Custom Portrait Tutorial

[Cable]

There are no .big files, etc. for created players, you have to copy an original .viv file for an existing player and rename it. It really doesn't matter which player's .big you use when you make a portrait, the only differences are the names of the files and the pics inside.

[__3rd-name__]

ok........ now do i need to make a playerpkg for a creted player, so i can then rename the files to such playerpkg?

[Cable]

Yup, and as long as you don't change the FACEID, you can keep your created player's face.

[__3rd-name__]

....GREAT!!!......... now i have another problem........[sorry for being annoying...]..

i got to the point of renaming the files..... i even replaced the portrait with my custom one..... but i cant get the new fsh file into the viv file... i used FshX to extract the fsh file and then replaced the pic.... but now i cant get it back into the viv file.... what to do?

[Cable]

The .viv file, or the .big file? If you can get it into the .big file, just put the .big into the sgsm folder, you don't need to put it back into the .viv. Or is it the .big you're having trouble with?

[__3rd-name__]

.....well, i got it all down....... but i get the in-game portrait is blank..... not white, but just blank....... i have the team logo background, but no pic....... what should i do........

[sorry bout the last post u made...... i left soon before u posted it...... now i'm back, but am going to sleep..... its late...... hope i can find out an anwser 2morrow.........]

[iKe7in]

so basically its the exact same procedure as last years version?

[__3rd-name__]

should i just try another players .big file.....?

[__3rd-name__]

actually, i did try a couple more .big files, but the actual pic wont show up...

[__3rd-name__]

ALRIGHT!!!!!!! i got it guys......FINALLY............ what i forgot to do was the playerpkg name in the .ebo file, i had it in CAPS, not lowercase.......... what a dumbas*......

thanks for the help......!

[Cable]

Good stuff.

so basically its the exact same procedure as last years version?

Yeah.

[nba_balla]

how do i open the plyrprts~CHBOSH_.big file from bigGUI?

[nba_balla]

anybody??

[RSox]

Wait more than 2 hours for someone to come on that can help you.

[nba_balla]

its been like a day

[Cable]

Right click the .big file, go to Open With, find BigGUI and open it.

[nba_balla]

umm ok this is what i did:

1 opened bigGUI
2 opened plyrprts.viv in there
3 found the file
4 i cant do anything on it

what do i do??

[Cable]

Oh. You have to Export the .big file to a folder, close the .viv, and open the .big separately.

[nba_balla]

how do i go about doing that?

[Cable]

Export the .big from the .viv, close the .viv, go find the .big file, open it.

[nba_balla]

ok sweet thanks man

[nba_balla]

ok do i need to make the portrait a .bmp in order for it to work?

[Cable]

No, you need to save it as a .png to get it to work. When you import it into FshX, you'll need to type in the name of the file to import it, FshX doesn't recognize .png files by default.

[nba_balla]

meh it dont work for me

[iKe7in]

Not to rain on your parade Cable Guy, but I have some good news. For some reason, while I was looking for a blank CD to use, I found a disk that I had for some reason put my whole tutorial on, including the example pics that I had lost when freepgs.com got hacked. They have all been reuplaoded, and can be viewed on the original post in this thread.

From what I've seen, this process should work exactly the same in the 06 version, so if you were unclear about any of the steps in this tutorial, check out mine from last year and maybe the examples pictures will help.