Gothic Seating Fix

[Update 20040311: these seating groups appear to be even more broken in V2.03, released 20040310. The fix described here doesn’t work in V2.03; see this article instead.]

In V2 of There, all of the designer 5-seater “gothic” seating groups reverted back to looking like the basic red variety from the There store, as shown in the left-hand side of the image above. As I hang around in the desert round the Oasis a lot, I see plenty of Ladie_Di’s Palm and Hiero seating and this effect was annoying enough that I decided to investigate.

It looks to me as if There have had two models for this same seating group, and tried to perform some kind of automated conversion of the .ts files that control the application of textures to the objects. However, due to a difference in the names of the textures on the two new models, this is failing with the result that designer objects appear using the default textures for the model.

With a bit of tweaking, I was able to make the two seating groups in question look right again, as shown in the right hand side of the image above. If you would like to do the same, download [link removed] and un-zip it into your client’s Resources\gamekit\epobs\fu directory. If that sounds too daring, wait for the fix from There.

Caveats: This only fixes things for you, not anyone visiting you and admiring your furniture. It doesn’t help with any furniture other than Lady_Di’s Palm and Hiero seating. If you want a fix like this for anything else, compare the original and tweaked files for one of the products in the download and work it out for yourself, or cross my palm with Therebucks. This fix might not be compatible with There’s own fix for the problem, if and when that arrives. It probably voids your warranty and may frighten the horses or scare your cat.