[WIP] Team Avalanche's Graphical Overhaul

[Kudistos Megistos]

sometimes we keep on quoting each other and its like a HUGE purple box for just to put one statement, lol.

A huge purple box just like you made

[sl1982]

sl1982, do you have any screenies that the rest of us would be interested in?

Not really, but there a a few new vids up for people if they havnt seen them

Ah, those bolt3 and fire3 spells looked good

BTW, I think people need to trim their quotes

Too lazy, lol.  

Whats that?

I think he means when we quote each other, to shorten it because sometimes we keep on quoting each other and its like a HUGE purple box for just to put one statement, lol.

Ahh that makes sense  

[secondadvent]

Well, when I download your patch.bat file, there is no option that says "Save As". I don't think Vista has that option (since I'm using Vista-64 bit). Just shows an option of what program to open it with.

well what internet browser are you using? a setting may have been changed at some point (or even just installed a bit off, as things tend to do in vista per my experience... vista is full of holes), so check your browser's options and see if you can set everything to the default, or can easily see anything that would prevent saving. having vista doesn't make things very easy to begin with, i will be with xp until they make another half decent OS that doesn't crash more than ffvii pc before the modders got to it  .

and sl1982, are you doing all of the magic in acquisition order (i.e. the fire/ice/bolt/cure magics, then whichever materia comes next in line), or just at random? it may be easier to just go through the tex files alphabetically rather than chronological game order, because that way you don't accidentally skip a spell or so  . then again, if you are keeping track of all the magic you do, and what is needed, either way works 

[sl1982]

Just go into windows explorer and look at the patch.bat if it says batch file for type you are good. If it says text u need to go into folder options and uncheck hide known extensions. and then delete the .txt from it

[Kudistos Megistos]

Well, when I download your patch.bat file, there is no option that says "Save As". I don't think Vista has that option (since I'm using Vista-64 bit). Just shows an option of what program to open it with.

well what internet browser are you using?

I must second this question

Firefox has right click > save link as, and I think that Internet Explorer has the same

(or even just installed a bit off, as things tend to do in vista per my experience... vista is full of holes), so check your browser's options and see if you can set everything to the default, or can easily see anything that would prevent saving. having vista doesn't make things very easy to begin with, i will be with xp until they make another half decent OS that doesn't crash more than ffvii pc before the modders got to it  .

Pfft, the only problem I've had with Vista is the UAC (mind you, that's a big problem )

Vista isn't nearly as bad as the people that don't use Vista say it is

[secondadvent]

i have had vista for a year or two, and i hated every second of it (not to mention that ffvii would not work on it, no matter what i tried, and emulation didn't work all that well either, and that is what i spend a lot of my computer time doing   ), not to mention the very weird bugs i went through, and that i prefer not to talk about  . evil vista... and i disabled that uac within five minutes of having it  .

[aaronlite]

I am on a dif computer right now, but I will dl those files later on today. Thanks for posting that.

Anyone have any background in the default resolution ripped I can try editing? I will try to figure out the programs better soon... >_<

[Costa07]

What kind of backgrounds do you want out of the game the ones in battle or on the field or on the map

[Kudistos Megistos]

i have had vista for a year or two, and i hated every second of it (not to mention that ffvii would not work on it, no matter what i tried, and emulation didn't work all that well either, and that is what i spend a lot of my computer time doing   ), not to mention the very weird bugs i went through, and that i prefer not to talk about  . evil vista... and i disabled that uac within five minutes of having it  .

I often wonder whether there are two different Vistas. Not different editions, but completely different OSs called Windows Vista; one of them has annoying UAC but generally works as well as XP does and is perfectly capable to running FF7, the other can't run anything and crashes every three seconds

[Tekkie.X]

The version of Vista that works is actually XP 

[Matt2Tees]

Windows Vista isn't that bad, I've had it for a while and never had any problems 

[Kudistos Megistos]

The version of Vista that works is actually XP  

Then there's something wrong with my XP; it keeps calling itself Vista and looks just like it

Windows Vista isn't that bad, I've had it for a while and never had any problems 

This is what I was talking about

We have the first Vista that I described, secondadvent and DragonNinja used the other one

[Costa07]

Im running vista 64 and ff7 runs perfectly fine on mine

[Timu Sumisu]

stay on topic people, this thread has nothing to do with operating systems

[drfeelgud88]

stay on topic people, this thread has nothing to do with operating systems

But they are trying to help me... Since I have this Vista and cannot get this mod to work.
Anyways, I got it to work thanks to sl1982 with the folder options thing. I ran it (ADMIN) but this happened...

Don't know if you can see it well, but that's what I got.

[Costa07]

stay on topic people, this thread has nothing to do with operating systems

Sorry But timu are you going to draw or redo the map i seen you say something about it in the world texture thread just wondering if the map would be in this mod

[Timu Sumisu]

Sorry But timu are you going to draw or redo the map i seen you say something about it in the world texture thread just wondering if the map would be in this mod

i'm not sure if I'll repaint the gorund texture, as pyro has gotten some good results, i'd like to modify thema  bit, make them less noisy, (just a bit, they do need noise) and change the colors a fair bit, but as to it being in this project, we'll see. I'd consider that close to a 3d upgrade (we dont really improve 3d textures, other than magic effects). We'll see where the project goes in the future

[Costa07]

Ok well i wasn't talking about the world textures i was referring to the little mini map that you bring up to see where the towns and continents are the one pyrozen found had the names written on them and a free extra places that is not there on the original game

[Timu Sumisu]

oh, yea i dont have the image, if someone were so kind as to supply it to me i'll gladly make an upgrade

[secondadvent]

Anyways, I got it to work thanks to sl1982 with the folder options thing. I ran it (ADMIN) but this happened...
Don't know if you can see it well, but that's what I got.

it looks like it is trying to look for everything in the windows\system32 directory instead of your C:\GUI directory, try doing this in command prompt:

cd "C:\GUI"

then press enter and type:

patch.bat

and hit enter again and see if that works, this is assuming that it is on the C drive and in a folder named GUI, it is hard to see in your pic  

[aaronlite]

Hmm, probably field. I could try a battle background too though.

[Matt2Tees]

Ok I've made a video Tutorial of how to install this mod, hopefully it will help anyone thats having problems

Link to Part 1 Here and Part 2 Here

These are the files you'll need

Download This modified patch.bat

Then Download Aali's Lgp Tools

Then Re-download the GUI Beta 7

[sl1982]

Wow i didnt think it was so complex as to require a video tutorial

[Matt2Tees]

Wow i didnt think it was so complex as to require a video tutorial

Neither did I, but I don't have a problem installing it, so I can't really comment...

Sometimes its better to 'see' how to do it, rather than follow instructions in text...

[titeguy3]

@drfeelgud88

Could Not Find C:\Windows\System32\magic\magic.lgp

Okay...it's not finding a magic.lgp... or lgp.exe or unlgp.exe according to that screenshot...(which is a screenshot and not a copy/paste)

Did you put lgptools and all three necessary lgp files in the folder so it can patch them? Because it doesn't look like it.