Author Topic: [FF7PC]FF7 SYW "ArkTsukiVock" (v4) upscale : Battle, world map, fields, videos (Read 190358 times)

Leodei · « **Reply #375 on:** 2020-06-12 19:18:19 »

Hi everyone, I am not sure this is the best place to post this, but since I'm using the SYW mod and I see people are being quite helpful here, I just thought it would be a good place... Just tell me if I'm wrong.

So basically I am trying to install FF7 with the SYW mod and the Reunion... That part I managed, but I'm not sure I did it the best way and I have a problem and questions :

- I noticed there is a big change in color between the FMVs and gameplay screens (I think the gameplay is when the colors are not good)... It's obvious after the intro that switches to the first background and when told you can run by pressing X and a direction, when the background changes to a FMV showing the reactor (see pictures below).

How could I prevent that?

- I have replaced the movies at C:\Games\FF7\data\movies by SatsukiMovies
but I have noticed there also are movies in :
C:\Games\FF7\The_Reunion\GLOBAL\Direct\movies (lastmap.avi and starfield.avi)
C:\Games\FF7\The_Reunion\BASE\New_Translation (ending2.avi and jenova_e.avi)
should I replace them by the corresponding SatsukiMovies (lastmap, ending2 and jenova_e)?

Now ideally, I would also use FFNx (so I can use dds files) and the Character Overhaul Seven (ChaOS) mod (if it brings something compared to the character overhaul from the Reunion). The thing is I am not sure they are compatible with what I've already done... If they are compatible, how would I proceed to install them on top of the Reunion and the SYW mods?

For reference, I've written below (in the spoiler) everything I did (if I did something wrong, please tell me what I should have done)...

Thanks

Spoiler: show

orichalcon · « **Reply #376 on:** 2020-06-14 22:10:32 »

you already have everything working that i can see, including kaldarasha's models (they are included in the reunion)

the change between fmv and the game is caused by just that: a change between a movie and the field file you walk around in, when you ride the ropeway to the gold saucer you will see another transition like this (and in several others places as well, cant remember them all), the movie is always going to look quite a bit better because the field file has several graphical limitations that dont exist in movies

a seamless change would be near impossible, and there is nothing that can be done about that

Leodei · « **Reply #377 on:** 2020-06-16 05:48:46 »

Thank you for your reply...
I didn't remember that much of a change between the FMVs and the game but I guess last time I have played it was a long time ago so I probably just forgot...
I guess that settles it then, now I just have to enjoy the game.

And Satsuki, those upscaled backgrounds look really awesome, thank you for the time an effort spent on that mod!

P3k · « **Reply #378 on:** 2020-06-29 04:17:50 »

Hi satsuki ,

First off, nice work on this mod. It's great.
I was wondering if you could let me know on how to "de-scramble" the upscaled images so that they can be viewed normally in all their glory without using FF7.exe

Cheers.

satsuki · « **Reply #379 on:** 2020-06-29 17:05:01 »

Hi.
Long story short... you can't T_T

P3k · « **Reply #380 on:** 2020-07-01 17:45:08 »

Haha. Never mind :\ I was able to use the images in the source folders in the end for what I needed.
Thank you for replying and for the awesome mod

RRReis · « **Reply #381 on:** 2020-07-01 20:41:02 »

Hello, Satsuki!

Firstly, congrats on your amazing mod! It's really awesome and I'm eager to play FF7 with it!

Unfortunately, I'm having problems on activating it. I'm sorry if you answered this before, but I wasn't able to see a solution.

I followed these steps:

1) Installed FF7 (Steam)

2) Installed Reunion R06f

3) Ran SYWinstaller.4.22 (I checked every pack and selected the option "Install with The Reunion"

But when I run the game, it looks like this

https://imgur.com/g2lwFbu

Could you please, help me? I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I appreciate your attention

orichalcon · « **Reply #382 on:** 2020-07-02 00:07:41 »

Quote from: RRReis on 2020-07-01 20:41:02

Hello, Satsuki!

Firstly, congrats on your amazing mod! It's really awesome and I'm eager to play FF7 with it!

Unfortunately, I'm having problems on activating it. I'm sorry if you answered this before, but I wasn't able to see a solution.

I followed these steps:

1) Installed FF7 (Steam)

2) Installed Reunion R06f

3) Ran SYWinstaller.4.22 (I checked every pack and selected the option "Install with The Reunion"

But when I run the game, it looks like this

https://imgur.com/g2lwFbu

Could you please, help me? I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I appreciate your attention

looks like its working from that screenshot, go to where you installed reunion and find options.ini and change "model_overhaul = n" to "model_overhaul = y" and you'll get the modded character models as well

RRReis · « **Reply #383 on:** 2020-07-02 02:07:35 »

Quote from: Orichalcon on 2020-07-02 00:07:41

looks like its working from that screenshot, go to where you installed reunion and find options.ini and change "model_overhaul = n" to "model_overhaul = y" and you'll get the modded character models as well

THANK YOU!!!
It's worked!!
I'm very happy, thank you so much!!

kibazatzue · « **Reply #384 on:** 2020-07-03 22:18:37 »

first, thanks for your amazing work. I have a ton of questions... but mainly:
1.- Is there a mirror for downloading this mod?? around the world, there are many countries that cannot access mega downloads.
2.- Can this mod be installed without 7th Heaven nor The Reunion nor anything like that??

orichalcon · « **Reply #385 on:** 2020-07-04 01:39:23 »

Quote from: kibazatzue on 2020-07-03 22:18:37

1.- Is there a mirror for downloading this mod?? around the world, there are many countries that cannot access mega downloads.
2.- Can this mod be installed without 7th Heaven nor The Reunion nor anything like that??

1. can't help you there, satsuki (the creator of this mod) would have to upload somewhere else, and its not easy finding a place for a file this large

2. yes, but requires more work, this mod wont work without aali's graphics driver or trueodin's graphics driver, so you'd have to install one of those and configure it to get it working,
i've never even bothered with that because both 7th Heaven and The Reunion do this for you so its mostly pointless

strolb57 · « **Reply #386 on:** 2020-07-31 17:06:50 »

Hi Satsuki,

I tried using the file from the mega.nz repo and it came back as a Trojan. I checked it in Windows Defender and then in VirusTotal. Can you or anyone else assist?

satsuki · « **Reply #387 on:** 2020-08-06 07:12:58 »

Sometime vb6 software (even empty ones) are reported as trojen of misc virus.
There's no virus here, just tell defender to ignore it

ValentDs · « **Reply #388 on:** 2020-08-08 20:05:16 »

hi satsuki!
i tried to convert every single folder (world battle char) with the png files in iro ones with 7th heaven, but not worked. should i install your mods with reunion then? 7th heaven was good for me, but i couldn't figure out why not work, the mod of the other guy (the one with cloud not a puppet) iro worked flawless

satsuki · « **Reply #389 on:** 2020-08-10 05:15:38 »

Just use the provided converter it's working.
Why do you want to do it with 7h instead of the provided converter ?

orichalcon · « **Reply #390 on:** 2020-08-15 15:39:09 »

i'm kind of a weirdo that likes to hide Cloud behind stuff and take screenshots of the fields, thought i'd share some of these if anyone is wondering what the fields will look like with this mod
note that some of these may also be enhanced with reshade (again, these are all in-game field files... not part of a FMV)

this first one is my desktop background, and probably will be for life (or until we can upscale to 4k)

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/285894248988016640/744214779828240404/20200516212239_1.jpg

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/285894248988016640/744214453079506954/20200517185037_1.jpg

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/285894248988016640/744214400927268914/20200523151553_1.jpg

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/285894248988016640/744214166302359562/20200523153312_1.jpg

Cloud! Get down from there! What are you thinking?
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/285894248988016640/744217362265538630/20200430201312_1.jpg

satsuki · « **Reply #391 on:** 2020-08-22 19:53:09 »

New version 4.5.0:
-Re programmed the pack builder from vb6 to c#.net to avoid as much as possible false positives with antivirus

No need to download this version if you already have your packs ^^

harutoshinta · « **Reply #392 on:** 2020-08-23 18:03:13 »

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vs0EqGMnBDhQpqPGLXrMbi9v5PgVXpzV/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sS62JfoPPOiMwq6Okb176MTRooTIv4lm/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bFQyCsQrTedDviJEdecUvvbvr7xAckYG/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fn13ciQKkVBRB_uAOH82BM1CFd0hMM2v/view?usp=sharing

Hi satsuki, thank you so much for the mod it looks great. However I've got one problem. I can load it alright with the Reunion mod, but everytime I open the game, being in fullscreen mode or not, the in-game screen is always oversized comparing to the windowed screen and I don't know if it's because of the Reunion configuration or not because I've tried to change it as much as I can and it's still like that.

Can you recommmend any way to fix this? Thanks!

orichalcon · « **Reply #393 on:** 2020-08-24 03:30:53 »

Quote from: harutoshinta on 2020-08-23 18:03:13

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vs0EqGMnBDhQpqPGLXrMbi9v5PgVXpzV/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sS62JfoPPOiMwq6Okb176MTRooTIv4lm/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bFQyCsQrTedDviJEdecUvvbvr7xAckYG/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fn13ciQKkVBRB_uAOH82BM1CFd0hMM2v/view?usp=sharing

Hi satsuki, thank you so much for the mod it looks great. However I've got one problem. I can load it alright with the Reunion mod, but everytime I open the game, being in fullscreen mode or not, the in-game screen is always oversized comparing to the windowed screen and I don't know if it's because of the Reunion configuration or not because I've tried to change it as much as I can and it's still like that.

Can you recommmend any way to fix this? Thanks!

go to your The_Reunion folder and find options.ini, right click it and hit edit

full_screen = y
window_x = 0
window_y = 0
window_width = 1920
window_height = 1080
preserve_aspect = y

where i have the 1920 and 1080, change those to your desktop resolution and see if that fixes it
(if your resolution happens to be 1920x1080 then you can just use those exact values)

if you happen to have more problems with this, you should go to ff7.live and click the link to join our discord, since this is a reunion config issue and has nothing to do with satsuki's mod

edit: kudos Rumbah

harutoshinta · « **Reply #394 on:** 2020-08-24 06:49:43 »

Thanks! It didn't work though. I'll join the Discord later.

Rumbah · « **Reply #395 on:** 2020-08-24 18:07:00 »

For me it looks like a HiDPI issue.

Try right clicking your ff7 exe, Settings, Compatibility, Change high DPI settings, activate overwrite high DPI settings to application.

Save and try again.

harutoshinta · « **Reply #396 on:** 2020-08-24 19:06:44 »

Quote from: Rumbah on 2020-08-24 18:07:00

For me it looks like a HiDPI issue.

Try right clicking your ff7 exe, Settings, Compatibility, Change high DPI settings, activate overwrite high DPI settings to application.

Save and try again.

Wow thank you so much! It works now! Thank you!

Coma-D00f · « **Reply #397 on:** 2020-08-27 00:03:31 »

Hi, I'm extremely new to pc gaming let alone modding. I'm having real trouble trying to install this mod. I think I've done everything right; I've downloaded and installed the steam version of the game, installed reunion, and attempted to install the mod. But when I open the installer, I don't see the prompt to install with reunion. Every time I open the installer it looks like this:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rLyulEvBmbt8JFd_SZmzFWQnsoynr4g6/view?usp=sharing

I might be missing something really obvious, so please excuse my ignorance...

orichalcon · « **Reply #398 on:** 2020-08-27 04:50:47 »

your link isnt working, you gotta change the permissions on it to anybody

the install with reunion button is on the lower-right side, if you are getting the installer to work right

edit: looks like satsuki removed the 'install with reunion' feature out of spite (argument with reunion's creator)

wtf?

in the meantime if anyone is having trouble installing this in reunion, PM me (or go to FF7.live and click the discord link) and i'll walk you through it

some weak-ass tea to remove that feature - there are dozens of less pc-savvy people who can no longer figure out how to get this working... this does nothing to hurt dlpb, he doesnt give a f***, just hurts regular working folk that are trying to kick back and play this game the way they want... oh well, just another thing to draw people to reunion's discord

satsuki · « **Reply #399 on:** 2020-08-28 06:52:00 »

@Ori
You seems realy agressive for no reason.
Anyone can install this pack with reunion in an easy way (just need to convert to png and read reunion's readme file)

I remove the reunion feature for some raisons and nothing to do with dlpb
-I've make the full installer from zero in c# to avoid vb6 falses positive, so i checked and optimized the code, i've removed useless feature (reunion and iro compression level)
-I removed the iro compression feature because iro's compression is only usefull for distro otherwise it'll make the use of iro slower and as iro car be 7z for distro no use here.
-I removed reunion installer because:
1)you can install it from png with copy/paste files in the reunion folders
2)i can't auto-manage file replacement, witch mean that my files will overwrithe the existing one in reunion install folder or the the renuion's one will remains and avoid my file from being used
3)as i don't use reunion myself i wont be able to do the tests needed if a bug occurs
>>So as there's no safe way to auto-install with reunion, i kept the option to convert dds to png and anyone can use use safelly the converted files with reunion

So if one day reunion provide a "safe way" i can use to make my mods work without the risk of overwriting existing installed reunion mods i'll probably get the option back.