rroy0824

Thanks for the kind words.  I'll try to fix the overlay if I decided to put out a patch in the future.

 

Rroy I think I can help you with the aluminum bat sound. I finished my review of the mod tonight and I was looking through some of the old threads on the previous two attempts on the NCAA mod and I found an aluminum bat sound in one of them here in this post.

I will also add it here. Maybe this will help.

aluminum bat.zip

Thanks, but that is just an .mp3 of a bat sound.  The problem was not that I did not have a good sound clip available, it was that I have no idea where the sound goes in the MVP audio files.

 

Glad to see this completed, I'll be checking it out soon. I've been getting notifications on my desktop for about two years whenever you would update files on my Dropbox!

 I didn't know you were getting updates.  Thanks for allowing us to use that.  It helped out a ton.  Feel free to delete anything you want to.

After literally years of hard work, The MVP NCAA Baseball mod has finally been finished.  bctrackboi11 and I put a lot of work into this and we are happy to have it finally finished.  Please read the instructions to install the mod.  Any questions, comments, or issues can go in this thread.  Enjoy the mod everyone! 

 

Did you guys ever finish Alex Box Stadium? I almost had it done, but never finished it... I think rroy has the file..

I started over and made a new one.

 

Great job man, great job. I am sure this mod will be well worth the wait.

Thanks, bctrackboi11 and I put a lot of work into this and it will be nice to have it finished.

 

Amazing, amazing stuff.  Perhaps someone here who knows sound files would know how to change the sound for aluminum bats and release a mod for it.

Thanks, but I doubt it.  Audio modding is one of the only things I struggle with in this game.  I looked in the files and searched the site for some help, but no luck.  The problem is no one has ever done it so there is not much help on it and not many modders are still around,

 

Great job!  

Thanks for your help.  For what its worth, your tools did work with Windows 10.

Well, here is an update.  As I said in the shoutbox the other day, the mod has been finished for a little bit now.  Unless something goes wrong, I will be releasing it sometime between Saturday afternoon and Saturday night.  This release contains the following:

-124 NCAA teams complete with full 2x uniform sets, logos, and "rosters".

-23 custom NCAA stadiums, a group of generic stadiums, and a group of MLB/MILB stadiums that host NCAA games.

-Aluminum bats (never could figure out the sound, but oh well).

-Full frontend and background updates and an ESPN overlay/audio.

Note you will not really be able to play a dynasty with this mod because of limitations in the game.

Sometime after the mod is released (hours or days later, depends on how things go) I will be uploading 2 other files:

1) A file to change uniforms to 1x.

2) The ability to play as Akron.  I made this set before Akron got rid of its baseball program and they were replaced in the mod with Coastal Carolina.  Figure it won't get too many downloads, but I already made them.

I'll probably start a new support thread then as well, but I just wanted to let people know whats going on.

I don't think the file is separated into cells, so I would say no.  It is relatively easy to do with notepad.  Just change the values that Gordo said and click save.

Notepad or a hex editor.

So I ran the ResChanger and now I get black bars for menu and full screen for in game play.  It switches during the loading screen.  Kind of odd, but better than before, I guess.  Still, I had it full screen for both with Windows 7 and would like to get back to that.  

I was able to resist the update to Windows 10 until now.  MVP runs fine except there are black bars on the sides of my screen.  I know there is a way to fix this, but for the life of me can't remember or figure it out.  I know there is a setting somewhere with the graphics card to stretch it and I know I was able to do it with Windows 7.  Any ideas?  The card is Intel HD 3000.

947 uniforms is the grand total for this mod.  Here are the selection screens for all of them.  Keep in mind that this was made over the course of a few years.  It would have been impossible to keep up with all the changes.  Our rule was once a team was done then that was that.  It is getting there guys.  Still no time table, but progress is being made.

Previews.rar

PM would be best.

No, there is no real need to right now.  Thanks a lot for doing those.  It should save us some time.

That would be great.  All we would really need is the team names and abbreviations changed.  One of us will have to do the stadiums later.  I'll send you the team list.  

-Rosters are done.

-Loading screens and backgrounds are done.

-Logos and LOC files are being chipped away at.

-You can see the stadium list above.  We still could use help.

-We have only 4 teams worth of uniforms that need to be completed.  There are 123 teams total with somewhere around or above 1,000 uniforms.

It will be completed.

I think you are talking about the bevel of the A.  Basically you edit the letter to reflect how the light would hit it if it was 3d.  There is a decent guide at the bottom of this page (look for step 9a):

http://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/learn-to-create-a-variety-of-beveled-lettering--vector-3943

Not a bad start, but some parts look a little choppy.  If you want, send me the stadium and I can give you a little more constructive criticism.

Is that the image you edited?  If so make sure it is the same size as the orignial image.  Also make sure it is a 24 bit .bmp

If you want, pm me the file and I'll take a look for you.

So here is basically how I do this.  It may not be the best way and bctrackboi may even do things differently, but this works for me.  Attached are some tools that you need.  Take all of them except nfshtool.exe and put them in a folder with a copy of your stadium file.  Right click on unpack.bat, click edit, replace stadiumname.big with the stadium name file (example a001day.big), and press save.  Do the same with pack.bat. 

Now click on unpack and you should get a bunch of files.  Look for cram32.fsh and drag it into nfshtool.exe to open it.  This should give you a file with all the stadium textures, except things like sky, grass, and crowd.  Those are in other files and are done the same way.

Now find the texture you want to replace, edit it, save it, make multiple copies at different sizes by scaling the image in Photoshop, and, if needed, create a grayscale alpha the same way.  Note that the textures are 24 Bit .BMP files and the alphas are 8 Bit .BMP grayscale.  The best way to create the alpha is to use the old one and take out whatever you don't need by blacking it out.  Black will make the old textures transparent. 

Then drag the index file to nfshtool.exe, click on pack.bat and you are all set.  If you need to change something else, say the sky, then you need to added it to the pack file.  For example, if you were adding the cram32.fsh and the sky0.fsh the pack file would read: eazip +a stadiumname.big cram32.fsh sky0.fsh

This may be rushed, but I hope it is easy enough to follow.  Like I said, it may or may not be the best way to do it, but it works.  If anyone has any questions feel free to ask.

Tools.rar

Give me some time and I'll post a write up on how I do these stadiums later tonight.  It is a little different then that and it might help you and others out. 

Walk me through the process of what you did before the crash and maybe I can help you out.

The lack of the old stadium modders doesn't concern me.  While it is sill a lot of work, the list is not as daunting as it seams.  What we are basically asking people to help out with is picking stadiums that are similar to the college stadium and replace textures to make the stadium look close.  There is really no Oedit or Zmod or whatever involved.  While the stadiums are not perfect, they usually look pretty great.  Think of it more as modding stadiums in the 2K games.

As for a beta, not to speak for bctrackboi11, but I don't think we need one right now.  I really don't think a site wide beta would be the way to go, but maybe we could send one to a few trusted people a few weeks before release.  I would rather release a complete mod that we are happy with instead of a half done one. That is part of the reason this is taking so long, but I think it will be well worth it.

I actually would like to look at your global ranges, if you don't mind.  I am sure there is some useful stuff in there that we could use.  Thank you for offering that. 

Coney dogs are great. 

Mustard is gross. 

Yeah, but this time its because they have been canceled for the second time in a year. 

ROH starts tonight on Destination America.  If you have never seen it, it is worth watching.