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Dear all, As some of you might now, together with other members we're building a custom terrain called Kastellorizo. We're very happy on how things are developing, and we are looking forward to releasing this terrain to the community, though this will be after Malden is out. In the main city of Kastellorizo there are colored houses, as in many typical traditional greek cities. Red, Salmon, Yellow, White, and the sort. However I'm encountering an issue as none of us is a modeller, and all the tries to create colored houses have really not been successful. Unfortunately there's no way to use setObjectTexture to change the textures on Arma buildings; hence, the closest we got is with the shop included in the Arma 3 Samples. However, this basic model does not have proper LOD set up and hence really is unusable (when players are near to these shops, their FPS drop dramatically). I realize I'm entering some legal area, and that's why I'm asking the question here. In my wildest dreams I hope to get a positive response from some BI developers / representatives: we are only trying to release a non-commercial ArmaOnly mod to the community, and we really hope this can be done. :) Basically, we've realized that it would be pretty simple to change the paths to the textures in the binarized p3d shop model included in the A3/structures_f/households folder. A simple find/replace of paths on the p3d file would do the trick. Therefore, it would be then possible to colorize the shop textures, and we would have the colored houses models! Please understand that I'm not talking about un-binarizing the original p3d file, reverse-engineering or anything like that: we would in no way be able to modify the model itself, or export it to other formats, or any other thing of the sort. Though, since this would be a modified version of the original p3d file, it would need to be packaged and included in the .pbo of the terrain mod and distributed in this way. Can this be done? We have done a serious effort in creating a replica of the real Kastellorizo, and it wouldn't be the same without colored houses... But we want to do the right thing and ensure that this would be legal to do before we even try this out. Looking forward to your inputs, _SCAR
