Question about obtaining textures from roms

[Silversea]

Hello all, I apologize if this is in the wrong place.

I was trying to see if there was a way to directly obtain the bmp/png textures from n64 roms. I followed various tutorials all over and haven't made any progress yet. My setup is the following:

Emulator: Project64

Game: Animal Forest

Graphics Plugin: Mudlord's Rice Video Build 6.1.4

Graphic Configuration Settings:
|Texture Enchancement: Full TMEM Emulation, Load hi-res, Dump textures to files are checked.

I have the two folders in the Project64 Plugins folder named hires_texture and texture dump. I tried making a subfolder in texture dump called ANIMAL FOREST (that is what the title is when I run it) and I tried removing this folder to see if it created itself.

The game itself runs perfectly fine, graphics are good etc, no glitches.

So far the folders remain empty, I feel like I'm making a simple mistake somewhere?

Thanks in advance.

 

[death--droid]

All your settings seem correct, try making sure your running Project64 as an administrator, it sounds like the application is lacking write permissions hence why its not creating the subfolders or the textures

 

[Silversea]

Hmm, I did try that, but no change yet.

When the game is run it does come up with "writing texture dump file" messages, but the texture folder it should be writing to doesn't even show a new accessed or modified date.

Any other ideas?

 

[NES_player4LIFE]

sometimes files get stashed in the (C:/) root.

edit: rice video should create (texture_dump) folder in your plugins root and also the title of your rip should be found in texture_dump folder

 

[Silversea]

I went ahead and deleted the texture_dump folder and ran the emulator again but it never made the folder. I played the game for 10 minutes or so, still nothing. I did a full PC search and there was no "texture_dump" folder to be found.

Are there any other files I'm missing? I just need the n64 game file, project 64 exe and the rice video plugin yes?

 

[NES_player4LIFE]

the folder should be created as soon as the game opens maybe try using (1964video) it is rice video at heart but it is newer.

 

[death--droid]

That is a rather peculiar problem, it should be creating it otherwise im fairly certain it throws an error on failure try my latest versions from http://www.emutalk.net/threads/54166-Rice-Video-Community-version , if the problem still occurs ill look into it more for you.

 

[Silversea]

Neither of those fixed it but I did find a solution.

All I did was cut the folder from Program files and put it into the C: drive itself. Works fine now.

Guess it was a permissions thing after all?

Well thanks for the help anyway, much appreciated. Glad to solve this!

 

[death--droid]

Hmmm weird, running the appplication as administrator should of fixed that problem :S, how odd, must be a problem with your user right on program files. Glad you went and fixed it up yourself though.

 

[NES_player4LIFE]

Neither of those fixed it but I did find a solution.

All I did was cut the folder from Program files and put it into the C: drive itself. Works fine now.

Guess it was a permissions thing after all?

Well thanks for the help anyway, much appreciated. Glad to solve this!

do you have the pj64 folder set to {read only}?

 

[Silversea]

No, I removed the read only tag. Perhaps it was the program files folder that was messing around with it.

 

[squall_leonhart]

running as administrator should have fixed any problems program files could cause.