Sacred Gold

Sacred Gold

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Back to the roots | Original interface and backgrounds
By Cubium
This little selfmade modification will bring back the original HUD, backgrounds, menu screen, title music.
   
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Overview
The Underworld addon brought a new design of visuals, which became dark, rough and, well, dead, and I dislike that changes at all. I managed how to restore original design some time ago, and now I share this with hope that someone else might find this useful even now.

There are before-after comparisons down below.





 
I tried my best to adjust both title and hero pick screens to repositioned elements, and I have a complete understanding of the fact that second one looks crappy in comparison with the original one. I just don't have such skill to make it more decent. Also there is no way to remove that bluish filter from models. If you are curious, this is how it looks in v1.8[oi68.tinypic.com].
Howto
1. Download this tiny archive[drive.google.com].
2. Copy the content of either "All-in-one" or "Partial->Anything" folder into a root of the game directory.

Thats it! New graphic files (.TGA) will override the existing ones as long as they are located in PAK folder, so simply remove them if you change your mind. Also, some original files can be found in "Backup" folder.

The "Bonus" folder contains a file with unused design of the HUD from game resources. It looks pretty badass, if you ask me >:D

Для русскоиграющих
Раз уж я тут взялся приводить Сакред в надлежащий для себя вид, то не могу не поделиться правильными шрифтами для русской локализации.

Из архива[drive.google.com] нужно вытащить папку и поместить в корень директории игры. Один из шрифтов преображает надписи меню, делая их идентичными английским. Весьма аутентичный и попросту красивый шрифт, сделанный неким RAS[zras.blogspot.com.by]. Другой шрифт используется всеми игровыми текстами. Делает их жирнее и, собственно, малость приятнее.

Вероятно, что используемый вами русификатор заменил файл конфигурации на Акелловский. На этот случай в архиве помимо шрифтов находится изменённый файл, который необходимо скопировать в корень с заменой. Можно также отредактировать Settings.cfg в папке с игрой текстовым редактором, удалив строки, начинающиеся с "FONT". Эта процедура убирает безобразие, навернутое работником Акеллы в наркотическом угаре.

Рекоммендую также утилиту Sacred Tools[vk.com]. Там со шрифтами можно подобное устроить, в том числе настраивать их размер. И много чего ещё настраивать.

Удачи!
GL, HF!
13 Comments
Cubium  [author] 16 Jul, 2019 @ 12:27pm 
Also, ReBorn modders actually made an attempt [pp.userapi.com] to adapt Sacred resolution for FullHD. After all these years!
Cubium  [author] 16 Jul, 2019 @ 12:14pm 
Funny fact: there is mutual hatred between ReBorn and Raven Rock modding teams. Even within such a tiny community the discord is a thing.
Cubium  [author] 12 Jul, 2019 @ 5:07pm 
Nothing wrong with any activity here, just the opposite. Thank you for sharing! I hope I can catch up on reading this article soon.
swordsister 11 Jul, 2019 @ 11:13pm 
@Cubium Sorry about necroing this thread but i found this forum post on Sacred modding. A very interesting read.

http://darkmatters.org/forums/index.php?/topic/22937-why-there-are-only-a-few-sacred-mods-existing-the-answer/
Cubium  [author] 28 Jun, 2019 @ 10:43am 
You're very welcome :squirtyay:
swordsister 28 Jun, 2019 @ 10:26am 
The links are friggin gold, thank you for this!
Cubium  [author] 28 Jun, 2019 @ 8:59am 
You can look for these options:

1. Manual [vk.com] for some modding tools but in russian, unfortunately for you. Any page translator should be used.

2. For all I know, there're only two living modding projects — Raven Rock [vk.com] and ReBorn [vk.com]. Also there're russian modders behind them. You won't find any instructions about modding out there, but you can contact with developers if your intentions are really vast (or whatever). You may find the "Contacts" section at the bottom of the sidebar.

3. DarkMatters forum [darkmatters.org]. Seems to be a nice fan community.
swordsister 28 Jun, 2019 @ 4:41am 
Do you know a website on sacred underworld modding? I've been looking into modding the game for a while but i don't know where to start. (and couldn't find a program to properly deal with .pak files)
Cubium  [author] 28 Jun, 2019 @ 4:23am 
Ah, I'm glad to be helpful so far :)
swordsister 28 Jun, 2019 @ 2:30am 
Thank you!