Currently the Steam version of the game is only capable of showing Xbox controller buttons in the UI, which is really confusing if you’re using a PlayStation controller. Would anyone be willing to create a mod which replaces these with the PlayStation icons? Or if not, guide me in how I could go about creating a mod myself?
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I took a quick look; it’s strange because the PlayStation icons are in the game files. But maybe they’re locked on PC and only unlock on console.
This kind of mod shouldn’t be too complicated to make.
First of all, you need to install CryBar, which is the tool used to read the game files.
Get the latest version, and under “Assets,” click on CryBarEditor-x.x.xx.zip to download it.
Open the .exe and follow the instructions below to set it up :
Usage
- Load the Root directory (usually
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Age of Mythology Retold\game)- Select the export directory (usually your mod folder
C:\Users\[USER]\Games\Age of Mythology Retold\[YOUR_ID]\mods\local\[MOD_NAME])- Files in root directory will appear in 1st column, select any file to preview it
- if selected file is .BAR, it will immediately load in 2nd column
- you can select entries from inside .BAR file too, they will be previewed the same
- Any file/BAR entry you wish to modify, right click and export it, for most cases you will use
Export X selected (convert)
- Relative paths are retained! This also works for exporting from Root directory as long as it contains
\gamein it’s path
You can now browse the game files. You can find all the textures there. I found them in the folder “UITextureCache”. Locate the images you want to replace (the Xbox buttons and the playstation buttons) and export them. The icons are in .dds format; the Crybar engine cannot display them, but after exporting, they can be viewed using the Windows image viewer. You will therefore need to locate them by name in the Crybar editor.
After that, the correct folder structure will be created in the export directory you set up earlier.
You simply need to replace the Xbox images with the PlayStation images (in the “intermediate\uitexturecache\resources\glyphs\xbox” folder), renaming the PlayStation images to match the Xbox filenames. And you’ll have a mod that forces the PlayStation button prompts to appear, regardless of the controller being used.
To test it: open the game, and in the mod manager, locate the local mod folder. Copy and paste your mod into it (create a folder with whatever name you like and place the folder hierarchy generated by the export inside it; the “intermediate” folder should be the first one there).
Restart the game and see if it works.
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Thank you SO much! I’ve just published a mod which replaces the icons using the method you recommended and have credited you in the description 
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Well, that was quick! Well done! 
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