Newbie with a question on eazip and biggui

[lenyc]

Ok so like some folks, my game has been crashing. I checked my models.big file and some of the files are uncompressed. I tried to compress them but i would get an error from windows, telling me that biggui crashed.

I have looked on the website for help and i realize that there is a better way to compress with eazip.

My question is how do I extract the files that are uncompressed in models.big? How do I then compress them with eazip? and How do I put them back into models.big.

I can't seem to compress the files using biggui anymore..and as a side note the models.big is not "read only". I have already checked that.

The big problems is biggui keeps crashing on me and i am unable to compress the .fsh, ord files.

Thanks for reading, and I if anyone has any answers please share.

[mcoll]

highlight the fsh file you want wthin biggui then go to the top the program find file, and then there s line says extract. that how you out to a file of its own. to gt get back ionce you finshed doing the work you need done, if you want use biggui such referce the the process and go file import and ask if you want to replace the file answer yes. then ron file menu slect rebuild and wrebuild oit for you. your done. but if you trsctily tlking about a uniform, to get iti back in and safter in my view tryputting the iuniform back in with mvpstuid, eaedit. biggui is a little bit unreible. the only time i use it to put anything back in is if i havlf to put in a a file that the mvpstuid doest handle. like the doddgers have to front sets for there home unis and the front one (red color) as would hve be put back in manully after editing.

[Kriegz]

BigGUI sucks, I use EAZip, you need to make a .bat file similar to Gfxpak

[big shmooz]

Ok so like some folks, my game has been crashing. I checked my models.big file and some of the files are uncompressed. I tried to compress them but i would get an error from windows, telling me that biggui crashed.

I have looked on the website for help and i realize that there is a better way to compress with eazip.

My question is how do I extract the files that are uncompressed in models.big? How do I then compress them with eazip? and How do I put them back into models.big.

I can't seem to compress the files using biggui anymore..and as a side note the models.big is not "read only". I have already checked that.

The big problems is biggui keeps crashing on me and i am unable to compress the .fsh, ord files.

Thanks for reading, and I if anyone has any answers please share.

Don't use biggui to import the files back in. Use eagraph.exe. To export (just in case you can't understand what mcoll86 said) (I can't)...

open biggui & highlight the particular file you want to export. then on top in biggui there is an icon called "export". It will then ask you where you want to export it to. Export it to any place you wish. Then compress it with eazip. You should make a batch file that reads

@ECHO OFF

CLS

Echo Cyberface

Echo.

Echo CAUTION: This will compress your cyberface.

Echo.

pause

Echo Please wait...

eazip -c *.orl

eazip -c *.ord

eazip -c *.fsh

CLS

Echo Successful!

pause

Then name the batch file whatever you want, (xxxxx.bat) (make sure you don't make it a text file.) & put it together with eazip & the files you want to compress all in the same folder. Then run the batch file by double clicking on it. The batch file will then compress the files for you. (you will notice it did this, by seeing that the file size is smaller on the files you compressed)

That's it. Then insert the files back in using eagraph.exe

You're done.

[mcoll]

i even said i dont like biggui, but i was trying to answer the ? look if you guys know me and ive been around awhile i try my best answer and helpful but you also know writing is noytt my strong suite for a number of reasons, but i still try to help. i dont think i do that bably, and am sorry of some aret sure what i say, but i do this the best i'm able to.

i dont take offense and appericate other currecting me.

i agree biggui is the best thing, but for a vary few files its the only way to get them back in. that i kbnow of namely aXXX front files. like the dodgers or twins.

[big shmooz]

i even said i dont like biggui, but i was trying to answer the ? look if you guys know me and ive been around awhile i try my best answer and helpful but you also know writing is noytt my strong suite for a number of reasons, but i still try to help. i dont think i do that bably, and am sorry of some aret sure what i say, but i do this the best i'm able to.

i dont take offense and appericate other currecting me.

i agree biggui is the best thing, but for a vary few files its the only way to get them back in. that i kbnow of namely aXXX front files. like the dodgers or twins.

I was not putting you down at all. That is not my way of doing things.

I was only being honest in saying I did not understand what you had typed. So I tried to make it clearer so others could understand too. I also tried to add some additional info to what you had typed to make it easier for the person to be able to resolve their problem. Please do not take offense at what I said. If I wronged you in any way I do sincerely apologize.

[mcoll]

like i said , no offesne to me and am glad you did. we wher saying the same point, and you add a good way to do it, and cleare way of saying the same thing, so its np.

[lenyc]

I appreciate all the help.

I did what you said big shmooz and my game is still crashing. After I select a stadium, and it can be any stadium, it crashes the loading of the game. I tried this in dynast and exhibition and is crashing.

What could be causing this?

The following files are the only ones I cannot compress and they are f008j.fsh, f008l.fsh, f002a.fsh, f011h.fsh, u006a.fsh, u006b.fsh. Could this be a problem?

I look at my orignal models.big, and those files seem to be the only ones that are not compressed either, so I am guessing thats not the issue.

Any ideas how to rectify the situation would be very helpful.

[big shmooz]

like i said , no offesne to me and am glad you did. we wher saying the same point, and you add a good way to do it, and cleare way of saying the same thing, so its np.

cool.

[big shmooz]

I appreciate all the help.

I did what you said big shmooz and my game is still crashing. After I select a stadium, and it can be any stadium, it crashes the loading of the game. I tried this in dynast and exhibition and is crashing.

What could be causing this?

The following files are the only ones I cannot compress and they are f008j.fsh, f008l.fsh, f002a.fsh, f011h.fsh, u006a.fsh, u006b.fsh. Could this be a problem?

I look at my orignal models.big, and those files seem to be the only ones that are not compressed either, so I am guessing thats not the issue.

Any ideas how to rectify the situation would be very helpful.

The files you mention are uniforms files & while they should be compressed in your original models.big, the fact that they are not does not matter. Uniform files work fine even decompressed.

I think your issue may be greater. You said other files became decompressed. I believe that since they become decompressed, they can't be compressed again. I think they actually became corrupted. & this would indeed explain your crashes. I think you need to back up this models.big (in case I am wrong) & put in the original models.big the game comes with. Then see if you still get crashes.

Please post back results.

[lenyc]

Thanks for the tip, I am at work right now, so I guess I wont be able to test this out for another say 9 hours, but I will let you know what the status is.

[mcoll]

sound advice. this does sound like wht happed to me. if you elminate the nornal causes are, ie uniforms, fronts, staduims, faces or cyber faces as they have been called, assuming you didnt add anything else into the files, then its does sound like a decompressed peice of the file ouccerd and is damged beyond the point of use. you may need restore the orngial model.big file into the game and see if it stops.

this is assuming you aret trying to use cbyer faces, which know to crash at any point from this stage of trying to into a game to the end. usely throw cyber faces will allow to play iinto a game and will crash during the game, so the chance of that being it are lower than normal given where the crash is occuring the fact it doesnt matter what park your trying to play in.

given this i say big shmoz right in saying it sounds like a damged file.

let us know if your able to get going agian what you did or if you added in moded uniforms or cbyer faces, if you have try running a version of model.big wthout the mods in them, then re add the mods back in one at time, that should tell you tell you what mod is causing you the crashes.

[lenyc]

Ok I put the original models.big and when it goes to the loading screen after you choose your stadium, the status bar goes about half way across the screen then just crashes to my desktop.

I was also able to compress the files in the latest models. big file, and that file still does not work.

I'll try it again to double check but this aint looking to good.

[big shmooz]

Ok I put the original models.big and when it goes to the loading screen after you choose your stadium, the status bar goes about half way across the screen then just crashes to my desktop.

I was also able to compress the files in the latest models. big file, and that file still does not work.

I'll try it again to double check but this aint looking to good.

Ok... so it seems then the issue is not uniforms or cyberfaces at all.

My advice would be, to reinstall the game. First copy & paste your models.big ito a different location on your hard drive. Uninstall the game. Get rid of any MVP folders (both the main one & the one in my documents) the the uninstall leaves over.

Reinstall the game. Put in patch #2 or later from EA. Then back up the models.big & put in the one you had earlier. See if you crash. If you don't, then all is well & good. Add back one thing at a time of any other mods you added, (always backing up first, so you can undo it). & go through each thing till you find the culprit. Then do not install whatever it is that is causing your crash.

[mcoll]

that exactly what i would do and we both have said to do. the key restaill and backup, then add basck in one mod at a time, backingup after each confirmed mod. that tell you what crashing it.

[lenyc]

hey big, I did a test, I went into the edit a player option under the manage rosters menu.

So I go in there and I go to edit a player on the yankees, which is what my franchise team is....and everyone that I go to edit seems to be fine, then I got to the detroit team which is the team that I was playing in the franchise, and its like almost everyone on that team seems to crash my game when I got to edit them, but get this, i start going from team to team and randomly players are crashing my team, like roger clememns or jake peavy...so what the hell does this mean..

Do I take my orignal models.big and extract the orignal faces then compress them into the new models.big...i really dont want to lose the fanchise.....this is going to be a long night....whats ur take from my explanation....I think its like usaid earlier....the orignal faces randomly were uncompressed and might have gotten currupted....because from what i see in big ui..they are compressed right now.

[mcoll]

that means its your faces all right. yes if you know what you faces are in the .big file and get imported you could that, but easer way would be use the origl version, and put in the mods that way. this way uoi know know the faces are right.

[lenyc]

quick question, when i put the original models. bigin do i also have to update the uniforms again along with the faces, that i used for the last models.big file?

[lenyc]

ok guys I would like to say thank you.

With your help I was able to solve the issue, and know I understand a better way of installing the faces and uniforms....thanks for everything.

[big shmooz]

quick question, when i put the original models. bigin do i also have to update the uniforms again along with the faces, that i used for the last models.big file?

Yes. When you install the original models.big you lose all the uniform & cyberface updates. Just in case you are interested, use one of the uploads I made which already contains cyberfaces & uniforms. Such as big shmooz rosters & model.big ace file loacted on this page.

http://www.mvpmods.com/modules.php?name=Do...nload&cid=6#cat

Just make sure to read the readme. You will also see a more updated roster with more cyberfaces in the .mbe version. But you must use the other file first. Then insert the latest .mbe file together with more cyberfaces (as per the read me)

You will of course need mvpedit in order to convert the .mbe file to the dat files.

[mcoll]

np that what wher here for. t help each othr enjoy the game better.

what caused the problem anyway?

[lenyc]

it was the fact that some f the original cyber faces got currupted, like roger clemens, or Irod