Renaming Fsh Files

[CurveBall]

If I need to rename an fsh (player photo) file to make it match the face ID in my roster, how should I go about it? I know you can't just rename the fsh file itself since it contains an image file with references pointing to it (sorry if my explanation is a little iffy). I know two of those references are at the beginning and at the end of the fsh file but are they the only thing that has to be modified? (e.g. the file 6583.fsh would have the text 6583 at the beginning and the end of the file) Can I just hex edit those values to match the new file name or is there another step that's involved?

Thanks so much for your help!

[kyleb]

You can rename a cyberface or player photo FSH (and its ord and orl files) without any issues. Certain other FSH files will need hex editing, but not these.

Also, you don't need a player photo FSH to be the same as his cyberface FSH. Players have those a separate numbers.

[CurveBall]

So basically I can just rename the fsh file to whatever I want without having to change the reference numbers within the file? I'm asking because...I know NHL09 is different but if I renamed certain fsh files without changing anything within them, some stuff wouldn't show up in-game.

[Homer]

you can just rename them except for portrait fsh files--those need hex editing. if you're comfortable hex editing, just do that. if you want to do it easier, use nfshtool to extract the bmp files from the fsh file and use one of krawhitham's portrait maker utilities to pack it back up properly.

[CurveBall]

That's exactly what I was going to do (renaming portrait files). I've done quite a bit of hex editing before so yes, I'm comfortable doing that but what exactly has to be edited? Is it only the values that match the file name at the beginning and the end of the file?

[Homer]

to be quite honest with you i got it all mixed up since it's been awhile since i've had to do it. kraw's portrait maker has made it so simple i haven't had to do it the long way for years now. you actually do not need to hex edit it. i was confusing it with editing audio files. kraw also made an audio tool so i haven't had to edit audio files the long way in years either, and completely forgot that i wrote a tutorial on how to edit audio files. after looking back at it, the hex editing does not apply to the portrait files, but you still cannot just simply rename them.

what you need to do is actually extract the fsh with nfshtool. then you need to edit the index file with a text editor. it's kind of ridiculous to do it this way since kraw's portrait maker does it for you, and you don't risk corrupting the fsh file. i recommend taking his portrait maker and making the portrait from the bmp files.