

Seems to me this program works, but not entirely. The textures which I tried didn't work, unfortunately. The program does display stuff, but it is mostly a pixelated mess.

Try to turn on or disable swizzling, check both cases.
Also if your texture is not 4bpp or 8bpp this tool seems to be useless.

[frogz2007]

Sorry to bump the thread, but does anyone have a tutorial of some sort that will help me determine the offset of the image and such?

[shakotay2]

seriously?
The picture in my previous post should show all you need.
The offset 65 (dec.) is addr 0x41.

[frogz2007]

Yes, seriously. The offset shown works for that one image, but the others, no. I am terrible with hex editors. I'll attach one of the images I'm trying to figure out;

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2jtigjbbmhzks ... creen?dl=1

[shakotay2]

the offsets vary a little bit depending on the length of the texture name which starts at 0x10:

boot_screen.JPG