UncleMo asks all modders

[UncleMo]

Hello, I'm UncleMo how are you? Yes yes, I'll get on with it. Ahem.

Check this out. I got the idea from jogar84 a while back to get other textures from other games and mix them with MVP 2005 files. So with his old advice to me, I was just curious to see about obtaining files from doubleminor.net, review them, see what's out there and what would come to my imagination.

For starters, I'm thinking about this: Take a goalie helmet fsh file, remove the visor, and add it to MVP 05's catcher's helmets. On double minor.net they have various visors, so here is just one normal one I'm talking about:

What do you think about this idea? How about obtaining their facial hair files, you know, like cooler sideburns, beards, etc and putting them in MVP for everyone to download or to shake up the MVP 06 mod that will some day come out. I don't know, just think about all the various textures you can get and put in MVP 05. For example, I could remove glass textures from the mods available at that site and put them in a stadium. Ahem, *if I knew how to mod stadiums*. Another example, if I could somehow get this glass texture I'd be able to put them on people for Gagne type of goggles, or whatever.

Something else I thought of is removing the crowd from that NHL game and seeing if someone can put them in MVP.

Just some food for thought to get your juices flowing. I'd like to hear your thoughts here as it pertains to moving graphic files for MVP 05 to an even better level if possible.

Lastly, if you all go rushing out to download mods and review them, the fsh files in the hockey game on doubleminor.net need to be opened up with FSHx, and you can extract the graphic files for if you wish, and convert them with something called DDS converter 2 so you can edit them.

I just don't know how to get the index file/alpha image out of these new types of FSH files.

Supermodders and modders better than me, your thoughts are appreciated and welcomed. Hopefully this will turn into something tangible from all modders/supermodders.

[69Yanks]

I like the idea!! There area probably other games such as the basketball, possibly some WW2 ones that we can get some faces from.

[Mav3rek]

I would think all ea games would possibly be interchangable.

[Yankee4Life]

This is one heck of an idea Uncle Mo. Good thinking.

[Mav3rek]

you know what i just thought? If you could take the facial hair textures and whatnot from the hockey, wouldn't you also be able to take the black eyes, and scars, and broken noses and what not? It wouldnt be very baseball realistic, but funny to see none-the-less

[UncleMo]

This is one heck of an idea Uncle Mo. Good thinking.

Baaah. I got it from Jogar's constructive criticism of my one my mods he rated. That is what got me to get his permission to start using any and all of his faces, in turn giving me full permission to use any faces he's done with sunglasses, and so on. But hey, he's not logged in right now so I'll take the credit for the time being.

[BigRog]

Been married 5 years.

Been saved 20 years.

This is a good year.

uncle mo you are the man

:cheer:

[Dom2662]

uncle mo you are the man

:cheer:

Couldn't say it better myself .

[medric822]

I tried this with other EA games b4, and it didn't work.

[UncleMo]

Oh man that is just the X-Rays talking from your back.

Please describe what happened and how your modding ventures went.

Also, even though full .fsh files or other files won't work, we can use the .bmp images. Which is really what I was thinking.

[medric822]

Well, I couldn't get the files to open correctly, our programs just dont seem to work well with the ea games that I have.

[UncleMo]

FSHx and .dds converter listed above were 2 tools I heard about.

[Hoop27]

so Mo in theory could you mod the catcher masks like they do at Doubleminor for the goalies?

[UncleMo]

In my heart I believe so. It is just a matter of all modders getting together and saying, "hmm, I'm interested in this. Let me see if I can mod it". Right now I'm interested in getting facial hair files, crowd sound files, the glass texture from their helmet (the visor), etc etc. I don't understand their new FSH files well though so I don't know what to do with the visors .bmp image. I can extract their pictures, but I'm thinking to myself, "err, where's the index file, the alpha image, etc".

[big shmooz]

UncleMo... My thoughts on this are to contact NHL modders. They probably would be a great help in figuring something like this out.

[ChicagoCubs720]

Hey UncleMo, I had an idea that I thought either you or spungo might be interested in. How about a custom skull-cap mod? skull caps for players such as Ronnie Belliard. They could be applied to both 04 and 05 style faces (and generics :player: ). what do you think?

[UncleMo]

I'd have to see one on a face already, then I could take that and make an alpha image and BOOM its done.

[MarlinsMS_35]

So what your saying, Is to attemmpt to Make masks in NHL 06 form? You should ask grafixer on DMHN, he did he same type of thing, but he changed the ice texsture, to make it more modder friendly. The hard thing would be how to incorporate the mask, and back of mask in the same graphic file. I always wanted to see this in MVP.

Mask by me, Template by dcy.

Also, we could do uni's in this format. http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/4272/marshnordaway4mp.jpg

Jersey Credits to Refuse.

[UncleMo]

What is that a picture of? A skull cap or a goalie mask?

"So what your saying, Is too Make masks in NHL 06 form" Sorry, I never said that, but the reverse is what I was saying. Sorry I wasn't clear enough.

[MarlinsMS_35]

What is that a picture of? A skull cap or a goalie mask?

"So what your saying, Is too Make masks in NHL 06 form" Sorry, I never said that, but the reverse is what I was saying. Sorry I wasn't clear enough.

I edited my post, but it seemed like you were saying to convert files from NHL to MVP. I was saying to do Catchers masks in the form of NHL. The picture I posted was of a mask.

[UncleMo]

I guess since I only know audio and generic faces and facial hairs (really, just the .bmp files and alpha images), I could not comment on converting the .bmp image you show above and getting that or any others into MVP.

I do wish, however, someone could atleast see about getting the glass from the hockey mask and putting it onto a catchers mask in MVP, if possible. And of course, any other thing as well.

[pdub]

Get the DDS plugin for photoshop, it should be at nvidia.com, you can google it. Then you get FSHx, open up the fsh, save it as a DDS, open it in Photoshop. Edit the image, save as a PNG, and import it into and MVP file with FSHed. You'll need the graphic importer plugin for FSHed, it can import PSD's, GIF's, PNG's, and more. No need for alpha's or index editing. It worked great for importing my Cool Flow helmets.

If that doesn't work, there is a program called fshline that works wonders. You drag the fsh onto the exe,a command prompt window opens, it does its thing and closes the window. Now there is a subdirectory with the exact name of the fsh, its contents are a index.fsh, a dds and a png image for every file. If you want to import the PNG's instead of the DDS's, you have to delete all the DDS's inthe directory. After editing, you save them as the same file, then drag the index.fsh onto the fshline exe and the contents are imported automatically back into the original fsh. It works very nicely.

[JoeyMcM93]

Sounds pretty cool Mo. Maybe some guys over at arenacenter could help you out?

[UncleMo]

Meh. The thought was that modders here could get on it as a whole instead of just me by myself but looking at the lack of interest, maybe this game and website will just die off over time.

[pdub]

I can get the facial hair/head hair out of NHL 06. I'm not sure how a visor could be put on a catchers mask, though. I'll have NBA Live 07 when it comes out in late September so I can definitely get stuff from that, assuming it is the same graphic format as Live 06.