Recemoddar

A proof of concept modder tool for Recettear. This hooks a patched Recettear to allow for loading files from a /mods/ folder in your recettear directory.

Getting started

You must have installed https://github.com/just-harry/FancyScreenPatchForRecettear to start - settings used for this version of the modding tool;

screen resolution: 1920x1080
frame rate: 60 fps
install DxWrapper (needed for creating the hooks)
Float Interpolation Settings - all disabled
Texture filtering settings - all nearest neighbor but:
- Flora: Anisotropic
- MeshTextures: Anisotropic
- ChestTextures: Anisotropic

At this stage, anything outside of these patches hasn't been tested - so memory patches could cause issues and not work! This is also only been tested with the English verion.

Now edit the DxWrapper.ini;

[General]
LoadCustomDllPath=Recemoddar.dll

[Compatibility]
D3d8to9=1
EnableD3d9Wrapper=0

[d3d9]
EnableVSync=1

Place the Recemoddar.dll and recemoddar.ini into the recettear.exe directory.

You won't see anything until you have repalcements in mods directory!

What can it do?

.x files replacements

You can place .x files into /mods/xfile/ or /mods/xfile2/ and it will load those instead. Refer to https://github.com/ribeena/RecettearXTools for tools to help with modding the .x files of Recettear.

3d model images up to 4 times the size

Using https://github.com/UnrealPowerz/recettear-repacker you can extract the expected .tga and .bmp files, these generally go into /mods/xfile/, and add either _2x or _4x to the end of the file to indicate the upscaled amount.

Recettear seems to support .dds files for this, so it'll check for those too. DDS DXT1 seems to work fine for .bmp and DDS DXT5 for .tga, but more testing could be done - these will significant reduce fileszie but may affect quality.

UI image replacement

Using the same format as above, adding _2x on any UI graphics mostly work. You can also include images without the _2x if just replacing the graphics.

Widescreen backgrounds

You can adjust the recemoddar.ini to indicate any backgrounds that have been made widescreen and are 2x - this works well with some graphics, but others are still covered by black letterboxing.

Sample ini file

[WidescreenBackgrounds]
bmp/ivent/bg_guild.bmp=6
bmp/ivent/bg_hiro1.bmp=6
bmp/ivent/bg_hiro2.bmp=6
bmp/ivent/bg_hiro3.bmp=6
bmp/worldmap_night.bmp=6
bmp/worldmap_nomal.bmp=6
bmp/worldmap_yugata.bmp=6
bmp/boukenguild_bg.bmp=6

Only 2x graphics are currently supported for this.

BUGS!

Yes - proof of concept means bugs!

setDDTexture... error happens because the patches cause memory leaks, save and restart your game! Thanks to "Just Harry"s memory sluething, could be fixed!
OUT_OF_MEMORY see above - too late to save now!
Letterboxing covers widescreen backgrounds
Characters sit too high at times

just-harry/Recemoddar