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Releases / Re: Upscaled Magic Textures

« on: 2012-02-20 22:39:22 »

I used omega to convert all the tex files to bmps. It was annoying because some of the original tex files have up to 30 palettes. Then I opened the bmps in photoshop un-indexed the color palettes, resized, filtered and saved as png. It was a simple process, but doing it 2600 times was really boring.

And that's how you become an "insane poster" Amazing work really! After what I read I don't think i really care about grey pixels!

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Releases / Re: Upscaled Magic Textures

« on: 2012-02-20 20:42:33 »

You're way over complicating things. Sounds like you have your modpath folder named bootleg. So just copy the entire contents of the data folder and place them into your bootleg folder. It just come down to what you named your modpath folder. Mine is named Data to more closely follow the original folder and lgp format, but it doesn't matter what that folder is called. You could have titled it bananas, and as long as the config file tells the driver to look at the bananas folder for external pngs and they are properly organized they will load.

My modpath address is C:\Program Files\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\mods\data
Sounds like yours is C:\Program Files\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\mods\bootleg

Excellent! That's what I did! Sorry for the newbismmmmm

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Releases / Re: Upscaled Magic Textures

« on: 2012-02-20 19:21:23 »

Only one modpath allowed. Put everything in the same folder.

So the folder is "data". I put the folder in my Bootleg folder as it is. I'm just asking because inside the data folder there are folders named "battle", "magic" and such which are placed in different folder inside Bootleg folder... Thank you!

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Releases / [FF7PC] New FFVII Intro FMVs (2012-11-20)

« on: 2012-02-20 13:01:38 »

Congratulations for all the work that's been done... It's really amazing everyone! The least I could contribute is some videos. Well I'm replacing eidoslogo.avi, sqlogo.avi and opening.avi with some cool videos. Goal is to explain the starter story in a smoother way for someone that's not familiar with the game. The videos I edited are from youtube and i will post my sources as soon as I post the links for download. I am currently rendering the sqlogo.avi and I wish it works fine (I'm rendering into 1080p so it will take some time with adobe premier, afterwards I need to rerender it into 1280x960 with mp4 to avi to work in the game). I use resolution 1280x960 for my 32'' screen and i play on 1920x1080. Thanks and I hope you enjoy those !

If someone is more familiar with the new adobe cs5.5 I would appreciate any help provided. For example I cannot understand why when I export the video sound is always uncompressed. If some can work better on my videos I will be so glad. I will post the links as soon as I upload them on mediafire (i have some connection issues with my ISP lately, suddenly speed dropped to    578 / 2.851 from 1.000/12.000 !!! and things are a little slow since then).

...

Just a tiny progress update... I tested all 3 filed and work wonderful with my settings! I thought of color correcting the eidoslogo.avi once more. As soon as I test it I will try to upload the files and share ) . My damn ISP has cut down my speed since Friday and after all that happened with Sopa Acta Pipa (ACTA was actually approved in my country-Greece) i"m getting suspicious of what's really going on here!!! Conspiracy theories are truly passing through my mind...

Well I'm posting the links in a few hours... I'm thrilled with the result!
...

Videos I used!
(All videos are reencoded in 1280x960 25fps H.264/mpeg-4 AVC, sound AC3-Dolby AC3 320 kbit/s 48000HZ)

1. OathkeepersRedRose's Final fantasy vii compilation as eidos.avi I corrected the colors a bit with adobe premier. Please give credit to OathkeepersRedRose and subscribe to her channel on youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/OathkeepersRedRose#p/u/34/6XK8CUVEF2s

2. Crisis Core ending by Ryu Hayabusa (go subscribe http://www.youtube.com/user/Nurullah1200).: I edited the credits and last scene with Cloud and placed a nice transition to the "continue in ffvii" part.

3. Opening avi by Grimmy http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=8414.msg101495#msg101495 in combination with the technical demo. I could say that I did some work on those two to combine the scene with the train and the Cloud scene from Crisis Core.

Here are the links- DO NEVER FORGET TO BACK UP WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO REPLACE! (tell ME that )) ):

*UPDATE* Currently remaking the opening.avi to achieve better quality. I'll try 1280X940 resolution since I noticed subtitles with Cloud on train are half chopped.

*UPDATE!!!* 6 a.m.! lol worked all night to prepare my new preview I would just love to listen to your opinion (and that's just the preview ). I have cleared the sound with some filters for the original version. Here's the link on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGQcBmoV6FY&feature=youtu.be

opening.avi

*UPDATE* After returning back home from an amazing International Iaido/Jodo seminar in Sofia (Bulgaria), I've tried a few things and ended up with a wonderful quality of video and sound that actually works with the game !!!  Here are some sample shots for the sqlogo.avi redone from start with insane quality of video and sound for the game's intro. Thanks DLPB for his support. Enjoy!

http://img3.imageshack.us/slideshow/webplayer.php?id=ff72012022718171294.jpg

sqlogo.avi updated links:
sqlogo.part1.rar
sqlogo.part2.rar
sqlogo.part3.rar


backup:

sqlogo.part1.rar
sqlogo.part2.rar
sqlogo.part3.rar


For full speed!!! Peeje links:
sqlogo.part1.rar
sqlogo.part2.rar
sqlogo.part3.rar


Filetrip link:

sqlogo.avi

Tell me what you think !

Now working on opening.avi... it's becoming very good! I have corrected some things but it needs some work to become better...

***UPDATE*** Finally I'm releasing my 2 last videos and I can say I complete my trilogy setup for FFVII FMV intro remake (quadrology if you include prelude too)

New links are:
New opening.avi: https://rapidshare.com/files/3139351966/opening.avi (For full speed!!! Peeje link: New opening.avi Remade from start! 1280X896 res. Combined Crisis Core secret ending with various Technical Demo releases, with a retro twist transition from the old FFVII opening. If sound is not perfect in some points it's not my fault, believe me I've spent hours dealing with the equalizer to correct the original source file which had bad quality sound. I need to thank UGerstl for his help last night when my project crashed because of a png file and he made it work! Without him I would work from start... So thank you man!

Filetrip link:

New opening.avi

preview by Archerxtreme on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbnpmS2ohl4&context=C48ca48bADvjVQa1PpcFON8X5xp2m6EABAN--vcxXC-gwxQkEwSHA=

Preview snapshots: http://img813.imageshack.us/slideshow/webplayer.php?id=vlcsnap2012030117h47m15.png

youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30UtKuQ3sTg

eidoslogo.avi: https://rapidshare.com/files/3698015579/eidoslogo.avi (For full speed!!! Peeje link: eidoslogo.avi 1280X960 res. Corrected the color a bit if you want you can keep the old file too.


Bonus files:
Prelude with Sephiroth Cloud background and cast credits if you don't want the little pictures replacement like in the original modded prelude

Original modded file: http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=8414.msg101495#msg101495

My setup (for those who don't understand how lgps work - read the "read me.txt"-): http://www.peejeshare.com/files/363238353/Sephiroth_Cloud_prelude.rar.html

and backup (RS link-slow)

Of course any suggestion or contribution or even if you want my adobe premier project files are available for public use by anyone asking me.

I think if you start the game with those videos and prelude screen will be the ultimate experience for some fans .

Always give credit to real artists! Thanks and keep internet free!!!

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Releases / Re: Replacement FMVs for FFVII

« on: 2012-02-20 12:47:22 »

I've been planning to redo my older mods like that one to use higher resolution images in modpath. After doing that it would make it easy for you to mix and match it with the other modpath prelude so you could have pics and names.

Thank you so much! That would be great!

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Releases / Re: Upscaled Magic Textures

« on: 2012-02-20 12:46:11 »

I was wondering if I have to add a mod path as textures because I noticed it's Bootleg by default in opengl.cfg with lots of pngs there. If I want to add a path I add it with comma? ex. mod_path = bootleg, textures. Do we put the png files in textures or in Bootleg? Thanks!

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Solved Problems / SOLVED: Step by step ffVII intro fmv skipping

« on: 2012-02-20 00:05:46 »

I use my own fmv that I renamed as sqlogo.avi. I renamed my sqlogo avi (which is apparently a non official ff video which i converted to use in the game) into eidoslogo.avi and I renamed sqlogo.avi into sqlogo_bkp.avi so the program will not be able to use it (yes I tried leaving it as a dummy video too). As I formerly reported when I press A button in my xbox controller it keeps skiping the video and goes straight to the loading screen (I use the background with Crisis Core Cloud). Either I'm doing something wrong nor there's no way to reach the prelude screen without watching the whole sqlogo or eidoslogo video. Thanks for replying but I'm still searching a way to solve this. Until then I'm preparing a new fmv for sqlogo and opening from crisis core ending mixed with the technical demo which I hope to release in your forum when it's finished. Thank you!

@Leonhart7413: You are totally right, when you make any input (keyboard, mouse,
                            xbox controller, ...) the movie ends and the prelude screen is not shown.

• Start FF7
  
• Show movie eidoslogo.avi    IF any input THEN GOTO loading screen
• Show movie sqlogo.avi         IF any input THEN GOTO loading screen
• Show prelude screen            IF any input THEN GOTO loading screen
  
• loading screen

I wish there was a command line to skip video by video to the prelude screen. Thanks!

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Releases / Re: Upscaled Magic Textures

« on: 2012-02-19 23:52:50 »

Wow fresh release! I will try that and I will post when I have time, I'm working on some intro videos till then! Thanks!

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Releases / Re: [REL] Menu Overhaul Project

« on: 2012-02-19 17:29:53 »

@Leonhart7413: You are totally right, when you make any input (keyboard, mouse,
                            xbox controller, ...) the movie ends and the prelude screen is not shown.

• Start FF7
  
  
• Show movie eidoslogo.avi    IF any input THEN GOTO loading screen
  
• Show movie sqlogo.avi         IF any input THEN GOTO loading screen
  
• Show prelude screen            IF any input THEN GOTO loading screen
  
  
• loading screen

Thanks for confirming... i wish there was a command line to skip step by step.

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Releases / Re: [REL] Menu Overhaul Project

« on: 2012-02-19 16:48:35 »

You could try just deleting that video? i tried it and it works and goes straight to the prelude

Thanks for dealing with this issue. Well as you understand I use my own fmv that I renamed as sqlogo.avi. Now after following your instructions I renamed my sqlogo avi (which is apparently a non official ff video which i converted to use in the game) into eidoslogo.avi and I renamed sqlogo.avi into sqlogo_bkp.avi so the program will not be able to use it. As I formerly reported when I press A button in my xbox controller it keeps skiping the video and goes straight to the loading screen (I use the background with Crisis Core Cloud). Either I'm doing something wrong nor there's no way to reach the prelude screen without watching the whole sqlogo or eidoslogo video. Thanks for replying but I'm still searching a way to solve this. Until then I'm preparing a new fmv for sqlogo and opening from crisis core ending mixed with the technical demo which I hope to release in your forum when it's finished. Thank you!

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Graphical / Re: WIP Tifa

« on: 2012-02-19 13:48:44 »

I thought the field Tifa model with the red skirt was just for some part of the game and I installed it. Now I'm looking for the original but not that blocky one or the updated. I wish there was a high res model of the original Tifa with updated graphics like this one! Well I found the AC model but with the skirt which does not match with the game timeline exactly...

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Releases / Re: [REL/FF7] JordieBo's Opening Credits

« on: 2012-02-19 13:43:11 »

Since Megaupload is no more, does anyone still have these files and want to upload them somewhere like mediafire or something? I do have them, but they're hidden away somewhere in my hard drive and I really can't be bothered to find them.

Thanks

I uploaded 3 more links just in case.

JordieBo's Opening Credits [DARK].rar http://www.mediafire.com/?mlvz42ats259mc0

JordieBo's Opening Credits [GLOW].rar http://www.mediafire.com/?j0vy3yyf823slc2

JordieBo's Opening Credits.rar http://www.mediafire.com/?inx5q1s001yldzt

The least I could contribute to the community...
Hope to have contributed

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Releases / Re: [REL] Menu Overhaul Project

« on: 2012-02-19 13:38:48 »

Hi Leonhart7413,

to skip sqlogo.avi you can use a dummy movie like this:
   http://www.mediafire.com/?eaxi86a195qabpn

Hey thanks for replying. I thought of that. Tried renaming my eidoslogo.avi dummy file into sqlogo.avi and sqlogo.avi into eidoslogo.avi, but it skips direct to the loading screen

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Releases / Re: Replacement FMVs for FFVII

« on: 2012-02-19 13:23:20 »

Is there a way to skip sqlogo.avi without skipping credits so as to directly watch credits. I use new_prelude mod with Sephiroth Cloud backgroung and I was also wondering if there's any way to load the little pictures with the names at the same time. I used the cr png file, deleted the background pngs so now it loads the names without the pictures. Thanks for any help provided!

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Releases / Re: [REL] Menu Overhaul Project

« on: 2012-02-19 13:15:30 »

I played on a 32" crt tv i think everything looked small kos of the cable i used ah well doesn't matter anymore i switched back to my normal pc monitor

I'm on 32'' Samsung lcd widescreen. I use 1920x1080 resolution in opengl.cfg, videos encoded in 1280x960. DLPB's menu overhaul mod with break9999limit disabled. Looks fine . I wonder if there's any way to skip sqlogo.avi without skipping prelude credits. I use new prelude with Sephiroth Cloud Background.

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Graphical / Re: [REL] ICE mod by kela51

« on: 2012-02-18 13:54:08 »

Just this... For iceIII Tex and ice rock files into magic.lgp? And png files? Thanks!

sorry I found the tutorial http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=12008.msg167432#msg167432

(solved)

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Graphical / Re: FFVIII Retexturing

« on: 2012-02-14 19:20:57 »

Any chance reaching this detail level?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qEBq8vRACXo/TqDYiyRimvI/AAAAAAAAAwE/GI4d2gmkQLg/s1600/8-squall-c2.jpg

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQeTvzOYJ50QCsqvseSOAuUy1KsVTHcikjQhlMJuT8-YatQKWI1g-XdBCqlgQ

I wish... really! I'll donate such project if it's possible.

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FF7 Tools / Re: [WIP] sfxEdit 0.2 --- sound effects dumper / encoder

« on: 2012-02-12 21:29:43 »

I did but I have the old sounds now. At least I can listen to them...

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FF7 Tools / Re: [WIP] sfxEdit 0.2 --- sound effects dumper / encoder

« on: 2012-02-12 17:43:05 »

My audio .dat file is 0kb! I can't find it anywhere. I forgot to back it up. When I type e do i need to type the path of the folder where the program recovers the wav files? When I just type e the program exits. The folder needs to have only the wav files? Please help! I can't hear any sounds now

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FF7Voice / Re: FF7 Voice Auditions

« on: 2012-02-12 16:18:52 »

If you need voice actors/actresses you can contact http://www.youtube.com/user/FFVIIIVoices?ob=0

They have already finished with half of ff8. Maybe think to use their lines for ff8 too

Peace!

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Graphical / Re: [WIP] FL's Battle-Scene/World-map Enhancement

« on: 2011-08-18 06:24:50 »

I am beginning to be concerned that these mods will draw negative attention from Square-Enix... They are so hq, if they want to make a new FF7 it's almost like it will be 3rd version.

haha +1000 modders are in dawn of a new ff7 since they unleashed those "dogs" it's hard to hold them caged anymore :D

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Graphical / Re: [REL/WIP/FF7] Fort Condor ReTexturing/ReModeling

« on: 2011-08-18 05:29:03 »

Fantastic! Wonderful job everyone! Time for me to give some credits for all the hard work that has been done in your community! I haven't slept for ages, finished modding crysis apart from the new weapon mods with the new physics, and took a break to setup a clean install off ffvii in my new 4 core i5 pc with the mods. Encountered a lot of issues with shaders though and I turned them off. I'm currently keeping char.lgp open have already copied FF7-PRP's contents only for char, but I noticed that DLPB proposed to include your remodeling in a new Overhaul setup. Is this true? I'm not going to close my char lgp then. I wish there was a fully new remix with all the mods together! Good luck with your work! Love it!