Main menu background replacement

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Just a quick question, I know Grimmy has done it but for the life of my i can't find the post.

But i want to replace the default main menu with one of higher resolution

Anyone know if thats possible? and if so, how i could go about doing that?
 
You will need to create a HUGE texture because (as far as I know) the main menu only uses the upper left 1/4 of the texture.  So if you want a 1028x1028 menu, the entire texture would need to be 4x that...
 
I use textool and working for 8bit.But i use image2tex to make 24bit and not working
ff72009-08-1603-06-32-92.png
 
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I wonder. Would Aali's Texture replacement method work on the menu?
 
i dont know if Aali's texture replacment would work or not but i might give it a go later. But it isnt to hard to edit the current start menu, I just had a quick go here
custom2.jpg

The only problem i have is it cant take up the whole screen i can  only take up the middle of the screen and i have to be carefull since the picture is a overlay if its to big you end up with no writing on the screen (like Mike Strife Nguyen's pic)
 
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well it may be possible to make it full screen i just havent found out how to yet. I can make it take up most of the middle of the screen i just cant seem to make it any wider then what you can see currently but its easy to make it longer but when i do it overlays over the text and i cant see new game or continue (this could be fixed by making a black box in the middle of the picture but this could also make it ugly.
I have also just removed the pic from my previous post and posted a different image (since i think it may slightly be bad to use a DMC image in FF with the new rules)
 
well it may be possible to make it full screen i just havent found out how to yet. I can make it take up most of the middle of the screen i just cant seem to make it any wider then what you can see currently but its easy to make it longer but when i do it overlays over the text and i cant see new game or continue (this could be fixed by making a black box in the middle of the picture but this could also make it ugly.
I have also just removed the pic from my previous post and posted a different image (since i think it may slightly be bad to use a DMC image in FF with the new rules)
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just put the works "New Game" and "Continue" where it should be. Or is the pointer invisible too?
 
the pointer is invisible as well. it looks exactly like Mike Strife Nguyen's picture in that aspect
 
Ah. well. no way around that then..

Might as well leave it alone then haha I wanted to put a higher res image in. closer to the res i am running it at (1280 x 960)
 
You will need to create a HUGE texture because (as far as I know) the main menu only uses the upper left 1/4 of the texture.  So if you want a 1028x1028 menu, the entire texture would need to be 4x that...
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Hmm, though this method does require a large file it seems to get the job done without any issues.


I use textool and working for 8bit.But i use image2tex to make 24bit and not working
ff72009-08-1603-06-32-92.png
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I really like this for the background, I believe that an image with a resolution of 500x500, if applied well, could look just fine and much better than the original.
 
Here is original image 1280x1280 pixels
Final_Fantasy_VII_FanArt_04_by_yong.jpg

Use textools 8bit
ff72009-08-1822-08-21-79.png

Use Image2tex 24bit
ff72009-08-1603-06-32-92.png
 
The original image is 640x640.

Also, which file would I edit to change the background in menu_us?
 
well Mike Strife Nguuyen i just used your 1280x1280 image in IMG2TEX and it worked pretty good.
ff7notmyimage.jpg

i was quite impressed with the image so i think i might keep this as my menu (although i may customize it slightly to make it higher up on the screen)

EDIT: Also willis936 you replace the TEX file called "buster.tex" in the menu_us.lgp to change the image for the menu.
 
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kranmer you use Aali lgp/unlgp ? I use Lgp Tools and it didn't work
 
I got the img2tex working and it looks AWESOME but editing the image size/location of art in the image didn't have much effect when I tested it.  Anyone know how to make it bigger?
 
You mean this willis ?
I think if you want to do this you have to edit ff7.exe but i'm not programmer so i don't know how to do this.
 
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