Team USA (and NBA too!!!) uniform updates

i'm too lazy to type up database codes and editing tips. i don't even want to trouble with any more screenshots.

i've got a crapload of other uniforms too, but all i feel like doing is offering the fsh files for download. i saw a surprising amount of patching activity in the live04 section and thought, 'what the heck'. if people want to use this thread to give each other tips on the database crap or whatever, thats freaking super.

anyway, i'll wait a bit to upload the files just so i can make sure that anyone gives a crap. so post a lot of butt-kissing stuff about my freaking jpeg up there.

Last edited by f.t.w. on Thu Sep 20, 2007 3:12 am, edited 2 times in total.

ummmmm...butt-kissing please!!! i remember the old live04 days, everything was 'jowesome this' and 'jowesome that'. what do i have to do to get your noses up my butt like you did for his majesty?

anyway, (and i hope that you know i'm joking about the butt-kissing/jowesome thing) i got milwuakee's uniforms updated. don't worry about how the collars and arm-holes look in the picture, that was a database issue that has since been rectified.

Hey FTW, welcome back!! Nice job on these....is anyone working on the new Hawks unis????

thanks ehlomint, its good to see you (via cyber craig ehlo) again. i want to see more of the new hawks jersey numbers before i work on them. the only jersey numbers i've seen for those uniforms are 0, 5 and 7, and its a real wacky font.

anyway, right now i'm trying to fix my pacers uniforms for re-release. i must of had some kind of screen resolution problem on my computer the last time i was patching, because all of the last uniforms i did have nearly desaturated colors. also, the pacers jersey numbers look all fudged up. my point is that after i finish fixing the pacers newest uniforms i will start working on those nifty new hawks uniforms (assuming nobody else has yet).

also, in the next week i hope to have a bunch of my patches ready for download.

one more thing: my son wanted me to write "The Polar Express" here.

Oh and where did you get the Deron Williams cyberface and tats? If you would be so kind and send it to me or refer me to a release area? Also, did you ever take a crack at the '07 all-star jerseys?? I have the numbers done.....thanks!

i can't remember where i got this, and it doesn't include a "read me" txt file or anything, but its a pretty good patch of the first round picks of 2005. and the deron williams is one of the best ones in the patch. here's the link:
http://home.comcast.net/~duanemattingly41/2005_rookie_patch.zip
i would be more than happy to credit the creator(s) of this patch by name if someone knows who made it.

i'd love to work on the 07 all-star jerseys, i think they be sweet. send the numbers you made to my email and tell me what the original fsh file was that you made it out of. after i wrap up the pacers thing i can get to that.

I'm looking forward to the release of these patches. I've used your jerseys patches, and still do actually, and I think you do an awesome job. Keep up the good work!

okay, F.T.W. is unable to log on, so here are the upload links to that which is ready. but first let me say that the file called "FTW_YES_DB_edit_jerseys.zip" requires (duh) database file editing!!!

make copies of your 'saves' file before editing database files!!! and look up tutorials, ask questions of the learned ones, et cetera....

enjoy and feel free to comment.

http://home.comcast.net/~duanemattingly41/FTW_no_DB_edit_jerseys_1.zip

http://home.comcast.net/~duanemattingly41/FTW_no_DB_edit_jerseys_2.zip

OPEN AND READ THE JPEG IN THE ZIP BELOW BEFORE DOING ANYTHING!!!
http://home.comcast.net/~duanemattingly41/FTW_YES_DB_edit_jerseys.zip

Last edited by all is wells on Tue Jul 03, 2007 3:06 pm, edited 3 times in total.

oops

wow ftw, those r nice, i m tempted to start patching again, i sucked though

you know, i think i was joking about butt-kissing a few posts ago because of my catholic upbringing. its actually really nice to see all the thoughtful comments some of you leave, and i, in my heart of hearts, appreciate ALL of it...the good and the bad. but then theres the little tormented parochial schoolboy inside me whos ashamed of it all and calls it all 'butt-kissing' or whatever. but it is like this awkward dance of obligation whenever people post in forums about their patches. its like its generally not phony at all, but i can still kinda see the tormented parochial schoolboy's point of view. but then again, i guess that tormented parochial schoolboy isnt really another person whose point of view i could be able to see anyway, but a murderous alternate personality waiting to leap into the forefront and wreak havok.

anyway, sincere thanks for the comments. i honestly do these patches for me, but i'm plain giddy that other people would want to use them. so peace and many other platitudes to one and all.

FTW, I need your email address so I can you send you my partly finished all-star jerseys....

check yo' PMs ehlomint.

and AmoAttack: your patches are too good. i've been doing this crap since '01, so i dont know how long you've been patching, but dont be so darn hard on yourself. also its a bitch cuz patchers are more secretive than freemasons.

not me though. i'd answer any questions anyone had, but for instance...on your kentucky uniforms (go big blue) i would have taken that 'kentucky' text on the front of the jersey, doubled its image size in adobe and then pains-takingly re-drawn it to make the lines more crisp and then finally shrunk the text back down to its original size so that its not SO crisp that its pixel-y (shrinking it makes it kinda blurry). thats basically how i do everything, buts its particularly important on the jersey front text because it makes it match the '_num.fsh' and the 'blet' crap more.

ftw, u shud try taking a stab at teh new atl jerseys; also, i really recommend u use jowe's jersey textures, they are really good

if i can ever see how all of the numbers look, i'll work on the new atl jerseys (and shorts!), its a LOT of work making new numbers, so i don't want to guess how they look and then have to do it all over again when i know how they look.

send me jowe's textures or tell me how to get them. i couldn't find them in live.org.

i tell you what i want. what i really really want.



i want numbers 3, 6 and 9 for the new hawks uniforms. i think the team is too worried about unloading all of their old-style jerseys at regular price to have very many pictures of the new uniform design. i mean, i guess i could use the number 8 as a model for what 3, 6 and 9 look like, but jeez. i'm too obsessive, i gotta see these mystery numbers.

by the way i'd like to say welcome to the beckham family. i tell you, i haven't put my pants on ONCE since they arrived in LA.

i read an editorial today by deion sanders chiding me to "understand where (michael vick) might be coming from", and that "what a dog means to vick might be a lot different than what he means to you or i."

in that same vein (vain?) i would like to announce that the following uniform patches were wrought in the bowels of satan.

oh- and that the vegas all-star uniforms were created by ehlomint/f.t.w.

http://home.comcast.net/~duanemattingly41/FTW_jerseys_4.zip

http://home.comcast.net/~duanemattingly41/FTW_jerseys_5_fictional.zip

there are no database editing guidelines included, but if anyone feels like coming up with some they can feel free to post them here. i didn't do any screenshots either and furthermore all of the jerseys in the second link are fictional. so thats just how it is, i guess.

ALSO: everyone please be really nice to luol deng until he finishes that roster update. i got yo back luol!

oopsie! i guess my fictional zip was nearly void of jersey. i fixed that in the updated link above and i fixed the goofy stcl04 in the OTHER updated link above.

i took jowes superior celtics jerseys from his complete update of years ago and put some freakin shamrocks on the back above the player name. i also took ehlomint's stellar st patty's celtics jerseys and put my own twist on them (sorry jowe and ehlomint, i'm nothing but a damned pirate)

i figured the celtics have been kinda popular lately for some reason. this is a minor update, but i had to do it for my own (gasp) celtics dynasty. (the only other time i haven't hated the celtics was when 'toine and p-dub were at the height of their success.)

http://home.comcast.net/~duanemattingly41/shamrox.zip

Why are you such a crackhead?

Just wondering, is there a way to convert '03 Jerseys to '04? I have some old NBA2k3 Artwork/Jerseys - they work just fine as is, but the players names (on back of jersey) are scrambled around. Is there a set method to correct this?

yessir. the deal is that you have to use nfshtool to open the jersey fsh file. after you open it you have to overwrite the blet files (with the alphabet on them) with the live04 style blet bitmaps and then open the index.fsh with notepad and change the blet dimensions from 128 X 64 to 256 X 64 and then save it. its kinda tricky to sift through the index.fsh when its opened with notepad so check this out below:

NFSHTool generated file -- be very careful when editing
saserd.fsh
FSH
SHPI 4 objects, tag G346
BUFSZ 727968
NOGLOBPAL
buni 0000-%d.BMP
MBP+4 60 x4 512 512 {129 343 0 16384}
ETXT 69 64 16 {0 0 0 0}
EAGL64%20metal%20bin%20attachment
%20for%20runtime%20texture%
20management%00%00%00%00%00%00
BIN 7C 176
ETXT 70 buni%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00
TXT 6F 120 0
,frnt,back,nfrl,nfrr,nfrc,nbkr,nbkl,nbkc,bjer,bshr,
MAX:cnvDXT3|0,15|0,HIGH:cDXT1|0,15|0,
MED:DXT1|1,15|1,LOW:DXT1|1,15|1%00
!PAD 8 4275792045525453
:!: blet 0001-%d.BMP
MBQ+3 ED x1 256 64 {0 0 0 4096}
alpha 0001-%da.BMP
ETXT 69 64 16 {0 0 0 0}
EAGL64%20metal%20bin%20attachment%20
for%20runtime%20texture%20management%
00%00%00%00%00%00
ETXT 70 blet%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00
TXT 6F 46 0
,MAX:4444|0,HIGH:4444|0,MED:4444|0,LOW:4444|0%00
!PAD 13 00000000000000000000427579
frnt 0002-%d.BMP
MBQ+4 FB x3 128 128 {129 343 0 12288}
PAL 2A 256 1 {256 0 0 0}
BIN 7C 64
ETXT 70 frnt%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00
TXT 6F 88 0
,nfrl,nfrr,nfrc,MAX:32|0,4444|0,HIGH:cDXT3|0,4444|
0,MED:DXT3|1,4444|1,LOW:DXT3|1,4444|1%00
back 0003-%d.BMP
MBQ+4 FB x3 128 128 {72 28 0 12288}
PAL 2A 256 1 {256 0 0 0}
BIN 7C 64
ETXT 70 back%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00
TXT 6F 88 0
,nbkr,nbkl,nbkc,MAX:32|0,4444|0,HIGH:cDXT3|
0,4444|0,MED:DXT3|1,4444|1,LOW:DXT3|1,4444|1%00
#END

you can see the blet part that needs to be edited in the above part with the exclamation mark smilies. hope this helps!

Thanks much. I am a bit behind learning curve EA/Live patching, and still learning NFSHTool (um, er among other small things)... That is very helpful, for sure!!

Any hope for a full jersey update ?
Live 04 needs it

Well, I am really working on a Roster Update, adding about 20 Retro NBA/ABA Teams ('51 Royals, '52 Lakers, '62 Lakers, '64 Royals, '69 Bullets, '70 Hawks, '75 Nets, '76 Cavs, and more) to Ben 2.03 and Tony (NBA Alive) with some more Cyber Faces (Courts?), Logos and some art from D.Daily 2k3Stuff. I am more of a Roster Dude, but I am stumbling my way through mega-tutorials and such. I abandoned this years ago when the editing seemed too overwhelming, but I think I'm getting it.
...nice cyber face work there Kbryant8.