possible MVPedit fixes & upgrades

[krawhitham]

THIS IS A TEST

THIS IS NOT A BETA BUT AN ALPHA

IT MIGHT **** UP YOUR FILES

put the UNRARED files in you MVPedit folder

[krawhitham]

7 downloads and no feedback?

what up with that

[biker_jim_uk]

perhaps no-one has had time to try yet??

[jscand]

This is great!!!! It seems to work fine. I will keep playing around with it but I can now go through MVP Edit with a full set of portraits and cyberfaces without getting error messages.

Think there is any chance you can now move on to figuring out how to allow more cyberfaces in the game? :)

[jdrogers1969]

I just downloaded and installed and I have not gotten any errors yet

Great Work :)

[krawhitham]

btw how it works

Rglass used gfxpak to pull and put back files in the portraits & models.big files

As we know gfxpak has a 3000 file limit, but rglass was nice enough to use batch files to extract and put back the files

here is rglasses batch file to unpack a portrait

%3 -u %1 %2.fsh


%4 %2.fsh

%1 = portrait.big %2 = player audio/photoID %3 = gfxpak %4 = fshtool so here is what the batch file was really doing

gfxpak -u portrait.big XXXX.fsh


fshtool XXXX.fsh

the XXXX stands for whatever player you are looking at in MVPedit %1 - %4 can not be changed, it comes from the MVPedit program itself, only rglass can change thoose values (he has the source code for MVPedit) IMPbig does not have a file limit program here is the command to extract a file from a BIG archive using IMPbig

impbig /e archive.big XXXX.fsh XXXX.fsh

so here is how to do that with Rglass' preset variables, Here is my new batch file

ImpBIG.exe /e %1 %2.fsh %2.fsh


%4 %2.fsh

for the face unpacker batch file here is rglass'

%3 -u %1 %2.fsh %2.ord %2.orl


%4 %2.fsh

the varibles are almost the same but for this batch file %1 = models.big here what really happenes

gfxpak -u models.big cXXX.fsh cXXX.ord cXXX.orl


fshtool cXXX.fsh

here is how to do that with impbig

ImpBIG.exe /e %1 %2.fsh %2.fsh


ImpBIG.exe /e %1 %2.ord %2.ord


ImpBIG.exe /e %1 %2.orl %2.orl


%4 %2.fsh

now IMPbig does not allow for deleting files inside BIG archive for that I'm using EAzip here is MVPedit's batch to delete a file

%3 -d %1 %2.fsh

which is

gfxpak -d portrait.big XXXX.fsh

my work around

eazip -s -d %1 %2.fsh


del %1.bak

the 2nd line is because EAzip makes a backup of your portraits.big file, the 2nd line delete that file

deleting files will be slower than before because it is making like a 200MB backup file

[krawhitham]

Think there is any chance you can now move on to figuring out how to allow more cyberfaces in the game?

Already been down that lonely road

faces HAVE to be 4 character long

they HAVE to start with a "C"

the other 3 characters have to be #'s

901-915 is reserved by the game for generic faces

I forget what happens when you try #'s above 915 but I'm 99.999% sure it did not work

[tebjr]

Great job Kraw! Just downloaded it and it works great. No problems so far. Awesome work!

[MarlinsMS_35]

when i download what do i do where do i extract it what .bat do i click? it looks great if i can figure out how to get it to work

[tebjr]

I took the batch files i downloaded and used them to overwrite the existing batch files in theMVPedit folder.

[tebjr]

Hey Kraw, what makes the pics load in faster now? Before it took them a few seconds to load. Now as soon as I click on a player, the portrait is there.

[MarlinsMS_35]

i extraced them to the mvpedit folder and still no luck, do i have to run the batch files?

[tebjr]

Kenny, I extracted them to MyDocuments, them moved them to the MVPedit folder and overwrote the existing batch files.

[krawhitham]

do I need to make an installer for this?

no big deal if I do, just need to know

[Totte]

I feel stupid for asking this and I've tried searching the fourms for guidance but how do I get my portraits to show up in MVPedit after exporting the newly downloaded .bat-files there?

Thanks :oops:

[krawhitham]

tools -> options ->

make sure

Show Player Portrait (slower)

&

Show Player Faces (slower)

are checked.

also make sure the MVP Baseball Data Directory is set right

[Totte]

tools -> options ->

make sure

Show Player Portrait (slower)

&

Show Player Faces (slower)

are checked.

also make sure the MVP Baseball Data Directory is set right

Thanks mate!

I missed out on the mvp2005/data folder thing. I had it set to data/database 'cause of all the roster work I'm doing...

Thanks again :)

[MOKI]

I didn't test your file but when I do what you told Totte to do so MVPedit can show the portraits, I get a gfxpak.exe error and it closes the options window and takes me back to the main MVPedit window. I set it to the right directory but the error appears... What is going wrong and how can I fix it?

[krawhitham]

then you did not copy the files over to the correct folder, gfxpak will no longer be used when you do

[MOKI]

Again, this isn't a problem with your file. It's something I tried because you told Totte to so I did myself. I didn't try your files, I did it with the original files intact.

[biker_jim_uk]

OMG! This is why Kraw made the file! To fix the gfxpack error!!!

BTW great find Kraw, works much quicker and no probs so far

[D.M.Z.]

The fix works like a charm. I wish this was around last year...thanks.

[krawhitham]

I have edited the main EXE, so it will import 2X portraits & 2X faces

the draw back is that it is hard coded in the EXE, you would have to run one EXE if you wish to import either a 1x portrait or 1x face, and a different EXE to import 2X faces or 2X portraits.

plus I do not know if Rglass will allow his exe to be uploaded here, but I guess I could make it a patch

who wants to be the guinea pig that tests it, all I can say is that it is working for me

[golfguy10]

Kraw - Nice work on the mods - fixed my MVPEDIT no photo problem.

Thanks.

[patsfan]

Kraw, is this file still available? When I try to download it from the link you provided I get a diagnostic error and it says the archive is either an ubknown file or corrupted...and the RAR is empty.......