Custom Portrait Tutorial

before u know it i'm gonna be a NBA star yeeeee

how do you rebuild it doesn't seem to work for me
also the FshX shows my portrait with a white background

I was using that

What program do you use to Rebuild? I use bigGUI and Rebuild is the R at the top.

It's white because either you didn't use transparency or the transparency didn't work, which happens sometimes if you use PSP. What program did you use?

EDIT: Or as Bassman just pointed out to me, it could be because you didn't save it as a .png file. I edited the first post to say that. He also says you can do it with PSP, but I couldn't ever figure that out.

alright i'll try that

it says save as .png

but i can olny import .bmps into the fsh

FshX will let you import PNG files. Just type in the file name and extension.

Yup ^^, go to the folder the file is in and type the name to import it.

You don't need a cyberface to have a portrait, check here to find out how.

so you can make portraits for your generated rookies and not give them a new cyberface

It would seem to be so. I haven't tried it myself, but it looks like it should work.

I created myself in a game, and I did everything the tutorial said. However, everytime I try to select myself in the roster, the game crashes. Please help.

Do you have a cyberface? If not, don't change FACEID in the appearance.dbf.

tHX!!!!

i use plyrprts~plyr004.big for my portrait, and i import my portrait and change the .ebo file. i delete all the files inside the .big and import the ones that i modified and rebuild it. i put it in sgsm folder. in the players.dbd in my save folder, i put plyr004 under playerpkg. but the game does not show my portrait. can someone help me plz

Okay, all the files need to be called 'plyr004'; then you need to do a bit more DBF editing (look here), just don't change FACEID if you don't have a cyberface.

thx for the help ur the man

my created player face color changed to black in games after i put the portrait in, anyone know? thx

Open the plyrprts~SHONEAL.big (or whatever it's called) file once again and import the four files; the .fsh, .ebo, .apt and the .const; Rebuild them and close the .big file. You have now finished creating a portrait file for your player.

SHONEAL's files stay in the .big file after I import my 4 files. I try to delete them but after I exit the editor they come back again.

Btw, I tried just putting the .big with the 8 files (4 of mine, 4 of SHONEAL) and still nothing appears.

Please help.

did you rebuild?

try using BigGUI

Yes I did rebuild and I was using BigGUI

Can somone help it is a great tutorial but i dont know with what programs to do all this stuff...
I fell lost and cant figure out how to creat portraits ao please can somone help????

You need Photoshop (or the like) to get the pic, BigGUI to open/rebuild the .big files (can be found in NLSC downloads), FshX to open the .fsh file (again, NLSC downloads) and the Hex Editor I linked to.

Hex Editor
BigGUI
FshX

Photoshop - Yeah right

FXEDIT32 is good because you don't have to take time to install anything.

ok thanks i will try it...

ok....... its a great tut, but i'm kinda lost.......

for a created player WITHOUT a CF, where do you find

"After you have that, you need to open the file fe/plyrprts.viv and extract one of the files, it doesn't matter which, it should be a file called plyrprts~SHONEAL.big (or whatever the name of the player is). Open that file and extract the four files found inside. You should extract all the files to a folder you've created, it makes it a lot easier if they're all in the same place, including the image you want to use."

in other words...... where do u find the viv files and big files etc. for created players..?? do i have to look for their playerid or something......? i'm really confused.....any help would be greatly appreciated........