Texture Replacement not rendering correctly

[Robert The Fox]

Hello, first time forum poster. I've been trying to replace textures in GioGio's Bizarre Adventure to make Giorno more like his Anime counterpart. However, when I put the textures into the replacement folder, they either render black or are completely invisible. I'm not sure why it's going invisible or bugging out like this, is there a palette problem that I haven't known of?

I tried both normally opaque and half-transparent replacements with the textures, but it doesn't seem like it's made a difference. It definitely can't be the outlline overlay, because that still shows transparent when the textures are invisible. I don't even know how the textures are rendering invisible, let alone fully black. The names of the files are the same, I have checked that, and I obviously have the dumping and replacement enabled. I can't tell if this is because the game is getting quirky with the emulator and replacements, but it couldn't be me, because I tried the other renderers and those didn't work either.

Using PCSX2 Nightly v1.7.5697, with a Intel® Core™ i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz Processor, 16 GB RAM, and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 driver.

           

[Robert The Fox]

So, now I just figured out the textures are freaking out by themselves. I don't know if I'm making them invisible wrong, but when I save the body textures at a certain opacity in GIMP, they are exported as opaque or just straight up not there, but the face textures were perfectly fine...what is going on?

[refraction]

you need to make sure you retain the original alpha levels, which are different to PC ones. There is a script to scale them up and down which you can find here: https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/blob/mast..._scaler.py

[Robert The Fox]

you need to make sure you retain the original alpha levels, which are different to PC ones. There is a script to scale them up and down which you can find here: https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/blob/mast..._scaler.py

Uhhh, how do I use this script? It's just code- like where do I plop it in to use it?

[BloodRaynare]

Uhhh, how do I use this script? It's just code- like where do I plop it in to use it?

You have to install Python 3 to use the script.

[Robert The Fox]

You have to install Python 3 to use the script.

That doesn't tell me how to insert this code to make it work--all I have is the python console and this bunch of code..

[BloodRaynare]

That doesn't tell me how to insert this code to make it work--all I have is the python console and this bunch of code..

It's a command line tool, so you have to use command prompt either from the Python itself or the usual one.
Run the tool (either with python texture_dump_alpha_scaler.py or just texture_dump_alpha_scaler.py ) without any parameter and it will show you how to use them.
Of course this assume you have some knowledge about command prompt before.