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FF7 Tools / Re: 7thHeaven

« on: 2013-08-14 13:35:47 »

Well that solves that... I'll have to work from some other angle to get you to update this.

You can copy/paste from a text editor like Notepad++ multiple lines of catalog subs:

Code: [Select]

iros://Url/http$pastebin.com/raw.php?i=Rct9XwiQ
iros://Url/http$pastebin.com/raw.php?i=dYPnEQHP
I did receive approval to use Team Avalanche assets for a Qhimm.com mod catalog so the work is continuing as planned on a full bootleg+ uninstaller.

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FF7 Tools / Re: 7thHeaven

« on: 2013-08-14 13:16:33 »

Hmm yes. Thank you for the clarification. This is working as you describe.

I think it may be preferable to make it so it replaces the catalog.xml to avoid conflicting mod versions. But I see that it may not be necessary, If you change subscriptions in the settings, it won't automatically update mods from the old subscription, but it will if you change the settings back to the old sub and then update it. Which is perfectly logical. I wonder if it's possible to have multiple subscriptions, but it's maybe best not to do that either. I almost wish you could kind of lock it to where only certain subscriptions could be used, but that sorta defeats the purpose, in a way. I just know that's what SE would prefer.

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FF7 Tools / Re: 7thHeaven

« on: 2013-08-14 13:01:14 »

Oh, cool. I'll keep that in mind. I guess then maybe it's just an issue with changing subscriptions completely? Like if I try to go back and forth between different subs I've made they won't change unless I delete that file?

I actually cant get the version number to change. Through testing my random battle model pack went up to 1.08. Either way the info in 7H always says 1.00 and the date it was added to the library, not when the mod was released.

Even in the mod.xml you are setting the version number and it's not showing for an imported mod either? 

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FF7 Tools / Re: 7thHeaven

« on: 2013-08-14 11:58:14 »

Doing some testing with the catalog, Iros. I'm starting to get my motivation back on this. There is a problem with recent version on catalog refresh, you have to physically delete the local users\*.*\7thWorkshop\catalog.xml file I think to actually update your catalog if versions change or anything is added etc. Starting to do the preview images... major time sink. But it's one of the bling features of 7thHeaven so it would be lame to ignore it.

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Graphical / Re: [WIP] Tifa

« on: 2013-08-14 11:17:14 »

He's got this. Give him some time! Anyway, I wouldn't want it to look exactly like the Dissidia model. It's a Bloodshot original. I guess since it's Tifa one of the most important parts to get right is the bust... and it seems like she's gotten older here. Is it easy to raise her boobs a little? Maybe just make her waist lower? I just thought her belly button and her bust were a bit too close together.

This artist seems to think Tifa would have her belt above her belly button... but that doesn't seem right either. Still, she's got those long abs/torso you see with gym-rat girls.

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Releases / Re: Final Fantasy VII OST Symphonic Remaster

« on: 2013-08-14 10:45:58 »

The only reason I would bother offering feedback is because these are very HQ to begin with so improvement is worthwhile:

I had to look up overmodulation to make sure we were talking about the same thing, but I think Kaldarasha is pretty much spot on about the recordings.

Overmodulation is the condition that prevails in telecommunication when the instantaneous level of the modulating signal exceeds the value necessary to produce 100% modulation of the carrier. In the sense of this definition, it is almost always considered a fault condition. In layman's terms, the signal is going "off the scale". Overmodulation results in spurious emissions by the modulated carrier, and distortion of the recovered modulating signal. This means that the envelope of the output waveform is distorted.

Although overmodulation is sometimes considered permissible, it should not occur in practice; a distorted waveform envelope will result in a distorted output signal of the receiving medium

The levels on your recordings are "spikey" as a sound guy at a club would say. It's "clipping" going in, so it's clipping going out. I'm no audio expert so I could be wrong, but I am a little bit of an audiophile so I wouldn't just toss out the criticism. Again, I want to stress that these are already very high quality. A lot of people will love them even if you don't touch them again. But for some people they might be a little too "live".

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Re: Fade in / Fade out

« on: 2013-08-13 22:21:12 »

yeah, maybe it's because MIDI was impossible to fix. Hadn't considered that. I wonder what the MIDIs act like under unconverted ff7--you'd think I woulda checked.

If I can get Vex to let me convert her XM/XM Timidity++ huge_pats soundtrack to looping .ogg I'll probably mostly stop whining about MIDI. Anyway, it was meant to be a humorous derailment. Making the onscreen fadeout is certainly useful. The title of the thread had me pretty excited--it was funny to me but you had to be there.

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Re: Fade in / Fade out

« on: 2013-08-13 22:10:54 »

I was expecting this to be your inevitable fix for the MIDI problems. But this is almost as good..... *cries a little*

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Graphical / Re: [WIP] Tifa

« on: 2013-08-13 22:08:33 »

Pretty hard to be disappointed with that...

but I'm maybe cynical and morose enough to pull it off:

nope, she's hot.

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Releases / Re: Final Fantasy VII OST Symphonic Remaster

« on: 2013-08-13 22:05:43 »

I had considered turning the huge pats XM soundtrack to .ogg but I won't do it unless Vexacious gives permission. I think they are that good that I would take the time.

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Releases / Re: Final Fantasy VII OST Symphonic Remaster

« on: 2013-08-13 11:33:54 »

Have a look at ffmpeg. I really like the concept of these 2 videos, they are the first of their kind. To match the superb quality of your soundtrack, the encoded video should be swapped. Great work, thanks very much for sharing it.

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Releases / Re: Final Fantasy VII OST Symphonic Remaster

« on: 2013-08-13 09:45:56 »

Do loop points work the same between ff7Music and the 2012/STEAM .ogg plugin?

I listened to some of these on Youtube and they are fantastic. 

Looked at the two movies but the quality of the actual video is low, while the audio is superior--are they meant to just have their audio ripped from? The opening video looked stretched vertically... 

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Graphical / Re: [WIP] "Model"

« on: 2013-08-13 09:24:13 »

Well... I'm going with Airbuster?

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FF7 Tools / Re: 7thHeaven

« on: 2013-08-13 01:51:18 »

Because it's a Team Avalanche asset, make sure to clear it with SL1982 before redistributing the sweeper model.

I've attempted to get permissions for redistribution of TA files in iro format. SL1982 asked me to wait until he's had a chance to look at 7thHeaven. It's perfectly understandable and that's why I sent out a form letter for that, and it's part of my excuse for not having a subscription ready. It doesn't really matter for me though, the "bootleg subscription" will be meant to be compatible with actual bootleg40, so if you have the Sweepers from a TA hi-res/bootleg40 install the sweeper being in the iro is not necessary, and indeed, it wont be there unless I do get permission. Neither will the world map overhaul or anything else that comes from an official Team Avalanche mod. The exception being Timu&Millenia's Barret, which I have received special permission for.

On this same subject I have made some progress with the rescaling of TA menus and I am hopeful that I will get the go ahead to distribute them. If not, oh well, I have them, haha. They have not been altered in any way other than various attempts to alleviate artifacts at high internal resolutions without creating new ones, and they are not complete.   

I suspect if SL has any misgivings about 7thHeaven it will be the potential for unofficial subscriptions full of contraband mods.

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Troubleshooting / Re: FFVII on French and how to change controller?

« on: 2013-08-13 00:58:38 »

well that shouldn't be happening tho. if you don't mention it we can't debug it. I use a slightly altered numpad format always and it stats that way in bootlegged ff7, 2012 and steam.

is it really just in the name screen it changes to numpad? or... idk can u be more specific? im on a phone

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FF7 Tools / Re: 7thHeaven

« on: 2013-08-12 11:49:56 »

The real issue with that is that you have to download the whole iro file before configuring which one you want - if you have 10 separate mods, at least you're only downloading the one(s) you're interested in. If you pack all 10 into a 1GB iro file, then you end up downloading them entire thing even if you really only wanted one particular set of models.

I don't know what other people prefer, but I'd rather have lots of smaller mods, than 15 huge ones that each take a lot longer to download. It makes it a lot easier to just try things out.

One of the reasons I want to do it this way is to avoid bugs. Many times when you change a model, it affects a group of other models that also use some of the same files. If I have known sets of models that have been fixed specifically so they don't conflict with each other, I would rather use those then have people constantly running into little bugs they've created for themselves by using 2 incompatible small mods which they then have to try to figure out which one needs to be swapped etc.

This is part of the reason more and more people started using bootleg. PitBrat and the rest of his team of shadowy figures (VGR) fixed a list of bugs a km long. But the files had to be put together in a certain way if you want to use the chibis... and a certain way if you want to use this particular difficulty mod with this particular model... and it just goes on and on.

Most of the people you see coming through Qhimm are trying to figure out how to use EQ2Alyza's 17GB torrent. It's a monoblock, you can't break it apart. 10 1GB mods in a catalog people can look through and then choose 2 to actually download, which will cover every type of mod, plus Omzy's field pack doesn't seem so bad. The more advanced or obsessive folks are downloading individual mods... only one of them is really big (Omzy's) the rest are almost all small groups of files that may or may not do more than they are designed to do. Bootleg works one way... installing those groups of small mods in the proper order and making changes to them during the install process so that you don't have to know the tricks.

This will work similarly, but the compromise for the instant uninstall/swap features you've created will be slightly larger mod size for the "bootleg subscription", which will give people the stability and versatility that bootleg offers. I'm just going to start calling it that because what I'm trying with this catalog is to emulate the "meat" of bootleg. Another factor is that there will always be the ability to create alternate subscriptions if people would prefer: a Tifa's torrent style catalog with every possible bootleg mod (there's the 100-150 mods in the catalog at once), a plain old movie catalog. Then perhaps in the future something will come along to do all of the external things like convert the game, configure and run the TA installer/s, ff7music, set up 7thHeaven and your preferred subscription, organize a VHD.     

I guess I'll put up a test catalog in the next few days and see what you think.

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FF7 Tools / Re: 7thHeaven

« on: 2013-08-12 10:39:28 »

Sure, that's what config options are for. They let you turn folders in the mod on/off. The wrapper doesn't really care whether the folder you turned on has char.lgp with 10 files in it, or with 1000 files in it, it works just the same.

I get it. So much for 150 mods in the catalog. There will be like 15 and those will spread out into hundreds of options.

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FF7 Tools / Re: 7thHeaven

« on: 2013-08-12 09:35:12 »

Iros--7thHeaven got boring with no bugs in it. Can you add some broken features for me to test?
The xml is mind-numbing, but it works on everything I try. The only people I know of working on the complex vars are Kaldarasha and cmh175, is there a listing of all the possible variables somewhere? I'm too tired to look through the whole thread, and now I wish I hadn't made so many posts in it.

Working slowly on subscription catalog xml... it's getting very very long and hard to edit, I'm concerned about how inconvenient it will be to have 150 different mods pop up in the catalog window. The individual mod.xmls I have in mind are kinda nightmarish in scope. I basically want to write xmls that will allow you to configure a whole bootleg40 clone setup off 1 iro. I don't mean a package that has all the PRP models and this and that--I mean you can actually configure the iro to switch from the PRP package to Kaldarasha's unshaded to Squallff8 to Chibis from 1 installed iro.

***Iros, is it already possible to pack a single iro with multiple copies of the same file that have different data in them? Like, char.lgp1 char.lgp2 char.lgp3 for a config option that will change out a whole lgp file? I want to pack an iro with like 15 different char.lgps and 15 different battle.lgps.

I really don't want to put it up until I am pretty much done with it so I can take a break when I am ready instead of testing and changing it after it's been posted. So the 2 days thing was obviously a pipe dream. DLPB has set October for a tentative release of Menu Overhaul. I plan to have a live subscription catalog running sometime in September, and when Retranslation is released, the flevel (mode changer) mods will start to get put up.

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Troubleshooting / Re: FFVII on French and how to change controller?

« on: 2013-08-12 03:10:12 »

in the menu there is custom controller configuration options. Have fun 

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Troubleshooting / Re: FFVII on French and how to change commands?

« on: 2013-08-12 02:52:23 »

STEAM install? Or 2012 from Square Enix?

If it's STEAM you really need to make sure you pick your language in STEAM game settings first before installing GameConverter9b and then bootleg. That way you'll have the proper translated movies.

In bootleg you need to choose the following option:


Menu Overhaul's Retranslation is for English only.

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2013-08-12 00:42:43 »

That said, am I correct in my assumption that my crummy laptop video is compatible with the Nightmare mod and the Menu Overhaul? I'm not concerned about the HD graphics, but I'd like to be able to use the gameplay upgrades.

Should be fine, but don't install the Retranslation with Menu Overhaul.
What integrated processor do you have? I think the HD4000 can pretty much run most of the graphics mods, maybe not the Avalanche Hi-Res summons.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Random Links

« on: 2013-08-11 23:42:25 »

David Bowie is a phenomenon. Have any of you guys ever seen him in the movie "The Man who Fell to Earth"? 1976... Slightly creepy. He is fantastic in that film, in my opinion. It is so artsy it would probably make most people vomit, but I like old strange things. Was shocked a pop star was capable of such depth when I saw it. Then I got into more and more of his music. His career, his style, his voice--unique.

Other pop stars who make surprisingly good actors (subjective so yeah, some of this is crap probably and I have bad taste):

Cher - "Moonstruck" - Nick Cage is good in this. He lost the edge somewhere later. Also - "Mask", good performance from the singer, but inevitably mellow-dramatic film.

Mark Wahlberg - Can't recommend "The Basketball Diaries" unless you already know a little about heroin or Jim Carroll (early 80s punk song--"People who Died"--he did in 2009) and Marky Mark is barely in this, but Leonardo Di Carpio is surprisingly authentic in his role as Carroll. Did Wahlberg maybe buy an extra soul to work with somewhere between "Boogie Nights" and "The Fighter"?

Tina Turner - "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" - Well, she's had it pretty rough, guys. She was friends with Ayrton Senna and that's enough for me.

Sting - Despite his rather lazy and disinterested performance in "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" one can never forget his appearance wearing a Batman-style speedo in David Lynch's "Dune".

Iggy Pop - Considering he is famous for being impossible to work with, this guy is super busy on the American TV scene. Personally I think he deserves a mention simply for having a credited cameo role in "The Color of Money", a film that helped solidify Tom Cruise's career not just as a pretty face, but a methodical actor.

Barbara Streisand & Bette Midler - Together because they are fantastic on screen, in the studio, and on stage. It's a bit unfair that Barbara is now probably known by several generations only as Grandma Focker, and that Bette is probably hardly remembered at all, although she was Johnny Carson's last guest and sang him a lovely farewell. Midler is pretty unforgettable in "Scenes from a Mall", if you can stand Woody Allen's movies.

Ringo Starr - Failures like his title role in "Caveman" can not possibly take away from the undeniable success that is sure to be "Powerpuff Girls: Dance Pants R-EVIL-ution", which is soon to be released. But we shouldn't overlook his role for 20 episodes as Mr. Conductor of the Shining Time Station show.


Prince - Purple Rain. Please. Dude was definitely in his prime and the performance is stellar.

Tom Waits - Not exactly a pop star, not exactly a serious actor, either. But the camera likes him even if his face is worn, or maybe because of it. "The Book of Eli" is made more interesting for adding his characteristically hoarse voice. If you look close, you may catch him in an uncredited role as a homeless person in "The Fisher King", a film worthy of Waits's soulful approach to everything.

Meatloaf - Staggering filmography goes from "Rocky Horror Picture Show" to "Fight Club" to, oh, let's just not talk about what happened with Gary Busey.

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Aali's Custom FF7/FF8 Driver / Re: Aali's driver [v 0.7.11b] Help/Bugs/Suggestions

« on: 2013-08-11 19:14:14 »

If I had some sort of lead, I could imagine spending a lot of time trying to fix the exe. It's just not within my capabilities and no one else cares. Poor ol' MIDI got left behind...

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2013-08-11 19:11:12 »

Tifa's Package

Tifa's Package - [Torrent] All Mods For Bootleg Configurator

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2013-08-11 05:02:32 »

Thank you. Fixed it. Not sure why it was working perfectly fine before but wouldn't work now. Also it didn't tell me which it was trying to access. So I just copied it from the lang-en foulder and put it in the other one.(Took awhile because I was having a frustrating time getting the graphics program to work right. Wasn't saving)

Yeah, it should only be the files in that lang-en folder that are involved, and maybe it is just that one. I can never tell who is gonna be able to handle swapping files like that, but I suppose it is a lot easier than reinstalling bootleg. EQ2Alyza is pretty much always right. Why are women always right???