help how to create custom arts ?

I want to try to make new background, loading screen, main
menu arts. I'm sure I'm not the only one who want to add that to Andrews awesome NBA live PC project
what are the tools I need ?

The first three can all be found in our Downloads section.

• EA Graphics Editor, to export the menu files (.big files) from the .viv folders in the fe folder.
• BigGUI to extract and import the .fsh texture files within the .big files.
• FshX to import and export the textures from the .fsh files.
• Photoshop or GIMP to modify the textures. You'll also need a plugin for both programs that allows you to open .dds files; a quick Google search should yield that.

The basic procedure is as follows:

1. Using the EA Graphics Editor, open the .viv file that contains the menus in the fe folder.
2. Extract the .big file you want to edit to a folder somewhere. The name of the file should give you an indication of what it is.
3. Open the .big file with BigGUI.
4. Extract the .fsh file to the same folder, so you know where it is.
5. Open the .fsh file with FshX.
6. Export the textures you wish to edit. It's all in the menu commands and pretty straightforward.
7. Open the exported texture in the image editing software of your choice.
8. Make whatever changes you desire and save the texture.
9. In FshX, use the Import function to bring the updated texture back into the .fsh file. Make sure that you save in FshX!
10. In BigGUI, import the updated .fsh file. You'll probably be prompted to overwrite the existing one, which you do want to do.
11. Place the updated .big file in the sgsm folder (no need to reimport it into the .viv file, the game will load it from there)

thank you very much sir