sacred_tex_extractor
By Paul Siramy

History

  • v 1.00, 02 may 2006
    • Initial release

     

Credits and copyrights

Overview

This program is a simple texture extractor for Sacred, Sacred+, and probably its expansion, Sacred Underworld. It'll extract all images contains inside the files Texture*.pak.

 

Configuration

Place this directory on a disk with enough space for the extracted texture. If you have Sacred+, you'll need around 4GB of space !

Don't launch directly the .exe. This program is a command-line tool, and you need to give it some parameters via the command-line. Don't be afraid, it's easy. First, open the file go.bat into notepad :

This file looks like this :

Replace the selected text with the full path where one of your texture.pak is. Keep the quotes around the full path. It ensure that paths with spaces will work correctly. You can use Texture.pak, Texture00.pak, Texture01.pak ... any Texture.pak that you have. You should also modified the name of the text file at the end of the line, in order to keep things organized, but it's not required for the tool to work. Save your changes and exit Notepad.

Now, double-click on go.bat. If all is ok, it'll open a ms-dos window. In the window you'll only have the extraction progress :

When the extraction is finished, the row is full of dots, and you have to press a key on your keyboard :

All the textures have been extracted in the tool directory :

You can open any of this .TGA image in the image editor of your choice (Photoshop is recomanded tough, since images contains an Alpha channel). An example, here the Boots of a Seraphim set :

If you want to view your modifed texures in game, just place the new .TGA in your Sacred\PAK directory, and that's all. Note : the wall tiles (mix*.444) DON'T work in-game. Don't try to modify this kind of files. After a modification of the image, they should be recompressed with a format that the game expect, something that this tool don't do.

Enjoy