Content Packs

What is a Content Pack?

A Content Pack is a bundle of files stored in a folder in the Pokemon\ContentPacks\ directory that can change:

• Music
• Sounds
• Textures ( GUI, NPC, Entity and Tilesets )
• Fonts
• Models

One can have multiple Content Packs activated and they replace the content that they find in decending order. Content Packs are essentially a way to customize the game experience without altering any game features. All changes done by Content Packs are aesthetic.

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  Pokémon3D with the "OriQual" content pack.

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  Pokémon3D without any content packs.

Installation

Requirements

To install a content pack, the ContentPacks folder has to exist in your Pokemon folder. Also, the Save folder has to exists with an options.dat in it. This can be achieved by starting the game once and press F3 at least once and close the game again.

Install a content pack

After finding and downloading a content pack, copy the folder into the ContentPacks folder. After that's done, open the options.dat in the Save folder. There is a line called "ContentPacks|". Add the name of the folder of the content pack after the "|". If you want to load multiple content packs, you have to add more separated by a comma (","), e.g. "ContentPacks|UIPack,TexturePack,MusicPack". The order the content packs are sorted is actually important because if multiple content packs contain the same texture, the texture from the content pack that is listed first is loaded. The other textures are ignored.

File placements

The files in the content packs are placed in relation to their actual position in the "Content" folder. If the texture "\Pokemon\Content\Textures\Texture1.xnb" should be replaced, one has to create the texture "\Pokemon\ContentPacks\yourcontentpackname\Textures\Texture1.xnb".

Texture files

Texture files are simple .xnb files containing a new texture to be displayed in-game. This can be a GUI texture, a in-game object texture like the door of a house or an NPC sprite. Even Pokémon animation textures can be replaced using the content packs. For HD texture packs, the game cannot automatically find larger textures. So one has to create a file called "exceptions.dat" that is located in the root folder of the content pack. This file contains single texture replacements, not the whole texture files. An example line:

Textures\BarkTown|0,0,16,16|Textures\Cherrygrove|0,0,16,16

This line replaces the texture at 0,0 in the texturepack “Textures\BarkTown” with the same texture coordinates from the cherrygrove texturepack.

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  The difference between the texture packs.

Sound and Music files

Similar to the texture files, the sound and music files are .xnb files. They only need their respective .wma file which contains the actual music or sound file. So for music and sounds, there needs to be two files for each track, the .xnb file and the .wma file. These have to be in the same location.

List of Content Packs

Check the forum, it has all the updated "Resources" of the game!

Trivia

• The loaded content packs are listed in the debug screen (F3).

Version history

Version	Changes
0.23	First implementation
0.24	Multiple content pack support Fixed some GUIs aren't loaded properly with content packs. Maps and scripts can be loaded through content packs
0.25	Content pack submenu in the main menu.
0.26	Fixed various crashes pertaining to content pack loading

Game Folder
Content									ContentPacks		GameModes	Saves			Screenshots	Game Executable
Pokemon	Data								ContentPack Folder		GameMode folder	Savegame folder				Version History
Data	Maps			Moves	Scripts				Control Files	Content	GameMode.dat	Party.dat	Player.dat	Options.dat
	poke	battle	structures		V1	V2	trainer	worldmap