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Hellbringer616

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Main menu background replacement
« on: 2009-08-15 18:20:54 »
Just a quick question, I know Grimmy has done it but for the life of my i can't find the post.

But i want to replace the default main menu with one of higher resolution

Anyone know if thats possible? and if so, how i could go about doing that?

Kranmer

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Re: Main menu background replacement
« Reply #1 on: 2009-08-15 18:58:59 »
well grimmy did it here
http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=8414.msg102173#msg102173

and some other guy did it here
http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=8616.0
but this guy posted his work so you may be able to figure out how he did it from this.

EDIT:
also on the qhimm wiki it has more info on the menu
http://wiki.qhimm.com/FF7/Menu_Module
« Last Edit: 2009-08-15 19:08:28 by kranmer »

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Re: Main menu background replacement
« Reply #2 on: 2009-08-15 19:43:25 »
You will need to create a HUGE texture because (as far as I know) the main menu only uses the upper left 1/4 of the texture.  So if you want a 1028x1028 menu, the entire texture would need to be 4x that...

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Re: Main menu background replacement
« Reply #3 on: 2009-08-15 20:12:49 »
I use textool and working for 8bit.But i use image2tex to make 24bit and not working
« Last Edit: 2009-08-15 20:14:44 by Mike Strife Nguyen »

Hellbringer616

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Re: Main menu background replacement
« Reply #4 on: 2009-08-16 02:54:44 »
I wonder. Would Aali's Texture replacement method work on the menu?

Kranmer

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Re: Main menu background replacement
« Reply #5 on: 2009-08-16 06:40:43 »
i dont know if Aali's texture replacment would work or not but i might give it a go later. But it isnt to hard to edit the current start menu, I just had a quick go here

The only problem i have is it cant take up the whole screen i can  only take up the middle of the screen and i have to be carefull since the picture is a overlay if its to big you end up with no writing on the screen (like Mike Strife Nguyen's pic)
« Last Edit: 2009-08-16 06:58:30 by kranmer »

Hellbringer616

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Re: Main menu background replacement
« Reply #6 on: 2009-08-16 06:49:41 »
Can't be full screen? That sucks..

Kranmer

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Re: Main menu background replacement
« Reply #7 on: 2009-08-16 06:57:49 »
well it may be possible to make it full screen i just havent found out how to yet. I can make it take up most of the middle of the screen i just cant seem to make it any wider then what you can see currently but its easy to make it longer but when i do it overlays over the text and i cant see new game or continue (this could be fixed by making a black box in the middle of the picture but this could also make it ugly.
I have also just removed the pic from my previous post and posted a different image (since i think it may slightly be bad to use a DMC image in FF with the new rules)

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Re: Main menu background replacement
« Reply #8 on: 2009-08-16 06:59:43 »
well it may be possible to make it full screen i just havent found out how to yet. I can make it take up most of the middle of the screen i just cant seem to make it any wider then what you can see currently but its easy to make it longer but when i do it overlays over the text and i cant see new game or continue (this could be fixed by making a black box in the middle of the picture but this could also make it ugly.
I have also just removed the pic from my previous post and posted a different image (since i think it may slightly be bad to use a DMC image in FF with the new rules)

just put the works "New Game" and "Continue" where it should be. Or is the pointer invisible too?

Kranmer

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Re: Main menu background replacement
« Reply #9 on: 2009-08-16 07:06:01 »
the pointer is invisible as well. it looks exactly like Mike Strife Nguyen's picture in that aspect

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Re: Main menu background replacement
« Reply #10 on: 2009-08-16 07:07:19 »
Ah. well. no way around that then..

Might as well leave it alone then haha I wanted to put a higher res image in. closer to the res i am running it at (1280 x 960)

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Re: Main menu background replacement
« Reply #11 on: 2009-08-18 02:11:54 »
You will need to create a HUGE texture because (as far as I know) the main menu only uses the upper left 1/4 of the texture.  So if you want a 1028x1028 menu, the entire texture would need to be 4x that...
Hmm, though this method does require a large file it seems to get the job done without any issues.


I use textool and working for 8bit.But i use image2tex to make 24bit and not working

I really like this for the background, I believe that an image with a resolution of 500x500, if applied well, could look just fine and much better than the original.

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Re: Main menu background replacement
« Reply #12 on: 2009-08-18 15:12:37 »
Here is original image 1280x1280 pixels

Use textools 8bit

Use Image2tex 24bit

willis936

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Re: Main menu background replacement
« Reply #13 on: 2009-08-18 17:12:35 »
The original image is 640x640.

Also, which file would I edit to change the background in menu_us?

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Re: Main menu background replacement
« Reply #14 on: 2009-08-18 17:30:01 »
sr my bad  :-D Here is 1280x1280 pixels

Kranmer

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Re: Main menu background replacement
« Reply #15 on: 2009-08-18 19:52:25 »
well Mike Strife Nguuyen i just used your 1280x1280 image in IMG2TEX and it worked pretty good.

i was quite impressed with the image so i think i might keep this as my menu (although i may customize it slightly to make it higher up on the screen)

EDIT: Also willis936 you replace the TEX file called "buster.tex" in the menu_us.lgp to change the image for the menu.
« Last Edit: 2009-08-18 19:57:34 by kranmer »

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Re: Main menu background replacement
« Reply #16 on: 2009-08-19 02:14:58 »
kranmer you use Aali lgp/unlgp ? I use Lgp Tools and it didn't work

willis936

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Re: Main menu background replacement
« Reply #17 on: 2009-08-19 02:40:47 »
I got the img2tex working and it looks AWESOME but editing the image size/location of art in the image didn't have much effect when I tested it.  Anyone know how to make it bigger?

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Re: Main menu background replacement
« Reply #18 on: 2009-08-19 02:48:05 »
You mean this willis ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yspqeCUrLUg I think if you want to do this you have to edit ff7.exe but i'm not programmer so i don't know how to do this.

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Re: Main menu background replacement
« Reply #19 on: 2009-08-19 02:50:13 »
Yes!  That's exactly what I'm looking for.

Kranmer

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Re: Main menu background replacement
« Reply #20 on: 2009-08-19 06:32:46 »
yes Mike Strife Nguyen i used IMG2TEX then i extracted the menu_us.lgp files to a folder then i rebuilt the LGP using UNLGP (i used it all in command line and i did NOT drag and drop since drag and droping causes a few problems on my system). If you need help using LGP tools just use a command line and tell me what errors you get when trying to make a LGP archive.

Willis939 i have no idea how to make it look like that and is proberly out of my league but maybe if you asked somone else (like Aali or somone else who knows alot more about FF7) but it is said the main menu is located in Menu_US.LGP and also WINDOWS.BIN but i havent looked into windows.bin yet so i have no idea if the way to fix this problem lies there.

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Re: Main menu background replacement
« Reply #21 on: 2009-08-19 10:50:58 »
I use Aali lgp/unlgp and create 2 file lgp.bat and unlgp.bat
unlgp.bat
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unlgp menu_us.lgplgp.bat
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lgp menu menu_us.lgpI put menu_us.lgp in Aali lgp/unlgp folder click to unlgp.bat extract all file in menu_us.lgp and cut all file i extract to new folder name menu. After that i create new buster.tex use img2tex and replace old buster.tex. I click to lgp.bat for create new menu_us.lgp. And i still have this problem  :? What was wrong?

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Re: Main menu background replacement
« Reply #22 on: 2009-08-19 10:54:16 »
Did you uncheck the colour 0 a transparent button at some point?

 I used image2tex with that image and my menu is fine.

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Re: Main menu background replacement
« Reply #23 on: 2009-08-19 11:02:31 »
Check this?

Of course i have check it

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Re: Main menu background replacement
« Reply #24 on: 2009-08-19 13:18:23 »
I can make it full screen...its all at ff7.exe,  just need to disassemble it and find the flags for bg pos xy, width and height. Its not so difficult.. I may take a look at it later.