Author Topic: [FF7] Original and Outdated Tutorial - Bootleg Configurator (Read 1952543 times)

piccolo113 · « **Reply #2650 on:** 2013-07-19 04:02:27 »

Is there any way at all to get the Romeo 14 AC Materia to actually install when using the Menu Overhaul? Are the specific png files for them located anywhere so I could just manually replace them in the \menu folder?

Template · « **Reply #2651 on:** 2013-07-19 05:54:10 »

Quote from: piccolo113 on 2013-07-19 04:02:27

Is there any way at all to get the Romeo 14 AC Materia to actually install when using the Menu Overhaul? Are the specific png files for them located anywhere so I could just manually replace them in the \menu folder?

If you don't install the avalanche GUI (which isn't fully compatible with Menu Overhaul) these should work. They have been altered because I'm colorblind and the yellow and green were tough for me to tell apart. Credit goes to DLPB and of course to Romeo14. Idk if this is what you meant by AC materia, there's an option in bootleg for Romeo14 AC materia field models but they look very different from this.
They aren't perfect, I'm aware. I don't use them anymore and I don't remember how I got ahold of them. I think they just come from Menu Overhaul, but bootleg doesn't make it easy to get them to show up.

DraigoDragon · « **Reply #2652 on:** 2013-07-19 12:18:48 »

Does this work with windows 8...

This Is very Important my life depends on It >.>

Firefox23 · « **Reply #2653 on:** 2013-07-19 16:03:33 »

I'm using windows 8 and everything works fine on my system just remember to deactivate compatibility mode in windows

edit: and activate win7 compatibility for FF7Music

Vgr · « **Reply #2654 on:** 2013-07-19 16:49:45 »

Quote from: jdwells648 on 2013-07-19 02:00:41

Tried running bootleg and i get an error, "Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. Access to the path C:\Users\Jon\Desktop\bootleg mod\BFE.ini is denied.

Install Bootleg, along with the game, in another folder than the desktop.

piccolo113 · « **Reply #2655 on:** 2013-07-20 02:39:55 »

Quote from: Template on 2013-07-19 05:54:10

If you don't install the avalanche GUI (which isn't fully compatible with Menu Overhaul) these should work. They have been altered because I'm colorblind and the yellow and green were tough for me to tell apart. Credit goes to DLPB and of course to Romeo14. Idk if this is what you meant by AC materia, there's an option in bootleg for Romeo14 AC materia field models but they look very different from this.
They aren't perfect, I'm aware. I don't use them anymore and I don't remember how I got ahold of them. I think they just come from Menu Overhaul, but bootleg doesn't make it easy to get them to show up.

Yeah, I read in this thread or another that the Menu Overhaul overwrites the materia texture choice. I also did see your brightened materia textures there, too. I manually put them in the \menu folder, replacing the files of the same name to test them out. I was looking to see if anyone had the specific .png files for Romeo14's AC style Materia that would be otherwise installed by checking the box shown in the pic. I believe the materia shown above that are what they look like, but I'd like to see them in-game to decide if I like them or not. Hard to decide when the installation won't let me try, ya know?

Template · « **Reply #2656 on:** 2013-07-20 02:58:10 »

The AC materias that look cloudy like that are field textures, they aren't for the menu, afaik. I think If you want to try them you need to not make any changes to the materia choices in the models tab.

piccolo113 · « **Reply #2657 on:** 2013-07-20 04:14:30 »

Are you sure? I found an old closed thread started by romeo14 talking about his materias and he had screenshots of the menus.

Said thread: http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=9397.0

Megaupload doesn't exist anymore, though, so I can't even download the materias that he was showing off there, let alone the ones that are in bootleg front end.

Template · « **Reply #2658 on:** 2013-07-20 04:34:16 »

Quote from: piccolo113 on 2013-07-20 04:14:30

Are you sure? I found an old closed thread started by romeo14 talking about his materias and he had screenshots of the menus.

Said thread: http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=9397.0

Megaupload doesn't exist anymore, though, so I can't even download the materias that he was showing off there, let alone the ones that are in bootleg front end.

Not positive, but yeah pretty sure. Can't you tell the ones I uploaded are basically the same ones you linked to?
Edit: Can't blame you if you don't want to use my revision of them, but it is at least proof you can get them through the installers if you just figure out where. I suggest not allowing windows to install the avalanche GUI (download a new copy of it if you need to so it will give you the option to cancel the isntaller) during bootleg so it skips it safely, and completely unchecking the menu overhaul install thru bootleg. Install Menu Overhaul with "Standard Overhaul Graphics" and "Grimmys Colored menu items" checked. I think that's how I got the original .pngs to show up in my DK folder. Then you have to cut everything from DK, all the folders, and paste them to the bootleg folder, overwrite the few items, and reset your modpath in bootloader to bootleg. kind of a lot to go through to get the original pngs.

PitBrat · « **Reply #2659 on:** 2013-07-20 05:15:51 »

The materia graphics are from this Team Avalanche thread.

Links to the original post:
Romeo14's Materia

Alternate Versions:
Version 1
Version 2
Version 3

piccolo113 · « **Reply #2660 on:** 2013-07-20 07:15:52 »

You are awesome for diggin those up for me, PitBrat. Sorry to put you through so much trouble, I seem to be lacking in my searching and skimming skills.

Sadly, Romeo14's download is invalid as Megaupload was killed last year. Those other ones, though....I could copy those and edit them into the relevant png files manually, huh?

Template: I didn't mean to sound like I was puttin' your designs down, I just want to pop in a bunch of different ones and compare. I haven't settled on which ones I want to use for good quite yet. Yours are awesome, though

Largos · « **Reply #2661 on:** 2013-07-20 13:46:05 »

Ok:

Uninstalled the game and steam.
Installed Steam outside of Program Files, installed FF7.
Disabled Firewall, went through convertor, noticed that while it's processing movies, it comes up with a few errors about not having 'part1' in the ff7_enhanced_movies_1 location.
Though there are a bunch of files, part1.avi is not in there.
I'm using the graphics driver given above from Template.
Run bootleg, mount drive, set resolution and write config.
Still getting the 2 title screens fine, but when the game starts I get music, but only 3 big red triangles again.
Have added exceptions for files marked with anti virus, and added programs to 3d graphics list.
Running files as Admin.
Graphics settings are set to:
Display: Primary Display Driver
Render Using: Custom Driver
Can't seem to crack this problem. Any help greatly appreciated.

Template · « **Reply #2662 on:** 2013-07-20 13:54:49 »

Quote from: Largos on 2013-07-20 13:46:05

Graphics settings are set to:
Display: Primary Display Driver
Render Using: Custom Driver
Can't seem to crack this problem. Any help greatly appreciated.

Hiya, can you post the contents of your APP.log text file located in your main ff7 game directory?

Template · « **Reply #2663 on:** 2013-07-20 14:14:51 »

Quote from: piccolo113 on 2013-07-20 07:15:52

I haven't settled on which ones I want to use for good quite yet. Yours are awesome, though

Thanks much appreciated, just was more trying to point out the confusion about the Romeo14 Advent Materia, which, unless I'm seriously just getting senile early are field models you'll see out in the wild, but not in the menu. I definitely could be wrong, but it would make me kinda question my memory skills. Perhaps at one point they were also adapted for menu graphics? We miss you Romeo14, wherever you are... (I didn't know him, lol).

blargh double post.

Kompass63 · « **Reply #2664 on:** 2013-07-20 15:10:10 »

Quote from: Largos on 2013-07-20 13:46:05

Still getting the 2 title screens fine, but when the game starts I get music, but only 3 big red triangles again.

If you have an AMD Graphic card:

Quote

Before you install the 13.5Beta2, it may be necessary to uninstall the current display driver.
The 13.5 may not overwrite the current driver.
The Catalyst 13.5Beta2 contains the display driver version 12.102.3.0 from April-16-2013.

If this does not help, turn off shaders.

piccolo113 · « **Reply #2665 on:** 2013-07-21 01:16:34 »

Quote from: Template on 2013-07-20 14:14:51

Thanks much appreciated, just was more trying to point out the confusion about the Romeo14 Advent Materia, which, unless I'm seriously just getting senile early are field models you'll see out in the wild, but not in the menu. I definitely could be wrong, but it would make me kinda question my memory skills. Perhaps at one point they were also adapted for menu graphics? We miss you Romeo14, wherever you are... (I didn't know him, lol).

blargh double post.

I think you're right about them being textures for the field-found materia. The Steal and Sense materias did kind of look like the ones in the installer.

Well, that settles that, then. Now it's time to see about editing in some materias into the .png's....I am curious, though. are the files "btl_win_b_l_02.png", "btl_win_b_l_03.png", "btl_win_b_l_04.png", "btl_win_b_l_05.png", and "btl_win_b_l_06.png" the only relevant files that need to be edited to change all instances of the Materia in the menus? Or should I go through all of the files and replace every single one?

Template · « **Reply #2666 on:** 2013-07-21 01:34:32 »

Quote from: piccolo113 on 2013-07-21 01:16:34

I think you're right about them being textures for the field-found materia. The Steal and Sense materias did kind of look like the ones in the installer.

Well, that settles that, then. Now it's time to see about editing in some materias into the .png's....I am curious, though. are the files "btl_win_b_l_02.png", "btl_win_b_l_03.png", "btl_win_b_l_04.png", "btl_win_b_l_05.png", and "btl_win_b_l_06.png" the only relevant files that need to be edited to change all instances of the Materia in the menus? Or should I go through all of the files and replace every single one?

As long as you don't install the Avalanche GUI and you are doing this with using Menu Overhaul in mind, those are the only files that need be altered. You need a photo editor that will preserve transparency. MS paint wouldn't so I used a free one on-line. That's probably why mine kinda aren't that great. A monkey could do better but I'm no graphic artist.
If you are having trouble getting exchanged files to "show up", you might wanna check if you are using texture caching, and to just clear the menu cache in the mods folder (if that sounds like gibberish just ignore it and turn texture caching off in bootloader). Still, if you are gonna be editing files you should know about the cache and how it works. I'm not clear if Nvidia people just don't need texture caching or if they have performance issues without it like my poor 6850/960t does.

EQ2Alyza · « **Reply #2667 on:** 2013-07-21 04:26:42 »

Can GIMP preserve transparency?

Syno · « **Reply #2668 on:** 2013-07-21 12:02:39 »

In Wall Market, Cloud become a shadow and the screen is dark with black squares. How can I fix it?

Template · « **Reply #2669 on:** 2013-07-21 13:12:13 »

Quote from: Syno on 2013-07-21 12:02:39

In Wall Market, Cloud become a shadow and the screen is dark with black squares. How can I fix it?

Uh, weird. Try turning off texture caching?

Syno · « **Reply #2670 on:** 2013-07-21 15:19:54 »

In fact, it isn't only happening in Wall Market. I reset the game and all was fine. However, after one hour playing, the same problem occurs in a different place. black squares appears on the screen and, if I go on further, the hole screen become black. I thought my Nvidia GeForce GT650M was the problem but my drivers are ok. I tried to modify options inclunding textures but obviously it didn't work

PitBrat · « **Reply #2671 on:** 2013-07-21 15:26:26 »

I located Romeo14's original materia textures. They're now in The Big List.

MateriaAdd-on.rar Romeo14 Light Materia Texture FILE

Romeo14MateriaFinal.rar Romeo14 Dark Materia Texture FILE

Template · « **Reply #2672 on:** 2013-07-21 15:28:47 »

Quote from: PitBrat on 2013-07-21 15:26:26

I located Romeo14's original materia textures.

Respect. Looked everywhere for those... had given up.

Quote from: Syno on 2013-07-21 15:19:54

In fact, it isn't only happening in Wall Market. I reset the game and all was fine. However, after one hour playing, the same problem occurs in a different place. black squares appears on the screen and, if I go on further, the hole screen become black. I thought my Nvidia GeForce GT650M was the problem but my drivers are ok. I tried to modify options inclunding textures but obviously it didn't work

Almost sounds like your card is overheating. Is it a laptop?

Syno · « **Reply #2673 on:** 2013-07-21 16:30:49 »

yeah but I still don't understand. When I go to a place when black squares appears (in fact, they are already here when I arrive at the place, there aren't more of these who will appear while I'm staying in the same place (when the game doesn't load another place)). And if I go back where I came from (in a place the game has already loaded), there isn't any black squares. Still I don't feel like my laptop is warmer than usual

PS: sorry for my bad English.

Kompass63 · « **Reply #2674 on:** 2013-07-21 16:51:35 »

Quote from: Syno on 2013-07-21 12:02:39

In Wall Market, Cloud become a shadow and the screen is dark with black squares. How can I fix it?

Of FF8 I heard something, but not from FF7.
The only help I can offer, install a different (older or newer) graphics card driver.

Please make a screenshot of it.
For this, however, you need a special program (I use FRAPS), the "Print Screen" button does not work properly in full-screen mode.