DynamicSDLoader General Q's

[theenigmaliesbroke]

Hi there, I'm new here and haven't actually intended on posting very much, I've kinda lurked for months >.>

Anyways - I got this dynamic SD Loader and its brilliant. I'm trying to prepare a file that pretty much gives you a basic starting point for the whole loader for 5 things in particular. Everything else I can deal without.
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For the dynamic SD loader you have to put everything in the "pf" directory -
private/wii/app/RSBE/pf

The ones I know and understand
1.) for char textures
private/wii/app/RSBE/pf/fighter/charname/Fit(char)00.pcs

2.) For Stages
private/wii/app/RSBE/pf/stage/melee/STG(stagename).pac

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Now, the 3 that I'm trying to get a grasp on are

3.) For Roster Select images
private/wii/app/RSBE/pf/

4.) For HUD Images
private/wii/app/RSBE/pf/

5.) For Music Replacement
private/wii/app/RSBE/pf/

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Music replacement, I think I have the general idea and I think the directory is:
private/wii/app/RSBE/pf/sound/strm/.brstm

Is that correct? (spelling too) - If so, I tried it today with a replacement for Final Destination music with one of the music files from the "trigger happy release" file I downloaded here in the music hack forums. It didn't work, so I'm assuming it wasn't correct directory.

Could someone provide me with some references for the roster images and the HUD images?

I have some of the roster images downloaded that came with some of the texture files I downloaded.

These are TGA files. 128x160px yes? The background is that bright pink color in all of them, something close to FD05FF in all of them - is it necessary to be that particular color or is that just a seemingly universal common setting that people have been using?



I need an image of a HUD picture that shows beside the character's damage percentage so I can make my own later please, if someone could provide that.


How do I name these 2 images?
The ones I have are named like
(Birdy)falco#_big.TGA
I'm want to know what I should name my portraits so that they're the same as on the game and they will be replaced by the dynamic SD loader.

Same with the HUD portraits, what do I name those.

Also, how do I name the accordingly so that Portrait and HUDpic 1 will correspond with Texture 1 and all of them will work together, know what I mean?

I need correct directories, correct names, and info on the HUDpics, what type of file are they, TGA again? what size etc;

I'd really appreciate it if I could get all of this info so that this dynamic loader can be used to its fullest.

Final Note: .pac files - Can I use the same .pac file for every color of a single character? I noticed that all of the .pac files that I have for ZSS are exactly the same size, 1,851KB - if I had 6 different textures and 1 .pac file could i just copy and paste it and rename it for all 6 textures and it work? (same goes for samus, zelda, sheik, charizard, squirtle, ivysaur, pkmntrainer, bowser, gigabowser, wario, and warioman)

[picano]

TGA Images must be run through CUPASH (and as for that Birdy, it must be run through the special CUPASH found in my texture topic --- that or reindexed in photoshop --- although, it might work fine outside of Vista). The pink you see is actually magenta, the "transparency color" --- CUPASH converts this color to transparency. As for naming... (specifically that Birdy of mine) you simply remove the part in parenthesis and replace # with the proper texture number (please check the stickied FAQ above for details on CUPASH numbering) --- ex: falco1_big.tga for his default outfit.

For ZSS all being the same... it should work. I believe the only character this would be an issue with is Jigglypuff (different models for the different hats)

I'll leave the rest of the questions to someone that can actually answer them.

[theenigmaliesbroke]

Ok, Phantom wings is asking for this information too now.

The portraits are all located in the same file compressed together - what program are you guys using to compress those images?

[picano]

CUPASH

kittycorp.proboards102.com/index.cgi?board=ontopicdiscussion&action=display&thread=309

The thread contains links to both the normal version and my modified version (removed the need for tplspliiter.exe --- which was incompatible with windows)

[pokioh243]

I also want to know how to change music files, I tried the folder the topic creator said, but that didn't work. Anyone got any ideas?

[onionfrog]

Music doesn't work with the code currently, maybe in a later release! (Hopefully)